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Programme/Program

Sponsors:

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

France Chicago Center

SIRFF/ISFFS

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Institut Universitaire de France

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

WEDNESDAY MARCH 2/MERCREDI 2 MARS 2022

1:30 p.m.                     Arrival and opening remarks/Accueil des participants

Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, Françoise Lavocat

2:00–4:50 p.m.            PARALLEL SESSIONS A–C

SESSION A               Narrateurs impossibles (in French).

Panel Chair: Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University)

2:00 p.m.                     Camille Brun (Aix-Marseille Université), “Au seuil de la fiction: Saint-Aubin ou le préfacier impossible” (online)

2:30 p.m.                     Maxime Decout (Université Aix-Marseille/Institut Universitaire de France), “Du narrateur menteur au narrateur démembré”

3:00 p.m.                     Richard Saint-Gelais (Université Laval), “La narration impossibilisée par sa fiction” (online)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50 p.m.                     Lolita Felgueiras (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “J’irai cracher sur vos tombes ou l’impossible énonciation” (online)

4:20 p.m.                     Franck Salaün (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier), “Paradoxes de l’identité et impossibilités narratives”

SESSION B               Impossible Beings

Panel Chair: Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London)

2:00 p.m.                     Nicolas Correard (Université de Nantes), “Speaking Animals and Unthinkable Thoughts in a Pre-Darwinian Context” (online)

2:30 p.m.                     Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki), “Impossible Narrative Situations and the Principle of Minimal Departure”

3:00 p.m.                     Anke Sharma (Freie Universität Berlin), “We-Narration, Focalization and ‘Impossible’ Perspective” (online)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50 p.m.                     Annjeanette Wiese (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Impossible Identities: An Exploration of Character and Storyworld in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown”

4:20 p.m.                     Jamie Cawthra (Bloomsbury Institute, London), “Unreliable Narration and Explaining the Impossible (Away)”

SESSION C               Ethical and Legal Issues

Chair: Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago)

2:00 p.m.                     Lena Seauve (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “The Impossibility of the Perpetrator’s Perspective” (online)

2:30 p.m.                     Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen (Aarhus University), “Possible Dangers of Impossible Fictions” (online)

3:00 p.m.                     Christine Baron (Université de Poitiers), “Jurisfictions impossibles” (in French, online)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50 p.m.                     Otto Pfersmann (EHESS, Paris), “Impossible Pseudo-Norms in Fiction, Law and Morals”

5:00 p.m.                     KEYNOTE LECTURE 1

Murray Smith (University of Kent)

“Impossibility, Fiction, and (Make-)Belief”

6:30 p.m.                     Reception

                                    Award of SIRFF/ISFFS Prize

THURSDAY MARCH 3/JEUDI 3 MARS 2022

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS D–F

SESSION D               Temporal Distortions

Panel Chair: Chiara Nifosi (University of Chicago)

9:00 a.m.                     Kohei Takahashi (Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts), “Value, Genre, Possibility: Contingency and Literature in Modern Japan” (online)

9:30 a.m.                     Kaiwei Xia (Hunan Normal University), “Symptomatic Histoire, or Don DeLillo’s Realist Imagination” (online)

10:00 a.m.                   Martin Riedelsheimer (University of Augsburg), “Fictions of Infinity: Reading Beyond Boundaries in 21st-Century Novels”

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Katherine Weese (Hampden-Sydney College), “Somebody Telling Somebody Else that Something Did and Did Not Happen”

11:30 a.m.                    Julia Elsky (Loyola University Chicago), “Living Backwards: Elsa Triolet’s Female Sisyphus”

SESSION E               Cognition and Imaginative Resistance

Panel Chair: Murray Smith (University of Kent)

9:00 a.m.                     Alberto Voltolini and Carola Barbero (University of Turin), “How One Cannot Imagine What One Could Imagine” (online)

9:30 a.m.                     Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen (Aarhus University), “Impossible Fantasies” (online)

10:00 a.m.                   Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne/Institut Universitaire de France), “ Anomalous/Abnormal/Unnatural”

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Edgar Dubourg (ENS Paris), “The Psychological and Evolutionary Foundations of Impossible Worlds” (online)

