9:00-9:30 – Orangerie
Opening Session, UL
Aura Heydenreich, Klaus Mecke
9:30 – 10:30 Key-Note: Amy Kind (Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California)
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10:45-12:15
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
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12:15 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Thomas Asmuth (Digital & New Media Art, University of West Florida) and Sara Gevurtz (Art History, University of West Florida): Turbidity Paintings
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14:00-15:30
Key-Note: Roman Frigg (Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Jay Labinger (Chemistry, California Institute of Technology) – Is the importance of metaphor, models and simulations in science best exemplified by chemistry?
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16:00-18:00 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Materiality and Models
Danka Radjenović (Philosophy, RPTU 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
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16:00-18:00 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Digitization and Simulations
Nicole Brandstetter (English Studies, University of Applied Sciences Munich): Simulation, duplication and the Moebius strip – literary thought 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?
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16:00-18:00 STREAM C Environment and Society: Ecosystems
Matthew Eisler (History, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): Green Discourse, the Energy/Materials Ecosystem, and Technologies of Environmental Care
Isabelle Boucher (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal): Earth System Science, or the Gaia Allegory: The Epistemological Legacies and Politics of Environmental Reclamation at Planetary Scale
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
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18:00 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
François-Joseph Lapointe (Biology, Université de Montréal) : Monstra te esse Matrem – or how to create a miracle
9:00-10:30
Key-Note: Jean Michael Schaeffer (Philosophy of Literature, École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales, Paris)
David Hommen (Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf): Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics – A Wittgensteinian Approach to Knowledge in Art, Philosophy, and Science
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10:45-12:45 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Aesthetics and Science
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
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10:45-12:45 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Digital Humanities
Carolina Ferrer (Département d’études littéraires, Université du Québec, Montreal): From Scientometrics to Criticometrics. Elaborating a Systemic Approach for Studying Literature through Metadata
Rozalia Słodczyk (Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow) – 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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10:45-12:45 ELINAS-PANEL
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
Klaus Mecke (Physics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Narratology of Physics
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
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14:00-15:30
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
Robert Clewis (Philosophy, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania): Imagine that, Kant: Crossdisciplinary work on Awe and the Sublime
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16:00-18:00 Panel – Literary Modelling and Energy Transition
Matthias Erdbeer (German Studies, University Münster, ITAS Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe)
Klaus Stierstorfer (British Studies, University Münster)
Armin Grunwald (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe)
Veit Hagenmeyer (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe)
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
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16:00-18:00 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Consciousness
Patrick Krauß (Neuroscience / English Linguistics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Achim Schilling (Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): On the Challenge of Understanding the Brain and Creating Artificial General Intelligence (AI): Epistemic Function of Metaphors Towards a Novel Neuroscience
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 of 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
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
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18:00 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Silvia Ruszev (Media and Communication, Bornemouth University, United Kingdom):
Neuro-Avantgarde
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19:00 Conference dinner
9:00-10:30
Key-Note Jens Eder (Narrative and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media at Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam)
Tudor Baetu, (Philosophy, Québec University): Animal models of consciousness
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10:45-12:15 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Scientific Representation
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?
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10:45-12:15 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Biomedicine
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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10:45-12:15 PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere
Antje Kley (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Where Reason Fails: Literary Epistemologies of Death in the 21st Century
Karin Hoepker (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Future Responsibilities and Affordances: Class, Catastrophe, and Ownership in Science Fiction
Kundu, Arunima (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Mediating Blackness. The Afrofuturist Planetary Posthuman in Black Panther
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12:15 Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation
Piera Benetti (Rome, Italy): Interwined vision
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14:00-15:30 STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Metaphor and Analogy
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).
Olga Timurgalieva (Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong): Yeast metaphors beyond machines
Katja Schmieder (American Studies, University of Leipzig): “Dust as Metaphor and Model in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”
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14:00-15:30 STREAM B Brains and Computers: Neural Nets, Machine Learning, AI
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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14:00-15:30 PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere
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
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16:00-18:30 STREAM A: Epistemology and Aesthetics: Early Science
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
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
George Vlahakis (Physics and History of Science, Hellenic Open University, Athens): Patterns of science in 19th century Greek literature
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16:00-18:00 STREAM B: Brains and Computers: Posthuman Visions
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
Teun Joshua Brandt (Literary Studies, University of Groningen): The Holobiontic Figure: Cultural Complexities of Holobiosis in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague
Rachel Tay (Literary Studies, Duke University): Next to Human: Proximity and/as Measure of (Post)Humanity
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16:00-17:00 STREAM C Environment and Society: Science & Politics
Su Min Kim (College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University): The Political Calculator in Jules Verne’s Lunar Stories
Werner Boschmann (East European Studies, FU Berlin): Designing a Universal Metaphorical Apparatus: Alexander Bogdanov’s Tektology
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17:00 – 18:00 Uhr ONLINE SESSION
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
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18 – 19:00 Uhr SLSAeu Members Meeting
9:00-11:00
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
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11:30 – 12:30
Joshua Wodak (Environmental Humanities, Western Sydney University): Probing the Vicissitudes of the Cosmos: The Limits of Knowability in Literary and Scientific Worldviews
Hannah Star Rogers (Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen): The Politics of Knowledge: Art, Science, and Technology Studies
12:30 – Concluding Session
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