Contact

Björn Bertrams

Research Training Group "Self-Formations", University of Oldenburg

Antonio Roselli

Centre for advanced scientific training, Univ. Magdeburg

Programme

Programme

Thursday, 9 May 2019

9:30-10:10

Björn Bertrams, Antonio Roselli: Welcome and introduction

First section: Self-loss as a fundamental anthropological experience

10:10-11:00

Joachim Fischer: Eccentric positionality: vita passiva, vita activa, vita contemplativa

11:00-11:50

Martin Mettin: On the dialectic of receptivity and spontaneity in Ulrich Sonnemann

11:50-13:30

Lunch together

Second section: Technique and practice of self-loss

13:30-14:20

Erhard Schüttpelz: Trance and self-loss. Some theoretical considerations

14:20-15:10

Volker Gottowik: Sexual transgression and self-loss: ethnological perspectives

15:10-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-16:20

Mario Grizelj: "They speak to me." The overdetermination of self-loss among the possessed nuns of Loudun

18:00-19:45

Dinner together

Evening programme at Wilhelm 13 (Literaturbüro Oldenburg):

20:00-21:30

Book presentation and discussion with Peter Braun:
"To lose myself / I am there!" On self-loss and world experience in the work of Ilse Schneider-Lengyel. Moderation: Jan Gerstner (Further information here)

Friday, 10 May 2019

Third section: Self-loss as a form of knowledge

10:00-10:50

Kathrin Busch: Self-loss as a form of knowledge. Aesthetics of radicalised sensibility

10:50-11:40

Elisabeth Heyne: Being a shell. Experimental dissociation as a mode of cognition with Roger Caillois

11:40-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-12:50

(new!) Rosemary Snelling: Carlo Levi's Lucania as a place of self-loss and the possibility of productive self-empowerment

(The lecture by Thomas Reinhardt is cancelled.)

12:50-14:30

Lunch together

Fourth section: Politics and ethics of self-loss

14:30-15:20

Héla Hecker: Amor mundi. Hannah Arendt's answer to the loss of the world

15:20-16:10

Sandra Janßen: "Selflessness" between mysticism, psychology and totalitarianism. On a figure of thought from the 1930s and 1940s

16:10-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:20

Thomas Alkemeyer: Self-education through loss of self? On resonance, (de)subjectivisation and power in social relations

19:00

Dinner together

Saturday, 11 May 2019

Fifth section: Transformations of the loss of self

9:30-10:20

Martin Treml: Passio as suffering and passion. Aby Warburg's picture atlas

10:20-11:10

(new!) Ulrich van Loyen: Becoming voice, having voice. Trance and authorisation in a Campanian cult between 1968 and today.

11:10-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:20

Rosa Eidelpes: On ethnology and self-alienation

12:20-12:50

Final discussion

12:50-14:30

Lunch together

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