Du 2 au 5 mars 2022/Wednesday March 2–Saturday March 5, 2022
Université de Chicago/ University of Chicago
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, 5701 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Pour vous inscrire aux événements ouverts au public du colloque avec envoi des liens Zoom/ Register at this link for online sessions of the symposium that are open to the public.
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
https://ceas.uchicago.edu/content/ballet-des-porcelaines
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)
