Schedule
Centre of Languages and Literature, Main AuditoriumThursday, 15th of March 2012,
9.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.30 Welcome Adresses 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote I Kendall L. Walton, Fictionality and Prescribed Imaginings 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break 12.00 – 13.30 Session 1 Jérôme Pelletier, Brest/Paris University: Flitting Back and Forth Between ImaginingsPeter Alward, University of Lethbridge: Varieties Of Photographic Fiction Sonja Klimek, Fribourg University: “I grieve” as Make-Believe – The Generation of Fictional Truth in 18th century Lamentation Poetry 13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break at Restaurant ”Kulturen” 15.00 – 16.30 Session 2 Sarah Worth, Furman University: Narration, Representation, Memoir, Truth, and Lies: How We Diminish the Art of Narrative with Simple Truths Alexander Bareis, Lund University: Principles of Generation, Principles of Interpretation. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Al Baker, University of Manchester: ”People Always Think Something's All True”: How to ascertain fictional truth from unreliable narration 16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break 17.00 – 18.00 Session 3 Jan-Noël Thon, University of Tübingen: Narrative Representation across Media. Hypothetical Intentions, Medial Conventions, and the Principle of Charity Liviu Lutas, Lund University: Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe Friday, 16th of March 2012 9.00 – 10.30 Session 4 Chris Bateman, International Hobo Ltd: Prop Perspective and the Aesthetics of Play Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma: Role-Playing, Make-Believe, and Moral Complicity Jason D’Cruz, State University of New York: Agency and Fictional Truth in Virtual Worlds 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 – 12.00 Keynote II Gregory Currie, Knowledge and make-believe 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break at Restaurant ”Kulturen” 13.30 – 15.00 Session 5 Tobias Klauk, Tilmann Köppe, Göttingen University: Distance in Fiction James Hamilton, Kansas State University: Narrative per se and Suspense Eliminativism Ira Newman, Mansfield University: Destabilizing Reality: Postmodernist Narrative and the Logic of Make-Believe 15.00 – 16.00 Keynote III Peter Lamarque, Belief, Make-Believe and the Opacity of Narrative 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 – 18.00 Session 6 Frank Zipfel, Mainz University: The Fictional Truths of Drama and Theatre Matthew DeCoursey, Hong Kong Institute of Education: Make-Believe as a Mode of Consciousness in Theatre: Redefining “Aesthetic Distance” Eran Guter, University of Haifa: Music as Ornament: Walton's Road Not Taken 19.30 Conference Dinner at ”Gamla Biskopshuset” (The Old Bishop’s Residence) Saturday, 17th of March 2012 9.00 – 10.30Session 7 Catherine Abell, University of Manchester: Fiction Making Remigius Bunia, Free University Berlin: About Truth in Fiction
9.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.30 Welcome Adresses 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote I Kendall L. Walton, Fictionality and Prescribed Imaginings 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break 12.00 – 13.30 Session 1 Jérôme Pelletier, Brest/Paris University: Flitting Back and Forth Between ImaginingsPeter Alward, University of Lethbridge: Varieties Of Photographic Fiction Sonja Klimek, Fribourg University: “I grieve” as Make-Believe – The Generation of Fictional Truth in 18th century Lamentation Poetry 13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break at Restaurant ”Kulturen” 15.00 – 16.30 Session 2 Sarah Worth, Furman University: Narration, Representation, Memoir, Truth, and Lies: How We Diminish the Art of Narrative with Simple Truths Alexander Bareis, Lund University: Principles of Generation, Principles of Interpretation. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Al Baker, University of Manchester: ”People Always Think Something's All True”: How to ascertain fictional truth from unreliable narration 16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break 17.00 – 18.00 Session 3 Jan-Noël Thon, University of Tübingen: Narrative Representation across Media. Hypothetical Intentions, Medial Conventions, and the Principle of Charity Liviu Lutas, Lund University: Metalepsis and Participation in Games of Make-Believe Friday, 16th of March 2012 9.00 – 10.30 Session 4 Chris Bateman, International Hobo Ltd: Prop Perspective and the Aesthetics of Play Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma: Role-Playing, Make-Believe, and Moral Complicity Jason D’Cruz, State University of New York: Agency and Fictional Truth in Virtual Worlds 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 – 12.00 Keynote II Gregory Currie, Knowledge and make-believe 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break at Restaurant ”Kulturen” 13.30 – 15.00 Session 5 Tobias Klauk, Tilmann Köppe, Göttingen University: Distance in Fiction James Hamilton, Kansas State University: Narrative per se and Suspense Eliminativism Ira Newman, Mansfield University: Destabilizing Reality: Postmodernist Narrative and the Logic of Make-Believe 15.00 – 16.00 Keynote III Peter Lamarque, Belief, Make-Believe and the Opacity of Narrative 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 – 18.00 Session 6 Frank Zipfel, Mainz University: The Fictional Truths of Drama and Theatre Matthew DeCoursey, Hong Kong Institute of Education: Make-Believe as a Mode of Consciousness in Theatre: Redefining “Aesthetic Distance” Eran Guter, University of Haifa: Music as Ornament: Walton's Road Not Taken 19.30 Conference Dinner at ”Gamla Biskopshuset” (The Old Bishop’s Residence) Saturday, 17th of March 2012 9.00 – 10.30Session 7 Catherine Abell, University of Manchester: Fiction Making Remigius Bunia, Free University Berlin: About Truth in Fiction
Mario Slugan, University of Chicago: The Status of Deixis in Fiction Film and Literature 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 – 12.00 Keynote IV Stein Haugom Olsen, Truth, Verisimilitude, Make-Believe: Explaining the Concept of Literary Realism 12.00 – 13.30 Buffet Lunch at "Fakultetsklubben" 13.30 – 15.00 Session 8 Jukka Mikkonen, Tampere University: The Literary-Fictive Stance and Considerations of Truth Nils-Hennes Stear, University of Michigan: Is Sports Participation a Form of Make Believe? 15.00 – 15.30 Closing Remarks and Discussion