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Acceleration, Synchronization, Deceleration (Organizer: Erik Porath)

Acceleration

Art as Research (Organizer: Florian Dombois)

Art as Research

Bodies of Evidence: Human Remains Collections Reconsidered (Organizer: Bergit Arends)

Bodies of Evidence

Fade to Grey: Other Sides of Cognition (Organizers: Sabine Flach, Elisabeth Strowick)

Fade to Grey

History of Concepts between Disciplines and Cultures (Organizer: Ernst Müller)

History of Concepts

Desire for/after Affect (Organizer: Marie-Luise Angerer)

Desire for/after Affect

Inspiration and Intuition (Organizers: Sabine Flach, Ohad Parnes, Martin Treml)

Inspiration+Intuition

Languages of Science – Sciences of Language (Organizers: Robert Stockhammer, Stefan Willer)

Languages of Science

Extraordinary Concepts of Perception (Organizers: Katrin Solhdju, Margarete Vöhringer, Yvonne Wübben)

Concepts of Perception

Politics of Knowledge (Organizer: Uwe Wirth)

Politics of Knowledge

Vitality: Contours and Boundaries Between Life and Death (Organizers: Christine Blättler, Ulrike Vedder)

Vitality

 

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Carol Colatrella (Georgia Tech University): Toys and Tools in Pink. Cultural Narratives of gender, science and technology

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Gerd Gigerenzer (MPI for Human Development Berlin): Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

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Nick Hopwood (University of Cambridge): Copying pictures, evidencing evolution: From alleged forgeries to textbook illustrations

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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): On the art of exploring unknown

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Sigrid Weigel (ZfL Berlin): Phantom images: Face, Emotion, Brain between Measurement and Meaning

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Evening Events

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Christine Borland: "From Life” to “With Practice”. Works with Human Remains and Patients (Artist’s Talk)

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Warren Neidich: Introducing artbrain.org #4 (Launch Party)

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Eran Schaerf & Eva Meyer: She might belong to you (Film Screening)

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Andi Schoon et. al.: Data Music (Concert)

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Acceleration, Synchronization, Deceleration (Organizer: Erik Porath)

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Sign, narrative, time (Chair: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University)

 

Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University): Narrative time and systems time

 

Søren Brier (Copenhagen Business School): Dialogical consciousness, irreversibility, and narrativity

 

Paul Cobley (London Metropolitan University): Feeling, modeling, and narrative time

 

Recursions in history of knowledge (Chair: Ana Ofak, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

 

Ana Ofak (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Recursion. Loops as temporal figures

 

Sandra Pravica (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): “Envelopment”, “transcending induction” and “contraction”: Gaston Bachelard’s interventions in the 1930’s discourse of philosophy of science

 

History incarnate: The values of time in identity politics, biology, and historical memory (Chair: Marianne Sommer, ETH Zürich)

 

Marianne Sommer (ETH Zürich): “Time is on my side”: Temporal strategies in negotiations of humankind’s place in nature

 

Gesine Krüger (Universität Zürich): “Biology is on my side”: Negotiations of indigenous identity

 

David Hesse (Universität Zürich): Mooring lines into the past: Ethnic roots as strategies of deceleration

 

Angels, saints, and evangelists: Three untimely meditations on Bruno Latour and the problem of time (Chair: Henning Schmidgen, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Henning Schmidgen (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Tradition, translation, transformation: Bruno Latour and Charles Péguy

 

Joan Richardson (CUNY Graduate Center): “A great beating of wings”: Latour’s spiritual exercises for secular audiences

 

Steven J. Meyer (Washington University): “A movement during a process of assembling”: Latour with Stein and James

 

Times of literature (Chair: Jörg Thomas Richter, ZfL Berlin)

 

Noelle Batt (Université Paris VIII): Don DeLillo’s novel “The Body Artist”: a modeling of time

 

