AI in Higher Education

Reflections on the role, impact, applications and risks of "AI" in teaching and research. Guest speakers: Serge Sharoff and Niall Curry

  • Date: 16 OCTOBER 2026  from 10:00 to 17:00

  • Event location: Aula Sauli

  • Type: Seminars

FULL PROGRAM

10:00-10:30 Welcome: Silvia Bernardini e Anna Marchi 

10:30-11:30 Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)  
Between Skynet and Spellcheck: Finding the Virtuous Mean in AI Translation 

11:40 -12:40 Niall Curry (University of Birmingham)  
A critical perspective on GenAI in higher education 

LUNCH BREAK 13:00 pranzo collettivo a Volume (per conferme contattare anna.marchi@unibo.it entro il 28 settembre) 

14:30 – 14:40 Welcome back 

14:40 – 15:00 Donatella Laperchia: Linguistic Perspectives on AI-Mediated Cultural Representations  

15:00 – 15:20 Adriano Ferraresi: UNITE – Universally Inclusive Technologies to Practice English 

15:20 – 15:40 Alberto Barrón-Cedeño: Educating AI-aware translators: What sort of programming and NLP is being taught at DIT? 

15:40 – 16:00 Ira Torresi, Bianca Prandi, Nicoletta Spinolo: AI in interpreting training 

16:00 – 17:00 Discussion and conclusion