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Lost in Things: Questioning Functions and Meanings of the Material World
28. - 29.11.2013
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
The conference "Lost in Things: Questioning Functions and Meanings of the Material World" will highlight processes of re-evaluation that emerge from the discovery and realization of additional properties of things. The contributions will examine objects, discussing how traces left by and through objects - as well as their interpretations - are not indicative of their usage only. Approaches include, but are not limited to, exploring questions of affect of objects, the felt presence of their absence or the ways shifts in semiotic contexts call into question the meanings of objects precisely because of the objects' materiality. Closer examination of entangled histories of specific objects is expected, also, to reveal conceptual problems and theoretical issues.
More information: http://www.lost-in-things.de
Programme
Thursday, 28th November 2013, PEG Building, Room 1.G 135 (1st Floor)
14.00 - 14:30: Hans Peter Hahn: Introduction
14.30 - 15:00: Patricia Spyer: A Night at the Museum in Maluku: Animacy, Materiality, Aesthetics
15:00 - 15.30: Arnica Keßeler: The Gender of Things. Is "Gender" a Concept for Humans only?
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30: Sebastian Schellhaas & Mario Schmidt: Money-Eaters and Things-Thinkers: about Luo Lost in Food and Anthropologists Lost in Materiality
16.30 - 17.00: Philipp W. Stockhammer: How Things Unsettle Us
17:00 - 17:30: Bjørnar Julius Olsen: Farewell to Meaning? Halldor's Dump Truck and the Fallacy of Interpretation
19:00 Dinner
Friday, 29th November 2013, IGF Building, Room 1.314 (Eisenhower Room)
9.00 - 9.30: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos: Incompatible (?). Exotic Seals in the Bronze Age Aegean and the Tension between Social Practice and Affordance
9.30 - 10.00: Jennifer M. Bagley: Tool, Prestigious Object, Magical Device - Following the Neolithic Stone Ax through Time and Space
10.00 - 10.30: Ludek Brož: Reminding Remainders: Indexes Fallen from Sky
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30: Alesya Krit: Redefining Temporality of Materiality: Renovating Decaying Houses in South-Eastern Spain
11.30 - 12.00: þóra Pétursdóttir: Ruin/ Ruination: the Aesthetics of Heritage
12.00 - 12.30: Federico Buccellati: The Problem of Architectural Continuity in a World of Change
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30: Jens Soentgen: Indigenous Rubber
14.30 - 15.00: Martin Holbraad: On Pragmatology: from Things to Concepts - or, Savage Thought again
15.00 - 16.00: Final Discussion
Conference Office
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Campus Westend
IGF Building, Room 555
Phone 0049 69 798-33072
Hans.hahn [ at ] em.uni-frankfurt.de
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