Program

9:00-9:30 – Room:  Orangerie, Wassersaal Opening Session:  Aura Heydenreich, Klaus Mecke 9:30 – 10:30 Key-Note: Roman Frigg (Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science): Red Squares and Bouncing Balls – From Art to Science and Back Again
_________________________________________________________________________ 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break (Orangerie, Foyer)
_________________________________________________________________________ 10:45-12:15       Chair: Aura Heydenreich    Room:  Orangerie Michael Friedman (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tel Aviv) Karin Krauthausen (Literature and Cultural Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin): Model and Mathematics at the End of the 19th Century: between Materiality and Representation   –> Stream A Michael Herrmann (Philosophy of Computational Sciences, Universität Stuttgart): Making Sense of Methodological Disagreement within Machine Learning     –> Stream B Liliane Campos (English Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : Microcosms as Models and Metaphors in Contemporary Eco-Fiction –> Stream C 12:15 – 12:45   Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation                             Chair: Klaus Mecke     Room:  Orangerie Thomas Asmuth (Digital & New Media Art, University of West Florida) and Sara Gevurtz (Animation, Auburn University): Turbidity Paintings _________________________________________________________________________ 12 :45 – 14 :00 Lunch break
_________________________________________________________________________ 14:00-15:30    Chair:     Karin Höpker   Room:  Orangerie 14:00 – 15:00 Key-Note: Winfried Menninghaus (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a. M.): More order and more chaos combined: Poetic diction and its effects on cognitive and aesthetic processing 15:00 – 15.30 David Hommen (Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf): Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics – A Wittgensteinian Approach to Knowledge in Art, Philosophy, and Science
_________________________________________________________________________ 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break (Orangerie, Foyer) _________________________________________________________________________ 16:00-18:00  STREAM A  Epistemology and Aesthetics: Materiality and Models                       Chair: David Hommen    Room:  Orangerie Danka Radjenović (Philosophy, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau): (How) Do Models Exemplify? Some Thoughts on Wet Lab Models in the Life Sciences Jasmin Trächtler (Philosophy, Technical University Dortmund) The Problem of Negation in Visual Models Mariano Martín Villuendas (Philosophy, University of Salamanca): Conceptualizing a Pragmatist Artifactualism Lorenzo Sartori (Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science):  Model Organisms as Representations   16:00-18:00  STREAM B  Brains and Computers: Digitization and Simulations                       Chair: Sebastian Lemerle      Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.011  (Senatssaal) Nicole Brandstetter (English Studies, University of Applied Sciences Munich): Simulation, Duplication and the Moebius Strip – LiteraryThought Experiments on Disengagement of Space, Time and Identity in Times of Digitalisation and AI Naomi Mandel (American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Hacking as Literary and Technological Reciprocity Iman Ferestade (Mechanical Engineering, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada): An Engineering-Inspired Account of Knowledge (Computer simulations) Liam Mullally (Cultural studies, University of London): Reading JPEG: The JPEG-1 Specification as a Key Text in the Production of Digital Photographic Images?   16:00-18:00  STREAM C  Environment and Society:  Ecosystems                       Chair: Liliane Campos            Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.020 Matthew Eisler (History, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): Green Discourse, the Energy/Materials Ecosystem, and Technologies of Environmental Care Konrad Kopel:  (History and Cultural Theory, University of Silesia, Katowice): Models of worlding. An analysis of the first Polish Handbook of Modern Forestry as a Vehicle for Environmentality Teun Joshua Brandt (Literary Studies, University of Groningen): The Holobiontic Figure: Cultural Complexities of Holobiosis in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague
_________________________________________________________________________ 18:00   Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation       Chair: Christine McWebb            Room:  Orangerie Szilvia Ruszev (Media and Communication, Bornemouth University): Neuro-Avantgarde

