Gender And AI Symposium – Call For Papers

“. . . in order not merely to reproduce the traditional divide between humanists and mechanists, feminists and other cultural critics must rather begin to theorize their position in relation to a plurality of technologies”
Jack Halberstam, 1991

Does Chat GPT have a gender? Is gender a form of artificial intelligence? How can understanding the social dynamics of gender help recontextualise our relationships with technological commodities? The Gender and AI Symposium is an opportunity to give dedicated thought to these problems and more. Hosted on June 3rd 2026 in the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, this one-day symposium will feature keynote speaker Professor Louise Amoore of Durham University, alongside several expert panel discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with like-minded scholars across disciplines in the Humanities and the Sciences at Ireland’s oldest operating university.

The present call for papers invites interested potential speakers to send paper titles and abstracts of no more than 300 words alongside a short speaker bio. Abstract submissions should be sent to the Gender and AI Symposium email address – GenderandAI2026@gmail.com – by December 31st 2025. Areas of thematic interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

• Gender theory applied to AI
• Data Feminism
• Hidden labour behind AI
• Representations of AI
• Use of AI in surveillance, policing, and governance
• Gender and automation
• Gender and prediction
• Gender and artifice
• Policy and governance of AI
• Data privacy and safety
• Relationships with AI
• Gender bias
• Anthropomorphising AI

Funding for this symposium is provided by Research Ireland.