Session A – Debates and Rhetorics
28.06.2018
10.00 Renate Dürr (Tübingen): Introduction
10.30-12.00 Keynote I – Anthony Grafton (Princeton): Philology and Divination in Early Modern Scholarship
13.00-14.45 Panel I: Dealing with (Un-)Certainties: Religious Debates in Late Antiquity
Susanna Elm (Berkeley): Miracles as Evidence in the Writings of Julian the Emperor and his Opponents
Lisa Neumann (Tübingen): Apollonius of Tyana, the Ignorant Omniscient: Eusebius‘ and Sossianus Hierocles‘ „Interpretative Dispute in the context of the Conflict between Christian and Platonist Orders
Lucia Maddalena Tissi (Paris): Porphyry, Steuchus and the Journey of Oracles through Symphony and Conflict
15.15-17.00 Panel II: “Known and Unknown Unknowns” / Practices of Knowing and Not-Knowing in Media
Vanessa Ossa/ Lukas R.A. Wilde (Tübingen): Reassuring Knowledge and the Thrill of the Unknown
Lars Koch (Dresden): Unknown Knowns. Comments on the Relation between Danger, Perception and Imagination
Michael C. Frank (Düsseldorf): Threatening Messages. Terrorist Communication in Public Discourse, Media, and Film
Session B – Emotions and Spaces of Action
17.15-19.00 Panel III: Too Much To Know? Knowledge and Emotions
Daniel Menning (Tübingen): Emotions and Crashes. Stock Trading in America around 1900
Susan J. Matt (Ogden): Neurastenia, Emotional Exhaustion, and the Problem of Too Much Knowledge in America
Joseph Ben Prestel (Berlin): Dangerous Excitement: Debates about Emotions in the Entertainment Districts of Berlin and Cairo, 1880- 1910
29.06.2018
09.00-10.45 Panel IV: The Power of Knowledge. Emotional and Humorous Practices in the Context of Protest
Simon Teune (Berlin): Humor and Indignation in Visual Representations of the German Anti-Nuclear Movement
Cristina Flesher Fominaya (Loughborough): How to Win an Election by Throwing out the Handbook: Art, Humour, and Emotions in the 2015 Madrid and Barcelona Elections
Ernst Henning Hahn (Tübingen): Humor (h) = Epistemic Content (ec) in Affective Politics (ap) of Protest (p): h=ec*ap/p
11.15-13.00 Panel V: Memory Places and Places of Forgetting
Dylan Trigg (Vienna): Deadmalls: a Phenomenological Foray Deborah Toner (Leicester): Forgetting the Past, Locating lo mexicano: Pulque, Tequila and Mexico’s National Drink
Ferdinand Nyberg (Tübingen): King Alcohol: Warring Spirits in Early America
Session C – Empires and the Precariousness of Knowledge
14.15-16.00 Panel VI: Precarious Knowledge in the Carolingian Empire
Carine van Rhijn (Utrecht): Precarious Knowledge in Times of Reform: The Case of Prognostics in the Carolingian Period
Warren Pezé (Paris-Créteil): Knowledge and Violence in the Reign of Charles the Bald (840-877)
Irene van Renswoude (Utrecht): Contested Knowledge. Negotiating Bans and Prohibitions
16.30-17.30 – Tübingen Castle
University Collections: Topographies of Knowledge and Forgetting – Gabriele Alex/ Monique Scheer (Tübingen)
30.06.2018
09.00-10.45 Panel VII: Memoria and Anti-Memoria in Postcolonial and Postimperial Societies
John Darwin (Oxford): Which Empire? Whose Empire? Remembering and Forgetting Britain‘s Imperial Past
Katharina Schramm (Bayreuth): Of Layered Memories and Partial Truths: Addressing the History of Slavery in Postcolonial Ghana
Sebastian Koch (Tübingen): Biculturalism, Multiculturalism and Indigeneity as a Strategy of Memoria. Canada and Australia Definining Themselves in Times of Threatened Orders
11.15-12.45 Keynote II – Martin Mulsow (Erfurt): Global Encounters – Precarious Knowledge: Traces of Alchemy in Batavia
13.30-14.30
Mischa Meier (Tübingen): Comment & Discussion