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Evening Events |
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Acceleration,
Synchronization, Deceleration (Organizer: Erik Porath) |
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Art as Research (Organizer:
Florian Dombois) |
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Bodies of Evidence: Human
Remains Collections Reconsidered (Organizer: Bergit Arends) |
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Fade to Grey: Other Sides
of Cognition (Organizers: Sabine Flach, Elisabeth Strowick) |
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History of Concepts between
Disciplines and Cultures (Organizer: Ernst Müller) |
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Desire for/after Affect
(Organizer: Marie-Luise Angerer) |
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Inspiration and Intuition
(Organizers: Sabine Flach, Ohad Parnes, Martin Treml) |
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Languages of Science –
Sciences of Language (Organizers: Robert Stockhammer, Stefan Willer) |
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Extraordinary Concepts of
Perception (Organizers: Katrin Solhdju, Margarete Vöhringer, Yvonne Wübben) |
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Politics of Knowledge
(Organizer: Uwe Wirth) |
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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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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) |
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Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech
University): Narrative time and systems time |
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Søren Brier (Copenhagen Business
School): Dialogical consciousness, irreversibility, and narrativity |
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Paul Cobley (London
Metropolitan University): Feeling, modeling, and narrative time |
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Recursions in history of
knowledge (Chair: Ana Ofak, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) |
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Ana
Ofak (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Recursion. Loops as temporal figures |
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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 |
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History incarnate: The
values of time in identity politics, biology, and historical memory (Chair:
Marianne Sommer, ETH Zürich) |
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Marianne Sommer (ETH
Zürich): “Time is on my side”: Temporal strategies in negotiations of
humankind’s place in nature |
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Gesine Krüger (Universität
Zürich): “Biology is on my side”: Negotiations of indigenous identity |
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David Hesse (Universität
Zürich): Mooring lines into the past: Ethnic roots as strategies of
deceleration |
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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) |
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Henning Schmidgen (MPI for
the History of Science Berlin): Tradition, translation, transformation: Bruno
Latour and Charles Péguy |
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Joan Richardson (CUNY
Graduate Center): “A great beating of wings”: Latour’s spiritual exercises
for secular audiences |
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Steven J. Meyer (Washington
University): “A movement during a process of assembling”: Latour with Stein
and James |
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Times of literature (Chair:
Jörg Thomas Richter, ZfL Berlin) |
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Noelle Batt (Université
Paris VIII): Don DeLillo’s novel “The Body Artist”: a modeling of time |
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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” |
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Science and time: history,
machines and experiments (Chair: Christof Windgätter, MPI for the History of
Science Berlin) |
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Daniel S. Margulies (New
York School of Medicine): Slow Rhythms of the Brain: A novel line of research
in cognitive neuroscience |
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Janina Wellmann (MPI for
the History of Science Berlin): Rhythm and development in biology around 1800 |
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Christof Windgätter (MPI
for the History of Science Berlin): Inscribing time. A new paradigm in 19th
century physiology |
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Times in media I (Chair:
Erik Porath, ZfL Berlin) |
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Angela Kölling (University
of Auckland): What’s your time? – Plotting communities in the 21st century |
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Anna Tuschling (Universität
Basel): Medial apriority |
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Kristin Veel (University of
Cambridge): Information technology as symbolic form: Representability of time |
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Times in media II (Chair:
Erik Porath, ZfL Berlin) |
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Peter Schnyder (Universität
Zürich): Between cycle and arrow: Stifter’s poetics of slowness and
narratives in geohistory |
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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) |
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Marcel O’Gorman (Waterloo),
Dane Watkins (UK): Cycle of dread |
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Verena Kaminiarz (Perth):
May the mice bite me if it is not true |
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Rethinking representational
practices in contemporary art and modern life sciences (Chair: Ingeborg
Reichle, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities) |
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Suzanne Anker (New York):
Semaphores and surrogates: Stand-ins and body doubles |
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Robert
Zwijnenberg (Universiteit Leiden): Bio-art: Concepts and matter |
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Thomas Söderqvist (Med.
