Thursday, July 4th 2013
14:00-14:30 Opening & Welcoming Addresses
Achim von Oppen and Susan Arndt, Directors
Ministerialdirigent Dietrich Nelle, BMBF, Bonn
Stefan Leible, President of the University of Bayreuth
Brigitte Merk-Erbe, Mayor of the City of Bayreuth
Gloria Wekker, Member of the Academic Advisory Board, Utrecht

14:30-17:30 Two Keynote Lectures:
“Knowing the Future”
14:30-15:45 Ottmar Ette (Potsdam): The Prospective Power of Literature (Chair: Susan Arndt)
16:15-17:30 Elísio Macamo (Basel): Accommodating Time. Confidence and Trust in African everyday Life (Chair: Achim von Oppen)

17:30-19:15 Talk & Images: Henriette Gunkel (Bayreuth), Sam Hopkins & Jim Chuchu (Nairobi): What happened to the Future? Imaginations of Time and Space within the Audio/Visual (Chair: Ulf Vierke)

19:15 - 10:00 Reception
20:00 - 21: 00 Spoken Word Performance with New Night Babies, followed by DJ Jim Chuchu

Friday, July 5th, 2013

09:00 - 11:00 Two Keynote Lectures:
“Future in Time”
09:00 - 10:00 Dirk Wiemann (Potsdam): What does Time have to do with History? Fictional Representations of Allochronism (Chair: Georg Klute)
10.00 - 11:00 Kara Lynch (Amherst, NH): Invisible – a Retro/Future Exploration (Chair: Erdmute Alber)

11:15 - 12:45 Panel: “Future and Time in Technology and Ecology Research” (Chair: Detlef Müller-Mahn)
Petra Schaper-Rinkel (Vienna): Exploring the Future: A European Perspective on Anticipatory Practices, Emerging Technologies and Technopolitics
Andreas Jess (Bayreuth): Global Energy Supply and Demand – Predictions and Visions
Michael Hauhs (Bayreuth): Concepts of Time as Mediators in Science: African Natures from a Modelling Perspective

14:00 - 16:00 Two Keynote Lectures:
“Expressing 'Future' in Music and Language”
14:00-15:00 Greg Tate (Providence, RI): The Futurism of Juju
(Chair: Peggy Piesche)
15:00 - 16:00 V. Y. Mudimbe (Durham, NC): 'Singular.‘ On African Practices of Human Sciences (Chair: Doris Löhr)

16:30 - 17:30 Talk & Vision: Ingrid LaFleur (Detroit) & Storm Janse Van Rensburg (Bayreuth): Curating Failed Utopias & Past Futures: Curators’ Talk, Supported by Visuals of Selected Artworks
(Chair: Katharina Fink & Nadine Siegert)

17:45 - 19:45 Panel: “Global Concepts of Time and Future in Southern Perspectives” (Chair: Dieter Neubert)

James L. Cox (Edinburgh): The Concept of Time as Seen through Ancestral Traditions
Evelyn Wladarsch (Heidelberg): Time and Future in Health
Emma Hunter (Cambridge): Concepts of Progress in Late Colonial East Africa
Florian Stoll (Bayreuth): Social Milieus and their Use of Time in Recife, Brazil. A Transfer of Bourdieu ́s Sociology to a Specific Context in the Global South

20:00 - 21:30 Conversation & Sound:
Greg Tate (Providence, RI) & Carla Müller-Schulzke (Berlin):
The Sounds of Afrofuturism (Chair: Stefanie Alisch)

Saturday, July 6th, 2013

09:00-11:00 Two Keynote Lectures: “Localising the Future: The Cultural Imagination”
09:00 - 10:00 Jeanne Cortiel (Bayreuth): Future Technologies and Risk in American Popular Culture (Chair: Lena Kroeker)
10:00 - 11:00 Joao Paulo Borges Coelho (Maputo): Cidade de Espelhos: Fiction Writing, Mirrors and the Future (Chair: Ute Fendler)

11:15-12:45 Panel: “(Fictional) Representations of Future" (Chair: Gerd Ulrich Bauer)
Sidney Kasfir (Atlanta, GA): Contemporaneity in African Art as a Dual Problem of Past and Future, Socially Embed- ded in Time and Space
Fadi Saleh (Bayreuth): Exiled into Cyberspace. Egypt’s Gender, Sexual, and Ethnic Minorities and the Construction of the Internet as a Diasporic Space
Anne Adams (Ithaca, NY): Afropolitanism: A 21st Century Diaspora? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s America- nah and Taiye Selasi‘s Ghana Must Go

13:30 - 15:00 Concluding Discussion (Chair: Susan Arndt & Achim von Oppen)