Participants
1) Catharine Abell, University of Manchester: Fiction Making.
2) Peter Alward, University of Lethbridge: Varieties Of Photographic Fiction.
3) Al Baker, University of Manchester: ”People Always Think Something's All True”: How to ascertain fictional truth from unreliable narration.
4) Alexander Bareis, Lund University: Principles of Generation, Principles of Interpretation. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.
5) Chris Bateman, International Hobo Ltd: Prop Perspective and the Aesthetics of Play.
6) Remigius Bunia, Free University Berlin: About Truth in Fiction.
7) Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma: Role-Playing, Make-Believe, and Moral Complicity.
8) Jason D’Cruz, State University of New York: Agency and Fictional Truth in Virtual Worlds.
9) Matthew DeCoursey, Hong Kong Institute of Education: Make-Believe as a Mode of Consciousness in Theatre: Redefining “Aesthetic Distance”.
10) Eran Guter, University of Haifa: Music as Ornament: Walton's Road Not Taken.
11) James Hamilton, Kansas State University: Narrative per se and Suspense Eliminativism.
12) Tobias Klauk, Tilmann Köppe, Göttingen University: Distance in Fiction.
13) Sonja Klimek, Fribourg University: “I grieve” as Make-Believe – The Generation of Fictional Truth in 18th century Lamentation Poetry.
14) Liviu Lutas, Lund University: Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe.
15) Jukka Mikkonen, Tampere University: The Literary-Fictive Stance and Considerations of Truth.
16) Ira Newman, Mansfield University: Destabilizing Reality: Postmodernist Narrative and the Logic of Make-Believe.
17) Jérôme Pelletier, Brest/Paris University: Flitting Back and Forth Between Imaginings.
18) Mario Slugan, University of Chicago: The Status of Deixis in Fiction Film and Literature.
19) Nils-Hennes Stear, University of Michigan: Is Sports Participation a Form of Make Believe?
20) Jan-Noël Thon, University of Tübingen: Narrative Representation across Media. Hypothetical Intentions, Medial Conventions, and the Principle of Charity.
21) Sarah Worth, Furman University: Narration, Representation, Memoir, Truth, and Lies: How We Diminish the Art of Narrative with Simple Truths.
22) Frank Zipfel, Mainz University: The Fictional Truths of Drama and Theatre.