Keynote Speakers
Interpreting and Translation, School of Media, Language and Communication StudiesMember, Area Studies
Topic: TBC
Dr. Sharon Black is the President of the European Association of Studies in Screen Translation and a member of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies and the European Society for Translation Studies. She has been a Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation (with Spanish) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) since 2018, having completed her PhD in Translation at Queen's University Belfast in 2017.
Dr. Black has also contributed to several significant projects, including the Erasmus+ funded "Digital Accessibility for You" initiative (2019-2021), which focused on empowering young people with communication difficulties to engage with digital media for democratic participation. Additionally, she worked on the Accessible Culture and Training (ACT) project (2017-2018), which aimed to enhance arts accessibility through defining managerial roles, creating an online course, and fostering international connections.
Her review work includes contributions to journals and publishers such as Íkala, inTRAlinea, Journal of Audiovisual Translation, Parallèles, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, Routledge, Target, Translation & Interpreting, Translation Spaces, UCL Press, and Universal Access in the Information Society.
Faculty Affiliate, CEMI
Professor, Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
Topic: TBC
Professor Chen is an Associate Professor of Media Sociology, the founding co-director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, and a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.
With over 90 publications, including articles in top-ranked journals across communication and media studies, sociology, and management, Professor Chen’s research has been recognized with awards from the Academy of Management, International Association of Chinese Management Research, American Sociological Association, and International Communication Association.
Professor Chen served as the chair of the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association from 2017 to 2018. Her work has been featured in media outlets in the U.S., China, and Canada. Currently, Professor Chen is investigating the impact of U.S. and Chinese AI policies on tech and media entrepreneurship.
Digital Communication and Culture, Media and Communications, School of Art
Communication & English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2024-2028)
University of Sydney
Topic: Generative AI and Cultural Policies: Will AI kill local creative industries?
Abstract:
This paper examines how artificial intelligence, especially Generative AI, affects creative workers and industries. Professor Flew will discuss how AI challenges traditional views of human creativity, explore various AI tools used in creative work, and review different perspectives on the relationship between creativity and technology. The paper will conclude with a discussion of how governments, labour unions, artists, activists and others have been responding to these challenges, with particular reference to local cultural policies.