A literary festival, so the overlap with this site is thin. Nothing on the schedule touches the history of computing. What does overlap, all Saturday:

• 14:00 Being Human (First Church, Sanctuary) — Sherry Turkle on Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines and Eric C. So on The Collision: What AI Does to Us; Moira Weigel moderates. The one session that is about AI by title.
• 15:00 Seeds of Power: What Data Reveals About Our Lives (BPL, Exhibition Hall) — Eric Gordon on "listening at scale" with AI over civic data, Roopika Risam's Data Empire on data as an instrument of power, Annie Lowrey on administrative burden.
• 12:30 The Future of Liberal Democracy (Old South, Main Sanctuary) — Daron Acemoglu, Michelle Berenfeld on the Roman Republic, and Quinn Slobodian on Muskism, co-written with Ben Tarnoff.
• 11:45 Sickness and Public Health (Trinity Church, Undercroft) — includes Manoush Zomorodi's Body Electric, on the physiological cost of screen time.
• 11:00 Chess and Money (First Church, Sanctuary) — Ben Mezrich's Checkmate, subtitled "the Biggest Scandal in Chess", opposite Kenneth Rogoff, an economist who is also a grandmaster.
• 16:30 Split Selves, Dystopian Futures and 16:00 Adventures Across Multiple Dimensions — the speculative fiction. Anton Hur's Toward Eternity is about a robotic cancer cure with immortality as a side effect; John Chu's The Subtle Art of Folding Space has a cabal hijacking the machinery that runs every universe.

Boston and American history:

• 12:15 The Radical Duke and the American Revolution (BPL, Guastavino) — Danielle Allen with BPL president David Leonard, on the Sussex parchment of the Declaration.
• 16:30 The Landscape of American History (BPL, Rabb Hall) — Beverly Gage and Megan Kate Nelson, moderated by GBH's Jeremy Siegel.

French. The French Library runs four sessions, three sponsored by Villa Albertine Boston. The schedule does not say which language they are held in.

• 10:00 Gaëlle Bélem on The Rarest Fruit — the Réunion novel about Edmond Albius and vanilla pollination.
• 11:30 Mathias Énard on The Deserters — translated by Charlotte Mandell; 2026 French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction.
• 13:00 Anne Pauly on Before I Forget — with Bruno Perreau of MIT.
• 14:30 A Labor of Love: The Art of Literary Translation — Emma Ramadan and Sam Taylor, translators of Ernaux, Despentes, Diop and Slimani.

Translation also gets the 11:00 Classics Keynote (Emily Wilson and Daniel Hahn, Old South Main Sanctuary), which clashes with the Énard session by half an hour. Being Human and the translation panel overlap too, though First Church and the French Library are both on Marlborough Street.

As published on Sched, times EDT. Sessions sharing a start time are sorted by venue. "mod." marks moderators Sched tags; "with" marks a conversation partner named only in the description.