Pressestelle des Exzellenzclusters "Asien&Europa", Universität Heidelberg
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
18:15 Welcome Address by Joseph Maran, Acting Director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
Cultural Mediation: Creativity, Performance, Display – Introduction to the Conference by Christiane Brosius, Speaker Research Area B and Head Organiser
18:30 Keynote Lecture I
Interweaving Performance Cultures: A Transcultural Approach.
Speaker: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Berlin)
19:30 Reception
Thursday, October 09, 2014
09:00 Morning Panel I:
Mediating Art and Art Criticism in Times of Crises: Japan, China, and Europe in the Mid-Twentieth Century.
Speakers: Michael Lucken (Paris), Melanie Trede (Heidelberg), Sarah Fraser (Heidelberg), Chair: Melanie Trede Discussant: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Morning Panel II:
Translating Concepts in a Religious Context.
Speakers: Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg), Hans Martin Krämer (Heidelberg), Ines G. Županov (Heidelberg), Chair: Antje Flüchter (Bielefeld/Heidelberg)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Afternoon Panel Ia:
Social Orders in Transit: Passenger Communities During Long-Distance Ship Passages, c. 1770–1945.
Speakers: Dagmar Bellmann (Darmstadt), Eóin Phillips (Cambridge), Jonathan Stafford (London), Chair: Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg), Johanna de Schmidt (Heidelberg)
14:00 Afternoon Panel Ib:
Transcultural Sartorial Mediations: Performing Identity, Nation, and Modernity through Fashion.
Speakers: Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University), Laila Abu Er-Rub (Heidelberg)
15:30 Coffee
16:00
Afternoon Panel IIa:
Mediating Asian Christianities: Agents, Practices, Concepts.
Speakers: Robbie Goh (Singapore), Esther Berg (Heidelberg), Matthias Deininger (Heidelberg), Katja Rakow, (Heidelberg)
16:00 Afternoon Panel IIb:
Migrating Images as Transcultural Mediators.
Speakers: Cathrine Bublatzky (Heidelberg), Nadine Siegert (Bayreuth), Chair: Henry Keazor (Heidelberg)
Guest speakers: Prof. Kerstin Pinther (Berlin) in conversation with artist Angelika Böck (Munich)
17:30 Break
18:15 Keynote II
Cultural Brokerage: A Medieval Mediterranean Perspective.
Speaker: Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg)
19:00 Reception
Friday, October 10, 2014
09:00 Morning Panel IIIa:
Detecting Performance Brokers: Theatrical Agents, Managers and Impresarios in Global Theatre Histories (1850-1920).
Speakers: Christopher Balme (Munich), meLê yamomo (Munich/Amsterdam), Nic Leonhard (Munich)
09:00 Morning panel IIIb:
Building the City Image: Culture, Creativity, and Contemporary Art.
Speakers: Fiona Siegenthaler (Basel), Meiqin Wang (Los Angeles), Minna Valjakka (Helsinki), Discussant: Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Morning Panel IVa:
Auditive Mediation of Culture: Sermons, Prayers and Recitation.
Speakers: Max Stille (Heidelberg), Jan Scholz (Heidelberg), Hans Harder (Heidelberg), Ines Weinrich (Heidelberg)
11:00 Morning Panel IVb:
The Display of Words and Narratives in Museum Space – A Transcultural Reading.
Speakers: Elke Pfeil (Berlin), Emily Graf (Heidelberg), Martijn de Rooj (Heidelberg),
Chair / Discussant:Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Afternoon Panel IIIa:
Life-Action Roleplay; or the Performance of Realities.
Organisers: Björn-Ole Kamm (Heidelberg), Julia Becker (Dortmund)
14:00 HRA-Panel:
Digital Resources and Scientific Annotations.
Speakers: Peter Cornwell (Westminster), Jens-Martin Loebel (Berlin), Heinz-Günter Kuper (Berlin), Peter Matussek (Siegen), Melanie Trede (Heidelberg)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Concluding Roundtable