Zeitplan

28.06.2017

10.00 Renate Dürr (Tübingen): Introduction

10.30-12.00 Keynote I: Anthony Grafton (Princeton):Philology and Divination in Early Modern Scholarship

12.00-13.00 Lunch Break

A – Debates and Rhetorics

13.00-14.45 Panel I: Dealing with (Un-)Certainties: Religious Debates in Late Antiquity

Chair: Volker Drecoll (Tübingen)

Susanna Elm, (Berkeley): Miracles as Evidence in Julian the Emperor in the Mirror of Cyril’s Contra Iulianum
Lisa Neumann (Tübingen): Apollonius of Tyana, the Ignorant Omniscient: Eusebius' and Sossianus Hierocles' Interpretative Dispute in the context of the Conflict between Christian and Platonist Orders
Lucia Maddalena Tissi (Paris): Porphyry, Steuchus and the Journey of Oracles through Symphony and Conflict

14.45-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-17.00 Panel II: “Known and Unknown Unknowns” / Practices of Knowing and Not-Knowing in Media

Chair: Klaus Sachs-Hombach (Tübingen)

Vanessa Ossa/ Lukas R.A. Wilde (Tübingen): Reassuring Knowledge and the Thrill of the Unknown
Lars Koch (Dresden): Unknown Knowns. Comments on the Relation between Danger, Perception and Imagination
Michael C. Frank (Düsseldorf): Threatening Messages. Terrorist Communication in Public Discourse, Media, and Film

17.00-17.15 Coffee Break

B – Emotions and Spaces of Action

17.15-19.00 Panel III: Too Much to Know? Knowledge and Emotions

Chair: Renate Dürr (Tübingen)

Daniel Menning (Tübingen): Emotions and Crashes. Stock trading in America around 1900
Susan J. Matt (Ogden): Neurastenia, Emotional Exhaustion, and the Problem of Too Much Knowledge in America
Joseph Ben Prestel (Berlin): Dangerous Excitement: Debates about Emotions in the Entertainment Districts of Berlin and Cairo, 1880-1910

19.30 Reception in the Stift’s Court

29.06.2018

09.00-10.45 Panel IV: The Power of Knowledge. Emotional and Humorous Practices in the Context of Protest

Chair: Monique Scheer (Tübingen)

Dr. Simon Teune (Berlin): Humor and Indignation in Visual Representations of the German Anti-Nuclear Movement
Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya (Loughborough): How to Win an Election by Throwing out the Handbook: Art, Humour, and Emotions in the 2015 Madrid and Barcelona Elections
Ernst Henning Hahn, M.A. (Tübingen): Humor (h) = Epistemic Content (ec) in Affective Politics (ap) of Protest (p): h=ec*ap/p

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-13.00 Panel V: Memory Places and Places of Forgetting

Chair: Astrid Franke

Dylan Trigg (Dublin): Deadmalls: A Phenomenological Foray
Deborah Toner (Leicester): Forgetting the Past, Locating lo mexicano: Pulque, Tequila and Mexico’s National Drink
Ferdinand Nyberg (Tübingen): King Alcohol: Warring Spirits in Early America

13.00-14.15 Lunch break

C – Empires and the Precariousness of Knowledge

14.15-16.00 Panel VI: Precarious Knowledge in the Carolingian Empire

Chair: Steffen Patzold (Tübingen)

Carine van Rhijn (Utrecht): Precarious Knowledge in Times of Reform: The Case of Pprognostics in the Carolingian Period
Warren Pezé (Paris-Créteil): Knowledge and Violence in the Reign of Charles the Bold (840-877)
Irene van Renswoude (Utrecht): Contested Knowledge. Negotiating Bans and Prohibitions

16.30-17.30 Tübingen Castle: University Collections: Topographies of Knowledge and Forgetting (Gabriele Alex, Tübingen/ Monique Scheer, Tübingen)

19 Uhr Conference Dinner Restaurant „Ludwig’s“

30.06.2018

09.00-10.45 Panel VII: Memoria and Anti-Memoria in Postcolonial and Postimperial Societies

Chair: Ewald Frie (Tübingen)

John Darwin (Oxford): Which Empire? Whose Empire? Remembering and forgetting Britain's imperial past
Katharina Schramm (Bayreuth): Of Layered Memories and Partial Truths: Addressing the History of Slavery in Postcolonial Ghana
Sebastian Koch (Tübingen): Biculturalism, Multiculturalism and Indigeneity as a Strategy of Memoria. Canada and Australia Definining Themselves in Times of Threatened Orders