11:30 a.m.                    Deena Skolnick Weisberg (Villanova University), “Impossible Elements in Children’s Educational Media” (online)

SESSION F               La mimésis en question (in French)

Panel Chair: Franck Salaün (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)

9:00 a.m.                     Fuhito Tachibana (Waseda University), “La ‘sans-mondialité’ en tant qu’impossibilité fictionnelle” (online)

9:30 a.m.                     Claude Calame (EHESS, Paris), “Les mythes grecs: pour une pragmatique de la fiction impossible” (online)

10:00 a.m.                   Antonino Sorci (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Les camélias de la fiction. Impossibilités narratives et processus interprétatif”

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Amélie Derome (Université Aix-Marseille), “Improbabilités de la fiction et impossibilités de la traduction: les stratégies de post-rationalisation des traducteurs français de Gulliver’s Travels de Jonathan Swift de 1727 à nos jours” (online)

12:00–2:00 p.m.          Lunch/Déjeuner

12:30–1:30 p.m.           Lunchtime author event:

Laurent Binet

in conversation with Alison James (University of Chicago); Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University) and Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

In association with the Seminary Co-op Bookstore

2:00–4:50 p.m.            PARALLEL SESSIONS G–I

SESSION G               Impossibilities on Screen

Panel Chair: Marc Downie (University of Chicago)

2:00 p.m.                     Mario Slugan (Queen Mary, University of London), “Imaginative Resistance and Objectival Imagining in Film”

2:30 p.m.                     Rami Gabriel (Columbia College Chicago), “The Heart of Darkness of Cinema: Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind”

3:00 p.m.                     Gretchen Busl (Texas Woman’s University), “Alternate Streams: Cognitive Desire and Counterfactual Narrative TV Series” (online)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50 p.m.                     Caroline Bem (Saint Paul University), “Diptychal Thinking, Paradox, and the (Im)Possibility of Fiction in Greta Gerwig’s Adaptation of Little Women” (online)

SESSION H              Violences sexuelles aux frontières de la représentation: impossibles fictions? (in French)

Panel Chair: Charlotte Krauss (Université de Poitiers)

2:00 p.m.                     Véronique Lochert (Université de Haute-Alsace), “La fiction face au viol: (im)possibilités classiques et contemporaines”

2:30 p.m.                     Enrica Zanin (université de Strasbourg), “Sexes impossibles et invraisemblables: pourquoi à la fin de la Renaissance le viol remplace l’amour dans les fictions?”

3:00 p.m.                    Zoé Schweitzer (Université de Saint-Étienne), “Mutilations du corps et de la parole: le spectacle impossible du viol de Philomèle?”

SESSION I                Impossible Spaces

Panel Chair: Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

2:00 p.m.                     Jérôme Pelletier (Institut Jean-Nicod), “Seeing the Impossible with Magritte” (online)           

2:30 p.m.                     Matthew McGinity (Technical University Dresden), “Impossible Worlds in Virtual Reality” (online)

3:00 p.m.                     Sladja Blažan (Bard College Berlin), “Vegetomorphism: Weird Biology in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation” (online)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50 p.m.                     Chiara Nifosi (University of Chicago), “Embracing the Paradox:  Rhetorical Strategies of the Impossible in Proust and Beckett”

4:20 p.m.                     Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), “Geographies of Degeographication: Latin America and the Virgin Woods in Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma”

5:00 p.m.                     KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

Marie-Laure Ryan

“Are Impossible Fictions Possible?”

7:30 p.m.                     Optional Event / Spectacle 

                                    Ballet des Porcelaines

Theater East, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Information and Registration Link 

FRIDAY MARCH 4/VENDREDI 4 MARS 2022

9:00–11:00 a.m.           ISFFS General Assembly/Assemblée générale de la SIRFF       

11:00–11:30 a.m.          Break/Pause

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.   PARALLEL SESSIONS J–K

SESSION J                Affordances des médias (in French)

Panel Chair: Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago)

11:30 a.m.                    Olivier Caïra (Université Paris-Saclay, Centre Pierre Naville/CRAL), “Le paradoxe du goof – Qui a besoin de fictions possibles?” (online)

