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Berlin
Figures and Perspectives on the Mass and the Individual in Capitalist Modernity (19th-21st century)
How is it possible to use the notion of mass without making it collapse into a complete condemnation of collective action or into an acritical celebration of the crowd? From there on, the relationship between mass and individual can be addressed in many fashions: Are there any specific ways for the mass to organize itself as a political subject? What are means whereby artworks represent and transform the linkage between mass and individual? What are the mutations undergone by the mass qua object of the social sciences? How does capitalist modernity affect the moral and psychic autonomy of individuals?
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Naumburg
Between Life and Existence. Nietzsche and French Existentialism
Our symposium therefore aims to close this research gap by including all relevant disciplines (philosophy, literary studies, history of ideas ...). Contributions can deal with biographical aspects of the subject (to what extent did the French existentialists really read Nietzsche?), comparisons of the respective philosophies, or with questions pertaining to the topicality of the theses and matters discussed. We endeavor to cover the travel and accommodation costs for the speakers, but cannot guarantee them at the present time.
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Berlin
The term “solidarity” seems to have fallen out of theoretical fashion despite the fact that it has a long history of describing the shared struggles of those oppressed by economic or political power structures. This conference aims to explore the past, present and future of “solidarity at work” on both the conceptual and empirical level. Its focus is on the world of work, which it wants to investigate from a transnational perspective. How have the concepts, conceptions and categories of solidarity shaped labor and the labor movements of different countries? What about the divergent conceptual meanings and practices in these assorted contexts? How have power relations as well as people’s everyday life been changed by the various practices related to solidarity? How do technological and managerial changes help to shift ideas and practices of solidarity? Do we see new forms emerging? Who are the agents of “solidarity at work” and what are the concrete mechanisms involved? More broadly, what are the levers and brakes of solidarity in the workplace today?
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Weimar
Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
Schalten und walten. Towards Operative Ontologies
IKKM Biennial Conference 2019
The conference will conclude the IKKM six-year research program on ‘Operative Ontologies’. A term seeming contradictory at first, it assumes that everything that exists is not simply present or given but has been called into being through media and their operations in the most general sense: The ruling (das Walten) of nature as well as the ruling of the social reside under the command of technology, which as increasingly digitized technology is based on switching operations (das Schalten) — e.g. the achievements of bioengineering or the computational models of planet Earth. When embodied operations establish ontological orders and the difference between the ontic and the ontological thus re-enters the ontic, this demands a radical remodeling of ontology. The IKKM Biennial Conference 2019 therefore investigates the given with regard to the procedures through which it has been made possible, produced, set up, brought into the world and called into being — “switched on” — in the first place.
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - Thought
En France comme en Allemagne, la réception de la pensée d’Adorno semble actuellement renouvelée. La notion de non-identité, dont les significations sont encore loin d’être épuisées, sont plus particulièrement au centre de l’intérêt pour la pensée du théoricien critique. Elle est de plus en plus invoquée à la faveur de la montée en puissance des « identitaires » en Europe et plus généralement de l’inflation sémantique du vocabulaire de l’identité au sein d’un spectre politique très large. À partir de ce constat d'ordre politique, le Junges Forum propose d’interroger les ressources de la notion de non-identité tout comme ses possibles mobilisations sur des terrains multiples et interdisciplinaires.
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Göttingen
Difference, diversity, diffraction: confronting hegemonies and dispossessions
10th European Feminist Research Conference
The overall theme of the conference is “Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions”, which refers to a topic central to Gender Studies: the social construction of difference and inequality on the one hand, and the recognition of marginalised experiences and subject positions on the other. In the face of growing right-wing populist movements, anti-feminist and anti-queer backlash, forced migration, austerity and climate change, these concerns take on renewed relevance. The subtitle “Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions” is a call to reflect on, challenge and defy the hierarchies, subjugations and deprivations that are linked to structural differentiations and to find affirmative ways of dealing with difference , diversity and diffraction. The conference is committed to promoting a feminist anti-racist accessible space for all genders.
