Who is afraid of fiction?

OPEN GROUP n° G94 at the ICLA Congress Seoul 2025

 

Workshop organized by Françoise Lavocat and Charlotte Krauss

with the support of ASIFF / SIRFF

 

PROGRAMM

room for all sessions KINTEX 1 204

 

Session 1 Fiction and Interpretation

Thursday, July 31, 11:00-12:30

Charlotte KrausS, Françoise Lavocat

Welcome and Introduction

Brian Richardson

Reader Beware: Faulty Interpreters of Dubious Fictions

Charlotte Krauss

Fear of comics – fear of fiction?

Otto Pfersmann

Narrative Fiction and Normative Fiction

 

Session 2: Fiction and Political Issues

Thursday, July 31, 13:30 - 15:00

Chairperson : Akihiro Kubo

Michèle Bokobza Kahan

La fiction romanesque comme antidote au dogmatisme au siècle des Lumières

Crina BUD

The Double Threat of Fiction: Escapism and Documentation

Yiting WO 

Résistance à l’immersion fictionnelle et effondrement de l’espace poétique

Xiaofang LIU

Attitudes Toward Fiction in Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophy: Implications for AI Ethics in Western and Chinese Societies

 

Session 3: Hate of Fiction and Gender

Friday August 1st, 9:00 - 10:30

Chairperson : Michèle Bokobsa-Kahan

Henning HUFNAGEL

Tender Rhetorics and Rhetorics of Realism: Stimulants and Sedatives Against the Fear of Fiction

Françoise LAVOCAT

What harm does fiction do to women?

Yian ZHU

“Stopping Me to Take Martin Chuzzlewit for State-Security Purposes”: the Troubles and “Suspicious” Reading Fiction-While-Walking in Anna Burns’ Milkman

 

Session 4: The Conflict between Fiction and History

Friday August 1st, 11:00 - 12:30

Chairperson : Crina Bud

Barbara BISETTO

The ratio of fiction: looking for a safety threshold

Beatriz SEELAENDER

A True(ish) (Hi)Story: The (B)Onus of Historical Fiction in Classical Reception

Akihiro KUBO

L’art du témoignage et le rejet de la fiction – les critiques de la fiction chez Claude Lanzmann

Danqi LU

Renegotiating Frontiers of Fact and Fiction in Ma Boyong’s “Historical Possibility Novels”

 

Session 5: Novel, Identity, First-Person Narrative

Friday, August 1st, 13:30 - 15:00

Chairperson : Charlotte Krauss and Françoise Lavocat

Marie-Noëlle BEAUVIEUX

Fiction and artistic value in modern Japan: literature and cultural identity discourses

Purba BASAK

Who is afraid of reading Dalit fiction?

Alison JAMES

Fiction as Impersonation

Charlotte KRAUSS, Françoise LAVOCAT 

Conclusion



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