Josiane Smith-Behmoiras (University of Melbourne): Present imperfect: The multiple modes of temporal practice in Cormac McCarthy’s Novel “The Road” and Alfonso Cuarón’s film “Children of Men”

 

Science and time: history, machines and experiments (Chair: Christof Windgätter, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Daniel S. Margulies (New York School of Medicine): Slow Rhythms of the Brain: A novel line of research in cognitive neuroscience

 

Janina Wellmann (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Rhythm and development in biology around 1800

 

Christof Windgätter (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Inscribing time. A new paradigm in 19th century physiology

 

Times in media I (Chair: Erik Porath, ZfL Berlin)

 

Angela Kölling (University of Auckland): What’s your time? – Plotting communities in the 21st century

 

Anna Tuschling (Universität Basel): Medial apriority

 

Kristin Veel (University of Cambridge): Information technology as symbolic form: Representability of time

 

Times in media II (Chair: Erik Porath, ZfL Berlin)

 

Peter Schnyder (Universität Zürich): Between cycle and arrow: Stifter’s poetics of slowness and narratives in geohistory

 

Kate Marshall (University of California, LA): Media time, media space

 

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Art as Research (Organizer: Florian Dombois)

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Art as research I (Chair: Yeboaa Ofosu, Hochschule der Künste Bern)

 

Marcel O’Gorman (Waterloo), Dane Watkins (UK): Cycle of dread

 

Verena Kaminiarz (Perth): May the mice bite me if it is not true

 

Rethinking representational practices in contemporary art and modern life sciences (Chair: Ingeborg Reichle, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities)

 

Suzanne Anker (New York): Semaphores and surrogates: Stand-ins and body doubles

 

Robert Zwijnenberg (Universiteit Leiden): Bio-art: Concepts and matter

 

Thomas Söderqvist (Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen): Five (good and bad) reasons why a medical museum director wants to bring art and science together

 

In the exhibition I (Chair: Florian Dombois, Claudia Mareis, both Hochschule der Künste Bern)

 

Christoph Keller (Berlin): Visiting a contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis (Video installation)

 

Hannes Rickli (Zürich): Culex/Ormia (Video installation)

 

Florian Dombois (Bern): Surf (Sound installation)

 

In the exhibition II (Chair: Florian Dombois, Hochschule der Künste Bern)

 

George Steinmann (Bern): In search of wilderness /Suchraum Wildnis (Installation)

 

Ilze Bebris (Vancouver): Boundless (Installation)

 

Ingrid Koenig (Vancouver): Navigating the uncertainty principle (Drawings)

 

Art as research II (Chair: Arne Scheuermann, Hochschule der Künste Bern)

 

Nina Stuhldreher (Wien): 1658.350 – A pre-scientific performance lecture as winking homage to modern times, the Bologna process and other dragons layers

 

Miya Yoshida (Berlin): On artistic research

 

Art as research III (Chair: Claudia Mareis, Hochschule der Künste Bern)

 

Future Reflections Research Group (London): Future refrain: Polyphony as practice

 

Arne Scheuermann, Florian Dombois, Peter Berchtold, Jo Maier (Bern): Y-research for understanding management in hospitals? A successful example of transdisciplinary investigation in sociology, medicine and the arts

 

Heidi Sill (Berlin): Ähnliche Wirkungen I + II/ Skins 2006/2008

 

In the exhibition III (Chair: Florian Dombois, Hochule der Künste Bern)

 

Mika Elo (Helsinki): Singing lessons for photography (Photo installation)

 

Michael Schwab (London): Figuring out (Installation)

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Lorrice Douglas (London): Bureau (Installation)

 

Final panel: Artistic research (Chair: Uta Kornmeier, ZfL Berlin)

 

Discussion with Bergit Arends (Natural History Museum London), Florian Dombois (Hochschule der Künste Bern), Sabine Flach (ZfL Berlin), Stefan Willer (ZfL Berlin), Daniel S. Margulies (New York School of Medicine) and the artists

 

