09.00-09:30

Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen: Welcome and introduction

09.30-10:00

Lennard Davis: "Biocultural Myths About Poverty: Eugenic Racialization of the Poor”

10.00-10.30

Helen F. Thompson: “The Whore’s Realism”

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11.30

Al Coppola: “Science, Farce and Fictionality: The Wonders of Katterfelto”

11.30-12.00

Rhona Trauvitch: “Useful Fiction, or: The Engine of Calculus “

12.00-13.00

Lunch break

13:00-13.30

Samuli Björninen: “Rhetoric of factuality in the narratives of early English science”

13.30-14.00

Tita Chico: “The Enlightenment as Science Fiction”

14.30-15.00

Coffee break

15.00-15.30

Eric Morel: “Learning to Do the Splits: A Comparative Study of Some Stylish Scientific Epistles and Their Non/Fictionality”

15.30-16.00

John Bender: ”Is Fictionality a Fiction”

• John Bender, Princeton University, author of Ends of Enlightenment (Stanford UP, 2012).

• Samuli Björninen, Tampere University, editor of special issue “Limits of Narrative” in Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 20 (2).

• Tita Chico, University of Maryland, author of The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (Stanford UP, 2018).

• Al Coppola, City University of New York, author of The Theater of Experiment - Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2016).

• Lennard Davis, University of Illinois Chicago, author of Factual Fictions: The Origins Of The English Novel (Columbia UP, 1983).

• Eric Morel, Washington State University, author of “Narrating Massive Distribution: Climate Stories from Early American Periodicals to Citizen Science Blogging” (Journal of Narrative Theory 53(1), 2023).

• Helen Thompson, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, author of Fictional Matter:  Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel (Pennsylvania UP, 2016).

• Rhona Trauvitch, Florida International University, author of “Mapping with Fi-Sci: Why and How Fictionality Illuminates Science” (Journal of Narrative Theory 53(1), 2023).