The Meanings of “Indigenous:” AI, Semantics, Interpretation.

Romance Studies annual faculty lecture presented by Prof. Laurent Dubreuil, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature. The author of some fifteen scholarly books and of five literary volumes, Laurent Dubreuil seeks to explore the boundaries of what we can think, say, and live, with a particular regard for the powers and nature of the extraordinary and of (artistic) creation. Dubreuil wrote about haunting, friendship, colonialism, literariness, disciplinarity, cognition, language, animals, politics, poetics, modernity, artificial intelligence, minds, or plants, working primarily, in a comparative and theoretical sense, on texts and images—across historical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries—, but also through experiments or experiences, and with “non-human” agents (be they great apes or computers).