12:00 p.m.                   Alexis Hassler (Independent Scholar), “There Is No Game, Pony Island, le glitch vidéoludique ou la narration impossible” (online)

12:30 p.m.                   Jean-Bernard Cheymol (Université Paris Saclay/Université Sorbonne nouvelle), “Une fiction impossible à suivre? 3" de Marc-Antoine Mathieu”

SESSION K               Theory of Fiction

                                    Seminar Room

                                    Panel Chair: Larry Norman (University of Chicago)

11:30 a.m.                    Manuel García-Carpintero Sánchez-Miguel (University of Barcelona), “Against the Mere Pretense View of Fiction” (online)

12:00 p.m.                   John Pier (CRAL – CNRS/EHESS), “Competing Narratives”

12:30 p.m.                   Nicholas Paige (University of California Berkeley), “Narration, Description, Fiction”

1:00–2:30 p.m.            Lunch break/Déjeuner libre

2:30–3:30 p.m.            Fictional Worlds, Fictional Possibilities:

A Roundtable in Honor of Thomas Pavel

Chair: Nicholas Paige (University of California Berkeley)

Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne)

Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Larry Norman (University of Chicago)

Marie-Laure Ryan (Independent Scholar)

3:30–3:50 p.m.                        Break/Pause

3:50–4:50 p.m.                        PARALLEL SESSIONS L–M

SESSION L               Graphic Paradoxes

Panel Chair: Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki)

3:50 p.m.                     Charlotte Krauss (Université de Poitiers), “ ‘...for Time is Space and Space is Time’: When Comic Books Defy the Laws of Fiction”

4:20 p.m.                     Elizabeth A. Oakes (University of Helsinki), “Ameliorative Impossibility: Thematics in Vandermeer’s Borne and Dalrymple’s The Wrenchies” (online)

SESSION M              Intermedial Extensions

Panel Chair: Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago, online)

3:50 p.m.                     Tonguc Sezen (Teesside University), “Epistolary Paratexts at the Threshold of Both Text and Fiction” (online)

4:20 p.m.                   Annick Louis (Université de Franche-Comté/EHESS), “A Flawless Masterpiece. The Big Bang Theory, Indiana Jones, Pride and Prejudice, and fictional immersion”

5:00 p.m.                     KEYNOTE LECTURE 3

Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

“Plotting against Probability:

Unruly Sequences, Impossible Fictions, Contradictory Worlds.”

7:30 p.m.                     Dîner du colloque

SATURDAY MARCH 5/SAMEDI 5 MARS 2022

9:00–12:00 p.m.          PARALLEL SESSIONS N–P

SESSION N              Fait et fiction/Fact and Fiction

Panel Chair: Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne/Institut Universitaire de France)

9:00 a.m.                     Guido Furci (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Le Rapport sur Auschwitz de Primo Levi et Leonardo De Benedetti (entre fait et fiction?): genèse/analyse d'une ‘anomalie nécessaire.’ ” (online)

9:30 a.m.                     Delphine Edy (Sorbonne Université/Université de Strasbourg), “Transfuges de classe (D. Eribon, É. Louis) : Fiction littéraire impossible vs. reconstruction fictionnelle en scène ?” (online)

10:00 a.m.                   Camélia Paquette (Université de Sherbrooke), “HHhH ou le roman sans fiction (im)possible” (online)

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Jeppe Barnwell (Society for Danish Language and Literature/University of Copenhagen) “Impossibility in Pseudo-Factuality”

11:30 a.m.                    Dunja Dušanić (University of Belgrade, European Graduate School), “The Non-Fiction Novel as an Impossible Genre”

SESSION O               Impossibilités politiques et éthiques/Political and Ethical Impossibilities (in French and English)

Panel Chair: Maxime Decout (Université Aix-Marseille/Institut Universitaire de France)

9:00 a.m.                     Irina Holca (University of Tokyo), “The Paradox of Socialist Realism: Japan and the Orient as (Improbable) Tropes in Romanian Historical Fiction” (online)

9:30 a.m.                     Maria Anna Mariani (University of Chicago), “Catastrophe and the Historical Novel: Elsa Morante’s La Storia” (online)

