University of Lausanne, 14-15 September 2023
Program
Thursday 14 September
8.30-9.00
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9.00-9.30
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9.30-10.30
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10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30
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12.30-14.00
14.00-15.30
15-30-16.00
16.00-17.30
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17.30-18.30
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18.30-19.30
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19.30-21.00
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Coffee and Registration
Welcoming Remarks
Plenary Session 1 - Andrea K. Henderson, “No Name: Numerical Abstraction and Victorian Character”
Coffee Break
Panel 1a
Logic, Poetry and Poetics
Chair: Rachel Falconer
Johanna Winant, “Dickinson’s Analogies”
Himanshu Kumar, “Sense and Nonsense in Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol”
Carla Billitteri, “The Long Controversy: Laura (Riding) Jackson and Analytical Philosophy”
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Lunch
Panel 2a
Logic and Modernism
Chair: David Spurr
Bridget O’Reilly, “A Human Calculus: Bloom's Narrative Conquering in Joyce's Ulysses”
Nell Wasserstrom, “The Logic of Nacthträglichkeit and its Discontents”
Patrick Jones, “On Not Being Made of Literature: Franz Kafka and the Logical Priority of Life”
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Coffee Break
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Panel 3a
Logic in Beckett and Calvino
Chair: Nell Wasserstrom
Balazs Rapcsak, “‘that flame… that flame… that burns away filthy logic’: The Vicissitudes of Logic in Samuel Beckett”
Alberto Tondello, “The Deviant Logic of the clinamen in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities”
Panel 1b
Wittgenstein’s Literary Logic
Chair: Sangam MacDuff
Lilli Förster, “Tolstoy and Wittgenstein – a shared approach to Living and Thinking”
David Lindeman, “Tractatus as Poem”
Sabrina Sampaio Martins, “Enjoy the Silence: Reading Wittgenstein with Paul Celan and Anne Carson”
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Panel 2b
Fuzzy Logic, Cybernetics and Modernist Aesthetics
Chair: Ties van Gemert
Arya Mohan S, “Fuzzy Logic and Darwin’s Species Concept”
Simon Swift, “I.A. Richards and Cybernetics”
Anna Dijkstra, “Poetics of Non-Contradiction in Modernist Subjectivity”
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Panel 3b
Logic and Literary Form
Chair: Patrick Jones
Aurelia Cojocaru, “Mere analogy: T. S. Eliot’s Russellian metaphors and the enduring spectre of modernism and science”
Alexandra Huang-Kokina, “The Performative Logic of Modern Essays: Exploring the Autonomy of the Essay Form in Philosophy and Literature”
David Spurr, “Logic and its Other in the Modernist Architectural Manifesto”
Plenary Session 2 - Robert B. Pippin, “Cinematic Form and Philosophical Commitment: On Robert Bresson's L'Argent”
Apéritif
Readings - Susan Howe and J.M. Coetzee
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Friday 14 September
9.30-10.30
10.30-11.00
Plenary Session 3 - N. Katherine Hayles, “GPT and the Language of Logic: Does It Make Sense?”
Coffee Break
11.00-12.30
12.30-14.00
14.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-17.30
Panel 4a
(Il)logic in Borges
Chair: Matthew Scully
Pedro Hurtado Ortiz, “Borges’s ‘Funes,’ Or Thinking Beyond Formal Logic”
Simona Bartolotta, “The ‘Illogic’ of Fiction: Speculative Reflections on Abduction, Naturalization, and Signification in Narrative”
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Lunch
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Panel 5a
Aspects of Fictional Logic
Chair: Simon Swift
Michael LeMahieu, “Ordinary Logic, Generic Racism”
Eliis Maria Peters, “Logic Undone in Refugee Narratives”
Matthew Scully, “Disfigurations: On Lydia Davis, Logic, and Fiction”
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Coffee Break
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Panel 6a
Logic and Contemporary Poetry
Chair: Alberto Tondello
Helen Thaventhiran, “‘not a logician’: Welby, Howe and Peirce”
Rupsa Banerjee, “Examining the Use of Logic in the Poetry of Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Rebecca Elson: Converging the Conceptual Horizons of Science and Poetry”
Panel 4b
Speculation, Significs and Entrenchment
Chair: Anna Dijkstra
Gregor Schäfer, “Speculative Logic’s and Literature’s Action in Modern Times of Crisis. Hegelian Aspects”
Ties van Gemert, “The Aesthetics of Misunderstandings: Dutch Significs in between Solipsism and Logic”
Ian MacKenzie, “Entrenchment vs. gavagai, quaddition and grue, or how to respond to sceptical paradoxes and contrary logicians”
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Panel 5b
Literature and Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Niall Gallen
Rebecca Roach, “Binarized Disciplines & the Logic of Conversation Theory”
Thomas Knowles, “‘Insane Poems’: The muse and the machine in J. G. Ballard’s ‘Studio 5, the Stars’”
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Panel 6b
Technotexts, Automata and the Human
Chair: Rebecca Roach
Dorothy Butchard and Niall Gallen, “How a Picture No Longer Held Us Captive: Playful Logics in Moonstrips Empire News and Twenty-First Century Technotexts”
Diogo Sasdelli, “The Interplay Between the Anthropomorphism of Automata and the Mechanisation of Humanity as Represented in Contemporary Popular Culture”
Megan Quigley, “Is the Human a Vague Category? Reading Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun with AI”
17.30-18.30
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18.30-19.30
19.30
Roundtable on Logic and Literature in the Age of AI – Andrea K. Henderson, Robert B. Pippin, N. Katherine Hayles, Marjorie Perloff
Chair: Sangam MacDuff
Apéritif
Farewell Dinner