Poet Margaret Rhee: Falling in love with robots
Schedule
Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
University At Albany | Albany, NY
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What does it mean to love or be human in an age of machines?Join us for a conversation with Margaret Rhee — award‑winning poet and scholar whose work explores robots, race, technology, and the body.
4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room
Campus Center West Addition
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany NY 12222
- Free and open to the public.
- Books will be available for sale.
- A signing will follow the conversation.
Her debut collection, "Love, Robot," imagines intimate relationships between humans and technology and has earned major honors, including the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry from the Asian American Studies Association, the Elgin Award, and Entropy’s Best Poetry Book.
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen says Rhee’s robot love stories “make us rethink what it might mean to be human.”
Rhee is Chair of Arts Writing at The New School and is completing two forthcoming books with Duke University Press.
Cosponsored by the AI & Society College and Research Center, and the Information Sciences and Technology Department of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), and the Honors College.
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