Fictions of the Human/Fiktionen des Humanen
Munich-Berkeley Joint Workshop
September 1-3, 2011
Fiction(s) of the Human: The Reinvention of Man Since the Enlightenment
Fiktion(en) des Humanen: Die Neuerfindung des Menschen seit der Aufklärung
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September 1
9.00-11.00
- Britta Herrmann (Munich): “Man as Departure a Work of Art. The Invention of the (Post-)Human in the 18th Century”
- Niklaus Largier (Berkeley): “Reconfiguring the Senses”
11.00-11.15 – Coffee Break
11.15 a.m.-12.15 – Paul Rabinow (Berkeley): “Streitschrift: What Science? What Art? What Life?”
12.15-13.45 – Lunch Break
13.45-15.45
- Anja Lemke (Cologne): “The Artist’s Work as Production of Humanity – Schiller’s ‘Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man'”
- Karin Feldman (Berkeley): “On Fabel, Fiction and Human History in Gottsched”
15.45-16.00 – Coffee Break
16.00-18.00
- Ian Duncan (Berkeley): “The Form of the Novel and the Form of Man”
- Annette Keck (Munich): “Of Letters and Men: Literal Anatomies and the Construction of Humanity”
September 2
11.30-12.00 – Arrival / Reception: Howard Room, Faculty Club (Reception sponsored by German Department, UC Berkeley)
12.00-13.00 – Lunch
13.00-13.15 – Introduction: Britta Herrmann, Chenxi Tang
13.15-15.15
- David Bates (Berkeley): “Cartesian Robotics and the Age of Information”
- André Otto (Munich): “Desiring Machines – Anoedipal Anthropology”
15.15-15.30 – Coffee Break
15.30-18.30
- Elif Özmen (Munich): “Anthropological Fictions in Contemporary Practical Philosophy”
- Cary Wolfe (Rice University): “Constituting the Human: Biopolitical Thought”
- Kerstin Schmidt (Munich): “‘The theme is blackness’: Reflections on Modernity and Race”
Dinner
Organizers: Britta Herrmann and Chenxi Tang
Sponsored by
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: LMU-excellent
University of California, Berkeley:
- Division of the Humanities
- Townsend Center for the Humanities
- Department of English
- Department of German
- Department of Rhetoric