Thursday, 8th of June
19:00 Donnerstagskino with an introduction in German by Mario Schulze and Sarine Waltenspül
Drei Fadenspiel-Filme aus der Encyclopaedia Cinematographica, Institut für den wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen/Deutschland, von: Rudolf Haefelfinger, Basel/Schweiz, 1975, 13 min, stumm; Gerd Koch, Niutao/heute Tuvalu, 1963/65, 6 min, stumm; Christian Adler, Thule/Grönland, 1974/79, 9 min, stumm
Caroline Monnet: “Mobilize” CA, 2015, 3 min, ohne Sprache
Harry Smith: tba
Fabrizio Terranova: “Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival” BE/F/ES, 2016, Auszüge, Englisch
Friday, 9th of June
9:15 Short introduction by the organizers
9:30–12:30 Anthropology of String Figures
Éric Vandendriessche (Paris): “Ethnomathematics of String Figures”
Mareile Flitsch (Zürich): “Hesitant Hands on Similar Strings”
Coffee Break
Paul Basu (Bonn/London): “[Re:]Entanglements Nigerian String Figures”
Rainer Hatoum (Braunschweig): “Ajarorpoq and TseLtse’no – On the Trail of Franz Boas’s Cross-cultural Fascination with Cat’s Cradle”
Lunch
13:45–14:30 Philip Noble (Inverness): “History of International String Figures Association”
14:30–17:30 Film, Art and Knowledge
Rani Singh (New York): “From Buffalo Skin to Intertwined Snakes: The String Figures of Harry Smith”
Sarine Waltenspül (Luzern): “String Figures in the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica”
Coffee Break
Mario Schulze (Basel/Luzern): “String Figures Instead of Networks. Donna Haraway’s SF Method”
Ines Kleesattel (Basel/Zürich): “Witch’s Cradles”
Coffee Break
18:00–18:45 Dave Ket’acik Nicolai (Anchorage): “String Figure Performance”
19:30 Speakers‘ Dinner
Limited number of participants; please register by Tuesday 06.06., by phone: 044 634 90 11 or e-mail: musethno@vmz.uzh.ch.