Dear all, This is a friendly reminder that you are cordially invited to attend the workshop titled “Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots.” You can find all relevant information on the workshop website<https://sites.google.com/view/human-chatbot-self-narration/home>. This event is in person only. Date: 21 November 2025 Location: 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally’s Walk (Michael Kirby Building), Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus (North Ryde) Topic: Throughout cultural history, human agents have engaged in self-narration through the conversational exchange with other agents. Self-narration, many philosophers and psychologists assume, can be conducive to agency, autonomy, and wellbeing. With the widespread availability of conversational chatbots based on Large Language Models (LLMs), including so-called AI companions, therapy bots, and deathbots, new opportunities – and risks – for our self-narrative practices are on the rise. To date, however, research on self-narration and on human-chatbot interactions has developed largely independently from each other. Recent research on self-narration has remained anthropocentric in ignoring the possibility of hybrid human-chatbot self-narration. Vice versa, work on human-chatbot interactions has systematically ignored research on self-narrative practices. The aim of this workshop is to integrate these two strands of research for the first time. Bringing together experts in research on self-narration and conversational chatbots, this workshop will explore the self-narrational dynamics of human-chatbot interactions. Furthermore, it will identify the risks of these interactions for the well-being and flourishing of human agents. Speakers: Francesco Fanti Rovetta (Ruhr University Bochum), Patrick Stokes (Deakin University), Marilyn Stendera (University of Wollongong), Richard Menary (Macquarie University), and Regina Fabry (Macquarie University). Registration: Participation is free, but places are limited and will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register by following this link<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-self-narration-in-the-age-of-conversational-chatbots-tickets-1677650781649?aff=oddtdtcreator>. Registrations close on 17 November 2025. This workshop is generously funded by the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre<https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/centres/ethics-and-agency> and the Macquarie Minds and Intelligences Initiative<https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/groups/macquarie-minds-and-intelligences-initiative>. It is organised in collaboration with the Imagined Lives collective in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. Kind regards, Regina Fabry [cid:8291024d-8412-42f6-b973-139e9d428ff2]
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