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Bodies of Evidence: Human Remains Collections Reconsidered (Organizer: Bergit Arends)

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Bodies of evidence I (Chair: Tagny Duff, Concordia University)

 

Renuka Chaturvedi (Carleton University Ontario): Written on the body: Anthropometric and anthropological accounts of subjectivity in 19th century England

 

Fae Brauer (University of East London): Incriminating evidence: Bodies, skulls and statistics at the Francis Galton National Eugenics Laboratory

 

Georgiana Banita (Universität Konstanz): Memorial Park – The permanent limbo

 

Bodies of evidence II: Cellular memorabilia (Chair: Tagny Duff, Concordia University)

 

Tagny Duff (Concordia University): Moist media archives

 

Kira O’Reilly (University of Birmingham): Crumpling time

 

Jennifer Willet (Concordia University): (Re-)Embodying biotechnology: Artist lab notes

 

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Fade to Grey: Other Sides of Cognition (Organizers: Sabine Flach, Elisabeth Strowick)

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Thinking about/with Echo Objects: Images, cognition, poiesis, and performativity (Chair: James J. Bono, University at Buffalo SUNY)

 

Barbara Stafford (University of Chicago): Non-linguistic communication: Corporeal articulations and shared meaning

 

Nancy Anderson (University at Buffalo, SUNY): Mushroom clouds: Cold War consciousness and the bomb

 

James J. Bono (University at Buffalo, SUNY): Compressive systems: Image, Poiesis, and a Whiteheadian science studies

 

Experimental arrangements: Art and perception (Chair: Sabine Flach, ZfL Berlin)

 

Dawna Schuld (University of Chicago): In a fog: disorientation, obfuscation, and emergence

 

Benjamin Lima (Yale University): Group actions and embodies knowledge in happenings and fluxus

 

Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Life in layers. Art history of microtome

 

Neuro-literature (Chair: Elisabeth Strowick, ZfL Berlin)

 

Valeria Gennero (Université di Bergamo): “The truth of our scattering”: Cognition and emotion in the novels of Richard Powers

 

Stephan Freißmann (Universität Gießen): Knowledge in action: Two fictions of cognition

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Cristina Iuli (Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadroa”, Vercalli): A novel of wonder: Joseph McElroy’s “Plus”

 

Wireless transmissions. Literature and media technologies in Latin America (Chair: Seumas Coutts, ZfL Berlin)

 

Jörg Dünne (Universität München): The Eiffel Tower. A poetic transmitter between Europe and Latin America

 

Wolfram Nitsch (Universität Köln): Living transmitters. Invisible media in the early fiction of Bioy Casares

 

Wolfgang Schaeffner (Universidad de Buenos Aires): Levi-Strauss on line. Communication and anthropology in Brazilian tropics

 

Other bodies of cognition (Chair: Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University)

 

Vicky Kirby (University of New South Wales, Australia): Reprising cognition: The bio-graph as author and reader

 

Elizabeth A. Wilson (University of New South Wales, Australia): Cognition’s underbelly

 

Framing cognitions (Chair: Elisabeth Strowick, ZfL Berlin)

 

Alex Thiele (University of Newcastle): Attention, emotion (and consciousness) from a system neuroscience perspective

 

Florian Lippert (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe): Systems and poems. Language-based autopoiesis in literature, aesthetics, and neurophilosophy

 

Kiki Benzon (University of Lethbridge): Enacting cognitive disorder in Sarah Kane’s “4:48 Psychosis”

 

Soviet systems: The culture of cybernetics in Russia (Chair: Margareta Tillberg, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Matthias Schwartz (Freie Universität Berlin): Cybernetic figurations of the soul. About the reconstruction of men in Soviet science fiction in the 1950-1960

 

Margareta Tillberg (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Design of control rooms in the Soviets 1960

 

Wladimir Velminski (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Cybernetic observation

Simon Werrett (University of Washington, Seattle): Seeing and being seen: the panopticon in Imperial Russia

