(7-8 December 2017) and is organized by Prof Dr Erich Hörl (SP1), Dr Yuk Hui (SP1) in cooperation with the University of Bremen’s Bremen NatureCultures Lab (BNCL).Confirmed Speakers are Nurit Bird-David (Haifa), Tim Ingold (Aberdeen), Alf Hornborg (Lund), Michi Knecht (Bremen), Erhard Schüttpelz (Siegen), Tanja Bogusz (Kassel), Helen Verran (Darwin, Australia).The recent movement in anthropology, often referred as the ‘ontological turn’, in its ensemble proposes among others also a new way to understand the concept of participation. It even presents a radical revaluation of participation, which is essential. This revaluation not only breaks the paradigm limited by the naturalism, understood as the opposition between culture and nature, that shaped European modernity, but it also interrupts a long-lasting philosophical politics of relation that has been centred on a powerful and far-reaching Platonic interpretation of participation (as the idea/form in the particular) constraining relationality and that has been constitutive for occidentality as such.
PROGRAM
7th December
9 :00 –9 :30 (Coffee time/ registration)
Introduction
9 :30 – 10 :00
Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui (SP 1)
Panel I
10 :00 – 12 :40
Chair : Yuk Hui
Alf Hornborg: Acknowledging both semiotic and material relationality: Implications for ecology, engineering, and economics
Nurit Bird-David : Before relation: forager kinship-ecology and its techno scalability
Lunch : 12 :40-14 :00
Panel II
14 :00 – 16 :40
Chair : Roberto Nigro
Erhard Schüttpelz : Hot and Cold techniques in the Longue Durée of Media
Yuk Hui: On Ontological Turn and Cosmotechnics
6 :50 – 18 :00
Open discussion:
Chair : Erich Hörl
20 :00 Conference Dinner
8th December
Panel III
9 :45 – 12 :15
Chair : Erich Hörl
Helen Verran : Language Practices and Imagining Techno-Ecologies of Collective Participation
Tim Ingold : On Going Along Together
Lunch : 12 :15-13 :45
Panel IV
13:45 – 15 :30
Chair : Christoph Brunner
Tanja Bogusz : From Participation to Co-laboration – an Experimentalist Ecology
Michi Knecht : Relational Anthropology: Rethinking NatureCultures with Marilyn Strathern and Stefan Beck
Final discussion
15:30-17 :00
Chair : Erich Hörl