Program

Thursday, September 13

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

16:00-17:15 Keynote I
  Graham Harman (American University in Cairo): The Next Avant-Garde
 

Moderator: Paul J. Ennis, Conference Co-Organizer & Independent Scholar

17:15-17:45 Coffee Break
17:45-19:30 Panel 1: avant-garde
 

Thomas Gokey (Syracuse University): Strategic Invisibility: The Zero Point of Modernism and the Avant-Garde

 

Paul Boshears (European Graduate School, Saas-Fee): Marina Abramovic: What Is Present when the Artist Is Absent?

 

Vijak Haddadi Moghaddam (Kingston University London): The Dictatorship of Art – the Symbolic Absolute in Meese, Meillassoux and Schelling

 

Chair: Peter Burleigh (University of Basel)

19:30-

Conference Dinner

 

Friday, September 14

09:30-11:15

Panel 2: onto-epistemological

 

Francis Halsall (National College of Art and Design, Dublin): Aesthetics as 1st Philosophy in Graham Harman’s Speculative Metaphysics

 

Magdalena Wisniowska (Royal Academy Schools): Images I Cannot See: Deleuze and the Problem of Imagination

 

Matija Jelača (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula/ University of Zagreb): Sellars Contra Deleuze on Sensation, Knowledge and Aesthetics

  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
 

Robert Jackson (University of Plymouth): Actor Recursion Theory (ART): Procedure and Presentness

 

Roberto Simanowski (University of Basel): Speculative Realism in Contemporary Art? Examples of the Mathematical Turn in Aesthetics

  Chair: Till Heilmann (University of Basel)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Keynote II
 

N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University): Speculative Aesthetics

  Moderator: Philipp Schweighauser, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Editors’ Panel
 

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:

  Chair: Simon Aeberhard (University of Basel)
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-18:45 Panel 4: beautiful
 

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

  Moritz Gansen (Kingston University London/Free University Berlin): Cosmic Dreams: The Ecological Aesthetics of dOCUMENTA (13)
  Chair: Nicole Sütterlin (University of Basel)
21:00-23:00 Art Event: The Nonhuman / Das Nichtmenschliche
 

Oliver Minder / Walter Derungs: Exhibition & Discussion at Kaskadenkondensator (venue)
*See Kaskadenkondensator's announcement of the event.

  Moderator: Andreas Hägler, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel)

 

Saturday, September 15

09:00-10:45 Panel 5: creative
 

Ridvan Askin (University of Basel): Differential Narratology: Program for a Speculative Poetics

 

Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Idea and Maniera: Bergson and Deleuze on Mannerist Diagrams

 

Miguel Penas López (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Is there a Place for Simondon’s Philosophy in Speculative Realism?

  Chair: Samira Lütscher (University of Basel)
10:45-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 Keynote III
  Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University): Non-Phenomenological Aesthetics
  Moderator: Ridvan Askin, Conference Co-Organizer (University of Basel)
12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15

Panel 6: alternative
 

Virginia Richter (University of Berne): Darwinism and Aesthetics in the 21st Century

 

Michael Austin (Memorial University of Newfoundland): The Feeling of Things: Transcendental Empiricism in Herder, Whitehead, and Serres

 

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)