 

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History of Concepts between Disciplines and Cultures (Organizer: Ernst Müller)

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Framing scientific entities (Chair: Ernst Müller, ZfL Berlin)

 

Wolfram Schmidgen (Washington University): Mixture and modern science in England, 1620–1670

 

Gunhild Berg (Universität Halle/ZfL Berlin): Dispositiv of experiments. The history of a concept negotiated and standardized in the 18 th and 19 th century

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Christina Brandt: On the history of the clone concept in 20th century life sciences and culture

 

Daniel Margocsy (Harvard University): Dead man writing. The publication history of Albertus Seba’s Thesaurus

 

Travelling concepts – Nomadic identities: The weaving together of disciplines, meanings and people (Chair: Manuela Rossini, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)

 

Sylvia Nagl (University College London), Sally Jane Norman (Newcastle University): Embodied weaves of knowledge

 

Manuela Rossini (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis): Network(ed) identities in Shelly Jackson’s literary anatomies: A connectionist reading

 

Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago): Text and textile in the work of Lynne Tillman

 

Transpositions: Materializing the normative (Chair: Judith Roof, Michigan State University)

 

Judith Roof (Michigan State University): Regulators

 

Iris van der Tuin (Universiteit Utrecht): Jumping genes. Jumping gender

 

Integrating the difference (Chair: Gunhild Berg, Universität Halle/ZfL Berlin)

 

Sandra Janßen (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris): Figures of thought in psychological theory 1900-1950: An attempt to rethink discourse analysis

 

Anne Seitz (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin): The European as a literary pathology in early 20th century

 

Ana Teixeira Pinto (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): The function of rhetorical figures

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Figurating conceptual spaces (Chair: Falko Schmieder, ZfL Berlin)

 

Jennifer Ferng (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology): Visible forms of 19th century geology, art, and architecture

 

Ute Poerschke (Pennsylvania State University): The architectural whole scientifically considered

 

Andrea Albrecht (Universität Freiburg): Constellations. The career of an astrological and astronomical concept within cultural theory (Heinrich Rickert, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, and Karl Mannheim)

 

Kate Marshall (University of California, LA): Spatial metaphorics and the disciplines: the case of the corridor

 

Shaping the invisible (Chair: Carlo Barck, ZfL Berlin)

 

Yves Abrioux (Université Paris VIII): Do we really need to bother about the Deleuzian concept of the virtual?

 

Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue University West Lafayette): Reconvergencies: Interferences between art, science, and philosophy in Kandinsky, Heisenberg, Deleuze and Guattari

 

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Desire for/after Affect (Organizer: Marie-Luise Angerer)

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Affect/desire/art (Chair: Marie-Luise Angerer, Kunsthochschule f. Medien/ Kunst- und Medienwissenschaft Köln)

 

Lisa McDonald (University of Adelaide): For reasons I can’t explain, or, there’s something about nature

 

Stefanie Loh (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Diary-like self-reports in contemporary photography

 

Via affectivity to truth: Viscerality and the spectacle of science in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Chair: Marie-Luise Angerer, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln)

 

Elke Weissmann (University of Reading): The emergence of forensic science as truth giver

 

Sofia Bull (Stockholm University): The autopsy as urban spectacle and scientific celebration: Tracing modernity in CSI

 

Barbara Hollendonner (University of Applied Arts Vienna): The image, the human and the truth

 

Lindsay Steenberg (University of East Anglia): Affect and archive: Trace evidence and archival sensibilities on CSI

 

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Inspiration and Intuition (Organizers: Sabine Flach, Ohad Parnes, Martin Treml)

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Epistemology (Chair: Ohad Parnes, ZfL Berlin)

 

Jude James (London): LUMINESCENCE – an example of inspiration and intuition – a consideration of the role of expanded states of consciousness in accessing non-conceptual knowledge

 

