For FAU members and locals from Erlangen-Nürnberg visits of parallel sessions and panels are possible without prior registration and free of charge.
Wednesday, 17.05, 6 pm – informal conference get-together in the Franconian brewery Steinbachbräu
Steinbach Bräu Erlangen
Vierzigmannstr. 4, 91054 Erlangen
Tel.: 09131 / 89 59 – 12
https://steinbach-braeu.de/
9:00-9:30 – Room: Orangerie, Wassersaal
Opening Session: Aura Heydenreich, Klaus Mecke
9:30 – 10:30 Key-Note: Roman Frigg (Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science): Red Squares and Bouncing Balls – From Art to Science and Back Again
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10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break (Orangerie, Foyer)
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10:45-12:15 Chair: Aura Heydenreich Room: Orangerie
Michael Friedman (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tel Aviv)
Karin Krauthausen (Literature and Cultural Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin): Model and Mathematics at the End of the 19th Century: between Materiality and Representation –> Stream A
Michael Herrmann (Philosophy of Computational Sciences, Universität Stuttgart): Making Sense of Methodological Disagreement within Machine Learning –> Stream B
Liliane Campos (English Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : Microcosms as Models and Metaphors in Contemporary Eco-Fiction –> Stream C
12:15 – 12:45 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Chair: Klaus Mecke Room: Orangerie
Thomas Asmuth (Digital & New Media Art, University of West Florida) and Sara Gevurtz (Animation, Auburn University): Turbidity Paintings
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12 :45 – 14 :00 Lunch break
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14:00-15:30 Chair: Karin Höpker Room: Orangerie
14:00 – 15:00 Key-Note: Winfried Menninghaus (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a. M.): More order and more chaos combined: Poetic diction and its effects on cognitive and aesthetic processing
15:00 – 15.30 David Hommen (Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf): Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics – A Wittgensteinian Approach to Knowledge in Art, Philosophy, and Science
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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break (Orangerie, Foyer)
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16:00-18:00 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Materiality and Models
Chair: David Hommen Room: Orangerie
Danka Radjenović (Philosophy, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau): (How) Do Models Exemplify? Some Thoughts on Wet Lab Models in the Life Sciences
Jasmin Trächtler (Philosophy, Technical University Dortmund) The Problem of Negation in Visual Models
Mariano Martín Villuendas (Philosophy, University of Salamanca): Conceptualizing a Pragmatist Artifactualism
Lorenzo Sartori (Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science): Model Organisms as Representations
16:00-18:00 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Digitization and Simulations
Chair: Sebastian Lemerle Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Nicole Brandstetter (English Studies, University of Applied Sciences Munich): Simulation, Duplication and the Moebius Strip – LiteraryThought Experiments on Disengagement of Space, Time and Identity in Times of Digitalisation and AI
Naomi Mandel (American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Hacking as Literary and Technological Reciprocity
Iman Ferestade (Mechanical Engineering, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada): An Engineering-Inspired Account of Knowledge (Computer simulations)
Liam Mullally (Cultural studies, University of London): Reading JPEG: The JPEG-1 Specification as a Key Text in the Production of Digital Photographic Images?
16:00-18:00 STREAM C Environment and Society: Ecosystems
Chair: Liliane Campos Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Matthew Eisler (History, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): Green Discourse, the Energy/Materials Ecosystem, and Technologies of Environmental Care
Konrad Kopel: (History and Cultural Theory, University of Silesia, Katowice): Models of worlding. An analysis of the first Polish Handbook of Modern Forestry as a Vehicle for Environmentality
Teun Joshua Brandt (Literary Studies, University of Groningen): The Holobiontic Figure: Cultural Complexities of Holobiosis in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague
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18:00 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Chair: Christine McWebb Room: Orangerie
Szilvia Ruszev (Media and Communication, Bornemouth University): Neuro-Avantgarde
9:00-10:30 ELINAS-PANEL
Chair: Dirk Vanderbeke Room: Orangerie
Jay Labinger (Chemistry, California Institute of Technology) – Is the Importance of Metaphor, Models and Simulations in Science Best Exemplified by Chemistry?
Klaus Mecke (Physics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Narratives of Measurements, Models, and Events: How does Physics Work as an Empirical Science?
