All events are online and in Eastern time unless otherwise noted.

Deadline Approaching: Call for Presentations at the "Teaching with AI Showcase" at the Triangle AI Summit

The Triangle AI Summit will be a dynamic gathering of faculty, staff, and community members from across the region designed to engage with the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. All educators — representing any school or university, grade level, and discipline — are invited to submit a presentation proposal for the Teaching with AI Showcase at the upcoming Summit. This event is an opportunity to share innovative projects and demonstrate the impact of AI in educational settings. Proposals are due April 4.

Bridging Research, Teaching, and Program Building across Divided Legacies at Duke University

Part of the Spring 2025 Pedagogies of Care series

TODAY, March 20 | 12 - 1 pm

This workshop led by Dr. Nayoung Aimee Kwon will explore the possibilities and challenges in bridging research, teaching, and program building across disciplinary and historic divisions. Sharing program building and pedagogical experiences from the UNIV 101 course on Race as well as the Asian American & Diaspora Studies (AADS) Program at Duke, we will explore lessons learned on how to build connections across divisions of labor and contested histories toward creating more sustainable, caring, and sharing communities of scholars and teachers beyond historic and institutional divides.

Join LILE for AAC&U AI Webinar Watch Parties

The full impact of AI on higher education and in our classrooms is becoming clearer. An upcoming webinar series from the American Association for Colleges & Universities can help instructors, technologists, and administrators see the big picture. Hearing from colleagues at diverse institutions opens up a rich conversation that can help inform our conversations at Duke. Join us in person for one or more of the following webinars:

The watch parties will take place at the Erwin Square Mill Building in Bay A, room A103 (directions). There is free parking out front. No registration to join the LILE watch parties is needed. Additional information about each webinar, as well as links to register to watch on your own, are available here.

Learning by Living: An Experiential Approach to Teaching Life Skills Through Art, Science, and Personal Discovery

Part of the Bass Seminar on Teaching Excellence series

Tuesday, March 25 | 12 - 1:15 pm | Bolton Family Tower Room

Seminar led by Shani Daily, Cue Family Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Greg Samanez-Larkin, Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

The Bass Society Seminar on Teaching Excellence highlights successful teaching strategies from Bass Fellows through expert-led, interactive sessions. Space is limited and registration is required. Junior faculty are encouraged to attend. Lunch is provided.

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshop

Offered by the Language, Arts and Media Program (LAMP)

Tuesday, April 8 | 4 - 5:30 pm | Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. Participants do not need any arts background or talent, just curiosity and an open mind. To register or ask questions, please e-mail Nan Mullenneaux.

Spring 2025 Canvas Town Hall

Wednesday, April 9 | 12 - 12:45 pm

Members of the Canvas project team will discuss the status of Canvas at Duke, including the sunsetting of Sakai, as well as some additional updates and features. There will be time for questions after the presentation.

AI as a Thought Partner: Strategies to Foster Critical Inquiry

Tuesday, April 15 | 12 - 1:15 pm

Explore how AI can serve as a cognitive scaffold—both for instructors in their own teaching and as a tool to support student learning. Engage with theoretical frameworks, live demonstrations, and discussions to examine how AI can enhance brainstorming, argumentation, and inquiry-based learning. Leave with practical strategies to integrate AI in ways that foster deeper critical engagement.

Teaching Students to Write Effective Syntheses and Literature

Offered in partnership with the Thompson Writing Program and the Language, Arts and Media Program (LAMP)

Thursday, April 17 | 12 - 1 pm

Students often face challenges in reading, note-taking, and identifying patterns and themes across multiple sources. This workshop will share some methods for helping students take notes on ideas and themes from various sources, with the goal of synthesizing multiple sources and writing a literature review.

Feminist Perspectives on Pedagogy

Part of the Spring 2025 Pedagogies of Care series

Friday, April 18 | 12 - 1 pm

In this session, Dr. Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist will explore the importance of feminist perspectives in research and teaching about global health. Specifically, she will speak about her work related to global maternal-newborn health and intersections with global reproductive justice movements and climate justice. She will discuss how she integrates feminist perspectives into her Global Maternal and Child Health course and the ways that feminist perspectives anchor pedagogies of care in teaching more broadly.

Re/Marks on Power: Book Launch & Annotation Jam

Monday, April 21 | 4:30 - 5:30 pm | Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room

Join us in celebrating the launch of Re/Marks on Power by Dr. Remi Kalir, LILE's Associate Director of Faculty Development and Applied Research. After a brief presentation by Dr. Kalir about his new book, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an "annotation jam" to better understand how they may use annotation as a form of critical and civic literacy. Light refreshments will be provided.