9:00-10:30      ELINAS-PANEL                           Chair: Dirk Vanderbeke          Room: Orangerie Jay Labinger (Chemistry, California Institute of Technology) – Is the Importance of Metaphor, Models and Simulations in Science Best Exemplified by Chemistry? Klaus Mecke (Physics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Narratives of Measurements, Models, and Events: How does Physics Work as an Empirical Science? Aura Heydenreich (German and Comparative Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): The Epistemic Functions of Interformation in Science and Literature: Einstein’s Relativity Theory as a Case Study ________________________________________________________________________ 10:30 – 11:00 Uhr Coffee break (Foyer Orangerie) _________________________________________________________________________ 11:00-13:00                         Chair:  Dirk Vanderbeke        Room:  Orangerie Sarah Goeth (German Literature, Innsbruck University): Analogy – A Figure of Mediation between Science and Art Leonhard Möckl (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen): On the Logical Position of the Hypothesis Peter Hull (English Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light): Liberating energy. Investigating Physicists’ Use of Anthropomorphic Cognitive Metaphors when Modeling Matter-Energy Interactions in English and German   11:00-13:00   STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics:  Aesthetics and Science                     Chair:  Michael Friedman           Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.011  (Senatssaal) Christine McWebb (French Studies, University of Waterloo): Medieval Alchemy as Metaphoric Modelling for Polysemy in Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose” Jessica Stacey (Romance Studies, Freie Universität Berlin): „Illusory chemistry“: Analysis and Synthesis as Contested Models for Philosophical Thought in Eighteenth-Century France Emma de Beus: (English Literature, Queen’s University Belfast) Physics as Paradigm: Light in Literary Adaptation as Seen in „Hamlet“ Ben Toth (Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon): A Common Model for Fictional and Scientific Narratives   11:00-13:00   STREAM B  Brains and Computers: Digital Humanities                       Chair: Michael Herrmann    Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.020 Carolina Ferrer (Département d’études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal):  From Scientometrics to Criticometrics. Elaborating a Systemic Approach for Studying Literature through Metadata Rozalia Slodcyk (Philosophy, Independent Scholar, Warsaw, Poland) – Models and Diagrams in Literary Research – Close Reading versus Distant Reading in Digital Humanities on the Example of Ekphrasis and Nocturne Daniel Raschke (Literature, Media, Culture, Florida State University): Denoising Futurisms: Modeling Algorithmic Avant-Gardes Stefano Franceschini (American Literature, Roma Tre University): “I had found my model of replication”: Analogy and Musical Signification in Richard Powers’s “The Gold Bug Variations”
_________________________________________________________________________ 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
_________________________________________________________________________ 14:00-15:00      Chair:     Klaus Mecke        Room:  Orangerie Keynote: Amy Kind (Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, California): Accuracy in Imagining 15:00 – 15:30 Robert Clewis (Philosophy, Gwynedd Mercy University, Pennsylvania): Imagine that, Kant: Crossdisciplinary work on Awe and the Sublime  _________________________________________________________________________ 15:30 – 16:00 Uhr Coffee break (Foyer Orangerie)
_________________________________________________________________________ 16:00-18:00  Panel – Literary Modelling and Energy Transition                       Chair:    Klaus Mecke         Room:  Orangerie Veit Hagenmeyer (Energy Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Modelling the Energy Lab 2.0 Tobias Becker (Design and Design Theory, University of Siegen):  The Blind Spots of Modelling: Models in Arts and Science Eric Achermann (Early Modern Literature, History of Knowledge, University of Münster): Models and Metaphors: A Topological Turn Robert Matthias Erdbeer (Modern German Literature, University of Münster): Literary Modelling and Energy Transition. A Transdisciplinary Venture   16:00-18:00  STREAM B Brains and Computers: Consciousness         Chair: Nicole Brandstetter             Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.011  (Senatssaal) Sébastien Lemerle (Sociology, Université Paris-Nanterre): Biological Phenomena in Search of a Meaning: The Concept of Brain Plasticity as a Back-and-Forth Between