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From: Juergen Barkhoff <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to an upcoming interdisciplinary Cultural
Studies conference on
"Networks. Aesthetics and Technologies of Networking 1800 - 1900 - 2000"
in Dublin from Thursday, 31 October to Sunday, 3 November 2002
The conference is jointly organised by the Kulturwissenschaftliche Seminar of
the Humboldt-University in Berlin, the Department of Germanic Studies at
Trinity College Dublin and the German Department at University College
Dublin.
At the threshold to the twenty-first century, certain developments in society
and advances in technology suggest that networks warrant serious
consideration as dominant models of symbolisation and as organisational
models for experience, knowledge, aesthetics and communication. While
these developments have gathered momentum and become particularly
visible under the auspices of a digitalisation of perception around 2000, the
network structures themselves are far from being recent developments. On
the contrary, they have a particular historical genesis, whether technological,
sociological, cultural, philosophical or aesthetic. The conference will give
particular attention to the aesthetic history of networks.
Cultural studies and those branches of literary study concerned with the
history of aesthetics are faced with the challenge of tracing the historical
developments of networks. That entails accounting for convergences,
evaluating these manifestations over time and explaining the way in which
convergences determine specific understandings of the individual phenomena
within the historical present. The network will therefore be studied in this
conference as a guiding metaphor, a principle of structuration underlying
seemingly discrete areas of disciplinary specialisation and divergent notions
of cultural and societal development. It is our objective to examine these
particular convergences - the areas of common ground in relation to each
other - and to provide a critical analysis of their effects within society today.
Tagungsprogramm
Donnerstag, 31. Oktober, Newman House, UCD
13.00 Anmeldung
14.00 Begrüßung, Hartmut Böhme (Berlin): Einführung
15.00 Hartmut Winkler (Paderborn): Tauschen, Austauschen,
Kommunizieren. Netzbildung in Ökonomie und Medien
16.00 Kaffee
16.30 Bernhard Siegert (Weimar): Currents and Currency. Electricity,
Economy, and Literature around 1800
17.30 Joseph Vogl (Weimar): 1797 - die Bank von England
19.00 Weinempfang
Freitag, 1. November, Newman House, UCD
9.30 Jürgen Barkhoff (TCD): Die Anwesenheit des Abwesenden im Netz
10.30 Irmela Marei Krüger-Führhoff (Greifswald): Vernetzte Körper. Zur
literarischen Metaphorik der Transplantationsmedizin
11.30 Kaffee
12.00 Britta Herrmann (Bayreuth): Monströse Verbindungen:
Experimentelle Wissenschaft und poetische Kombination um 1800
13.00 Mittag
14.30 Christian Emden (Cambridge): Brains, Telegraphs, Cities.
Epistemic Constellations around 1900
15.30 Gilbert Carr (TCD): Ein "Heiratsbureau der Gedanken" in der Wiener
Jahrhundertwende. Zum "kulturpolitischen" Versuch Robert Scheus um 1900
16.30 Kaffee
17.00 Jeanne Riou (UCD): Vernetzte Wahrnehmungen, getrennte Welten?
Mach, Bergson, Husserl
18.15 Commons Dinner (TCD)
Samstag, 2. November, Henry James Room, TCD
9.30 Olaf Briese (Berlin): Der zweidimensionale Mensch. Zum Status von
crosswords
10.30 Susanne Hauser (Kassel): Netz und Labyrinth. Orientierung über die
Stadt
11.30 Kaffee
12.00 Hugh Ridley (UCD): Literatur im Netz: zwei Momentaufnahmen 1900
und 2000
13.00 Mittag
14.30 Daniel Steuer (Sussex): Networks of the Spirit: The Quest for a
Science of Psychoautobiography
15.30 Caítríona NíDhubhgaill (TCD): Network - Rhizome - Banyan Tree.
Complications of root and rootedness in Kafka and Joyce
16.30 Kaffee
17.00 Caitriona Leahy (TCD): Grounding the Network (Heidegger,
Bachmann)
20.30 Conference Dinner
Sonntag, 3. November, Henry James Room, TCD
9.30 Anne Fuchs (UCD): “Schmerzenssspuren der Geschichte". The
Landscape of Memory in W. G. Sebald
10.30 Mary Cosgrove (UCD): Erinnerung und Netzwerk in Wolfgang
Hildesheimers "Tynset"
11.30 Kaffee
12.00 Stefan Münker (Berlin): Identität als Netzeffekt. Zur
Konstitution des modernen Selbst als Prozeß virtueller
Welterschließung
13.00 Peter Matussek (Siegen): Without Adresses. Anti-Topologie als
Gestus von Netzkunst
14.00 Abschluss und Abreise
The organisers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of their own
departments and institutions, the Goethe Institute Dublin and the Humanities
Institute of Ireland.
The conference fee is 30 Euro, including coffee.
The concessionary fee for students/postgraduates is 15 Euro, including
coffee.
If you would like to get more information or attend please get in touch with
one of the Dublin organisers:
Dr Jürgen Barkhoff, Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin,
University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Tel.: 00353-1-608 1210, e-mail:
[log in to unmask] or Dr Jeanne Riou, German Department,
University College Dublin, National University of Dublin, Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland Tel. 00353-1-716-8526, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
We look forward to welcoming you to our networks conference in Dublin!
The organisers,
Jürgen Barkhoff (Dublin), Hartmut Böhme (Berlin), Jeanne Riou (Dublin)
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Dr. Juergen Barkhoff, M.A., F.T.C.D.
Director of the Centre for European Studies
Lecturer in German
University of Dublin
Trinity College
Department of Germanic Studies
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel. +353-1-608 1210 (Department of Germanic Studies)
Fax: +353-1-608 3762 (Department of Germanic Studies)
Tel. +353-1-608 1808 (Centre for European Studies)
Fax: +353-1-608 2603 (Centre for European Studies)
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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