Claudia Dürr (Universität Wien), Tasos Zembylas (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien): Presentation of the project: Implicit knowing in literary writing

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Intuition (Chair: Jan Söffner, ZfL Berlin)

 

Zdeněk Konopásek (Charles University Prague), Jan Paleček (Masaryk University): Social sciences meet exorcism: On the reality of illness an demons in Scott Derrickson’s movie “Exorcism of Emily Rose”

 

Wendy Wheeler (Metropolitan University London): On not getting stranded – the quiet art of following your nose: Abduction, biosemiotics and revelatory experience in religious, aesthetic, and scientific practice

 

Intuition and the poetological figuration of knowledge (Chair: Seumas Coutts, ZfL Berlin)

 

Caroline Domenghino (Johns Hopkins University): The narration of premonition in the philosophy of Justus Christian Hennings

 

Anita McChesney (University of Notre Dame): Representing knowledge through the imaginative logic of the detective

 

Arndt Niebisch (UNC Greensboro): Futurist Analogies. Marinetti’s Materialistic Intuition

 

Intuition (Chair: Sabine Flach, ZfL Berlin)

 

Adi Efal (Hebrew University Jerusalem): Intuition between history and archeology: Bergson with Descartes, Descartes with Bergson

 

Luis O. Arata (Quinnipiac University): From intuition to models

 

Tom Holert (Berlin/Wien): “I was interested in …” Interest and intuition in art discourse

 

Jelena Grigorjeva (Tartu University): Cognitive art: Reconfigurating perceptive borders by art

 

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Languages of Science – Sciences of Language (Organizers: Robert Stockhammer, Stefan Willer)

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Taxonomy and comparison in the history of linguistics (Chair: Stefan Willer, ZfL Berlin)

 

Daniel Ulbrich (Universität Jena): Ordering discourses. Scholarly taxonomies of discourse vs. discursive practices of scholarship around 1800

 

Michael Eggers (Universität Köln): Of organic weaves and the immortal soul - Friedrich Schlegel’s writings on language

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Babel reversed: Universal languages, visible knowledge and the book of nature in the early modern Anglosphere (Chair: James J. Bono, University at Buffalo SUNY)

 

James J. Bono (University at Buffalo SUNY): Reading the book of nature in the 17th century: Language as a technology of the literal

 

Sarah Rivett (Washington University): The word and the spirit: Indian grammars and the sacred origins of the universal language (read in the absence of the author)

 

Linguistic universals and mathematical symbolism (Chair: Robert Stockhammer, Universität München)

 

Ana Teixeira Pinto (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Mathematical formalism and the concept of number

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Oliver Simons (Harvard University): Geometry as a model of signs: Kant, Husserl, Foucault

 

Dirk Vanderbeke (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Universals aren’t: On the historicity of tropes in the languages of science

 

Biomedical narratives and metaphors (Chair: Laura Otis, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Henrike Hölzer (Charité Berlin): Mind the gap: A critical analysis of the concept of “story” in “narrative medicine”

 

Timothy Weaver (University of Denver): Re-wiring the biological narrative: Telematic to biophilia connections

 

Stephen J. Weininger (Polytechnic Institute Worcester Ma.): The relationship between chemistry and chemicals: The persistence and progression of ancient metaphors in the popular imagination

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Transposition as science: Changing modalities in scientific displays (Chair: Julia Kursell, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Laura Otis (MPI for the History of Science Berlin) : The epistemological value of translation

 

Nicholas Wade (University of Dundee): Literal vision

 

Julia Kursell (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Turning shapes into sounds: On the prehistory of auditory display

 

Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma): Intangible materialism. Scientific reductionism, historical fact, and semiotics

 

Figurative devices in linguistic discourse (Chair: Elisabeth Birk, RWTH Aachen)

 

Elisabeth Birk (RWTH Aachen): What diagrams contribute to linguistic discourse

 

Mareike Buss (RWTH Aachen): How discourse metaphors shape linguists’ distinctions and disputes

