Adelphi University is excited to host the first annual Adelphi New York Undergraduate Humanities Conference, sponsored by the SPARK Center, which will be held at our brand-new Manhattan Center in November 2026.
This conference invites undergraduate scholars from all humanities disciplines to explore how the humanities affirm themselves within a technological age. We welcome literary analysis, essays on history, philosophy, cultural studies, political studies, communications, or languages that ask to what social, ethical, political, and environmental ends those tools should be directed.
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, hailed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a “gentle singularity,” has pushed us toward a world in which machines appear to think for us, reducing human experience to algorithms that are shaped by statistical probability. This only makes the humanities more essential than ever.