Aura Heydenreich (German and Comparative Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): The Epistemic Functions of Interformation in Science and Literature: Einstein’s Relativity Theory as a Case Study
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10:30 – 11:00 Uhr Coffee break (Foyer Orangerie)
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11:00-13:00
Chair: Dirk Vanderbeke Room: Orangerie
Sarah Goeth (German Literature, Innsbruck University): Analogy – A Figure of Mediation between Science and Art
Leonhard Möckl (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen): On the Logical Position of the Hypothesis
Peter Hull (English Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light): Liberating energy. Investigating Physicists’ Use of Anthropomorphic Cognitive Metaphors when Modeling Matter-Energy Interactions in English and German
11:00-13:00 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Aesthetics and Science
Chair: Michael Friedman Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Christine McWebb (French Studies, University of Waterloo): Medieval Alchemy as Metaphoric Modelling for Polysemy in Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose”
Jessica Stacey (Romance Studies, Freie Universität Berlin): „Illusory chemistry“: Analysis and Synthesis as Contested Models for Philosophical Thought in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma de Beus: (English Literature, Queen’s University Belfast) Physics as Paradigm: Light in Literary Adaptation as Seen in „Hamlet“
Ben Toth (Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon): A Common Model for Fictional and Scientific Narratives
11:00-13:00 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Digital Humanities
Chair: Michael Herrmann Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Carolina Ferrer (Département d’études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal): From Scientometrics to Criticometrics. Elaborating a Systemic Approach for Studying Literature through Metadata
Rozalia Slodcyk (Philosophy, Independent Scholar, Warsaw, Poland) – Models and Diagrams in Literary Research – Close Reading versus Distant Reading in Digital Humanities on the Example of Ekphrasis and Nocturne
Daniel Raschke (Literature, Media, Culture, Florida State University): Denoising Futurisms: Modeling Algorithmic Avant-Gardes
Stefano Franceschini (American Literature, Roma Tre University): “I had found my model of replication”: Analogy and Musical Signification in Richard Powers’s “The Gold Bug Variations”
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13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
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14:00-15:00 Chair: Klaus Mecke Room: Orangerie
Keynote: Amy Kind (Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California): Accuracy in Imagining
15:00 – 15:30 Robert Clewis (Philosophy, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania): Imagine that, Kant: Crossdisciplinary work on Awe and the Sublime
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15:30 – 16:00 Uhr Coffee break (Foyer Orangerie)
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16:00-18:00 Panel – Literary Modelling and Energy Transition
Chair: Klaus Mecke Room: Orangerie
Veit Hagenmeyer (Energy Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Modelling the Energy Lab 2.0
Tobias Becker (Design and Design Theory, University of Siegen): The Blind Spots of Modelling: Models in Arts and Science
Eric Achermann (Early Modern Literature, History of Knowledge, University of Münster): Models and Metaphors: A Topological Turn
Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Modern German Literature, University of Münster): Literary Modelling and Energy Transition. A Transdisciplinary Venture
16:00-18:00 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Consciousness
Chair: Nicole Brandstetter Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Sébastien Lemerle (Sociology, Université Paris-Nanterre): Biological Phenomena in Search of a Meaning: The Concept of Brain Plasticity as a Back-and-Forth Between Biology, Politics and Culture
Katharina Trettenbach (Ethics of Medicine, Tübingen University) / Joachim Peters (German Linguistics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Of Brains in a Dish and Mini-Brains – Cerebral Organoids, Scientific Models and the Ethical Implications of Metaphors
Dror, Otniel E. (Medical Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Insatiable Rat
16:00-18:00 STREAM C Environment and Society: Evolution and Probability
Chair: Robert Clewis Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Johannes Müller (German Studies, Leiden University): Adaptive Landscapes as Metaphors and Models
Lilian Kroth (French Literature, University of Cambridge): Modelling and Imagining ‘Tipping Points’
Ken Archer (Philosophy, AI Ethics at Twitch): Probability and the Analogical Participation of Models in Intersubjective Goods
Joshua Wodak (Environmental Humanities, Western Sydney University): Probing the Vicissitudes of the Cosmos: The Limits of Knowability in Literary and Scientific Worldviews
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18:00 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Chair: Hannah Star Rogers Room: Orangerie
Piera Benetti (Verona, Italy): Interwined vision
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19:00 Conference dinner: Ristorante Parmigiano, Paulistraße 12, Erlangen
9:00-10:30 Chair: Aura Heydenreich Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
9:00 – 10:00 Key-Note Jens Eder (Narrative and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media at Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam): Using Models in Narrative Practice: From Characters to Social Impact
10:00 – 10:30 Tudor Baetu (Philosophy, Québec University): Animal Models of Consciousness
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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break (Kollegienhaus, Room 0.024)
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11:00-12:30 PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere
Chair: Antonia Villinger Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Antje Kley (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Where Reason Fails: Literary Epistemologies of Death in the 21st Century
Karin Höpker (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Future Responsibilities and Affordances: Class, Catastrophe, and Ownership in Science Fiction
Arunima Kundu (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Mediating Blackness. The Afrofuturist Planetary Posthuman in Black Panther
11:00-12:30 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Scientific Representation
Chair: Karin Krauthausen Room: Kollegienhaus 1.019
Onerva Kiianlinna (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki): Simulationalist versus Embodied Approaches in Aesthetics
Gabrielle Reid (German Literature, Yale University): Schelling on Simulation and the Construction of Reality
Rosa Coppola (German Literature, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, LMU Munich): Artificial Models of Involuntariness. Max Bense’s Cybernetic Poetry as Epistemic Creation of Futures?
