TODAY: Hyperreality Colloquium, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, May 7

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

All best wishes,

Panagiotis

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May 7, 2026

11:00AM - 04:00PM EDT

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CGIS Knafel, Room K031

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

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, Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; 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

Second Session

4:00PM - 07:00PM EDT

CGIS Knafel, Room K354

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

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

Contact

Hannah Stone
hanna...@g.harvard.edu

For further information please visit the following webpage:  https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/cultural_politics

Panagiotis Roilos

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature

Department of the Classics and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi

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