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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

 

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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

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