 

Jörg Jost (RWTH Aachen): How topical networks organize intra- and intertextuality in linguistic controversy

 

Nicolaas T.O. Mouton (Copenhagen Business School): Why the history of a metaphor matters

 

Robert Stockhammer (Universität München): Chomsky’s martians: The language of a science of language in “Science”

 

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Extraordinary Concepts of Perception (Organizers: Katrin Solhdju, Margarete Vöhringer, Yvonne Wübben)

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Perception of the imperceptible (Chair: Yvonne Wübben, Freie Universität Berlin)

 

Cornelius Borck (Universität Lübeck): Perception infra ordinaire

 

Naamah Akavia (University of California, LA): Diagnosing perception. Rorschach’s test

 

Gerhard Scharbert (ZfL Berlin): Alterations of perception and poetic brain theory

 

Mad eyes – Mad writing (Chair: Yvonne Wübben, Freie Universität Berlin)

 

Florian Kappeler (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Moosbrugger’s squirrel

 

Sema Bulutsuz (Istanbul University): Modes of extraordinary perception in the works of Gertrude Stein and Leyla Erbil

 

Preconscious perception (Chair: Cornelius Borck, Universität Lübeck)

 

Simone de Angelis (Universität Bern): Embodied soul: The preconceived consciousness

 

Sandra Janßen (Maison de Sciences Paris): Perception of the unconscious in H. Brochs “Tod des Vergil”

 

Antje Pfannkuchen (University of New York): Why Johann Wilhelm Ritter did not invent photography

 

With the eyes of a child (Chair: Barbara Wittmann, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Davide Giuriato (Universität Frankfurt/M.): Poetics of children’s perception

 

Barbara Wurm (IFK Wien): Staging the world from below

 

Barbara Wittmann (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Exploring the child’s conception of space

 

Representing the invisible (Chair: John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania)

 

John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania): Romantic machines: Humboldt and Saint-Simon

 

Linda Dalrymple Henderson (University of Texas, Austin): The ethereal and four-dimensional meta-realities of Modern Art (read in absence of the author)

 

Freya Vass-Rhee (University of California, Riverside): States of art – William Forsythe’s perceptual research

 

Surrealism: Perception from the paranormal to the paranoiac-critical method (Chair: M. E. Warlick, University of Denver)

 

M. E. Warlick (University of Denver): Eroticism, psychoanalysis and the paranormal – The surrealistic admiration for female clairvoyance and hysteria

 

James W. McManus (California State University, Chico): Dear Robert, “Love”, Rrose Sélavy

 

Sophia Vackimes (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Mediating abnormality

 

The artist’s eyes (Chair: Bettina Gockel, Universität Zürich)

 

Mechthild Fend (University of London): Seeing through the skin. The anatomy of exterior forms in nineteenth century France

 

Birgitta Coers (Universität Tübingen): Under the magnifying glass. Observing and pictorial representation in 18th century southern German fresco painting

 

Bettina Gockel (Universität Zürich): Pictures for the blind. Chardin’s paintings

 

Vibratory movements (Chair: Shelley Trower, University of Plymouth)

 

Anthony Enns (Dalhousie University): Psychic radio – Sound technologies, ether bodies, and spiritual vibrations

 

Shelley Trower (University of Plymouth): Extrasensory quantities of railway shock

 

Nicholas Ridout (University of London): Welcome to the vibratorium – On the sensory threshold of theatre

 

Ethological approaches / Animal’s eyes (Chair: Katrin Solhdju, ZfL Berlin)

 

Jon Adams (London School of Economics), Edmund Ramsden (London School of Economics): Finding humanity in rat city

 

Dorit Müller (ZfL Berlin): Observing animal perception: Representations in Science and popular media

 

Jussi Parikka (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge): Storehouses of invention

 

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Politics of Knowledge (Organizer: Uwe Wirth)

