Friday, April 4

9.30 a.m.
Welcome
Oliver Simons, Christina Wessely

10-12 p.m.
Albrecht Koschorke/University of Konstanz:
On the Inevitability of Narration.
The Problem of Two Beginnings in Cultures of Knowledge

Stefan Willer/Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin:
Personalizing Knowledge

1-2.45 p.m.
Anders Engberg-Pedersen/Harvard University:
Critique of Cartographic Reason: Tolstoy’s Narrative Strategies

Ingrid Wurst/University of Konstanz:
Bonaparte’s Laboratory.
Joseph von Görres Organizes Revolutionary Chaos

3.15-5 p.m.
Stefan Andriopoulos/Columbia University:
Between History and Fiction: Ghost Narratives in the Late Eighteenth Century

Oliver Simons/Harvard University:
Tales from Flatland – Narrating Kant after 1900

5.30 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
Mario Biagioli/Harvard University:
Aporias in the Sky: Galileo’s Narrative Construction of Hypotheses

Reception

Saturday, April 5

9.30-12 p.m.
Christina Wessely/University of Vienna:
Transforming Data into Stories –
Cosmological Weltanschauungen around 1900

Nasser Zakariya/Harvard University:
Contemporary Narratives of Universal Origins

Bernhard Kleeberg/University of Konstanz:
Optimize! On Economic Narratives

1.30-4 p.m.
Alex Csiszar/Harvard University:
From Narrative to Classification and Back Again

Anna Parkinson/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
Our German Malady: Telling Postwar Freudian Tales

Arne Höcker/Wesleyan University
Fantasy of Facts: Alfred Döblin's The two Girlfriends and their Murder by Poisoning

4.30-6.30 p.m.
Christoph Hoffmann/Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science Berlin:
Dissecting Language: Gottfried Benn 1912

Danny Bowles/Harvard University:
On Repetition and Reproducibility in Thomas Bernhard’s Literary Experiments