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- **Event Name**: Distinguished Lecture Series 25-26: Lecture by Prof. Caroline Bassett
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm (+08:00)
- **Event Description**: Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26 Semester 2About this EventPublic Lecture: The End of Literature? AI and the Future of WritingSpeaker: Caroline Bassett, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of CambridgeApril 2, 2026, 4:00PM (Thu)HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU (Location map)AbstractWhat will AI do to literature? Nobody doubts that Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce text. Indeed, there are fears of a text-apocalypse, as bots speak to bots, humans automate their own writing, and the processed word proliferates. But what happens to literature, to literary writing, and even to literary theory, in all this? Literature might be simulated perhaps, but can it be generated anew? Is there even such as thing as AI literature? If so, how might we taxonomise it, understand it as distinctive, or study it? Perhaps we should consider instead what might be termed a post-literature – if so what might this look like? This lecture takes up some of these questions through a re-consideration of creativity, understood not as a single moment, or a single work, but as process generated across what is here termed a new passage of forms.BiographyCaroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities, a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge. She researches medium technologies and cultural change with a focus on critical theory, gender and technology, and critical methods. Key book length publications include Anti-Computing (MUP, 2022), a cultural history of automation fever, Furious (Pluto, 2020), a co-authored work exploring gender, ambition and future technologies, and The Arc and the Machine (MUP, 2014), which explored narrative and computation. She is widely published in academic and public fora. Current projects focus on AI and writing, critical medium theory, artificial creativity, future collapse, and on the politics and aesthetics of refusal.Registration is required. Register now!If registration quota via Eventbrite is full, please register through the link below.https://english.hku.hk/event/574/Professor_Caroline_Bassett_-_Public_Lecture_&amp;_Reading_Group
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