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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics.

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Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.

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College of Arts and Humanities

Prospective Student Event: Arts, Humanities & You

Join us October 19 to learn about our academic programs.

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Whatever your interests and aspirations, ARHU is committed to providing the knowledge, skills and opportunities all our students need to write their own stories and chart their own paths.

"In ARHU, you’re learning about how people interact with the world and each other. My goal is to build things that people are going to use. Just technology knowledge can only go so far. You have to understand how people are going to use them to be truly successful."

Ozzie Fallick '14, Software Engineer, Google
Linguistics

"Cross-cultural communication is one of the most important skills that I learned at ARHU, and I use it to engage and inform the community in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean about our events, exchanges and any other information that supports our key policy priorities in the region. ARHU gave me the tools to understand why in diplomacy, it’s as much about what you say as how you say it."

Krystle Norman '08, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
Spanish and Portuguese

"I had always loved art, but I never knew you could make a career out of it until I studied abroad in Rome. There, I took a full course load of art courses and learned all about the factors of being an art professional. It was life-changing. Now I feel lucky that I’m doing something that I’m so passionate about."

Laura Sheridan Raiffe '09, Regional Account Manager, Christie's Fine Arts
Art History and Archaeology

"One of the most important things I got out of my ARHU experience is my ability to parse arguments, think critically and see multiple sides of an issue. Being in law school, it’s important to do that—it’s a skill I use every day. Not a class goes by, not a case gets read that this skill doesn’t come into play."

AJ Clayborne '13, Student, Harvard Law School
English

GRAND CHALLENGES

DEMAND FEARLESS IDEAS

The research and creative works of our faculty, students and alumni are setting the agenda for transformative dialogue about the value of the arts and the humanities in the world today.

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Happening at ARHU

How does AI affect how we teach and learn? In what ways does AI challenge our moral and ethical frameworks? How might AI transform the stories we tell about ourselves? These are some of the questions our panel of experts considered at yesterday’s ARHU Pop Up Discussion: Being Human in the Age of AI. The discussion featured (left to right) Justin Michael Helms, graduate student in philosophy; ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan, host and moderator; Ilaria Canavotto, assistant professor of philosophy; Samuel Walter Crawford, sound and media technologies in performance expert in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies; Holly Brewer, associate professor of history; and Rianna Walcott, assistant professor of communication. #AIMaryland Please join us for our next ARHU Pop Up Discussion: Disability and Accessibility at UMD on October 23 at 4 p.m. Find more information at our link in bio.
Artificial intelligence is transforming every part of our lives, but understanding its impact takes more than technical skills. That’s where the arts and humanities come in. As part of “AI at Maryland” Month, ARHU is spotlighting how our faculty and students are examining AI through human-centered perspectives—asking ethical questions, analyzing its cultural implications and creatively integrating AI into art, performance, language and more. From classrooms to research labs, ARHU is helping shape a future in which AI serves the public good. 🔗Explore how ARHU is researching, teaching and reimagining AI (link in bio) #AIMaryland
Interested in learning more about academic programs in the arts and humanities at the University of Maryland? Join us for "Arts, Humanities & You" on Sunday, October 19: go.umd.edu/arhu2025 #BeATerp 🐢❤️

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