

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: GWU English Graduate Student Association 2026 Symposium
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 08:15 am – Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: GWU English Graduate Student Association 2026 Symposium- The Mind and the Machine: Mental Disability and Technology.Agenda?: 08:15 AM - 08:45 AMOptional Coffee Hour / Meet &amp; Greet?: 08:50 AM - 09:00 AMOpening Remarks from Prof. Patricia Chu, English Chair?: 09:00 AM - 10:30 AMPanel #1: Disability Aesthetics and the Technological Mediation of Mental LifeInfo: Panel #1: Disability Aesthetics and the Technological Mediation of Mental Life
Faculty Discussant: Prof. Holly Dugan
Moderator: Nayoung Bishoff
• Abhishek Rao/Alliance University/Assistant Professor
“Tech-driven Cognitive Urbanism: Rethinking City Design for Aging and Neurodivergent Populations in Context of Durga Puja,  Kolkata”
• Hyeonsu Kim/Chungbuk National University/MA student
“The Aesthetics of Silence: Epistolary Technology and Psychosocial Disability in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”
• Isaiah Thomas Washington/Cornell University/PhD student
“Black in Flesh and Chrome: Madness and Double Consciousness in Interpretations of DC Comics’ Cyborg.”
• Mario Valori/University of Pisa/MA
“Branches, Flags, and Fragile Minds: Visual Novel Engines and the Computation of Female Trauma.”
• Paromita Patranobish/Mount Carmel College/Assistant Professor
“Disordered Eating and Technologies of Consumption and Control in Carlos Miralbella-Davis’s Swallow (2019).”?: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PMPanel #2: Disability Archives, Digital Memory, and CounternarrativesInfo: Faculty Discussant: Prof. Maria Frawley
Moderator: Priyanka Sharma
• Hicham Diouane/Abdelmalek Essaâdi University/Lecturer of English for Communication “The Bookseller as Algorithm: Literary Prototypes and Schizophrenic Self-Programming in Jalal Barjas's The Bookseller's Notebooks.”
• Kayla Laws/The George Washington University/MA student
“Machines of Survival: Disability, Technology, and Agency in Toni Morrison’s Sula.”
• Ashten Vassar-Cain &amp; Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher/Pennhurst Memorial &amp; Preservation Alliance/Graduate Students
title not provided; on Pennhurst Community Archives, digitization, privacy/visibility, data-center threat.
• Oana Marin/Lucian Blaga University/Assistant Professor
“The Digital Crip: Intimacy, Identity, Legacy, and the Posthuman Archive in Virtual Performance.”
• Acacia Gabriela Varela/George Mason University/MA student
“Radical Joy in a Fragmented World.”
• Emily Bues/The George Washington University/MA student
“Murderbot: Pain as Humanity.”?: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PMLunch ?: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PMPanel #3: The Biopolitics of the Mind in the Age of AIInfo: Faculty Discussant: Prof. Jonathan Hsy
Moderator: Kayla Laws
• Javor Stein/University of Massachusetts Amherst/BA
“Race, Language Disability, and Fugitivity in an Age of Biopolitical Risk”
• Suarjan Prasai/University of Toronto/PhD student
title not provided; on generative AI counseling/mental health support and racial biases in algorithmic systems and public health
• Deanna Holroyd/Akita International University/PhD and Assistant Professor
title not provided; on ADHD management apps (ADHDNumo; Inflow ADHD), self-tracking, gamification, neoliberal self-optimization
• Abhishek Rao/Alliance University/Assistant Professor
“Adverse Effects of AI on Human Creativity and Workplace Efficiency.
• Daniel Hollinger/San Francisco State University/MA
“Film Pedagogy through Disability Aesthetics.”
•  Michaela Reed/Georgia College &amp; State University/MFA
“Navigating the Simulacrum: Confluence of the Organic and the Inorganic through Human-Robot Interactions in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream?: 03:15 PM - 04:45 PM Panel #4: Feeling Otherwise: Disability and the Ethics of Posthuman IntimacyInfo: Faculty Discussant: Prof. David Mitchell
Moderator: Stephanie Herrera
• Amos Elwell/The George Washington University/MA student
“Childhood Sexuality, Intellectual and Developmental Disability, and The Future of Consent: Sexual Objectification in Poor Things.”
• Jamie Lewis/University of Georgia/MA/
“Sexy Simulacra: Posthumanist Love in The Mad Scientist’s Daughter and Annie Bot.”
• Sean Zou/Duke University/MFA student
“Operational Images of Incarceration: Farocki’s Pr*son Images and the Procedural Legibility of Mind.”
• Sohini Chatterjee/Western University/PhD student
“Being Neurodivergent and/or Disabled and Queer and/or Trans in India: Exploring Hopeful Resistance of Digital Storytelling in ‘Skin Stories’”
• Ryn Yee/MA/ Independent Scholar
“Mated, Alienated, or Captivated: Immersive Technologies and Mental Health in Star Trek.”?: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PMKeynote: Prof. Lauren GoodladInfo: Keynote: Prof. Lauren Goodlad: We Have Always Been Action Theorists: Toward an Interdisciplinary Theory of Language for the Age of Generative AI
Faculty Discussant: Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin
Moderator: Shangke Zhao 
Lauren M. E. Goodlad is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, editor of Critical AI and chair of the Critical AI @ Rutgers as well as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), the Rutgers British Studies Center, and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.?: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PMIn-Person Happy Hour
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- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, art, literary-art, sports, trips-adventures, entertainment, trekking, mental-health, artificial-intelligence, meetups, it, navratri, meet-and-greet, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Washington
- **state**: DC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Gelman Library Room B108
- **lat**: 38.8992088
- **long**: -77.0483976
- **full address**: Gelman Library Room B108, 2130 H Street Northwest, Washington, United States

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- **organizer**: GWU EGSA (https://allevents.in/org/gwu-egsa/18458905)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 08:15 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Gelman Library Room B108, 2130 H Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** GWU EGSA
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, art, literary-art, sports, trips-adventures, entertainment, trekking, mental-health, artificial-intelligence, meetups, it, navratri, meet-and-greet, storytelling
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