Cultures of Lying

International Conference and Master Course
Regensburg, Monday September 30th – Wednesday, October 02nd (H13) - Lindner Hörsaal
Cultures of Lying WS 02/03
I. Philosophical and terminological basics of lying and truth
Monday, September 30th

09.00 – 10.00

Max Urchs (Konstanz)
The Logic of Lying
10.00 – 11.00
 Vítezslav Horák. On Conditions for the Possibility of Lying with pictures
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee-break
11.30 – 12.30
 Andrea Orsucci (Lucca)
Lies and Interpretation in Nietzsche

12.30 – 14.00

 Break
14.00 – 15.00 Steffen Greschonig. Utopian discourse as a network of truth and mendacity
Erwin Petzi. From Napoleon to Nietzsche. Cultures of Lying in the 19th Century.

15.00 – 16.00

 Jakob Steinbrenner (München)
Can Fiction Lie?
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee-break
16.30 – 17.30

Magdalena Mancas. Aesthetics of Lying: the French New Autobiography
Kerstin Kratochwill. Elias Canetti's autobiographical works: lies, kitsch and transformation
17.30 – 18.30 Alenka Zupancic (Ljubljana)
Lying on the couch: Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Lie.
18.30 – 19.00 Andreja Zoric. Were the Czech and Croat National Revival Moments in the 19th Century based on Cultural Lies?

 

II. Achievements of lies in nature and culture
Tuesday, October 1st

09.00 – 10.00

Jonathan Adler (New York)
Shades of Deception: Ethics and Pragmatics
10.00 – 11.00
 Alexander Flierl. Ethical Perspectives on Lying.
Nicole Brandstetter. Aesthetics of Inauthenticity in Contemporary French Literature: Playful Deception as a Postmodern Strategy.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee-break
11.30 – 12.30
 Volker Sommer (London)
In Praise of Lying. The Evolutionary Origins of Deception and Self-Deception

12.30 – 14.30

 Break
14.30 – 15.00 Gerit Hoppe. Living Monkeys and Dead Markets. Different Effects of Asymetric Information in Deception

15.00 – 16.00

 Steffen Dietzsch (Berlin)
The construction of lies.
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee-break
16.30 – 17.30

Irmgard Sieber. Politicians´ self-presentational tactics and strategies used on television talk shows, infotainments and interviews.

 

III. Semantics and pragmatics of the lie
17.30 – 18.30 Jörg Meibauer (Mainz)
The pragmatics of lying
Wednesday, October 2nd

09.00 – 10.00

Linda K. Coleman (Maryland)
True Lies: Collusion, Evasion, and the Assignment of Responsibility in Cases of Misrepresentation?
10.00 – 11.00
 Christine Sing. The Linguistics of Lying
Almut Steinlein. Authorship and rustling images. Strategies of authentication in New Wave cinema.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee-break
11.30 – 12.30
 Dagmar Schmauks (Berlin)
Deception an error in the context of locomotion

12.30 – 14.00

 Break
14.00 – 15.00 Wolfgang Sucharowski (Rostock)
Fictions on finding the truth

15.00 – 15.30

 Doren Wohlleben. Poetics in Progress. The Notion of Lying as Developping from 1959 to 2002.
15.30 – 16.30 Carsten Köllmann (Braunschweig)
Error, Fraud and Ignorance in the Market for Knowledge: How Economists explain Scientific Failure