Museion/University of Copenhagen): Five (good and bad) reasons why a medical
museum director wants to bring art and science together |
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In the exhibition I (Chair:
Florian Dombois, Claudia Mareis, both Hochschule der Künste Bern) |
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Christoph Keller (Berlin):
Visiting a contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis (Video installation) |
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Hannes Rickli (Zürich):
Culex/Ormia (Video installation) |
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Florian Dombois (Bern):
Surf (Sound installation) |
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In the exhibition II
(Chair: Florian Dombois, Hochschule der Künste Bern) |
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George Steinmann (Bern): In
search of wilderness /Suchraum Wildnis (Installation) |
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Ilze Bebris (Vancouver):
Boundless (Installation) |
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Ingrid Koenig (Vancouver):
Navigating the uncertainty principle (Drawings) |
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Art
as research II (Chair: Arne Scheuermann, Hochschule der Künste Bern) |
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Nina Stuhldreher (Wien):
1658.350 – A pre-scientific performance lecture as winking homage to modern
times, the Bologna process and other dragons layers |
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Miya Yoshida (Berlin): On
artistic research |
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Art
as research III (Chair: Claudia Mareis, Hochschule der Künste Bern) |
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Future Reflections Research
Group (London): Future refrain: Polyphony as practice |
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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 |
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Heidi
Sill (Berlin): Ähnliche Wirkungen I + II/ Skins 2006/2008 |
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In the exhibition III
(Chair: Florian Dombois, Hochule der Künste Bern) |
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Mika Elo (Helsinki):
Singing lessons for photography (Photo installation) |
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Michael Schwab (London):
Figuring out (Installation) |
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Lorrice Douglas (London): Bureau (Installation) |
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Final panel: Artistic
research (Chair: Uta Kornmeier, ZfL Berlin) |
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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) |
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Renuka Chaturvedi (Carleton
University Ontario): Written on the body: Anthropometric and anthropological
accounts of subjectivity in 19th century England |
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Fae Brauer (University of
East London): Incriminating evidence: Bodies, skulls and statistics at the
Francis Galton National Eugenics Laboratory |
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Georgiana Banita
(Universität Konstanz): Memorial Park – The permanent limbo |
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Bodies of evidence II:
Cellular memorabilia (Chair: Tagny Duff, Concordia University) |
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Tagny Duff (Concordia University): Moist media
archives |
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Kira O’Reilly (University
of Birmingham): Crumpling time |
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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) |
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Barbara Stafford
(University of Chicago): Non-linguistic communication: Corporeal
articulations and shared meaning |
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Nancy Anderson (University
at Buffalo, SUNY): Mushroom clouds: Cold War consciousness and the bomb |
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James J. Bono (University
at Buffalo, SUNY): Compressive systems: Image, Poiesis, and a Whiteheadian
science studies |
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Experimental arrangements:
Art and perception (Chair: Sabine Flach, ZfL Berlin) |
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Dawna Schuld (University of
Chicago): In a fog: disorientation, obfuscation, and emergence |
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Benjamin Lima (Yale
University): Group actions and embodies knowledge in happenings and fluxus |
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Matthias
Bruhn (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Life in layers. Art history of
microtome |
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Neuro-literature (Chair:
Elisabeth Strowick, ZfL Berlin) |
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Valeria Gennero (Université
di Bergamo): “The truth of our scattering”: Cognition and emotion in the
novels of Richard Powers |
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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” |
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Wireless transmissions.