Biology, Politics and Culture Katharina Trettenbach (Ethics of Medicine, Tübingen University) / Joachim Peters (German Linguistics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Of Brains in a Dish and Mini-Brains – Cerebral Organoids, Scientific Models and the Ethical Implications of Metaphors Dror, Otniel E. (Medical Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Insatiable Rat   16:00-18:00 STREAM C Environment and Society:  Evolution and Probability                       Chair:   Robert Clewis          Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.020 Johannes Müller (German Studies, Leiden University): Adaptive Landscapes as Metaphors and Models Lilian Kroth (French Literature, University of Cambridge): Modelling and Imagining ‘Tipping Points’ Ken Archer (Philosophy, AI Ethics at Twitch): Probability and the Analogical Participation of Models in Intersubjective Goods Joshua Wodak (Environmental Humanities, Western Sydney University): Probing the Vicissitudes of the Cosmos: The Limits of Knowability in Literary and Scientific Worldviews  _________________________________________________________________________ 18:00   Art & Science Exhibition / Presentation     Chair:   Hannah Star Rogers      Room:  Orangerie Piera Benetti (Verona, Italy): Interwined vision _________________________________________________________________________ 19:00 Conference dinner: Ristorante Parmigiano, Paulistraße 12, Erlangen  

9:00-10:30      Chair:    Aura Heydenreich    Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.011  (Senatssaal) 9:00 – 10:00 Key-Note Jens Eder (Narrative and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media at Film University Babelsberg, Potsdam): Using Models in Narrative Practice: From Characters to Social Impact 10:00 – 10:30 Tudor Baetu (Philosophy, Québec University): Animal Models of Consciousness
_________________________________________________________________________ 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break (Kollegienhaus, Room 0.024)
_________________________________________________________________________ 11:00-12:30  PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere                       Chair:   Antonia Villinger       Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.011  (Senatssaal) Antje Kley (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Where Reason Fails: Literary Epistemologies of Death in the 21st Century Karin Höpker (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Future Responsibilities and Affordances: Class, Catastrophe, and Ownership in Science Fiction Arunima Kundu (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Mediating Blackness. The Afrofuturist Planetary Posthuman in Black Panther   11:00-12:30  STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Scientific Representation                       Chair:   Karin Krauthausen       Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.019 Onerva Kiianlinna (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki): Simulationalist versus Embodied Approaches in Aesthetics Gabrielle Reid (German Literature, Yale University): Schelling on Simulation and the Construction of Reality Rosa Coppola (German Literature, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, LMU Munich): Artificial Models of Involuntariness. Max Bense’s Cybernetic Poetry as Epistemic Creation of Futures?   11:00-12:30  STREAM B  Brains and Computers: Biomedicine                       Chair: Tudor Baetu            Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.020 Desiree Foerster (Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University): New Phenomenologies of Pain and Disease through Experimentations with Digital Technologies in the Arts Sofia Varino (Cultural Studies, University of Potsdam): The Logic of Prevention: Anticipatory Narratives, Concepts, Models and Metaphors in Covid-19 Biomedical Imaginaries Mohsen Forghani (Philosophy, University of Warsaw): Force-Dynamic Structure: Cases of Theories of Humor and Hysteria
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch-break
__________________________________________________________________________ 14:00-15:30  PANEL: Literature and the Public Sphere                       Chair:    Karin Höpker     Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.011  (Senatssaal) Ruxandra Teodorescu (American Studies, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Beyond Binary – AI, SF, and the Moral Imagination Antonia Villinger (German Literature, University Erlangen-Nürnberg): Post-Petro Imaginary and Utopian Social Enclave in Theresia Enzenberger’s “Auf See” (2022) Elisabeth Reichel (American Studies, Osnabrück University): Modeling Libertarian Collectives   14:00-15:30  STREAM A Epistemology and Aesthetics: Metaphor and Analogy                       