{"id":154,"date":"2019-09-20T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:00:25","slug":"2020-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/2020-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Colloquium: Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The colloquium will take place in room 132 of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences (685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston). All sessions are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Friday, November 13<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00-1:10<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Welcome<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:10-2:30<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Espen Hammer (Philosophy; Temple), \u201cBouvard and P\u00e9cuchet in Silicon Valley: AI and the Emptying of Meaning\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent:\u00a0<\/em>Robert Chodat (English; BU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:45-4:05<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Jennifer Fleissner (English; University of Chicago), &#8220;AI, Oeuvre, Time\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Samantha Matherne (Philosophy; Harvard)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30-5:50<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Katherine Thomson-Jones (Philosophy; Oberlin), &#8220;<span>Art about Art-Making in the Age of AI&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Takeo Rivera (English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; BU)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Saturday, November 14<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>9:30-10:50<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Shankar Raman (Literature; MIT), \u201cArtificial Shakespeares: A Report from the Field\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Ben Roth (Philosophy; Emerson College)<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00-12:20<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Justin Khoo (Philosophy; MIT), \u201cWhat is a Film?\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Jennifer Cazenave (French and Cinema and Media Studies; BU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:30-3:50<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>David Bering-Porter (Media &amp; Culture; New School), \u201cStructural Narcissism: The Mirror, the Algorithm, and the Digital Production of Self\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Amy Levine (Philosophy; Harvard Society of Fellows)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:15-5:40<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong>Juliet Floyd (Philosophy; BU), \u201cVirtuality in Langer, Greenberg, and Cavell\u201d<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><em>Respondent: <\/em>Robert Lehman (English; Boston College)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colloquium will take place in room 132 of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences (685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston). All sessions are free and open to the public. Friday, November 13 1:00-1:10Welcome 1:10-2:30Espen Hammer (Philosophy; Temple), \u201cBouvard and P\u00e9cuchet in Silicon Valley: AI and the Emptying of Meaning\u201dRespondent:\u00a0Robert Chodat (English; BU) 2:45-4:05Jennifer Fleissner (English; University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4207,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/litphilcolloquium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}