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Berlin
Call for papers - Political studies
Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis
This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
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Berlin
Call for papers - Political studies
The challenge of afterwards - the postdoc phase in France and Germany
La phase postdoctorale en France et en Allemagne
La soutenance d’une thèse de doctorat marque la fin d’un cycle et la reconnaissance de ses pairs. Mais elle ouvre dans le même temps une phase d’incertitudes et d’inquiétudes légitimes sur son avenir professionnel à court, moyen et long terme. Quel que soit le système universitaire dans lequel on a fait sa thèse, les jeunes chercheurs.es partagent de part et d’autre du Rhin un certain nombre de questions, de doutes et d’angoisses, qui portent tant sur les aspects institutionnels que sur les choix très concrets à faire : doit-on privilégier la carte de l’internationalisation de son parcours ? Comment arriver à construire un nouveau sujet de recherche ? Quelles sont les possibilités structurelles qui s’offrent en France, en Allemagne ou ailleurs ?
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Dresden
Conference, symposium - Thought
Vom Wesen der Kunst im Zeitalter des Museums
...so iſt der Geiſt des Schicksals, der uns jene Kunſtwerke darbietet, mehr als das sittliche Leben und Wirklichkeit jenes Volkes, denn er iſt die Erinnerung des in ihnen noch veräuſſerten Geiſtes, — er iſt der Geiſt des tragischen Schicksals, das alle jene individuelle Götter und Attribute der Subſtanz in das Eine Pantheon versammelt, in den seiner als Geiſt selbſtbewuſsten Geiſt.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1807
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Weimar
Summer School - Representation
Challenges of Media Anthropology
Princeton-Weimar summer school for media studies
The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies – a collaboration between Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (IKKM) and Princeton University (German Department) – returns to Weimar in 2017 for its seventh installment. The Summer 2017 session will take place in Weimar, Germany, from June 10-17, 2017 and is entitled “Challenges of Media Anthropology”.
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Münster
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"
The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1st 2015, is offering four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20th 2016.
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Potsdam
Mensch und Gesellschaft zwischen Natur und Geschichte
Zum Verhältnis von Philosophischer Anthropologie und Kritischer Theorie
Das Tagungsprojekt versteht sich als ein Versuch, zwei zentrale Traditionen der deutschsprachigen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts in ein Gespräch miteinander zu setzen: Zur Disposition steht der (ebenso auf Differenzen wie auf Komplementaritäten abhebende) Austausch zwischen der maßgeblich durch Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno geprägten „Kritischen Theorie“ und der „Philosophischen Anthropologie“ in Gestalt der Entwürfe Max Schelers, Helmuth Plessners und (zeitversetzt) Arnold Gehlens.
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Mannheim
Falls, breaks and philosophy: the novels of Jérôme Ferrari
Avec six romans et un recueil de nouvelles à son actif, l’auteur Jérôme Ferrari qui prépare la sortie de son septième roman, Le principe, en mars 2015, est devenu une présence incontournable de la littérature française contemporaine. Si Ferrari a pu être considéré, encore en 2009 lors de la remise du prix Landerneau pour son roman Un Dieu un animal, comme « un nouveau talent à encourager » (Michel-Édouard Leclerc), il a gravi à toute allure les échelons de la renommée littéraire : depuis 2012, lorsque Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome a été couronné par le prestigieux prix Goncourt, Jérôme Ferrari est connu du grand public.
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Berlin
Conference, symposium - Thought
Bodies and minds in the Middle Ages: literature, philosophy, medicine
Corps et esprit, ce binôme controversé à la racine même de notre conception de l’être humain a également joué un rôle central au Moyen Âge – car il est au cœur du discours théologique, philosophique, littéraire et médical de l’époque. C’est donc un sujet qui demande une approche interdisciplinaire, semblable au discours culturel médiéval, où les intellectuels avaient des compétences croisées et où les frontières des savoirs étaient bien plus perméables qu’aujourd’hui. Ce couple de concepts - corps et esprit - permettra d’aborder dans le colloque de Berlin d’autres thèmes importants et très présents dans les textes et la culture de la période médiévale, notamment la maladie d’amour, les relations entre les cinqsens, la mémoire, l’imagination et le rôle des passions et des émotions.