11:00-12:30 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Biomedicine
Chair: Tudor Baetu Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Desiree Foerster (Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University): New Phenomenologies of Pain and Disease through Experimentations with Digital Technologies in the Arts
Sofia Varino (Cultural Studies, University of Potsdam): The Logic of Prevention: Anticipatory Narratives, Concepts, Models and Metaphors in Covid-19 Biomedical Imaginaries
Mohsen Forghani (Philosophy, University of Warsaw): Force-Dynamic Structure: Cases of Theories of Humor and Hysteria
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch-break
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14:00-15:30 PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere
Chair: Karin Höpker Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Ruxandra Teodorescu (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Beyond Binary – AI, SF, and the Moral Imagination
Antonia Villinger (German Literature, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Post-Petro Imaginary and Utopian Social Enclave in Theresia Enzenberger’s “Auf See” (2022)
Elisabeth Reichel (American Studies, Osnabrück University): Modeling Libertarian Collectives
14:00-15:30 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Metaphor and Analogy
Chair: Peter Hull Room: Kollegienhaus 1.019
Addison Neil (British Literature, Japan Women’s University, Tokio): Industrial Metaphor Transformed in Charles Dickens’s “Dombey and Son” (1848) and “The Signal-Man” (1866).
Su Min Kim (College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University): The Political Calculator in Jules Verne’s „Lunar Stories“
Katja Schmieder (American Studies, University of Leipzig): Dust as Metaphor and Model in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials”
14:00-15:30 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Neural Nets, Machine Learning, AI
Chair: Daniel Raschke Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Lucas Bang (Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College, California): Abstractionism and Simulation in Software Development
Koray Karaca (Philosophy, University of Twente): Representational Requirements on Explainable Machine Learning Models
Maximilian Noichl (Philosophy, University of Vienna / University of Bamberg): How Localized are Computational Templates? A Machine Learning Approach
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15:30 – 16:00 Uhr Coffee break (Kollegienhaus, Room 0.024)
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16:00-17:30 STREAM A: Epistemology and Aesthetics: Metaphor and Analogy
Chair: Sarah Goeth Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Marie Teich (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig): A Metaphor Theory based on Etymological Network Structure Analysis
Lee Siyeon (English Studies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea): Through the Looking-Glass, and What Women Found There. Conway, Cavendish, and Specular Metaphors of Self-Knowledge for Early Modern Women
17:30 – 19:00 Uhr ONLINE SESSION
Chair: Sarah Goeth Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Olga Timurgalieva (Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong): Yeast metaphors beyond machines
Aditya Jha (Mathematics, Philosophy, University of Canterbury): Modelling Temperature as a Continuous Function: Lessons from Thermal Physics
Anand Abhinav (English Literature, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) – “Literature” of Science: Reading Science as an Institutionalised System of Knowledge in Contemporary Indian Fiction
16:00-17:30 STREAM B: Brains and Computers: Posthuman Visions
Chair: Naomi Mandel Room: Kollegienhaus 1.019
Simona Bartolotta (English Literature, University of Oxford): Thought Experiments, Literary Narrative, and Science Fiction: The Example of Isaac Asimov’s Robot Cycle
Terence Shih (English Studies, St. John’s University, Taiwan): Queering Romantic AI: The Shelleyan Wandering Jew in Asimov’s Bicentennial Man
Rachel Tay (Literary Studies, Duke University): Next to Human: Proximity and/as Measure of (Post)Humanity
16:00-17:30 STREAM C Environment and Society: Science and Literature
Chair: Valentin Weber Room: Kollegienhaus 1.020
Christian Thomé (Classical Philology, University of Wuppertal): Spherical Geometry in Euclid’s „Phaenomena“
Laetitia Rimpau (German Literature, University of Wuppertal): Scientific Knowledge as Ascent to the Light. On the Literary Method of Dante Alighieri and Johannes Kepler
George Vlahakis (Physics and History of Science, Hellenic Open University, Athens): Patterns of Science in 19th Century Greek literature
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19:00 – 19:30 Uhr SLSAeu Members Meeting 1.011 (Senatssaal)
9:00-11:30 Chair: Jay Labinger Room: Kollegienhaus 1.011 (Senatssaal)
Dirk Vanderbeke (English Studies, Schiller Universität Jena): On the Coincidence of Change in Science and Culture
Stephan Besser (Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam): Conjuring a Sense of Order: Pattern as a Figure of Knowledge in Armin Nassehi’s Theory of Digital Society
Dominik Baumgartner (Theology, LMU München): Theology between Models and Metaphors. A model-based scientific theology facing biblical narratives and personal belief
Roland Bolz (Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin): Functional Similarities and Differences Between Analogical Thought in Literature and Science
Hannah Star Rogers (Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen): The Politics of Knowledge: Art, Science, and Technology Studies
112:30 – Concluding Session
Aura Heydenreich, Klaus Mecke
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