Literature and media technologies in Latin America (Chair: Seumas Coutts, ZfL
Berlin) |
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Jörg
Dünne (Universität München): The Eiffel Tower. A poetic transmitter
between Europe and Latin America |
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Wolfram
Nitsch (Universität Köln): Living transmitters. Invisible media in the
early fiction of Bioy Casares |
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Wolfgang Schaeffner
(Universidad de Buenos Aires): Levi-Strauss on line. Communication and
anthropology in Brazilian tropics |
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Other bodies of cognition
(Chair: Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University) |
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Vicky Kirby (University of
New South Wales, Australia): Reprising cognition: The bio-graph as author and
reader |
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Elizabeth A. Wilson
(University of New South Wales, Australia): Cognition’s underbelly |
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Framing cognitions (Chair:
Elisabeth Strowick, ZfL Berlin) |
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Alex Thiele (University of
Newcastle): Attention, emotion (and consciousness) from a system neuroscience
perspective |
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Florian
Lippert (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe): Systems and poems. Language-based
autopoiesis in literature, aesthetics, and neurophilosophy |
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Kiki Benzon (University of
Lethbridge): Enacting cognitive disorder in Sarah Kane’s “4:48 Psychosis” |
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Soviet systems: The culture
of cybernetics in Russia (Chair: Margareta Tillberg, MPI for the History of
Science Berlin) |
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Matthias Schwartz (Freie
Universität Berlin): Cybernetic figurations of the soul. About the reconstruction
of men in Soviet science fiction in the 1950-1960 |
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Margareta Tillberg (MPI for
the History of Science Berlin): Design of control rooms in the Soviets 1960 |
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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) |
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Wolfram Schmidgen
(Washington University): Mixture and modern science in England, 1620–1670 |
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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 |
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Daniel Margocsy (Harvard
University): Dead man writing. The publication history of Albertus Seba’s
Thesaurus |
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Travelling concepts –
Nomadic identities: The weaving together of disciplines, meanings and people
(Chair: Manuela Rossini, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) |
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Sylvia Nagl (University
College London), Sally Jane Norman (Newcastle University): Embodied weaves of
knowledge |
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Manuela Rossini (Amsterdam
School for Cultural Analysis): Network(ed) identities in Shelly Jackson’s
literary anatomies: A connectionist reading |
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Joseph Tabbi (University of
Illinois, Chicago): Text and textile in the work of Lynne Tillman |
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Transpositions:
Materializing the normative (Chair: Judith Roof, Michigan State University) |
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Judith Roof (Michigan State
University): Regulators |
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Iris
van der Tuin (Universiteit Utrecht): Jumping genes. Jumping gender |
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Integrating the difference
(Chair: Gunhild Berg, Universität Halle/ZfL Berlin) |
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Sandra Janßen (Maison des
Sciences de l’Homme, Paris): Figures of thought in psychological theory
1900-1950: An attempt to rethink discourse analysis |
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Anne Seitz (Centre Marc
Bloch Berlin): The European as a literary pathology in early 20th century |
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Ana Teixeira Pinto (Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin): The function of rhetorical figures |
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Figurating conceptual
spaces (Chair: Falko Schmieder, ZfL Berlin) |
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Jennifer Ferng (Massachusetts
Inst. of Technology): Visible forms of 19th century geology, art, and
architecture |
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Ute Poerschke (Pennsylvania
State University): The architectural whole scientifically considered |
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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) |
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Kate Marshall (University
of California, LA): Spatial metaphorics and the disciplines: the case of the
corridor |
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Shaping the invisible
(Chair: Carlo Barck, ZfL Berlin) |
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Yves Abrioux (Université
Paris VIII): Do we really need to bother about the Deleuzian concept of the
virtual? |
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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) |
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Lisa McDonald (University
of Adelaide): For reasons I can’t explain, or, there’s something about nature |
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Stefanie Loh (Universität
Duisburg-Essen): Diary-like self-reports in contemporary photography |
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Via affectivity to truth:
Viscerality and the spectacle of science in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(Chair: Marie-Luise Angerer, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) |
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Elke Weissmann (University
of Reading): The emergence of forensic science as truth giver |
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Sofia Bull (Stockholm
University): The autopsy as urban spectacle and scientific celebration:
Tracing modernity in CSI |
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Barbara Hollendonner
