Wednesday, March 28

08.30 – 09.00 Registration and Coffee 09.00 – 09.30 Welcome by organisers and introduction by Prof. Mieke Bal 09.30 – 10.45 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Derek Attridge, Knowing Works of Art 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 13.00 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body Sense Through the Senses Aino Rinhaug, A Body of Perfect (Non)sense – Fernando Pessoa’s Theory of ‘Sensationism’ Olivier Wathelet, Making Sense of the Mundane: Smells also are Cognitive Events Pieter Verstraete, An Ear obstinate to Knowing (or An Ear determined to know): Aural Bliss and Affect in Lod's The Attendants' Gallery - Stories of Europe Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Philosophies Travelling across Cultures Jatin Wagle, The Untranslatability of Adorno: Exile, Alterity and Non-Identity. Silja Graupe, Thinking ‘beyond’ Western Science: Modern Japanese Philosophy in Search of a New Site for Knowledge Daniel Raveh, Knowledge as a Way of Living: Rethinking Sankara’s Notion of Jnana-nistha Ning Du, Archaeology Revisited: A Re-evaluation of Foucault’s Idea of Discursive Dispersion Producing/ Resisting Knowledge The Others of Knowledge Adair Rounthwaite, Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other as a Tool for Approaching Feminine Submissive Subjectivation Maria Boletsi, Barbarism as a Mode of (not) Knowing Doro Wiese, In Chronotopia - A New Optics for Reading Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Representing Life Stories, Constructing Biographies Eneken Laanes, Confessional Narrative: Resisting Knowledge, Re-imagining Subjectivity Jannah Loontjens, Resisting the Author: JT Leroy's Fictional Authorship Sophie Moiroux, Encounter of Perspectives: Art Producing Knowledge in the Work of Jimmie Durham 13.00 – 14.30 14.30 – 16.30 Lunch Break 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body Kinaesthesia & Corporeality Hanna Järvinen, Rethinking the Corporeal Sensorium: Kinaesthesia and Proprioception Gretchen Schiller, Rhythm: Embodied Performance and Corporeal Knowledge Michal Sapir, Contact Improvisation: Falling and Knowledge in Sterne, Dostoyevsky and Poe Sara Cohen Shabot, Fleshing Out the Ambiguous Body: J.M. Coetzee’s The Humanities in Africa as a Critique on Binary Conceptions of Embodiment Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Western Knowledge, Global Knowledge? Özlem Altan, Failures of Expertise: Knowledge in the Making in the Middle East. David Faflik, Myth, Symbol, and American Studies Methodology: The Post-national Persistence of the Humanities Seifudein Adem, Social Knowledge between Discovery and Invention: An African Perspective Producing/ Resisting Knowledge Rethinking Institutionalized Frameworks of Knowledge Joyce Chia, Meaning in Migration: The Barrier Reef of Knowledge Saskia Kersenboom, The Prose of the World Jef van der Aa, Bodies in Between Local Epistemologies and Institutionalized Discourse Mark James, Lynching Intellect: The Threats of Liberal Education in Of the Coming of John Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Scenes of Knowledge, Metaphors for Knowing Tereza Havelková, Seduced and Rejected: Staging the Promise of Knowledge Begum Firat, Looking through Metaphors: From the Window towards the Threshold Itay Sapir, Palaces of Knowledge, Seas of Infinity: The Liminal and the Incommensurable in Claude Lorrain’s Port Scenes 16.45 – 18.00 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Saurabh Dube, Scandalous Subjects: Antimonies and Enchantments of Modernity 18.00 Drinks and Tapas (provided for all participants) Thursday, March 29 09.15 – 10.30 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Gannit Ankori, ‘Visual Epistemology' - the Study of Art as a Quest for Knowledge 10.30 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 13.00 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body Body Tools for Knowledge Ils Huygens, Affect and the Intelligence of the Body: The Autonomy of Affect Kimberly J. Lau, The Weight of It All: Sisters in Shape and the Creation of New Bodies of Knowledge Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Medical Culture(s) Vanda Playford, The Symptom Where That Which Cannot Be Known Is Also a Form of Knowledge Grace Akello, Annemiek Richters and Ria Reis, Assessing Mental Distress among Displaced Children in Northern Uganda: Reconciling Contradictions in Results Obtained from a Validated Psychiatric Instrument and Ethnographic Approaches Linda Raphael & Anton Trinidad, M.D., Inside Knowledge: Ian McEwan’s Saturday Producing/ Resisting Knowledge Knowledge through the Philosopher’s Lens Axel Schubert, Don’t Forget Your Capacities! On the Hidden Grounds of Knowledge Julia Sushytska, Interruption inside Knowledge Sudeep Dasgupta, Allodoxy and the Ignorant Gaze: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Knowledge Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Defining the Art Historical Object Joana Barreto, Raising Questions in Art History: Knowledge of Images in the Humanities Francis Halsall, The Role of Aesthetics in Art Historical Knowledge Jeremie Cerman, Knowing