10:00 a.m.                   Mathilde Zbaeren (Université de Lausanne), “Collecting the Voices of the Rwandan Genocide: Rewriting and Fictionalizing”

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Patrick Maurus (INALCO, Paris), “Le fictif comme solution au fictionnel impossible: Des Nords-Coréens dans le cinéma sud-coréen”

11:30 a.m.                   Alexandre Gefen (CNRS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “La mise en fiction du terrorisme contemporain: nécessité ou interdit? Une comparaison France-USA” (online)

SESSION P               Fantasy, the Fantastic, Science Fiction (in French)

Panel Chair: Marie-Laure Ryan (Independent Scholar)

9:00 a.m.                     Laurent Bazin (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), “L’âge de tous les (im)possibles? Formes et enjeux de l’im-plausibilité dans les fictions pour adolescents” (online)

9:30 a.m.                   Monique Villen (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria), “La science-fiction: imaginer l’impossible”

10:00 a.m.                    Aurore Noury (CRAL/EHESS), “Les contradictions du corpus fictif de Tolkien, ou le creuset d’un renouveau de l’imaginaire”

10:30–11:00 a.m.         Break/Pause

11:00 a.m.                    Simon Bréan (Sorbonne Université), “Faire vivre l’impossible: fonctions des protagonistes dans les récits de science-fiction” (online)

11:30 a.m.                   Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra (Princeton University), “Des fictions impossibles? Ceux qui sortent dans la nuit, Une théorisation du fantastique africain” (online)

 

Concerned with the nature of the medium and the borders between fact and fiction, reflexivity was a ubiquitous feature of modernist and postmodernist literature and film. While in the wake of the post-postmodern “return to the real” cultural criticism has little time for discussions of reflexivity, it remains a key topic in narratology, as does fictionality. The latter is commonly defined opposition to the real and the factual, but remains conditioned by historical, cultural, discursive, and medium-related factors. Reflexivity blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, however, by giving fiction a factual edge or by questioning the limits of factuality in non-fictional discourses. Fictionality, factuality, and reflexivity thus constitute a complex triangle of concepts, yet they are rarely considered together. This volume fills this gap by exploring the intricacies of their interactions and interdependence in philosophy, literature, film, and digital media, providing insights into a broad range of their manifestations from the ancient times to today, from East Asia through Europe to the Americas.

 

• In collaboration with: Graham Priest and Richard Saint-Gelais
• Edited by: Erika Fülöp

 

Volume 75. In the series Narratologiahttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722031

Doctorante contractuelle à l'EHESS

 

aline.verneau@gmail.com 

Discipline : Sociologie de la littérature

Champs de recherche : Littérature autochtone contemporaine

PhD, Kiel University (Germany)

 schuh@anglistik.uni-kiel.de

Field of research : English Literature

Link to university webpage :

https://www.anglistik.uni-kiel.de/de/fachgebiete/literatur-und-kulturwissenschaft/anglistik-1/mitarbeiterinnen/melissa-schuh

Enseignant, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures

halaburda@uchicago.edu 

Discipline : Études latino-américaines

 Champs de recherche : Genre et sexualité

 Lien page personnelle : www.carloshalaburda.com

 jamila.hamidi@edu.univ-amu.fr

 Discipline : Littérature française

 Champs de recherche : le tissu biographique dans les oeuvres de Marcel Proust et Patrick Modiano

chichedidier16@gmail.com

Discipline : littérature comparée (France-Japon), traduction

Champs de recherche : traduction

PhD, Macau University of Science and Technology

mnkang@must.edu.mo

Fields of research : Postmodernist fiction; contemporary fiction; unnatural narrative studies

 I am currently an assistant professor at University International College, Macau University of Science and Technology. I received my PhD in English from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and takes interest in unnatural narrative theories and postmodernist fiction. My articles have been published in Hecate, Journal of Narrative Theory, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Style and Frontiers of

Narrative Studies.

yinde.zhang@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

Discipline : études chinoises

Domaines de recherches : littérature chinoise contemporaine, roman chinois contemporain, Mo Yan, fiction et politique.

Choix de publications :

Le monde romanesque chinois au XXe siècle. Modernités et identités, H. Champion, 2002.

Mo Yan, le lieu de la fiction, Seuil, 2014.

