Conference venue: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Villagatan 3, Stockholm
Thursday, August 16
| 8.00-9.00 | Registration at the conference venue |
| 9.00-09.30 | Opening ceremony: Conference organizers Lena Rydholm and Anders Cullhed |
| 09.30-10.15 | Keynote speech: Göran Malmqvist, The Swedish Academy Chair: Lena Rydholm |
| 10.15-11.00 | Keynote speech: Gregory Currie, (in collaboration with Anna Ichino), University of Nottingham Chair: Anders Cullhed |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION I Chair: Ingela Nilsson 1. Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University: “Diagnosing fiction from Plato to Borges” 2. Göran Rossholm, Stockholm University: “The universal claims of narrative fiction. A reassessment of Aristotle’s Poetics, 9” 3. Bo Utas, Uppsala University: “Classical Persian literature: fiction, didactics or intuitive truth?” |
| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.30 | SESSION II Chair: Gunilla Lindberg-Wada 1. Torbjörn Lodén, Stockholm University: “’Literature as a vehicle for the Dao’: changing perspectives of fiction and truth in Chinese literature” 2. Ming Dong Gu, University of Texas: “Toward a transcultural poetics of fiction: reflections on Chinese fiction studies in the context of international narrative theory” 3. Lena Rydholm, Uppsala University: “Chinese theories and concepts of fiction and the issue of transcultural theories and concepts of fiction” |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.30 | SESSION III Chair: Göran Rossholm 1. Alexandra Schneider, University of Amsterdam: “Understanding world cinema in the age of network cultures: The case of India” 2. Ayling Wang, A Dialogue between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng's Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi's Commentary 3. Christina Nygren, Stockholm University: “To perform life and live theatre – fiction in popular performances” |
| 17.45 | Dinner at The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities |
Friday, August 17
| 09.30-10.30 | SESSION IV Chair: Anders Cullhed 1. Fritz Peter Knapp, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg: “Historicity and fictionality in medieval narrative” 2. Wim Verbaal, Universiteit Gent: “How the West was won by fiction. The appearance of fictional narrative and leisurely reading in Western literature (11th and 12th century)” |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | SESSION V Chair: Stefan Helgesson 1. Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, Stockholm University: “Murasaki Shikibu and The tale of Genji: fate and fiction” 2. Mari Hatavara, University of Tampere: “Historical fiction: experiencing past, reflecting history” 3. Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University: “True lies about a crucial journey: satirical descriptions of the underworld in the Greek tradition” |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-15.00 | SESSION VI Chair: Jan von Bonsdorff 1. Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University: “Unsettling fictions: generic instability and colonial time” 2. Christian Kupchik, Buenos Aires: “Confessions of the Hydra. Variations on the concept of fiction in Latin America” 3. Stephan Larsen, Stockholm University: “Whose magic? Whose realism? Reflections on magic realism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road” |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30-16.30 | SESSION VII Chair: Alexander Bareis 1. Jan von Bonsdorff, Uppsala University: “Depicting action: the “fruitful moment” in sequential and narrative art” 2. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University College: “Images without image, worlds without world” |
| 16.30-16.45 | Break (refreshments) |
| 16.45-17.45 | SESSION VII (cont.) 3. Anders Pettersson, University of Umeå: “Linguistic and psychological mechanisms behind literary fiction” 4. Lars-Erik Berg, University College of Skövde: “Photones of the human psyche: the fiction of personal identity” |
| 17.45-18.00 | Concluding Remarks: Conference organizers Lena Rydholm and Anders Cullhed |
| 19.30 | Banquet at Restaurant Gondolen, Slussen, Stockholm http://www.eriks.se/start.asp?lang=2 |