The Forbes Corridor Colloquia will bring together faculty and graduate students from across various disciplines at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
As we consider the short-term and long-term influences of advancing technology on our local and global communities, the niche expertise of our partnering institutions can offer a robust cross-section of research areas, pedagogical ambitions and local connections to buttress how we consider the shape of influences and advances in next-generation technologies.
The Forbes Corridor Colloquia is hosted by Pitt Cyber, the Institute for Writing Excellence in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, and the Sara Fine Institute in the School of Computing and Information.The Forbes Corridor Colloquia will build bridges across domain areas and institutions, where we can discover our common interests locally, as well as invite key thinkers from outside our community to generate new directions for our shared work.
How It Works
The Forbes Corridor Colloquia is built to offer meaningful academic and applied exchanges between faculty and researchers at Pitt and CMU. Each institution boasts faculty with disciplinary niches that often complement one another and push the next stages of innovation in local, national, and international contexts.
With opportunities for faculty to meet in a structured format that facilitate the exchange of ideas on ongoing research and pedagogical design, we can identify key areas for collaboration and exchange to the mutual benefit of all parties. Such prospective partnerships can push the sophistication of next-generation technology and strengthen educational approaches related to technology and data. In addition, we aim to broaden discussions and the development of guidance for future policy to guide responsible and equitable integration of these systems into local and global citizens’ lives.
The structure of the Colloquia allows individuals to drop in and drop out of the sessions based on interests in the thematic threads. But the high-level themes also suggest a wide inclusionary effort to bring a myriad of faculty, students, and community stakeholders to this group as we collectively consider the scale and impact of advancing technological systems on our academic work and everyday lives.
Goals for the Colloquia
Our goals for the Forbes Corridor Colloquia include supporting:
- Innovative presentations from local faculty
- Interactive talks from guest speakers
- Attendance and participation from faculty, researchers and graduate students from a range of disciplinary practices
- Meaningful interaction and discussion in each session
- Prospective collaborations for ongoing or new projects that include the pursuit of sponsorship through grants or institutional curricular design
2021-2022 Schedule of Events
We will initially meet virtually but move to in-person or hybrid sessions as our current circumstances and institutional postures allow in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
- September 22, 4pm EST: Virtual Kick-Off
- October 7, 4pm EST: Responsibility (Pitt & CMU Presentations and Discussion)
- October 14, 4pm EST: Responsibility (Guest Speaker and Discussion)
- November 4, 4pm EST: Trust (Pitt & CMU Presentations and Discussion)
- November 18, 4pm EST: Trust (Guest Speaker and Discussion)
- December 2, 4pm EST: End of Term Colloquia Coffee Hour
We invite participants to bring their own understandings of these concepts to the colloquia. For more information, please email cyber@pitt.edu or sfi@pitt.edu.