Wednesday, October 7, 2015
17:30
Welcome
17:45
Keynote Speech
Scaling and Multi-Sited Research by George Marcus (UCI)
Thursday, October 8, 2015
09:30
Morning Session I
National, Local and Global Scales in the Study of Modern East Asia
11:30
Morning Session II
“Global" vs. "Local" Scales: A Misleading Distinction?
14:00
Afternoon Session I
Zooming in and out: Scale and Literary Strategies of Focalization in a Transcultural Perspective
Whose Election Is It Anyway? Demarcating Electoral Fields
Reading Machine: :Machine Reading - From World to Text and Back
16:00
Afternoon Session II
Measuring Melancholic Minds: Competing Paradigms of the Normal and the Pathological
Megachurches: Scales of Observation and Knowledge Production
Inside and Outside Ancient Times: A Modern View on Ancient Cultures?
Friday, October 9, 2015
09:30
Morning Session III
Scales of Environmental Knowledge I: Technologies, Representations and Power
11:30
Morning Session IV
Scales of Environmental Knowledge II: Waterscapes and Their Boundaries
13:30
Afternoon Session III
Scales of Observation and History of Science
The Bodies of Women, the Letters of Men: Explaining Reproduction in Ancient Mesopotamia, Medieval England, and Medieval Japan
Balancing the Scales: Digital Humanities Tools for Research and Teaching
15:30
Concluding Round Table