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Fiction in science, science in fiction (Chair: Markus Krajewski, Bauhaus Universität Weimar)

 

Markus Krajewski (Bauhaus Universität Weimar): Scientific demons. A consideration on their role in knowledge production

 

Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond), Christopher Chilvers (Technical Knowledge Centre of Denmark): Stanislaw Lem’s “Cyberiad”

 

Michelle Jamieson (University of New South Wales): Allergy: Refiguring the immunological body

 

Art and media on the production of knowledge (Chair: Susanne Witzgall, Akademie d. Bildenden Künste München, Cary Wolfe, Rice University Houston Texas)

 

Susanne Witzgall (Akademie d. Bildenden Künste München): Art on the production of knowledge

 

Alexandra Karentzos (Universität Trier): Optical encyclopaedism: Critical encounter between postcolonial art and art history

 

Cary Wolfe (Rice University Houston Texas): The digital and the analog: Echographies from “My life in the bush of ghosts”

 

Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois at Chicago): World-fictions

 

Warren Neidich (Goldsmiths College, London): The redistribution of the sensible

 

Literary politics of knowledge (Chair: Stephan Freißmann, Universität Gießen)

 

Sigrid G. Köhler (Universität Münster): Vom ‘homo contractualis’ – Die Fiktion des Vertrags und der moderne Mensch

 

Martin Maurach (Universität Frankfurt a.d.O.): Law metaphors in the “republic of letters”

 

Stephan Freißmann (Universität Gießen): Knowledge of cognition between science and literature: Ian McEwan’s “Saturday”

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Expertise, dilettantism, and popular science (Chair: Safia Azzouni, Wissenschaftskolleg Greiswald, Uwe Wirth, Universität Gießen)

 

Safia Azzouni (Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald): Empowering individuality: Popular science at the beginning of the 20th century

 

Uwe Wirth (Universität Gießen): Dilettante conjectures: Weber, Peirce, Friedell

 

Carsten Reinhardt (Universität Bielefeld): Boundary values

 

Christian Reiß (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Of rats, rabbits and reptiles – Choosing organisms in early experimental life sciences

 

Sexuality and politics of knowledge (Chair: Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas, Arlington)

 

Giovanna Di Chiro (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA): Figurations of eco-normativity: Queer(y)ing environmental science and the endocrine disrupter thesis

 

Stacy Alaimo (University of Texas, Arlington): Eluding capture: The science, culture and pleasure of queer animals

 

Dianne Chisholm (University of Alberta): Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire

 

Palmira Fontes da Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The politics of sexual difference: Visual representations of hermaphrodites in the 18th century

 

Christiane König (Academy of Media Arts Cologne): Queer as quantums, patterns and virtuality

 

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Vitality: Contours and Boundaries Between Life and Death (Organizers: Christine Blättler, Ulrike Vedder)

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Metempsychosis. Transmigrations in biology and literature (Chair: Jutta Müller-Tamm, Freie Universität Berlin)

 

Jutta Müller-Tamm (Freie Universität Berlin): Metempsychosis as metaphor in early 19th century

 

Martin Hense (Freie Universität Berlin): “…den poetischen Phönix wecken”. Poetic vitality in metaphors of rebirth around 1800

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Kyung-Ho Cha (Freie Universität Berlin/ICI): Remembering evolution. The scientfic myth of metempsychosis between literature and biology

 

Johanna Bohley (Freie Universität Berlin): Conceptions of metempsychosis between animism, literature and analytic psychology

 

Debating concepts of nature (Chair: Christine Blättler, ZfL Berlin)

 

Susanne Lettow (IWM Wien): Reproduction 1800 - The circulation of a concept between biology, political economy and philosophy

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Terence H.W. Shih (University Durham): What is life all about?: Science, philosophy and literature in British romanticism

 

Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University): Vitality and the substance of women’s rights

 

Vital bodies (Chair:Barbara Wurm, IFK Wien)

 

Sabine Kalff (IFK Wien): The ailments of the body politic and their cures in early modern political thought

