What Do We Still Know? Knowing and Forgetting in Times of Threat

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What Do We Still Know? Knowing and Forgetting in Times of Threat

Veranstalter
Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Orders. Societies under Stress" at the University of Tuebingen / Sonderforschungsbereich 923 "Bedrohte Ordnungen" an der Universität Tübingen
Veranstaltungsort
Evangelisches Stift, Klosterberg 2, Großer Hörsaal
Ort
Tübingen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.06.2018 - 30.06.2018
Website
http://www.sfb923.uni-tuebingen.de
Von
Renate Dürr

In times of fake news and decreasing respect for scholarly knowledge all over the world, it is no coincidence that processes of forgetting and practices of non-knowledge have sparked the interest of historians of knowledge. New research discusses how forgetting can be seen as a way of dealing with the overflow of information and therefore become a catalyst for innovation. It can have therapeutic results and thus even influence one’s identity (personal or group identity). Finally, forgetting can also be an explicit practice by putting knowledge aside – in one corner of an archive, for instance. That’s why some have summarized this process by saying that next to the regimes of knowledge there are also regimes of ignorance.
At our conference, we would like to study the interference of these two regimes with each other. Some of the key questions will be concerned with the relation and mechanisms by which knowledge and memory are created and by which they are lost or even erased, about information flowing easily or instead impeded, twisted, falsified, never arriving in time, or simply not believed, on rumors and lies suddenly circulating widely while formerly trusted sources of knowledge are no longer trusted. All in all, this conference will emphasize contingency in life and history and will try to take failures, non-knowledge and forgetting seriously.

About us
At the Collaborative Research Centre 923 “Threatened Orders – Societies under Stress” at the University of Tübingen, we investigate how people and societies cope with crises, catastrophes, and other extreme situations. In 42 projects with a total of 80 individual studies to date, we have sought to answer the question of how social orders change when they are confronted with existential threats. In doing so, we have looked at cases from around the world and throughout history, from antiquity to today. We have also integrated work from a wide range of different disciplines, including: history, media studies, law, political science, ethnology, sociology, theology, multiple philologies, and anthropology. The Collaborative Research Centre was established in 2011 and is funded by the German Research Foundation.

Programm

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

Kontakt

SFB 923 "Bedrohte Ordnungen"
Prof. Dr. Renate Duerr
renate.duerr@uni-tuebingen.de

http://www.sfb923.uni-tuebingen.de