(University of Applied Arts Vienna): The image, the human and the truth |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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” |
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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 |
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Intuition and the
poetological figuration of knowledge (Chair: Seumas Coutts, ZfL Berlin) |
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Caroline Domenghino (Johns
Hopkins University): The narration of premonition in the philosophy of Justus
Christian Hennings |
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Anita McChesney (University
of Notre Dame): Representing knowledge through the imaginative logic of the
detective |
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Arndt
Niebisch (UNC Greensboro): Futurist Analogies. Marinetti’s Materialistic
Intuition |
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Intuition (Chair: Sabine
Flach, ZfL Berlin) |
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Adi Efal (Hebrew University
Jerusalem): Intuition between history and archeology: Bergson with Descartes,
Descartes with Bergson |
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Luis O. Arata (Quinnipiac
University): From intuition to models |
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Tom Holert (Berlin/Wien):
“I was interested in …” Interest and intuition in art discourse |
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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) |
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Daniel
Ulbrich (Universität Jena): Ordering discourses. Scholarly taxonomies of
discourse vs. discursive practices of scholarship around 1800 |
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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) |
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James J. Bono (University
at Buffalo SUNY): Reading the book of nature in the 17th century: Language as
a technology of the literal |
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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) |
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Linguistic universals and
mathematical symbolism (Chair: Robert Stockhammer, Universität München) |
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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 |
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Dirk Vanderbeke
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Universals aren’t: On the historicity
of tropes in the languages of science |
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Biomedical narratives and
metaphors (Chair: Laura Otis, MPI for the History of Science Berlin) |
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Henrike Hölzer (Charité
Berlin): Mind the gap: A critical analysis of the concept of “story” in
“narrative medicine” |
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Timothy Weaver (University
of Denver): Re-wiring the biological narrative: Telematic to biophilia
connections |
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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) |
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Laura Otis (MPI for the
History of Science Berlin) : The epistemological value of translation |
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Nicholas Wade (University
of Dundee): Literal vision |
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Julia Kursell (MPI for the
History of Science Berlin): Turning shapes into sounds: On the prehistory of
auditory display |
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Ronald Schleifer
(University of Oklahoma): Intangible materialism. Scientific reductionism, historical
fact, and semiotics |
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Figurative devices in
linguistic discourse (Chair: Elisabeth Birk, RWTH Aachen) |
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Elisabeth Birk (RWTH
Aachen): What diagrams contribute to linguistic discourse |
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Mareike Buss (RWTH Aachen):
How discourse metaphors shape linguists’ distinctions and disputes |
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Jörg Jost (RWTH Aachen):
How topical networks organize intra- and intertextuality in linguistic
controversy |
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Nicolaas T.O. Mouton
(Copenhagen Business School): Why the history of a metaphor matters |
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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) |
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Cornelius Borck
(Universität Lübeck): Perception infra ordinaire |
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Naamah Akavia (University
of California, LA): Diagnosing perception. Rorschach’s test |
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Gerhard Scharbert (ZfL
Berlin): Alterations of perception and poetic brain theory |
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Mad eyes – Mad writing
(Chair: Yvonne Wübben, Freie Universität Berlin) |
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Florian Kappeler (Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin): Moosbrugger’s squirrel |
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Sema Bulutsuz (Istanbul
University): Modes of extraordinary perception in the works of Gertrude Stein
and Leyla Erbil |
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Preconscious perception
(Chair: Cornelius Borck, Universität Lübeck) |
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Simone de Angelis
(Universität Bern): Embodied soul: The preconceived consciousness |
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Sandra Janßen (Maison de Sciences Paris):
Perception of the unconscious in H. Brochs “Tod des Vergil” |
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Antje Pfannkuchen
(University of New York): Why Johann Wilhelm Ritter did not invent
photography |
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With the eyes of a child
(Chair: Barbara Wittmann, MPI for the History of Science Berlin) |
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Davide Giuriato
(Universität Frankfurt/M.): Poetics of children’s perception |
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Barbara Wurm (IFK Wien):
Staging the world from below |
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Barbara Wittmann (MPI for
the History of Science Berlin): Exploring the child’s conception of space |
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Representing the invisible
