Lecture Series "Krankheit schreiben II: Gattungen" (The Writing of Disease)
Next lecture: Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Mayer (MPI Berlin)
Programme
Research Colloquium "Spaces of anthropological knowledge"
The Mercator Research Group continues the research colloquium "Spaces of anthropological knowledge" in the summer term 2012. The colloquium takes place bi-weekly on Tuesday at FNO 02/11 from 6-8 p.m.
zur sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Psychologie und integrativen Anthropologie.
Programm:
In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub und Dr. Pradeep Chakkarath, Estrid Sørensen has organised theHans-Kilian Lecture series zur Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftlichen Psychologie und Integrativen Anthropologie which presents a collection of core figures in the international scene of interdisciplinary cultural psychology.
On 26 October 2011 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)will be holding a guest lecture on "Der Mensch ist das Maß aller Schneider. Anthropologie als Effekt". The lecture takes place at FNO 00/211 from 6-8 p.m.
Ulrich Bröckling (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg)will be holding a guest lecture on "Der Mensch ist das Maß aller Schneider. Anthropologie als Effekt". The lecture takes place in the building FNO, Room 00/211 between 18.00 and 20.00 on 26, October 2011.
Sponsored by Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI), working Group „Computers as Media“, HyperKult 20 will take place at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Computing and Media Centre and Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media from July 7th to 9th, 2011. Prof. Dr. Anna Tuschling is a member of the organizing committee.
Marie-Luise Angerer from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln will be holding a guest lecture on "Affektive Modulation. Elemente einer Medientheorie des Affektiven". The lecture takes place in the building FNO, Room 01/117 between 18.00 and 20.00 on 12, July 2011. All interested persons are welcome to attend!
Poster
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Geschichte und Funktion von Emotion und Affekt in den Wissenschaften
Am 28. Juni 2011 wird Helmut Müller-Sievers im Rahmen des Kolloquiums der Mercator Research Group ein Kapitel aus seinem neuen Buch "The Cylinder Kinematics of the 19th Century" diskutieren. Prof. Müller-Sievers befasst sich in seinen Arbeiten besonders mit den Beziehungen zwischen Literatur, Wissenschaft und Philosophie sowie mit der Geschichte der Philologie. Er ist u.a. Autor von "Epigenesis. Naturphilosophie im Sprachdenken Wilhelm von Humboldts", "Self-Generation. Biology, Literature, Philosophy around 1800" und "Desorientierung. Anatomie und Dichtung bei Georg Büchner". Interessierte, die an der Diskussionsrunde teilnehmen möchten, werden gebeten, sich für weitere organisatorische Details bei Ute Hoffmann per email zu melden. Ute Hoffmann/MRG2
Prof Dr. Christina Brandt gives her inaugural lecture on Biotechnologien und Anthropologie in historischer Perspektive" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
From 8th - 9th June 2011 Michael Hagner will be staying at the Ruhr-University. He will give a lecture on the topic "Krankheit schreiben" and work together with the members of the Mercator Research Group in a workshop. They will discuss future perspectives of anthropological research.
Jun-Prof Dr. Estrid Sørensen gives her inaugural lecture on "Kulturpsychologie und anthropologisches Wissen"
Programme:
The Mercator Research Group presents in the summer term 2011 the Colloquium "Spaces of anthropological Knowledge". The Colloquium takes place every other Wednesday 5-7 PM in FNO 00/211.
On 4 November 2010 the last professorship of the second Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge" was filled. Dr. Christina Brand will now be the head of Unit 1 "History of Life Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology".
For more details, please refer to the German site.
For more information (only available in German) about the Projekt Weltwissen (Project World Knowledge) please refer to the German site.
From 30.9.-2.10.2010 Prof. Dr. Dr. Yvonne Wübben will chair panel 9 "Case and Case Histories: Man as Matter of Anthropological Discourses" at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for the Study of the 18th Century held in Halle (Germany) from 30 September to 3 October 2010. In this panel Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes from RUB's Department of German Studies will also present his recent findings on case histories.
From 19.9.-22.9.2010 Prof. Dr. Dr. Yvonne Wuebben will co-chair panel 5 "Literary spaces: Landscape, Memory, Knowledge" at the Germanistentag 2010 in Freiburg, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen will hold one of the two main talks on the ENSEMBLE PROJECT SEMINAR: Socio-material and Posthuman Readings of Digital Learning (September 17, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK). Her talk is entitled "How to study the materiality of learning with ANT".
Ensemble seminar programmme
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Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen organizes a track under the headline "Creativity and Innovation" jointly with Prof. Dr. Cathrine Hasse on the annual EASST conference (2-4 September), and additionally gives three talks:
Abstracts Sorensen EASST 2010
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From 4. - 5. June 2010 an international conference was held at the University of Basel about complex time concepts which are equally important for both the media research and the history of technology. Prof. Dr. Anna Tuschling co-organized the conference and also headed the section "deferred action". She gave a welcome speech and delivered a lecture:
Prof. Anna Tuschling co-organised an international workshop entitled "Protocoll and Module as cultural techniques". The workshop (21-22 May 2010) took place at the IKKM - Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie in Weimar, Germany.
