Vorläufiges Programm
COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING / COUNTERFACTUAL WRITING
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), September 28-30, 2009
September 27, 2009
7 pm: Welcome and Conference Warming (FRIAS Lounge)
September 28
9.30 am: Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, Tilmann Köppe (Freiburg) Introduction
10.15 am: Coffee Break
Counterfactual History in Literature
10.45 am: Andreas Martin Widmann (London/Mainz) Plot vs. Story: Towards a Typology of Counterfactual Historical Novels
11.15 am: Gala Rebane (Chemnitz/Bochum) Poesis and Praxis of Possible Worlds in Historiographic Metafiction: Baudolino by Umberto Eco
11.45 am: Discussion
12.30 am: Lunch
The Cognitive Value of Counterfactual Scenarios
3.00 pm: Georg Christoph Berger-Waldenegg (Heidelberg/Vienna) “What if?”: Counterfactuality and Historiography
3.30 pm: Ned Lebow (Dartmouth, Hanover/London) Counterfactual Case Studies and Experimental Research in International Relations4.00 pm Discussion
4.45 pm: Coffee Break
Counterfactual Thinking in the History of Science
5.15 pm: Bernhard Kleeberg (Konstanz) Retrospective Prognoses: Modeling Historical Counterfactuals
5.45 pm: Lutz Danneberg (Berlin) Use and Misuse of Counterfactuals in Certain Arguments in the History of Science: The Case of Ex-Post-In/Determinism
6.15 pm: Discussion
September 29
Counterfactuals and Cognition
9 am: Michael Brenner (Freiburg) “If Androids Dreamt of Electric Sheep”: Counterfactual Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
9.30 am: Martin Hilpert (Freiburg) The Cognitive Linguistics of Counterfactuals
10 am: Discussion
10.45 am: Coffee Break
The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking
11.15 am: Christoph Klauer (Freiburg) Psychological Research on Counterfactual Processing
11.45 am: Patrizia Catellani (Milan) Counterfactuals in the Social Context: The Case of Political Interviews and Their Effects
12.15 am: Discussion
1 pm: Lunch
Counterfactuality as a Narrative Strategy
3 pm: Jan Alber (Freiburg) Impossible Storyworlds: An Extreme Case of Counterfactuality
3.30 pm: Robyn Warhol-Down (Columbus, Ohio) “What Might Have Been is Not What Is”: Dickens’s Narrative Refusals
4 pm: Discussion
4.45 pm: Coffee Break
Literature as a Counterfactual Discourse
5.15 pm: Tobias Klauk (Göttingen) Thought Experiments and Literature
5.45 pm: Daniel Dohrn (Konstanz) Counterfactual Explanation in Literature and the Social Sciences
6.15 pm: Discussion
8 pm: Conference Dinner
September 30
Counterfactual Scenarios in Literature
9.30 am: Rüdiger Heinze (Braunschweig) A Sound of Thunder: Time Travel, Possible Worlds and Counterfactuality
10 am: Birte Christ (Bonn/Freiburg) “If I Were a Man”: The Counterfactual as Feminist Analytic
10.30 am: Discussion
11.15 am: Coffee Break
Counterfictionality
11.45 am: Richard Saint-Gelais (Québec) How to Do Things with Worlds: From Counterfactuality to Counterfictionality
12.15 pm: (Final) Discussion