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Saarbrücken
Au quotidien, le terme d’échange est souvent employé dans de très différents contextes (échanges d’idées, échange de marchandises, échanges commerciaux, etc.). Ce terme récurrent, s'il semble familier au premier abord, se distingue par son caractère vague et générique. Son emploi dans différents domaines constitue à la fois sa force et sa faiblesse. Dans une certaine mesure, ses caractéristiques en font un objet d´étude interdisciplinaire particulièrement intéressant : A quoi pense-t-on lorsque l´on parle d’échange ? Comment se manifeste-t-il concrètement et où ses spécificités se situent-elles ? Y a-t-il une définition générale de l’échange ou existe-t-il des aspects qui ne se laissent pas réduire à un dénominateur commun ? C´est à cette problématique et aux questionnements qui en découlent qu´est dédié cet atelier interdisciplinaire de recherche franco-allemand.
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Duesseldorf
Dynamis of the image: the archaeology of possibles
The project Dynamis of the image aims at exploring the power of images in the contemporary globalized world by focusing not on the image’s referential functions, but on its performative forces. By asking by what means images generate affects, produce events or sometimes even provoke wars, the project critically reflects on the traditionally dominant Western paradigm of image thinking which has customarily reduced images to mere signifiers or inanimate objects. On the other hand, the project points toward a more encompassing perspective on images by including non-Western, premodern oder anthropological frameworks where the image has been reflected upon not in terms of its ontology, but in terms of its efficacy.
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Duesseldorf
Conference, symposium - Thought
You were not expected to do this
On the Dynamics of Production (Distraction/Interference – Resistance/Accident)
The interdisciplinary and international conference "You were not expected to do this". On the Dynamics of Production focuses on the production processes and the interplay between notions of distraction and interference as well as their traces in different media objects. The conference program includes presentations on various topics connected to the research subject, including discussions on the role of distraction in the artistic production processes, the resistance of the material and the difficulties of tracing the dynamics of production in general. The conference is organized by members of the Post Graduate Program "Materiality and Production" (RTG 1678) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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Tübingen
How much agreement does the society need?
Observations on the interaction of consent and dissent in society's cultural evolution
Section of the 14th Congress of the German Society of Semiotics at the University of Tübingen, 24th to 27th September 2014.
For the 14th International Congress of the German Society of Semiotics, we are looking for speakers on the issue of social consent and dissent for our sociologically – and culturally – oriented section: How much agreement does a society need? It is concerned with a semiotic discussion about conflict-laden forms of communication, i.e. about the positioned dimension of signs of consent and dissent in the process of socialization within a society or between societies of different cultures.
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Berlin
Lecture series - Political studies
Veranstaltungsreihe des Projekts „Symbolik der Demokratie“
Veranstaltungen des Projekts „Symbolik der Demokratie“
Das Projekt fragt nach der grundsätzlichen Bedeutung der symbolischen Repräsentation für die Konstitution des politischen Imaginären und nach den Veränderungen ihrer Modulierung und Strukturen angesichts der aktuellen massenmedialen Bedingungen. Im Rahmen dieses Projektes findet im WS 2013/14 eine Veranstaltungsreihe zu diesem Thema statt.
Alle Vertreter der Politikwissenschaften und benachbarter Disziplinen wie der Philosophie, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften sind dazu herzlich eingeladen, um über zentrale Anliegen symbolischer Repräsentation in modernen Demokratien nachzudenken.
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Berlin
Call for papers - Representation
Le colloque « Art contemporain et marges » interroge le rôle des marges dans les définitions de l'art contemporain, et notamment dans celles qu’élaborent ses acteurs. Il s’agira de comprendre les marges et la marginalité dans le champ de l’art selon leur caractère double : comme prise de position programmatique ou comme situation imposée. La réflexion sur la marginalité est-elle à même de mettre en lumière des traits spécifiques à l’art contemporain ? Cette problématique sera abordée dans une perspective interdisciplinaire – croisant les champs de la sociologie, de la philosophie, de la géographie et de l'histoire de l'art – et internationale.
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