Rationality in Drama & Fiction.

 

Programme

 

Friday

12.00 - 13.00 Welcome

13.00 - 14.00 Steven Brams (NYU)
Anger in Fiction: Springboard to Reconciliation or Tragedy?

14.00 - 15.00 Paisley Livingston (Lingan U)
Hot and Cold Irationality in the Films of Ingmar Bergman

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee

15.30 - 16.30 Marion Ledwig (U Nevada)
Rational Emotional Responses to Art

16.30 - 17.30 Keith Oatley (U Toronto)
Characters in Dialogue and Literary Emotions: Routes to Rationality in Julius Caesar and The Seagull

17.30 - 18.15 Drinks

18.15 - 19.15 Ernst-Wilhelm Händler will read from
A Story from the Eighties.

20.15 Dinner

Saturday

10.30 - 11.30 Stephen Rowland (UCL)
Rationality and the Young Child

11.30 - 12.30 Jenny Davidson (Columbia)
Emma's Choices

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30 Bertram Schefold (U Frankfurt)
The Good Life, the Theory and the Reality of Capitalism:
Economists in the Circle Around the German Poet Stefan George

14.30 - 15.30 Sarah Churchwell (U East Anglia)
Love Crazy

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 17.00 Steffen Huck (UCL)
Why Elsa Asks from Whence He Came:
An Epistemological Analysis of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin

17.00 - 18.00 Ronald de Sousa (U Toronto)
Fictional Possibilities

19.30 Dinner