Prof. Ian Almond
Prof. Ian Almond
Ian Almond is a professor of World Literature at Georgetown University Qatar and the author of six books, most recently World Literature Decentered: Beyond the ‘West’ through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal (Routledge, 2021), but also The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Two Faiths, One Banner (Harvard University Press, 2009). He has written over fifty academic articles in a variety of journals and his work has been translated into thirteen languages.
Keynote Abstract
A reflection on what it means to teach literature post-AI – and whether the pedagogical task of the scholar should include teaching the art of the prompt. To what extent should teaching today include the various skills of questioning and prompting – is it wrong to bring the teaching of this skill-set into the pre-digital world of the offline scholar? Are prompts the invocation of angels or the summoning of demons? Will AI amplify the skills liberal-humanities scholars already have – or diminish and distort them?