Hermogenes (after a narrative by Heinrich von Kleist)
The talk poses an important question about AI and its relation to poetry. The aim is less to answer that question than to ask a series of related questions about the role of the poet and that of the critic in an age of artificial intelligence. The talk – composed in two voices – attempts to say what is distinctive about literary criticism and its objects and, by extension, what is valuable about the type of inquiry pursued in the literary humanities.
The Speaker: 
Tim Mehigan's recent publications include Hermeneutics between Berlin and Paris: The Search for Ethics (edited with Christian Moser, Mohr Siebeck 2025), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller (edited with Antonino Falduto, Cham 2023) and the monograph Heinrich von Kleist "Die Marquise von O…": The Prisoner's Dilemma (forthcoming with Walter de Gruyter).
About The Translating and Interpreting + Culture Cluster seminar series
This seminar series features presentations from scholars and industry professionals on topics ranging from interpreting practice and multilingual communication to literary analysis and emerging technologies such as AI. Each session offers insights into real-world applications and current research, with opportunities for discussion across disciplines.