We are pleased to announce the first conference of the research network Negotiating (In)Visibilities.
Please register by 15 January 2012 by sending an email to [log in to unmask]
Venue: Carlsberg Academy, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby, Denmark
9.15-9.30 Welcoming address
9.30-10.30 Keynote address:
Andrew Webber, German Department, University of Cambridge: "Spectral viewing: Berlin on film in Petzold's 'Gespenster' ('Ghosts' 2005))"
10.30-11 Coffee break
11-12.30 Paper session I:
Devika Sharma, Department of Arts & Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen: “On the Contours of Torture”
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, Stockholm School of Theology: “Seeing as a phenomenon: categorization, surveillance and open horizons”
Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel, ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE, Zürich and Department of Arts & Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen: "Visible in Theory – On Glass Facades and the Paradigm of Perceived Visibility”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Keynote address:
David Murakami Wood, Department of Sociology, Queen's University: “Vanishing Surveillance: on seeing and not seeing what is watching”
15-18 Excursion: Vestre Fængsel – Denmark’s largest prison. (Limited capacity, further details will follow shortly.)
19- Dinner
11-12.30 Paper session II:
Annie Ring, German Department, University of Cambridge: “The marketplace and the peep-show: critical spectatorship in Wolfgang Hilbig’s Das Provisorium and Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher”
Anders Albrechtslund, Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University: “Participatory surveillance and social media”
Svava Riesto, Forest & Landscape, University of Copenhagen: “Searching for the unseen - a walk through the former Carlsberg breweries ”
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Keynote address:
Lorens Holm, Geddes Institute for Urban & Rural Research, University of Dundee: ”The ineffable space of modernism”
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.30 Paper session III:
Marie Glaser, ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE, Zürich: "House Biographies - stories from the urban home"
Jens Brandt, Supertanker: “Urban Mapping - stories in and about urban space”
Mark Vacher, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen: "From Space of Production to Production of Space - an analysis of decay and revival of an old factory site“
16.30 Wine reception