Catégorie : Fiction and
Lies Online Conference
Org. Alison
James and Anne Besson
Friday, October 2, 2026
Online on Zoom
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91053561510?pwd=aXF5aie0yI1gdC5pvDDpOnrs2ewhSx.1
Meeting ID: 910 5356 1510
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8:15am: Welcome
and Opening Remarks
Session
1: Unreliable Narration, Genre and Gender
Chair: Anne
Besson
8:30 Wanlin
Li (Peking University), “Towards a Historical Poetics of Pseudofactuality: Uses of Dissimulative Narration in
Edgar Allan Poe’s Magazine Stories of Insanity”
9:00 Satyam
Sandeep and Upama Rani (Banaras Hindu University), “Unreliable Narration in
Detective Fiction: A Case Study of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger
Ackroyd”
9:30 Sushree
Routray (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), “Unreliable Narration,
Maternal Ambivalence, and the Ethics of Fictional Lying in Burnt Sugar”
10:00 Olga
Szmidt (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), “Fictionality of Pregnancy.
Subjectivity, Gender and Body in Contemporary ‘Fake Pregnancy’ Narratives”
10:30-11:00 Break
Session
2: Uses of Illusion
Chair: Alison
James
11:00 Ellen
Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University), “Fictions and Lies in Memoirs: A Cognitive
Account”
11:30 Dermot
Burns (University of Galway), “Fiction and Falsehood in Robert Henryson’s Morall
Fabillis”
12:00 Alina Bako (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu),
“Cartographies trompeuses et frontières fantômes. Pouvoir, guerre et identité dans le
roman roumain”
12:30 Benjamin Demassieux (Université de
Lille/Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Painted Deceptions: Literary Lies and Authorial
Illusion in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14h
Fiction Studies, the ASIFF Journal: Presentation by Charlotte Krauss
Session
3: Historical Distinctions Between Fiction and Lies
Chair: Françoise
Lavocat
14:15 Eli Stok
(Tilburg University) “The Curious Case of Melchizedek: Historical Figure or
Figment of Imagination?”
14:45 Sebastian
Balmes (LMU Munich), “Pragmatic Stances Between Fact/Lie and Fiction? The Case of
Medieval Japanese Tales on the Origins of Deities”
15:15 Simone
Müller (University of Zurich), ‘Fictionalizing Mental Time and Space: Narrative
and Pragmatic Lies in Medieval Japanese Dream Accounts’
15:45-16:00 Break
Session
4: Intent and Reception
Chair: Stacie
Friend
16:00 Mario
Slugan (Queen Mary University of London), “The Problem of Technical
Inaccuracies in Fiction”
16:30 Edgar Dubourg
(Institut Curie / Institut Jean Nicod, ENS-PSL), “The Distinction Between Lying,
Errors and Fictions”
17:00 Pedro
Ponce (St. Lawrence University), “‘This Is a Work of Fiction’: Disclaimers of
Fictional Representation Across Media”
17:30 Katia Franco
(California State University, Chico), “The Intent Behind Fiction and Lies”
18:00-18:30 Break
Session
5: Truthful Deviations
Chair: Charlotte
Krauss
18:30 Iris
Vidmar Jovanović (University of Rijeka), “Epistemic Status of Fictional
Misrepresentations”
19:00 Sofea
Khan, “Looking Sideways: Circuitry as Survival in Sharaz De and ‘Tell
All the Truth but Tell It Slant’”
19:30 Conference Ends
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Fiction and
Lies: Online Conference, Oct 2, 2026
Time: Oct
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