Hyperreality Colloquium
Harvard Classics Lectures
Hyperreality Colloquium: First Session
Interdisciplinary perspectives on hyperreality, culture, and politics.
Agenda
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Liminal Ontologies: From Classical Hyperrealities to “Neomedieval Metacapitalism" Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM
Representation and (Hyper)reality in Classical Theatre Jonathan Wilson (Harvard), The Erotics of the Hyperreal: "Most Men Like What Slips Away" Artemis Ffytche (Harvard), 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM: Break
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Regimes of Integral Reality and the Allegory of the Cave in Calderón de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream Matthew Kromm (Harvard), Machinic Metalepsis: Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus Sabrina Tarasoff (Harvard), The Hyperreal in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ "La Invención de Morel" and Felisberto Hernández’s "Las Hortensias" Hannah Gillott (Harvard), 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Lunch Break.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: hannahstone@g.harvard.edu. Event Series: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, "Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives".
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel, Room K031, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit www.wcfia.harvard.edu. Hyperreality Colloquium
Harvard Classics Lectures
Hyperreality Colloquium: Second Session
Interdisciplinary perspectives on hyperreality, culture, and politics.
Agenda
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM
The Map and the Encyclopedia: Science and the Hyperreality in Baudrillard, Borges, and Kuhn Valerio Pepe (Harvard), The Digital Uncanny: Repression, Return, and the Rendering of Simulacra Piper Fishkind (Harvard), 4:50 PM – 5:40 PM
Integral Functions of Spatial Images Lachlan Welsh (Harvard), How Real is the View of the City Emily Yan (Harvard), 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM: Break
6:00 PM – 6:50 PM
In the Hills of Hyperreality: Mt. Trashmore, Spectacle Island, and Restoration Narratives Thea Applebaum (MIT), Life After Life in America’s Retirement Communities Riley Moran (Harvard), 6:50 PM – 7:00 PM: Conclusions.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: hannahstone@g.harvard.edu. Event Series: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, "Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives".
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel, Room K031, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit www.wcfia.harvard.edu.