The Year of Curiosity Podcast

Mira Xenia Schwerda, Visiting Assistant Professor in Art and Art History

Our guest for this episode is Mira Xenia Schwerda, Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History and a historian of photography, print culture, and Modern Middle Eastern Art. We discuss tMira’s Spring 2025 class, Teaching the Coded Gaze - AI and Art History and the ways that AI technology fits into the ongoing conversations around technology and reproduction in Art History.

Chad Ellsworth, Associate Director of the Career Center

We talk to Chad Ellsworth, Associate Director of the Career Center, about the ways AI is affecting the job market and the ways students can prepare for it.

Sunny Sun '26 and Justin Rodriguez '27

Jennifer and George talk to Sunny Sun ‘26 and Justin Rodriguez ‘27, the student representatives on the AI Coordinating Committee, about their experiences with AI and what their peers are telling them.

Greg Back (P’27) and Lauren Back '27

Jennifer and George talk to Lauren Back ‘27 and her dad Greg Back, the co-founder of CatchLight Capital Partners, about the ways AI is changing the landscape in academic and Silicon Valley.

Melanie Cashin, Kristen Vogel, Zoe McDaniel '27, and Cordelia Whitman '27

Jennifer and George interview the two directors of the Carleton Writing Center as well as two student writing consultants. We discuss the ways that they work with student writers, the ways students are using (and not using) AI in their writing, and why in-person writing feedback still matters, even in the age of ChatGPT.