TIMING OF AFFECT

And another timing conference with a number of renouned affect scholars, to take place at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (Germany), 30 May to 1 June, 2013:

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Manuela Rossini calls attention to a conference on “Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time” taking place at the University of Lucerne, 25–27 April 2013. WS 1013 participant Elaine Gan will speak on “Mapping Multispecies Temporalities”. For more information about programme and speakers check out this link.

Participant Susanne Leuenberger would like to share a link to a special edition series of the Swiss national radio (SRF 2) entitled  ”Die Zeit – das Mass aller Dinge” (time – measure of all things). In the programme, physicians, philosophers, psychologists, artists, and “normal people” share their thoughts on their perception of time. The programme is in German.

Link: die-zeit-das-mass-aller-dinge

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A shot from the pulpit – watch guest lecturer Rosi Braidotti from Utrecht University answering the question why matter matters

Haunted by specters – watch guest lecturer Stefan Herbrechter from Coventry University explaining why he distrusts matter

Early modern time foldings – guest lecturer Michael Kempe, Director of the Leibniz Research Center and the Leibniz-Archive in Hannover, explains why Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ alternative conceptualizations of time are still inspiring today

Time and the other – guest lecturer Antje Flüchter from the University of Heidelberg talks about modern Western chronocentrism and why India was thought to be non-contemporary to the contemporary Western norm

Whom the bell tolls – listen to what postdoctoral scholar Michelle Bastian from the University of Edinburgh says about clocks

Mapping Rice - watch Elaine Gan from the University of California at Santa Cruz talking about multispecies temporalities