Representational Panic: Deep Fakes and the Long History of Images of People

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Location: Debartolo Hall Room 120

ND-PAIDEIA Invited Speaker Sharrona Pearl 4/17/2026

A historian and theorist of the face and body, Sharrona Pearl, the Andrews Endowed Chair of Interdisciplinary studies at Texas Christian University, has published widely on Victorian history of medicine, media, and religion, and critical race, gender, and disability studies.

Pearl will present a talk on deep fakes and AI-generated "people" as part of a longer history of technological interventions in representation.