#  Hyperreality Colloquium 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 7, 2026** 

 11:00AM - 04:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS Knafel, Room K031**  

 [1737 Cambridge Street  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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## 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>



 

 



 

 See also:- [ 2025–2026 ](/academic-year/2025-2026)
- [ Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives ](/seminars/cultural_politics/schedule)
 
 

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