Voir aussi : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/m-zhang-yinde-14289.kjsp?RH=1373382890169

demassieuxbenjamin@gmail.com 

Discipline : Philologie classique, littérature ancienne

Champs de recherche : études de genre, intertextualité, réception de l'antiquité et de la théorie littéraire, cultures populaires et médiatiques.

Lien page personnelle ou universitaire :

 https://pro.univ-lille.fr/benjamin-demassieux

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=Zly348AAAAAJ

Student, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology

 shinnosukeokada@hotmail.com

Field of research : Aesthetics of Fiction

 Link to personal or university webpage : 

https://researchmap.jp/shinokada?lang=en

yang.liu@nju.edu.cn

Field of research : Early Modern English Drama, Literary Realism

Associate Professor, Ege University (İzmir/Turkey)

bahardervis@yahoo.com 

Field of research : Narratology, narrative analysis

Link to personal university webpage :

https://unisis.ege.edu.tr/researcher=bahar.derviscemaloglu

 zhuguohua6457@126.com

 Discipline : théorie de la littérature

Champs de recherche : esthétique, théorie de la littérature et sociologie française

Lien page personnelle ou universitaire :

https://faculty.ecnu.edu.cn/_s5/zgh_en/main.psp

thales.chaun@gmail.com

Fields of research : Traditional stories, storytelling, visual arts, transmediality, intermediality, and materiality.

See more : https://thalesestefani.com/

maître de conférences, Université de Silésie à Katowice

ewa.drab@us.edu.pl

Disciplines : études littéraires & études de traduction

Champs de recherche : littératures de l'imaginaire (fantasy / SF / dystopie / steampunk), traduction des littératures de l'imaginaire

Lien page personnelle ou universitaire :https://us.edu.pl/instytut/il/osoby/ewa-drab/#1673373246930-56098277-fd6c

annebesson@free.fr

Domaines de recherches : 

SFFF (science fiction, fantasy, fantastic literature), series, media studies, transmedia, fans, worldbuilding

Publications 

Dictionnaire de la fantasy (dir.), Paris, Vendémiaire, 2018.

Constellations. Des mondes fictionnels dans l’imaginaire contemporain, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2015.

D’Asimov à Tolkien, cycles et séries dans la littérature de genre, Paris, CNRS Éditions « Littérature », 2004.

La Fantasy, Paris, Klincksieck « 50 questions », 2007.

Pour plus d’informations

Doctorant à l’ENS

@EdgarDubourg sur Twitter

Discipline : Sciences cognitives, Anthropologie évolutionnaire, Psychologie cognitive et expérimentale, psychologie comportementale

Laboratoire : Evolution & Social Cognition, Institut Jean Nicod, École normale supérieure

Spécialités de recherche : Psychologie évolutionnaire des fictions

Publications : 

Edgar Dubourg, Nicolas Baumard. Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Target Article. Forthcoming. (URL) (PDF)

Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, Charles de Dampierre, Nicolas Baumard. Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of imaginary worlds in modern societies. PsyArXiv. (URL)

Edgar Dubourg, Jean-Baptiste André, Nicolas Baumard. The Evolution of Music: One Trait, Many Ultimate-Level Explanations. Commentary to ‘Origins of music in credible signaling’ by Mehr et al., Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (URL) (PDF)

Edgar Dubourg, Jean-Baptiste André, Nicolas Baumard. The Origin of Fiction: The Social Evolutionary Functions Hypothesis. Fabula LHT. (URL)*

Edgar Dubourg. Imaginary Worlds in Fictions. Review of Constellations by Anne Besson. Acta Fabula. (URL)*

Edgar Dubourg. The intuitive recognition of fiction. XXI-XX, Reconnaissance littéraire, Classique Garnier, n.1. DOI: 10.15122/ISBN.978-2-406-11008-8.P.0035. (URL)*

Edgar Dubourg. The Conquest of Fiction. Romanesques (Cercll / Roman & Romanesque), Classique Garnier, n.12. DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10636-4.p.0195. (URL)*

Edgar Dubourg. Axiologies of the ‘romanesque’. Acta fabula, vol.20, n.5, Essais critiques. (URL)*