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Dear all,</div>
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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
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workshop website</a>. This event is in person only. </div>
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Date: 21 November 2025</div>
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Location: 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally’s Walk (Michael Kirby Building), Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus (North Ryde)</div>
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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.</div>
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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).</div>
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Registration: Participation is free, but places are limited and will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register by following
<a title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-self-narration-in-the-age-of-conversational-chatbots-tickets-1677650781649?aff=oddtdtcreator" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA79fd40a1-5293-e146-199c-0a7e6e410efc" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/mmpxCQnMBZfo2Z2posPh8tGwdO2?domain=eventbrite.com">
this link</a>. Registrations close on 17 November 2025.</div>
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This workshop is generously funded by the <a title="https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/centres/ethics-and-agency" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA165873c2-f94f-5d6d-aaa7-580da84b6fdf" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/YEPMCROND2u5MZM15cPiyt1Vw41?domain=mq.edu.au">
Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre</a> and the <a title="https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/groups/macquarie-minds-and-intelligences-initiative" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAabf3a10f-91f5-27d7-b365-f66366b95a32" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/748nCVARKgCgWQW6gsJsotELtLi?domain=mq.edu.au">
Macquarie Minds and Intelligences Initiative</a>. It is organised in collaboration with the
<b>Imagined Lives</b> collective in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University.</div>
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Kind regards, </div>
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Regina Fabry<br>
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