Hyperreality Colloquium

Hyperreality Colloquium poster, featuring René Magritte's The False Mirror, an oil painting of an eye with a sky and clouds in the iris.

Date and Time

May 7, 2026
11:00AM - 04:00PM EDT

Location

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, 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

Contact

Hannah Stone
hannahstone@g.harvard.edu

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