A Collaboration Between the University of Georgia and the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026

9am to 12pm, The Athenaeum (287 West Broad Street Athens, GA)

Maxwell Barton 
(UGA Philosophy) 
“The Hyperreality of Contemporary Nature Documentaries”

Danielle Kotrla 
(UGA Philosophy)
“The Stories Reality Television Can Tell: Reality Competition and the Bildungsroman”

Shagun Sharma 
(UGA Philosophy)
“Howzat?!: What the Computer is Doing in the Gentleman’s Game”

Rissa Willis
(UGA Philosophy)
“The Value of Making Things the Hard Way”

2pm to 4pm, Georgia Museum of Art, Education Center

Katarina Mohar
(Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, France Stele Institute of Art History)
“Imagining What Is Missing: AI, Art History, and the Visualization of Lost Works”

Rok Benčin
(Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy)
“Toward an Aesthetics of Generation: From Calvino's Writing Machine to Generative AI”

Followed by a tour of the Museum at 4pm.

Supported by:

Office of Global Engagement
Slovenian Academy of Sciences
Department of English
Aesthetics Lab, Department of Philosophy
Department of Comparative Literature
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts