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)
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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
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Keynote II: Martin Mulsow (Erfurt): Global Encounters – Precarious Knowledge: Traces of Alchemy in Batavia
Chair: Klaus Ridder (Tübingen)
12.45-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.30 Mischa Meier (Tübingen): Comment and Discussion