Conference Programme
Thursday, 22th March
9:00-9:10
Welcome from the organizers
Empathic Connections (Chair: Simone Natale)
9:10-10:00
Melissa Littlefield, University of Illinois-Champaign, USA
“Electrical Potential: Mind Reading as Collaborative Action”
10:00-10:50
Michael Pettit, York University, Toronto, Canada
“Let's Talk about Sex: Deception and the Making of Sexological Subject”
Mind Reading Technologies (Chair: Christian Kassung)
11:10-12:00
Eberhard Bauer, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP), Freiburg, Germany
“‘Occult Technologies’ for ‘Mind Reading’: Hans Bender’s Experiments with the Scriptoscope”
12:00-12:50
Simone Natale, Loughborough University, UK
“Amazon Can Read Your Mind: A Media Archaeology of the Algorithmic Imaginary”
Psychical Connections and Paranormal Beliefs (Chair: Laurens Schlicht)
14:30-15:20
Michael Seelig, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
“Telepathy in German Parapsychology during the Weimar Republic”
15:20-16:10
Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, UK
“The Revival of Mind-Reading in the Psychical 70s”
Technology and Neuroscience (Chair: Tiago da Costa e Silva)
16:30-17:20
Kirsten Brukamp, Evangelische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany
“Mind Reading: From Psychology to Neuroscience, Ethical and Social Issues”
17:20-18:10
Anthony Enns, Dalhousie University, Canada
“Imaging the Mind: Photography, Neurology, and the Science of Brain Waves”
Friday, 23th March
Stage Magic and Anomalous Experiences (Chair: Simone Natale)
9:00-9:50
Gustav Kuhn and Christine Mohr, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
“Mind Reading in the Classroom: Uncovering the Emergence of Paranormal Beliefs Using Stage Magic”
Reading and Interpreting the Criminal Mind (Chair: Ehler Voss)
10:00-10:50
Laurens Schlicht, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
“Technologies of Truth”
10:50-11:40
Annette Mülberger, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Techniques of Mind Reading in Spanish Juridical Psychology (ca. 1900-1940)”
11:50-12:40
Christian Bachhiesl, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
“Reading the Criminal: Making Visible the Deviant Character in the Austrian School of Criminology”
Mind Reading, Totalitarianism and Political Control (Chair: Christian Kassung)
15:00-15:50
Yevhenii Monastyrski, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
“Alienation of the Mind: Early Soviet Show Trials as Method for Framing of Mass Consciousness”
15:50-16:40
Sophia Gräfe, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
“Knowing Men: Behavioural Knowledge and Medial Forms of Mimesis in the Former Ministry for State Security (Stasi)”
16:40-17:00 Final discussion