 

Rupert Gaderer (IFK Wien): Electric bodies in science and literature around 1800

 

Clemens Peck (IFK Wien): Balance and motion – Theodor Herzls Jewish utopian novel “Altneuland”

 

Barbara Wurm (IFK Wien): Of words and men. Vitality as a key concept in early Soviet culture

 

Vitality, virality, virtuality (Chair: Bart Philipsen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

 

Oliver Kohns (Universität zu Köln): Life, “life” and death. On theorizing with vampires and cannibals

 

Michiel Nys (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): The nebulous country in which words play the parts of realities: Revisiting Thomas Henry Huxley

 

Pieter Vermeulen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Virtual ethics and viral prosaics (On David Mitchell’s “Ghostwritten”)

 

Arne de Winde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): “Der Virus im Abendland”: Reinhard Jirgl’s viral poetics in “Das obszöne Gebet. Totenbuch”

 

Governmediality of contemporary biopower (Chair: Christoph Engemann, University of Texas, Austin)

 

Christoph Engemann (University of Texas, Austin): Paper kills – The contemporary governmediality of life

 

Boris Traue (Technische Universität Berlin): Video nation – The visual self in a biopolitical regime of visibility

 

Ayo Wahlberg (London School of Economics): Good life and ‘the good life’ – On quality and vitality

 

Technology and imagination (Chair: Val Hartouni, University of California, San Diego)

 

Sabine Höhler (German Hist. Inst. Washington): Figuring survival: Cultural plots of the ship

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David Serlin (University of California, San Diego): Architectures of life and death

 

Etienne Pelaprat (University of California, San Diego): Agency and consciousness as vitality: The case of Theresa Schiavo

 

Val Hartouni (University of California, San Diego): Vital principles: On nature, the good death and assorted other stories we tell ourselves

 

Recent biomedicine and vitality (Chair: Jan Eric Olsén, Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen)

 

Sniff Andersen Nexø (Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen): A matter of disposal: Enacting aborted foetuses in hospitals

 

Susanne Bauer (Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen): Risk assessment software and the biopolitics of prevention

 

Jan Eric Olsén (Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen): Life struggles and the invaded body

 

Rethinking experiment (Chair: Robyn Smith, MPI for the History of Science Berlin)

 

Luis Campos (Drew University/MPI for the History of Science Berlin): “Secret of life unveiled!”: Synthesizing life in the popular realm

 

Richard Doyle (Pennsylvania State University): Thought experiments on the edge of evolution: On beyond zebra?

 

Robert Mitchell (Duke University): Living on: Media, experimentalism, and the life of literature

 

Robyn Smith (MPI for the History of Science Berlin): Experimenting with life’s potential: The bio-politics of nutrition

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Immortality (Chair: Ulrike Vedder, ZfL Berlin)

 

Julia Krause (Johns Hopkins University): Immortality: A life-and-death-situation

 

Marcel O’Gorman (University Waterloo, Ontario): Technology, immortality, and existential dread

 

Ann Pontén (Lund Universitet): The boundaries of Duchamp’s “Etant donné”

 

Biotechnology and art (Chair: Uta Kornmeier, ZfL Berlin)

 

Tatjana Petzer (ZfL Berlin): Decapitation and grafting. The vitality of the disembodied head

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Maria Aline Ferreira (Universidade de Aveiro): Bodily going where no one has gone before: Imagining ectogenesis

 

Ionat Zurr (University Western Australia): Can the epi-body mediate vitality?

 

Monika Bakke (Poznan University): Aesthetics of manipulated life: Vitality of wet media art objects

 

Sculpturing bodies (Chair: Christine Blättler, ZfL Berlin)

 

Markus Hallensleben (University BC, Vancouver): Performing vitality: The human body as living sculpture

 

Barbara Larson (University West Florida): Rodin’s “Adam”: The stirring of life and localization theory in the late nineteenth century

 

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