(Chair: John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania) |
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John Tresch (University of
Pennsylvania): Romantic machines: Humboldt and Saint-Simon |
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Linda Dalrymple Henderson
(University of Texas, Austin): The ethereal and four-dimensional
meta-realities of Modern Art (read in absence of the author) |
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Freya Vass-Rhee (University
of California, Riverside): States of art – William Forsythe’s perceptual
research |
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Surrealism: Perception from
the paranormal to the paranoiac-critical method (Chair: M. E. Warlick,
University of Denver) |
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M. E. Warlick (University
of Denver): Eroticism, psychoanalysis and the paranormal – The surrealistic
admiration for female clairvoyance and hysteria |
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James W. McManus
(California State University, Chico): Dear Robert, “Love”, Rrose Sélavy |
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Sophia Vackimes (MPI for
the History of Science Berlin): Mediating abnormality |
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The artist’s eyes (Chair:
Bettina Gockel, Universität Zürich) |
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Mechthild Fend (University
of London): Seeing through the skin. The anatomy of exterior forms in
nineteenth century France |
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Birgitta Coers (Universität
Tübingen): Under the magnifying glass. Observing and pictorial representation
in 18th century southern German fresco painting |
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Bettina Gockel (Universität
Zürich): Pictures for the blind. Chardin’s paintings |
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Vibratory movements (Chair:
Shelley Trower, University of Plymouth) |
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Anthony Enns (Dalhousie
University): Psychic radio – Sound technologies, ether bodies, and spiritual
vibrations |
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Shelley Trower (University
of Plymouth): Extrasensory quantities of railway shock |
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Nicholas Ridout (University
of London): Welcome to the vibratorium – On the sensory threshold of theatre |
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Ethological approaches /
Animal’s eyes (Chair: Katrin Solhdju, ZfL Berlin) |
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Jon Adams (London School of
Economics), Edmund Ramsden (London School of Economics): Finding humanity in
rat city |
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Dorit Müller (ZfL Berlin):
Observing animal perception: Representations in Science and popular media |
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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) |
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Markus Krajewski (Bauhaus
Universität Weimar): Scientific demons. A consideration on their role in
knowledge production |
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Yvonne Howell (University
of Richmond), Christopher Chilvers (Technical Knowledge Centre of Denmark):
Stanislaw Lem’s “Cyberiad” |
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Michelle Jamieson
(University of New South Wales): Allergy: Refiguring the immunological body |
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Art and media on the
production of knowledge (Chair: Susanne Witzgall, Akademie d. Bildenden
Künste München, Cary Wolfe, Rice University Houston Texas) |
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Susanne Witzgall (Akademie
d. Bildenden Künste München): Art on the production of knowledge |
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Alexandra Karentzos (Universität
Trier): Optical encyclopaedism: Critical encounter between postcolonial art
and art history |
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Cary Wolfe (Rice University
Houston Texas): The digital and the analog: Echographies from “My life in the
bush of ghosts” |
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Joseph Tabbi (University of
Illinois at Chicago): World-fictions |
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Warren Neidich (Goldsmiths
College, London): The redistribution of the sensible |
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Literary politics of
knowledge (Chair: Stephan Freißmann, Universität Gießen) |
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Sigrid
G. Köhler (Universität Münster): Vom ‘homo contractualis’ – Die Fiktion des
Vertrags und der moderne Mensch |
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Martin Maurach (Universität
Frankfurt a.d.O.): Law metaphors in the “republic of letters” |
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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) |
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Safia Azzouni
(Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald): Empowering individuality: Popular science
at the beginning of the 20th century |
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Uwe Wirth (Universität
Gießen): Dilettante conjectures: Weber, Peirce, Friedell |
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Carsten Reinhardt
(Universität Bielefeld): Boundary values |
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Christian Reiß (MPI for the
History of Science Berlin): Of rats, rabbits and reptiles – Choosing
organisms in early experimental life sciences |
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Sexuality and politics of
knowledge (Chair: Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas, Arlington) |
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Giovanna Di Chiro (Mount
Holyoke College, South Hadley MA): Figurations of eco-normativity:
Queer(y)ing environmental science and the endocrine disrupter thesis |
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Stacy Alaimo (University of
Texas, Arlington): Eluding capture: The science, culture and pleasure of
queer animals |
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Dianne Chisholm (University
of Alberta): Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of
queer desire |
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Palmira Fontes da Costa
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The politics of sexual difference: Visual
representations of hermaphrodites in the 18th century |
