| Thu, March 17 | |
| 12.00–13.30 CET (7.00–8.30 EST) |
Opening Natalie Borsy, Christine Lötscher, Simon Spiegel |
| Simon Spiegel CH Unspoiled Thoughts on Spoilers |
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| 13.30–14.00 | Break |
| 14.00–15.45 | Panel 1 Spoiling Literature Chair: Christine Lötscher |
| Oliver Ruf DE Spoiler Aesthetics. On the Normalization of a Paratextual Form |
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| James Aaron Green AT ‘Telling [The] Story Second-Hand’. Victorian Sensation Fiction and the Pre-History of the Spoiler |
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| Dana Steglich DE Spoil the Classics. Plot and the Assessment of Capital ‘L’ Literature |
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| 15.45–16.15 | Break |
| 16.15–17.30 | Panel 2 Spoilers in Film and Film Criticism Chair: Simon Spiegel |
| Sebastian Smoliński PL Summary First: Film Criticism and Managing Spoilers in the Studio System |
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| Stiglegger, Marcus DE ‘Performative iPhone Cinema’, Can Feature Films and Series Resist Spoiler Damage? |
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| 17.30–19.00 | Break |
| 19.00–21.00 | Roundtable Professional Conduct with Spoilers Chair: Christine Lötscher Julia Gronhoff DE Michael J. Meindl US Michael Sennhauser CH Anna Smith UK Eberhard Wolff CH |
| Fri, March 18 | |
| 13.00–14.45 CET (8.00–9.30 EST) |
Panel 3 Spoiled Narrations Chair: Simon Spiegel |
| Matthias Brütsch CH Plot Points, Twists and Spoilers: Notes on the Dramatic Impact of Withholding and Revealing Narrative Information in Films and TV Series |
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| Thomas Kristjansen DK Spoilers as Worldbuilding and Worldbuilding as Spoilers in Fantasy Fiction |
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| Milan Hain CZ To Tell or Not to Tell: The Rhetorical Strategies in Trailers for Films with a Surprise Twist |
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| 14.45–15.15 | Break |
| 15.15–16.30 | Panel 4 Spoiling Games Chair: Christine Lötscher |
| Andreas Rauscher DE Playing with the Plot Twist |
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| Tobias Unterhuber AT Spoil the Game, Shatter the World – Spoilers in Games and Play |
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| 16.30–17.00 | Break |
| 17.00–18.30 | Keynote 1 Albrecht Koschorke DE Some Notes on Suspense Chair: Christine Lötscher |
| 20.00 | MEMENTO – WHERE SPOILERS ARE MANDATORY In-person event at KOSMOS, Zurich |
| Sat, March 19 | |
| 12.00–13.30 CET (7.00–8.30 EST) |
Keynote 2 Judith E. Rosenbaum US Spoilers and the Narrative Experience: Lessons from Ten Years of Empirical Research Chair: Simon Spiegel |
| 13.30–14.00 | Break |
| 14.00–15.45 | Panel 5 Spoiled Audiences Chair: Simon Spiegel |
| Andrew Bumstead US Spoiling Survivor: Edgic, Knowledge Communities, and Narrative Pleasure |
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| Wendy Wagner US Spoiling for Love: The Influence of Shipping on Spoiler Seeking Among Television Fans |
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| Tiffany Hong US Love Persevering: Televisual Homage, Mephisto, and the American Sitcom Family in WandaVision |
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| 15.45–16.15 | Break |
| 16.15–17.45 | Keynote 3 Kristina Busse US Spoiler Warnings: Negotiating Originality, Genre Expectation, and the Enjoyment of Repetition Chair: Christine Lötscher |
| 17.45–18.00 | Closing of Conference |