2026 FCAT Graduate Student Forum

FCAT Graduate Student Forum

April 30, 2026 | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre

Join FCAT graduate students from across the faculty for a morning of 10-minute research presentations and an afternoon of roundtables on the use of AI in graduate research and teaching. 

Schedule

9:00 Coffee

9:30 Welcome: Arne Eigenfeldt, FCAT Associate Dean Academic

9:45-10:45  Session 1: Graduate Student Sharing

1. Tessa Perkins Deneault - SIAT 
2. Ali Shariq - SCA 
3. Joan Letting - CMNS
4. Hamed Rashtian - SIAT 

10:45-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:00  Session 2: Graduate Student Sharing

1. Edward Sembatya - SCA
2. Alan Ropke - CMNS
3. Simon Overstall - SCA 
4. Daria Hetmanova - CMNS 

12:00-1:00 LUNCH (catered by Tayybeh)

1:00-1:45 Roundtable 1: AI in Graduate Student Research
Facilitated by Brian Lorraine, CEE

Participants:
Shahbano Farooq - SIAT
Reese Muntean - SIAT
Jess MacCormack - SCA
Alan Ropke - CMNS 

1:45-2:00 BREAK

2:00-3:00 Roundtable 2: Identifying AI in Undergraduate Student work
Facilitated by Hannah MacGregor, PUB