Chair:  Peter Hull           Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.019 Addison Neil (British Literature, Japan Women’s University, Tokio):  Industrial Metaphor Transformed in Charles Dickens’s “Dombey and Son” (1848) and “The Signal-Man” (1866). Su Min Kim (College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University): The Political Calculator in Jules Verne’s „Lunar Stories“ Katja Schmieder (American Studies, University of Leipzig): Dust as Metaphor and Model in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials”   14:00-15:30  STREAM B Brains and Computers: Neural Nets, Machine Learning, AI                       Chair: Daniel Raschke            Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.020 Lucas Bang (Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College, California): Abstractionism and Simulation in Software Development Koray Karaca (Philosophy, University of Twente): Representational Requirements on Explainable Machine Learning Models Maximilian Noichl (Philosophy, University of Vienna / University of Bamberg): How Localized are Computational Templates? A Machine Learning Approach _________________________________________________________________________ 15:30 – 16:00 Uhr Coffee break (Kollegienhaus, Room 0.024)
_________________________________________________________________________ 16:00-17:30  STREAM A: Epistemology and Aesthetics: Metaphor and Analogy                       Chair:  Sarah Goeth           Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.011  (Senatssaal) Marie Teich (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig):  A Metaphor Theory based on Etymological Network Structure Analysis Lee Siyeon (English Studies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea): Through the Looking-Glass, and What Women Found There. Conway, Cavendish, and Specular Metaphors of Self-Knowledge for Early Modern Women   17:30 – 19:00 Uhr ONLINE SESSION                       Chair:    Sarah Goeth           Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.011  (Senatssaal) Olga Timurgalieva (Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong): Yeast metaphors beyond machines  Aditya Jha (Mathematics, Philosophy, University of Canterbury): Modelling Temperature as a Continuous Function: Lessons from Thermal Physics Anand Abhinav (English Literature, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) – “Literature” of Science: Reading Science as an Institutionalised System of Knowledge in Contemporary Indian Fiction   16:00-17:30  STREAM B: Brains and Computers: Posthuman Visions                       Chair:  Naomi Mandel           Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.019 Simona Bartolotta (English Literature, University of Oxford): Thought Experiments, Literary Narrative, and Science Fiction: The Example of Isaac Asimov’s Robot Cycle Terence Shih (English Studies, St. John’s University, Taiwan): Queering Romantic AI: The Shelleyan Wandering Jew in Asimov’s Bicentennial Man Rachel Tay (Literary Studies, Duke University): Next to Human: Proximity and/as Measure of (Post)Humanity   16:00-17:30  STREAM C Environment and Society: Science and Literature                       Chair:    Valentin Weber         Room:  Kollegienhaus  1.020 Christian Thomé (Classical Philology, University of Wuppertal): Spherical Geometry in Euclid’s „Phaenomena“ Laetitia Rimpau (German Literature, University of Wuppertal): Scientific Knowledge as Ascent to the Light. On the Literary Method of Dante Alighieri and Johannes Kepler George Vlahakis (Physics and History of Science, Hellenic Open University, Athens): Patterns of Science in 19th Century Greek literature  _________________________________________________________________________ 19:00 – 19:30 Uhr SLSAeu Members Meeting  1.011  (Senatssaal)  

9:00-11:30      Chair:  Jay Labinger       Room:  Kollegienhaus 1.011  (Senatssaal) Dirk Vanderbeke (English Studies, Schiller Universität Jena): On the Coincidence of Change in Science and Culture Stephan Besser (Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam): Conjuring a Sense of Order: Pattern as a Figure of Knowledge in Armin Nassehi’s Theory of Digital Society Dominik Baumgartner (Theology, LMU München): Theology between Models and Metaphors. A model-based scientific theology facing biblical narratives and personal belief Roland Bolz (Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin): Functional Similarities and Differences Between Analogical Thought in Literature and Science Hannah Star Rogers (Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen): The Politics of Knowledge: Art, Science, and Technology Studies   112:30 – Concluding Session Aura Heydenreich, Klaus Mecke _________________________________________________________________________