The EDUCATION, CREATIVITY, & SOCIETY Nexus in the AI Era

An interdisciplinary mini-conference features talks and discussions by an exciting line up of academic & industry experts in the Athens-Atlanta area who will explore the conference theme of The EDUCATION, CREATIVITY, & SOCIETY Nexus in the AI Era.

Anna Abraham (UGA - Torrance Center for Creativity)

10:00am-10:15am Chair's Opening Remarks

Kadir Bahar (UGA - College of Education)

10:15am-11:00am What Does Creativity Look Like in the Math Classroom?

Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State University - Psychology)

11:00am-11:45am Better than human? Studies of human overreliance on AI

Francesco Fedele (GATECH - Engineering)

11:45am-12:30pm Slow Art for Fast AI: The Journey of Learning

T. Lang (Spelman College - Center for Innovation and Arts)

12:30pm-1:15pm Choreographic Intelligence in the Age of AI

Malcolm Williams (TechnOrganic, Atlanta)

1:15pm-2:00pm User Zero: Practical Uses of Technology in Society

Christian Turner (UGA - Law)

2:00pm-2:45pm The Alien Stance and Analog Zones

Anna Abraham (UGA - Torrance Center for Creativity)

2:45pm-3:00pm Chair's Closing Remarks

Registration is FREE, but spaces are limited.This event is open to the general public!Meeting box lunches provided between 12pm-1pm for registered attendees.This event is organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity at UGA, and precedes the 2026 Annual Torrance Lecture by Po-Shen Loh (US Math Olympiad Coach: 2014-2023, Carnegie Mellon professor, mathematician, educator, social entrepreneur). For more information about this distinguished public lecture, please visit this webpage.