Art Nouveau Wallpapers: From the Reconstruction to the Use of Knowledge 13.00 – 14.30 14.30 – 16.30 Lunch Break 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body Inside Knowledge Technologies Pia Wiegmink, Turning the Test Beds: Performance Art and Genetic Engineering Matt Ratto & Ernst Thoutenhoofd, Cyberinfrastructure and the Cochlear Implant: Technological Objects, Social Ordering, and Epistemic Conflict Jan Söffner, Being-in-the-Knowledge Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Theory and Practice in Society and Sociology Alessandra Renzi, Cartographies of Resistance: Knowledge Production within a Practical Sociology Janet and Lynn Kaufman, Radical Conversations: A Scholarship of Integration and Engagement Christine S. Taylor, Integration Test: Insider Knowledge Creates Outsiders. Producing/ Resisting Knowledge Literature as an Alternative Site for knowledge –Part 1 Pawel Moscicki, Truth, Knowledge, and the Literary: Heidegger and Badiou on the Essence of Poetry James Petterson, Poetry’s Incomplete Indifference (or A Demain, La Poésie) Paul Pemeja, Inside and Outside Knowledge: Spatial Metaphors for Knowledge in Borges's El Aleph Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Negotiations of Identity, Scholarship and the Everyday Nadia Jackinsky-Horrell, Learning about Alutiiq Masks: Braiding Experience and Recorded Knowledge Noa Roei, Can(n)ons of Israeli Society Adam Garcia, Spatial Reference in Social Perception 16.45 – 18.00 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Bruce Holsinger, Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror 18.15 - 19.30 Workshop with Ricardo Huisman, sound sculpture artist Friday, March 30 09.15 – 10.30 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Steven Connor, A Short Stirring to Meekness 10.30 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 13.00 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body The Knowledgeable Image Ingrid Fernandez, Visions of the Other: The Return of the Abject in Roman Polanski's The Tenant Tarja Laine, "It’s the Sense of Touch": Skin in the Making of Cinematic Consciousness Rania Gaafar, Knowledge in the Field of Vision: Performative Modes of Staging Memory and the Body in Christopher Nolan's Memento Gözde Onaran, Thinking Otherwise about/through Cinema: Becoming-woman in Flightplan and The Forgotten Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Art in Theory, Art in Practice Mara Traumane, Self-description as Methodology and its Agendas in Experimental Arts and Humanities in the Soviet Union in the 1970's Dylan Robinson, Collaboratively Knowing Music Sofiane Boussahel, Breaking the Method: Inside Knowledge and the Paradox of Writing Music History Producing/ Resisting Knowledge Literature as an Alternative Site for Knowledge –Part 2 Asja Szafraniec, Knowing the Leech’s Mind Sandra Janssen, Dialogues across Times: How to Think of Epistemological Discontinuities as Being Motivated Kristian van Haesendonck, Heart of Lightness: (Post)colonial Knowledge in Contemporary Caribbean Discourse Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Constructing Research, Understanding Subjects? Sjaak van der Geest, Knowing People? Impossible! Perhaps – partial – understanding: A View from Medical Anthropology Ed Cohen, Healing as Metaphor Jeroen de Kloet, Hacking Knowledge Chun-Yen Chen, Within and Without the Crime Scene of Subject (In)Formation: Serial Killers and the Impossibility of Knowledge 13.00 – 14.30 14.30 – 16.30 Lunch Break 4 Parallel Sessions Knowing through the Body The Body as Site for Identity Formations Eliza Steinbock, Trans-Curiosity: On Hans Scheirl’s Dandy Dust (1998) Ovidiu Anemtoaicei, Nomadic Masculinities and Sexual Difference: A Male Phenomenology of Fluids/Fluidity Joshua Paul Dale, "The Hardest Core": Fetish Parties and the Complicity of Suspending Knowledge Between Cultural Practices and Disciplines Inter- Alter- and Multidisciplinarity Paul Bowman, Alter-disciplinarity Benita Heiskanen, Multidisciplinary Knowledge: Inside, Outside, or In Between? Merel Boers, Use different modes of travel! For Efficient and interesting journeys Producing/ Resisting Knowledge Historicizing/Contextualizing Knowledge Caroline Vander Stichele & Todd Penner, Knowing Gender Then and Now: Positioning Feminist and Gender-Critical Engagements of Historical-Criticism Birgitte Martens, Religious Knowledge Transfer in the Seventeenth Century: the Therapeutic vs. the Rigorous Model Debate between Jesuits and Jansenists (1683-1685) Kristin Becker, Staging Knowledge: Science and Popular Culture around 1900 Ginger Nolan, The Aesthetics of Invisibility: Pseudo-Science, Creationism, and the Bureau of Inverse Technology Creating Objects, Developing Methodologies Spatial and Temporal Orientations Andreas Kofler, The “Greenland Problem” Niels Niessen, A Place to Stand Still: The Berlin Holocaust Denkmal as a Dialectical Approach to Memory Richard Klein, Knowledge of the Future: Future Fables 16.45 – 18.00 Plenary Lecture by Prof. Leo Bersani, Epistemological Passion: Psychoanalysis, Plato, Godard 18.00 – 19.00 19.00 Closing session/Evaluation End of Workshop Drinks