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Dr Yugin Teo (Bournemouth University), together with Dr Dominic Dean (University of Sussex) and Dr Amelia DeFalco (University of Leeds), were a panel of experts taking part in a Zoom discussion on Nobel Laureate and British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book Klara and the Sun for the public-facing arts website and YouTube channel A Bit Lit. The website hosts online discussions on culture and creativity that are both fun and accessible to the public.

Description of the event from the A Bit Lit website:

“Klara and the Sun, the eighth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, was published in March 2021.  Ishiguro is well-known for the combination of a subtle, understated style of narration, often delivered by unreliable and compromised narrators, with devastating revelations of ethical, political and emotional trauma. His new novel is no different: Klara and the Sun is set in a future near to ours, but which has made a few key advances in artificial intelligence and related biotechnologies; and the novel is narrated by an ‘artificial friend’, Klara.  Klara’s narrative reflects on the status of the human and its relationship to ecology, technology and ethics in a rapidly-changing world – and in the most intimate circumstances of lived experience.

The link to the conversation’s webpage and video:

https://abitlit.co/general/posthumanism-and-ethics-kazuo-ishiguros-new-novel-klara-and-the-sun/

The link to the same video on their YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/sKWYnQuYnzU