upcoming
The BCaT Lab hosts several events each semester, alongside open lab hours between 10am - 3pm from Tuesday to Thursday. If you’re interested in being active with BCaT, explore what events we’re hosting below or subscribe to our Google Calendar to be the first to know what we’re planning each month.
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ABJ Workshop: Audio Storytelling & Lived Experiences
In this workshop, participants will get a unique glimpse into Black storytelling through a British lens. Led by Dr. Sylvie Carlos, this workshop will explore the intersection of theory, production, and public engagement. Together, we will plot out how to utilise the audio medium to bring your creative visions to life, and amplify the voices within your own chosen communities. Sylvie Carlos draws from their own portfolio, sharing audio material from some intentional projects, including experimental art features, live podcast shows, investigative current affairs, and community-led youth engagement initiatives.
Sylvie Carlos is an award-winning Creative producer, academic and researcher who has crafted impactful audio narratives for the BBC, Spotify, and CNN. She is a Fulbright All Disciplines Awardee (2025–2026) currently based as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland. Alongside her industry work, Sylvie is pursuing a PhD at King’s College London in the Department of Education, Communication and Society. Her doctoral research interrogates the systemic ways the British audio industry engages with Black audiences and creates (or fails to create) culturally specific content. Blending rigorous academic critique with deep grassroots community engagement, her work focuses on amplifying underrepresented narratives and challenging the audio industry to do better!
Register to join the Workshop online through Zoom with this link!
ABJ Workshop: Audio Mixing, Podcasts, & Narratives
Led by Sylvie Carlos, this workshop will explore tools enabling audio mixing, podcasting, and sharing oral narratives within digital humanities research.
ABJ Workshop: Building the Strange Choir (Day 2)
Led by Halim Madi, this workshop will explore how scholarship from marginalized epistemologies, such as queer studies theorizations, may inform critical inquiry surrounding AI.
ABJ Workshop: Building the Strange Choir: Fine-Tuning LLMs Through Poetry & Found Text (Day 1)
Led by Halim Madi, this workshop will explore how scholarship from marginalized epistemologies, such as queer studies theorizations, may inform critical inquiry surrounding AI.
The Injustice of Fairness: Algorithmic Reparation and the Case for Redress!
Led by Dr. Jenny Davis and Dr. Apryl Williams, these authors will be discussing their exciting forthcoming publication: The Injustice of Fairness: Algorithmic reparation and the Case for Redress.
ABJ Workshop: Critical Geographies and Story Maps
Led by Alisa Hardy, this workshop will explore the use of digital tools to narrate and illustrate critical geographies. We will explore the use of tools, such as ArcGIS StoryMaps, as a way to express individual and communal stories centering spaces and places.
You may join us in the BCaT Lab (Skinner 3115), or register to join via Zoom here.
ABJ Speaker Series - Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How we are Wrong About AI
Rua Williams, Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing at Perdue University, will discuss the ties between the history of eugenics and the current development of artificial intelligence.
Join us in the BCaT Lab (3115 Skinner).
