Upcoming and past activities in the AI-UNI project

2026

• 22 January 2026. Sam Goodchild will give a short research seminar on the first analyses from their AI-UNI case study at the Centre for Digital and Computational Humanities, University of Copenhagen. More information here (link only works for UCPH employees).

2025

• 28 November 2025. Sam Goodchild will give a seminar on her AI-UNI case study to the GEDIT research group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. More information here.

• 13 November 2025. Sanne Larsen will be part of the closing panel debate in the Make a Difference 2025 conference held at University of Copenhagen. More information here.
  
  
• 6 November 2025. Kasper Engholm Jelby, Sanne Larsen and Rafael Lomeu Gomes will present initial research data and results from the AI-UNI project at the annual CIP symposium on New literacies: The role of multilingualism and generative AI. Jens Christian Borup Green Jensen will be part of the final panel debate and Sam Goodchild will facilitate both a group work session and the final debate. More information here.

• 4-5 November 2025. The AI-UNI group will host its first 'AI-UNI round table' in order to discuss preliminary insights from the project based on presentations and data sessions. Invited discussants: Nikolas Coupland (Cardiff University), Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)), Karin Tusting (Lancaster University) and Ron Darvin (University of British Columbia).

• 21-24 October 2025. Rafael Lomeu Gomes and Kasper Engholm Jelby will participate in the DEEP DIVE Paper Development Workshop for qualitative researchers held at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø) and hosted by the MultiTrans research group. More information here.
  
  
• 14 October 2025. The AI-UNI group will participate in the workshop Discourse Analysis for Scalar Inquiry: Concepts and Principles of Nexus Analysis held at the University of Copenhagen. The workshop will be hosted by Francis M. Hult (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and organized by the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use. More information here.
  
  
• 8 October 2025. Rafael Lomeu Gomes will present preliminary analyses of his AI UNI fieldwork material at the Lund University “English language and linguistics research seminar” (by invitation of Dr. Joyce Kling). More information here.
  
  
• 24-27 September 2025. Sanne Larsen and Rafael Lomeu Gomes will present a joint paper exploring similarities across their AI UNI case studies at the 8th International Conference on Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. More information here.
  
  
• 18-19 August 2025. The AI-UNI research group will participate in the 10th EELC conference: Explorations in Ethnography Language and communication held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The group will present 2 papers. More information here.
  
  
• 21-23 May 2025. The AI-UNI research group will visit the ADDA 5: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 5 conference in Tilburg, Netherlands. The group will contribute two presentations at the conference. More information here.
  
  
• 16 May 2025. Samantha Goodchild will present the AI-UNI project, on behalf of the team, at the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Literacies Special Interest Group (SIG)’s annual symposium. The theme for the symposium is Literacies and Artificial Intelligence. More information here.

• 3 April 2025. Rafael Lomeu Gomes will teach a guest lecture for the MA course “Posthumanist Sociolinguistics” (convened by Dr. Kellie Gonçalves) at the University of Bern.

• 14 March 2025. Janus Mortensen will give a talk on the AI-UNI project at a hybrid conference arranged by Université de Lorraine. The name of the conference is La Notion d'Authenticité dans les Productions Hybrides Humain/IA. More information here.
  
  
• 12 March 2025. Janus Mortensen will visit Center for Tracking and Society and present the AI-UNI project at a Lunch Talk.
  
  

2024

• 29 December 2024. Publication of the feature article Ai, ai, ai! by Janus Mortensen in the journal Sprogforum. Read the article here (in Danish).
  
  
• 5 December 2024. Janus Mortensen will be keynote speaker at the annual conference organised by the National Centre for Foreign Languages. With sociolinguistics as its starting point, the presentation explores how text generative AI affects the relationship between language, identity and social interactions and discusses possible implications on foreign language teaching.
  
  
• 28-29 November 2024: Kasper Engholm Jelby will present preliminary methodological considerations related to his prospective linguistic ethnographic fieldwork at the Language, Norms and Digital Lives conference held at the University of Copenhagen. Kasper is also co-organizing the conference with colleagues at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies. More information here.