| 14:30-15:30 |
Registration |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Welcome and Opening
Antonio Loprieno, Rector of the University of Basel
Philipp Schweighauser, Head of American and General Literatures & Conference Co-Organizer
Conference Team
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| 16:00-17:15 |
Keynote I |
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Graham Harman (American University in Cairo): The Next Avant-Garde |
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Moderator: Paul J. Ennis, Conference Co-Organizer & Independent Scholar |
| 17:15-17:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:45-19:30 |
Panel 1: avant-garde |
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Thomas Gokey (Syracuse University): Strategic Invisibility: The Zero Point of Modernism and the Avant-Garde |
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Paul Boshears (European Graduate School, Saas-Fee): Marina Abramovic: What Is Present when the Artist Is Absent? |
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Vijak Haddadi Moghaddam (Kingston University London): The Dictatorship of Art – the Symbolic Absolute in Meese, Meillassoux and Schelling |
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Chair: Peter Burleigh (University of Basel) |
| 19:30- |
Conference Dinner |
| 09:30-11:15 |
Panel 2: onto-epistemological |
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Francis Halsall (National College of Art and Design, Dublin): Aesthetics as 1st Philosophy in Graham Harman’s Speculative Metaphysics |
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Magdalena Wisniowska (Royal Academy Schools): Images I Cannot See: Deleuze and the Problem of Imagination |
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Matija Jelača (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula/ University of Zagreb): Sellars Contra Deleuze on Sensation, Knowledge and Aesthetics |
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Chair: Marc Nicolas Sommer (University of Basel/ Institut für Sozialforschung, University of Frankfurt) |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:45-13:00 |
Panel 3: algorithmic |
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Robert Jackson (University of Plymouth): Actor Recursion Theory (ART): Procedure and Presentness |
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Roberto Simanowski (University of Basel): Speculative Realism in Contemporary Art? Examples of the Mathematical Turn in Aesthetics |
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Chair: Till Heilmann (University of Basel) |
| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-15:45 |
Keynote II |
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N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University): Speculative Aesthetics |
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Moderator: Philipp Schweighauser, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel) |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:15-17:00 |
Editors’ Panel |
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The Aesthetics of (Para)Academic Practice
Convenor:
Jamie Allen (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design; editor, continent.)
Panelists:
Paul Boshears (editor, continent.)
Paul J. Ennis (editor, Speculations)
Michael Austin (editor, Speculations)
Robert Jackson (editor, Speculations)
Thomas Gokey (editor, Speculations)
*See continent. issue 2.2 (2012) for participants' preliminary exchange of ideas on issues discussed on the Editors' Panel: |
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Chair: Simon Aeberhard (University of Basel) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:30-18:45 |
Panel 4: beautiful |
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Theodor Leiber (University of Augsburg) & Kirsten Voigt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Beauty, the Will to Power and Life as Artwork: The Aesthetico-Speculative Realism in Nietzsche and Whitehead |
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Moritz Gansen (Kingston University London/Free University Berlin): Cosmic Dreams: The Ecological Aesthetics of dOCUMENTA (13) |
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Chair: Nicole Sütterlin (University of Basel) |
| 21:00-23:00 |
Art Event: The Nonhuman / Das Nichtmenschliche |
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Oliver Minder / Walter Derungs: Exhibition & Discussion at Kaskadenkondensator (venue)
*See Kaskadenkondensator's announcement of the event. |
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Moderator: Andreas Hägler, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel) |
| 09:00-10:45 |
Panel 5: creative |
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Ridvan Askin (University of Basel): Differential Narratology: Program for a Speculative Poetics |
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Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Idea and Maniera: Bergson and Deleuze on Mannerist Diagrams |
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Miguel Penas López (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Is there a Place for Simondon’s Philosophy in Speculative Realism? |
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Chair: Samira Lütscher (University of Basel) |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:30 |
Keynote III |
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Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University): Non-Phenomenological Aesthetics |
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Moderator: Ridvan Askin, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-15:15 |
Panel 6: alternative |
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Virginia Richter (University of Berne): Darwinism and Aesthetics in the 21st Century |
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Michael Austin (Memorial University of Newfoundland): The Feeling of Things: Transcendental Empiricism in Herder, Whitehead, and Serres |
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Chair: Derek Gottlieb (University of Basel) |
| 15:15-15:45 |
End of Conference
Ridvan Askin, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel)
Paul Ennis, Conference Co-Organizer & Independent Scholar
Andreas Hägler, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel) |