Rumeysa Oğuz, research assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature, attended the III. International Social Sciences Congress of Faculty of Letters, Congist’24, held at Istanbul University, from December 18 to 20, 2024. This year’s congress theme, “Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice,” focused on the relationship between artificial intelligence and social sciences. Within this framework, Oğuz delivered a presentation titled “The (Non)Human Condition: Intersubjectivity and Emotions in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun,” addressing the relationship between literature and artificial intelligence. She focused on the emotional development of artificial intelligence in the context of the novel, analysing both positive and negative representations of human relationships with AI. Adopting a posthumanist perspective in her presentation, Oğuz emphasized that contemporary literary works like Klara and the Sun question the anthropocentric relationship between humans and non-human entities, thereby offering a fresh outlook on human-AI interaction.
