Tuesday, September 10th, 2019

REGISTRATION

WORDS OF WELCOME
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
Hans-Jochen Schiewer, German U15, Germany

SESSION 1: ANALYSIS OF THE PRESENT SITUATION (CHAIR: Hans-Jochen Schiewer, German U15, Germany)

Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center, USA: The Humanities Between Neoliberalism and Religious/Political Fundamentalism

Roundtable: Humanities/Geisteswissenschaften/Sciences Humaines: To What Extent Will Their Perspective Differ in the Future?
Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center, USA
Marie-Christine Fontana, enconcept, Switzerland
Joseph Chinyong Liow, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Techno logical University, Singapore
Luiz Oosterbeek, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal, and International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (UNESCO)

SESSION 2: THE HUMANITIES FACING GLOBALIZATION AND THE RISE OF NEW AUTHORITARIANISM (CHAIR: Günter M. Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Premesh Lalu, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa: The Humanities in the Era of Postcolonialism – Objects and Discourse

Stefan Helgesson, The World Literature Project, Stockholm, Sweden: The Importance of "Language" in the Humanities

Ian Baucom, Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, USA: Saving Democracy or Fostering Populism? The Humanities and the Identity of Societies

Bernhard Jussen, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Post-Eurocentric Humanities

LIGHTNING TALKS BY EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS (CHAIR: Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany)

POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

SESSION 3: HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL ERA (CHAIR: Birgitta Wolff, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

Short Statements (10 min) and Discussion

Digitization and Digitalization in the Humanities – A Paradigm Shift?
Eva Schlotheuber, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Martin Rohrmeier, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

The End of Individualism: Can the Humanist Scholar Survive in the Digital Era?
Steffen Mau, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Martha Nell Smith, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, USA

The Humanities and their New Topics – A New Notion of Culture
Saadi Lahlou, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Simon Goldhill, Center for Research in Art, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, United Kingdom

The Humanities without Books on Paper?
Michael Hagner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

SESSION 4: CHALLENGES FOR AND ADVANCES OF THE HUMANITIES: 4 PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS

Working Group 1: The Humanities and its Evaluation: Reputation vs Bibliometrics
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Department of History, Columbia University, USA
Gunnar Sivertsen, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway

Working Group 2: The Humanities at the Universities of the Future – How to Stress their Intrinsic Value?
Ulrike Beisiegel, University of Göttingen, Germany
Birgitta Wolff, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Working Group 3: Critique, Self-Reflection and Civic Engagement – An Important Task for the Humanities?
Susan Schreibman, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Dan O’Brien, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Working Group 4: The Humanities and the Arts – Relations and Interactions
Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore
Beate Söntgen, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

POSTER SESSION

SESSION 5: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN DIFFERENT RESEARCH CULTURES – HUMANITIES AND THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (CHAIR: Dieter Lenzen, Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Winfried Menninghaus, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
Barry Smith, University of London, United Kingdom
Sverker Sörlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University, The Netherlands
Hsiung Ping-Chen, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China

 
Thursday, September 12th, 2019

SESSION 6: THE HUMANITIES' CONTRIBUTION TO MEETING CHALLENGES OF A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (CHAIR: Georg Krausch, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)

Short Statements and Panel Discussion

Gustaf Arrhenius, Institute for Futures Studies, and Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stock-holm University, Sweden
Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research & University of Bremen, Germany
Frank Uekötter, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany

POSTER SESSION

SESSION 7: RESULTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS AND DEFINING THE AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANI-TIES IN THE 2020S (CHAIR: Wilhelm Krull, VolkswagenStiftung, Germany)

Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA
Sabine Kunst, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Hans-Jochen Schiewer, German U15, Germany
Susan Schreibman, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Beate Söntgen, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
NN, representative of the early career researchers

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