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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) |
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Jutta Müller-Tamm (Freie
Universität Berlin): Metempsychosis as metaphor in early 19th century |
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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 |
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Johanna Bohley (Freie
Universität Berlin): Conceptions of metempsychosis between animism,
literature and analytic psychology |
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Debating concepts of nature
(Chair: Christine Blättler, ZfL Berlin) |
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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 |
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Penelope Deutscher
(Northwestern University): Vitality and the substance of women’s rights |
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Vital bodies (Chair:Barbara
Wurm, IFK Wien) |
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Sabine Kalff (IFK Wien):
The ailments of the body politic and their cures in early modern political
thought |
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Rupert Gaderer (IFK Wien):
Electric bodies in science and literature around 1800 |
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Clemens Peck (IFK Wien):
Balance and motion – Theodor Herzls Jewish utopian novel “Altneuland” |
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Barbara Wurm (IFK Wien): Of
words and men. Vitality as a key concept in early Soviet culture |
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Vitality, virality,
virtuality (Chair: Bart Philipsen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) |
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Oliver Kohns (Universität
zu Köln): Life, “life” and death. On theorizing with vampires and cannibals |
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Michiel Nys (Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven): The nebulous country in which words play the parts of
realities: Revisiting Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Pieter Vermeulen
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Virtual ethics and viral prosaics (On David
Mitchell’s “Ghostwritten”) |
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Arne
de Winde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): “Der Virus im Abendland”: Reinhard
Jirgl’s viral poetics in “Das obszöne Gebet. Totenbuch” |
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Governmediality of
contemporary biopower (Chair: Christoph Engemann, University of Texas,
Austin) |
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Christoph Engemann
(University of Texas, Austin): Paper kills – The contemporary governmediality
of life |
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Boris Traue (Technische
Universität Berlin): Video nation – The visual self in a biopolitical regime
of visibility |
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Ayo Wahlberg (London School
of Economics): Good life and ‘the good life’ – On quality and vitality |
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Technology and imagination
(Chair: Val Hartouni, University of California, San Diego) |
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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 |
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Etienne Pelaprat
(University of California, San Diego): Agency and consciousness as vitality:
The case of Theresa Schiavo |
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Val Hartouni (University of
California, San Diego): Vital principles: On nature, the good death and
assorted other stories we tell ourselves |
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Recent biomedicine and
vitality (Chair: Jan Eric Olsén, Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen) |
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Sniff Andersen Nexø (Med.
Museion/University of Copenhagen): A matter of disposal: Enacting aborted
foetuses in hospitals |
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Susanne
Bauer (Med. Museion/University of Copenhagen): Risk assessment software and the
biopolitics of prevention |
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Jan Eric Olsén (Med.
Museion/University of Copenhagen): Life struggles and the invaded body |
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Rethinking experiment
(Chair: Robyn Smith, MPI for the History of Science Berlin) |
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Luis Campos (Drew
University/MPI for the History of Science Berlin): “Secret of life
unveiled!”: Synthesizing life in the popular realm |
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Richard Doyle (Pennsylvania
State University): Thought experiments on the edge of evolution: On beyond
zebra? |
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Robert Mitchell (Duke
University): Living on: Media, experimentalism, and the life of literature |
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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) |
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Julia Krause (Johns Hopkins
University): Immortality: A life-and-death-situation |
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Marcel O’Gorman (University
Waterloo, Ontario): Technology, immortality, and existential dread |
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Ann Pontén (Lund
Universitet): The boundaries of Duchamp’s “Etant donné” |
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Biotechnology and art (Chair:
Uta Kornmeier, ZfL Berlin) |
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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 |
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Ionat Zurr (University
Western Australia): Can the epi-body mediate vitality? |
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Monika Bakke (Poznan
University): Aesthetics of manipulated life: Vitality of wet media art
objects |
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Sculpturing bodies (Chair:
Christine Blättler, ZfL Berlin) |
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Markus Hallensleben
(University BC, Vancouver): Performing vitality: The human body as living
sculpture |
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Barbara Larson (University
West Florida): Rodin’s “Adam”: The stirring of life and localization theory
in the late nineteenth century |
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