The first three professors of the second Mercator Research Group (MRG2) have been appointed during the first half of 2010 by RUB Rector Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler.
Appointment of Professors
The next colloquium will be on
Please view all colloquium dates here:
Hans-Kilian Lecture Series
Nächster Termin: 16.05.2012
Ort und Zeit: GC 04/45, 16:00 c.t.
Vortragender: Prof. Paul Stenner, The Open University
Thema: Affectivity, Liminality and Psychology without Foundations
Lecture Series "Krankheit schreiben II: Gattungen 1. Teil"
Hans-Kilian Lecture Series
Time: First lecture is given by Prof. Dr. Ole Dreier (Copenhagen/Lillehammer) on 2. November 2011
Place: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Room GC 04/45
Poster
Guest lecture by Professor Dr. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Guest lecture by Professor Dr. Ulrich Bröckling
Hyperkult 20 - Call for Participation
Detailed Information: HyperKult 20
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Angerer
Warum Emotion?
Tagung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum vom 30.6.-1.7.2011
Im Rahmen eines konstruktiven, aber auch kritischen Dialogs zwischen psychologiehistorisch orientierter Medienforschung und den Neurokognitionswissenschaften sollen vor dem Hintergrund der Renaissance verschiedener Affekt- und Emotionskonzepte deren Geschichte und Funktion in den Wissenschaften erörtert werden.
Die Tagung findet als Kooperation der AG "Medien und anthropologisches Wissen" mit dem Lehrstuhl für experimentelle Psychologie und Methodenlehre an der Fakultät für Psychologie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum statt.
Mehr Informationen und Programm
Prof. Dr. Helmut Müller-Sievers stellt ein Kapitel aus neuem Buch vor
Inaugural Speech
Place: Comeniusraum, GA 2/411, Date & Time: Wednesday 22 June 2011, 3-5 PM
Guest Scientist Professor Michael Hagner visits Mercator Research Group
Michael Hagner is an internationally renowned scientist, well-known for his work on the history of brain research. He works at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Inaugural Lecture
Place: Room GBCF 04/611 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Time: Wednesday 1 June 2011, 4-6 PM
Lecture series "Krankheit schreiben"
Research Colloquium Summer Term 2011
05.04.11
M.A. Clara Herrmann (MRG2): „Poetik der Institutionen. Über das Imaginäre der Institutionen in Franz Kafkas "Der Proceß" (1914) und Robert Walsers "Jakob von Gunten"“ (1909)
19.04.11
Dipl.-Pol. Jan Schank (MRG2): „Regulierung von Computerspielen“
03.05.11
M.A. Uwe Wippich (MRG2): tba
17.05.11
Prof. Dr. Estrid Sörensen (MRG2): „Aggression als Items in sozialpsychologischer Forschung“
31.05.11
Prof. Dr. Dr. Yvonne Wübben (MRG2): „Das Lehrbuch als anthropologischer Wissensraum“
21.06.11
Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt (MRG2): tba
07.07.11 – NB! Donnerstag, 15 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Susanne Lüdemann (University of Chicago): „Metaphern der Gesellschaft“
Last professorship filled
Lecturer series "Mythen Denken"
Projekt Weltwissen
Case and Case Histories: Man as Matter of Anthropological Discourses
In addition to the history, theory and epistemology of the case, the panel will focus on the relationship between the narrative, the media and episteme. It will examine forms of recordings, writing scenes, and the practices of compilation and collection, allowing to situate the case and case histories in the material and literary culture of the Age of Enlightenment. Another panel (1: Speech Matters - Themes and Topics of Rhetorics) will be chaired by Prof. Dr. Carsten Zelle from RUB.
More information
dgej.hab.de/tagungen/tagungen-dgej/tagung-2010
Literary Spaces: Landscape, Memory, Knowledge
Panel presentations attempt to critically review research on the concept of literary spaces in language and literature studies, it will present current projects and outline new ways of researching literary and multimedia-virtual spaces.
More information
www.germanistenverband-hochschule.de/germanistentag/index.php?id=716
ENSEMBLE project seminar in Liverpool
EASST conference in Trento, Italy
Complex temporalities in history and technology
Tagung über die Komplexität von Zeitlichkeiten
Protocoll and Module as cultural techniques
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Protokoll und Modul als Kulturtechniken
Three professors appointed: MRG2 ready to start work
• Anna Tuschling (Unit 3, Media and Anthropological Knowledge) started work at RUB in April 2010.
• Yvonne Wübben (Unit 2, Literature and Anthropological Knowledge) and
• Estrid Sørensen (Unit 4, Cultural Psychology and Anthropological Knowledge) joined the MRG2 in July 2010.
• "n.n", the fourth professorship, will be filled in autumn 2010.
Since the position of the group's secretary has been competently filled with Mrs. Ute Hoffmann, the team started work, in close consultation with the candidate for professorship 4.
For details, please check the section "Research Units".
Anna Tuschling,
Yvonne Wübben and
Estrid Sørensen
(from left to right)
by the Rector of RUB, Prof. Elmar Weiler (2nd right)
