2026 Colloquium: Technology

The colloquium will take place in room 132 of the College of Arts & Sciences (685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston). All sessions are free and open to the public.

Friday, November 13

1:00-1:10
Welcome

1:10-2:30
Espen Hammer (Philosophy; Temple), “Bouvard and Pécuchet in Silicon Valley: AI and the Emptying of Meaning”
Respondent: Robert Chodat (English; BU)

2:45-4:05
Jennifer Fleissner (English; University of Chicago), “AI, Oeuvre, Time”
Respondent: Samantha Matherne (Philosophy; Harvard)

4:30-5:50
Katherine Thomson-Jones (Philosophy; Oberlin), “Art about Art-Making in the Age of AI”
Respondent: Takeo Rivera (English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; BU)

Saturday, November 14

 9:30-10:50
Shankar Raman (Literature; MIT), “Artificial Shakespeares: A Report from the Field”
Respondent: Ben Roth (Philosophy; Emerson College)

11:00-12:20
Justin Khoo (Philosophy; MIT), “Reproductive Art”
Respondent: Jennifer Cazenave (French and Cinema and Media Studies; BU)

2:30-3:50
David Bering-Porter (Media & Culture; New School), “Structural Narcissism: The Mirror, the Algorithm, and the Digital Production of Self”
Respondent: Amy Levine (Philosophy; Harvard Society of Fellows)

4:15-5:40
Juliet Floyd (Philosophy; BU), “Virtuality in Langer, Greenberg, and Cavell”
Respondent: Robert Lehman (English; Boston College)