18. Oktober 2023

15:00 Begrüßung und Einleitung: Karin Harrasser und Heike Paul

>> Intricate Beginnings and Fuzzy Lineages

15:30 Julia Boog-Kaminsky: Verschlungene Ursprünge. Kronos, Ödipus, Max und Moritz
17:00 Bernhard Jussen: Mess and Abstraction. »Beginnings« for Genealogical Perspectives on Civic Society
18:00 Silvia Ferrera: The Messiest Beginning of All. How Humans Invented Writing

19. Oktober 2023

>> Coloniality and Deferred Beginnings

9:00 Peter Maurits: Beginning with no End in Sight. Temporality and Everyday Debt in the African Postcolony
10:00 Karin Harrasser: Contraescape. Postconflict-Labor in War Times
11:30 Gesa Mackenthun: Messy Seeds. Colonial Narratives of »Prehistorical« Planting

>> Beginning as Transculturation

14:30 Heike Paul: A Colony, Lost and Found. American Beginnings Revisited
15:30 Avishek Ray: India as the Home(land) of the Romanies. The Originary Connection Reconsidered

>> Means and Muddles. Groundless Foundations

17:00 Alexis Shotwell: »All we have is means«. Constituting Beginnings from the Middle of the Mess
18:00 Andreas Gehrlach: Conquering Mess, Especially Sumpf

20. Oktober 2023

>> The Art of Beginning

9:00 Käthe Wenzel: Künstlerisches Anfangen als mentaler Salto
10:00 Andreas Beyer und Karin Harrasser: Vom Zaudern. Zur Kunstpraxis von Michael Krebber
11:30 Stefanie Diekmann: Messy Entrances, Messy Exits. The Impossibility of Acting in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead