Program

Thursday, May 6, 2004

16:00 c.t. - 18:00: Guest Lecture
Senatssaal

The PRODUCTS OF THE SYMBOLIC MIND Lectures:

Prof. Dr. Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig):
From auditory input to comprehension: The neural basis of language processing

19:00 c.t. - 21:00: Opening of the Conference
UL 6, R 3119

Philipp Kneis
The I in Poiêsis: Introduction to the Conference

Manuela Mangold
Needs Art an Addressee?

Friday, May 7, 2004
UL 6, R 3119

12:30 - 14:30: Session I

Moderator: Simon Strick

Björn Wieders
The Essayistic Film: Memory, Experience, and the Construction of Poietic Space

Anthony Enns
The Return of the Dead: Photography, Memory, Mourning

15:00 - 17:00: Session II

Moderator: Hannes Schaser

Jakob Bertzbach
What Good Are the Notions of 'Real', '(Social) Reality', and 'Realism' for Critics of Art and Literature?

Simon Strick
Graffiti - Between Painting and Scripture

18:00 - 20:00: Poetry Reading

Moderator: Claudia Schwarz

Anna Katharina Otzen
Dave Lojek
Philipp Kneis
Simon Strick

Round-Up Discussion

12:30 - 14:30: Session III

Moderator: Susann Neuenfeldt

Anna Katharina Otzen
Rezeptionsräume in John Ashberys Gedichten

Kathryn Murphy
"Ardent Obliquity": Reading Veronica Forrest-Thomson and J.H. Prynne

15:00 - 17:00: Session IV

Moderator: Anna Katharina Otzen

Dave Lojek
HyperPoetry

Philipp Kneis
Life Serial: Coherence, Metanarrative, Pastiche and Seriality in Contemporary American Television

18:00 - 20:00: Session V & Concluding Discussion

Moderator: Anthony Enns

Julia Roth
'A Written Form that resembles the Speech' -Toni Morrison's Essays as Forms of Afro-American Self-Representation

Brett M. Van Hoesen
Realizing the Invisible: Sophie Calle's Last Seen and the Politics of Preserving
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Concluding Discussion