Workshop: Generative AI for Asian studies – and beyond
Asian Studies Days 2025
University of Turku, November 3, 2025
Time: 9:30 – 12:00
Venue:
– Onsite, University of Turku, Publicum, PUB431
– Online, zoom
Please register using the form behind this link.
Teachers:
Paavo Arvola and Mary Nurminen , Tampere University
The workshop consists of:
- Lectures
- AI as an echo source – Relevant, hallucinated or a lie
- AI translation
- Workshop activities
Topics covered
- AI as an echo source
- Translating with neural machine translation and LLMs
- Can I use AI-generated translations in research?
- Ethical issues in generative AI
No prior knowledge of the topic is required. The workshop will include online exercises using a standard web browser, thus your own laptop is preferred (no software will be installed).
Schedule :
| Introduction: AI as an echo source | 9:30-9:40 |
| Lecture (Paavo Arvola): Introduction to LLMs | 9:40-10:10 |
| Lecture (Mary Nurminen): Translating with AI | 10:10-10:40 |
| Discussion/questions: what kinds of questions do you have about LLMs or translation? | 10:40-10:50 |
| Small group discussions: Task: introduce yourself to others in group | 10:50-11:20 |
| Workshop: task 1 | 11:20-11:50 |
| Wrap-up | 11:50-12:00 |