ÌÇÐÄTV

workshop in collabration with the Centre for the History and Medicine.

Day conference, convened by Dr Claudia Stein. Speakers include Sharifah Sekalala (University of ÌÇÐÄTV), Thomas Rath (UCL), Jonathan Toms (University of East Anglia), Timothy Hildebrandt (LSE).

Lunch, tea and coffee included. Please let us know if you would like to attend, and any dietary requirements.

Day conference, convened by Dr Claudia Stein. A joint CHM and GHCC event.

Speakers include Sharifah Sekalala (University of ÌÇÐÄTV), Thomas Rath (UCL), Jonathan Toms (University of East Anglia), Timothy Hildebrandt (LSE).

Free. Lunch, tea and coffee included. Please let the CHM or GHCC Coordinator know if you would like to attend, with any dietary requirements.

This is a free and open-to-all event! We have a full schedule ahead of us for Term 3. Check out the webpage for further details! Come along to the Writer's Room in Millburn House from 1:30-2:30 (unless specified on the webpage)!

International Conference

The Longing for Time:

Ästhetische Eigenzeit in Contemporary Film, Literature and Art

Konstanz, 15 – 17 May 2014

Organisers: Anne Fuchs (University of ÌÇÐÄTV) & Aleida Assmann (Konstanz University)

13.00‐14.00: Conference Registration and Coffee

14.00‐15.10: Aleida Assmann & Anne Fuchs: Opening

Session 1 (Chair: Aleida Assmann)

14.10‐14.50: Fritz Reheis (University of Bamberg):

“Breite oder punktförmige Gegenwart? Über Zeitvorstellungen bei Gumbrecht und Rosa”

14.50‐15.30: Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge):

“Stop, Look, and Listen? Art, Attentiveness, and Stretchy Time”

15.30‐15.50: Coffee break

(Chair: Anne Fuchs)

15.50‐16.30: Christer Petersen (University of Cottbus):

“Digitale Beschleunigung”

16.30‐17.10: Erica Carter, Ricarda Vidal (King’s College London) and Jenny

Chamarette (Queen Mary, London):

“Translation, Ekphrasis, Poiesis: Comments on Translation Games and Intermedial Time”

17.10‐17.50: Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz):

“Aus der Zeit gefallen – Gedanken zu Elfriede Jelineks Winterreise”

Session 2 (Chair: Dirk Göttsche)

9.30‐10.10: James Hodkinson (University of ÌÇÐÄTV):

“Slowing  the  Present:  Brian  Eno's  Sound  Installations  for  Art Galleries and Other Spaces”

10.10‐10.50: Elizabeth Boa (University of Nottingham):

“Musical and Poetic: Mirroring of Space/Time: Eliott Carter, Benjamin Black and Martin Crimp, Barbara Köhler”

10.50‐11.10: Coffee break

11.10‐11.50: Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge):

“Lifetimes: Digitality and Ontology in the Film Work of Christian Petzold”

11.50‐12.30:  J. J. Long (University of Durham):

“Taking Time: Photographers of Slowness”

Session 3 (Chair: Jonathan Long)

14.00‐14.40: Bernd Stiegler (University of Konstanz):

“Ein neuer Mensch, ein neues Sehen, eine neue Zeit. Der Nullpunkt der Geschichte in den Avantgarden”

14.40‐15.20: Beate Ochsner (University of Konstanz):

“'Viewser' oder 'internaute'? Zur Synchronisierung von Zuschauer- und Produktionszeit(en) in interaktiven Webdokumentationen“

15.20‐15.50: Coffee break

15.50‐16.30: Mary Cosgrove (University of Edinburgh):

“The Time of Sloth in Contemporary Cultural Representations”

16.30-17.10: Anne Fuchs (University of ÌÇÐÄTV):

“The Longing for Transcendence in Ulrich Seidl's Paradies: Glaube and Arnold Stadler's Salvatore”

17.30-18.30: Snacks Reception at the Bischofsvilla (Conference delegates only)

Session 4 (Chair: Helmut Schmitz)

9.30-10.10: Alexandra Pontzen (Universität Essen/Duisburg):

“Gedehntes Leid: Die peinigende Epiphanie in der deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur”

10.10-10.50: Karen Leeder (University of Oxford):

 “Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen: The Berlin Republic – A Time for Spectres”

10.50‐11.10: Coffee break

11.10-11.50: Silvia Mergenthal (University of Konstanz):

“Roads (Not) Taken: Time and Alternate History in Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life”

12.00‐12. 40: Silke Horstkotte (University of Leipzig):

“Die Zeit, die endet und das Ende der Zeit: Eschatologische Poetik und gegenwärtige Kultur”

Julia Douthwaite (University of Notre Dame) - In Defense of Positivism

Julia Douthwaite (University of Notre Dame)

In Defence of Positivism