Thursday, June 12, 2008
Official Opening & Keynote Address, Room: B6, A0.01
17:00 – 17:30
Official Opening
Ulfried Reichardt (Spokesperson for the Graduate Program)
17:30 - 19:00
Keynote Address
John Urry (Lancaster, U.K.)
„Would Standing Still Save the Planet?”
19:00
Reception
Friday, June 13, 2008. Room M271
Panel I: "Limited Mobility" - Dimensions of Immobility in Migration and Border Crossing
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction to the Conference
9:30 - 10:30
Eva Gerharz (Bielefeld)
“Migrants Meeting Locals: Negotiations of Identity after a Period of Immobility in Jaffna, Sri Lanka”
- Coffee break -
11:00 - 12:30
Debora Gerstenberger & Eike Karin Ohlendorf (Leipzig)
“Controlling the Vagabond: Poor Migrants in French Colonial Dakar and Hanoi / Movement as Both a Blessing and a Curse: The Protuguese Empire in the Early 19th Century between Mobility and Immobility”
12:30 - 14:30
- Lunch break -
Friday, June 13, 2008. Room M271
Panel II: "Contemplating Mobility and Immobility" - Conditions of Absence and Presence
14:30 - 15:30
Sabine Leonore Müller (Leipzig)
„The Melancholy of the Long-Distance Traveler: Contemplative Spaces within Global Mobility”
15:30 - 16:30
Heike Weber (Darmstadt)
“’On the Move’ without Moving: Portable Electronics and the 20th-Century Culture of Anytime, Anywhere”
- Coffee break -
17:00 - 18:00
Pascal Gin (Ottawa, Canada)
“Beyond Mobility: Reflexitivity and the Dialectics of Presence and Absence in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms”
- Dinner -
Saturday, June 14, 2008. Room M271
Panel III: "Manifestations of Mobility and Immobility" - Movement and Locations
09:30 - 10:30
Ole W. Fischer (Zurich, Switzerland)
“An Arcitecture of Local Resistance? - The Myth of Slowing Down Globalization through Architecture: A Critique“
10:30 - 11:30
Paul Paret (Salt Lake City, USA)
“The Aesthetics of Delay: International Airport Montello”
- Coffee break -
12:00 - 13:00
Markus Funck (Marburg / Toronto, Kanada))
“Hub History: From City Airport to Airport City”
13:00 - 14:30
- Lunch break -
Saturday, June 14, 2008. Room: M271
Panel IV: "The Logics of Mobility and Immobility" - Concepts on the Move
14:30 - 15:30
Thomas Wägenbaur (Bruchsal)
“The Logics of Hybridization and Performance Art”
15:30 - 16:30
Birgit Haehnel (Osnabrück)
“The Politics of Perception in a World of Circulating Images”
- Coffee break -
17:00 - 18:00
Jens Badura (Paris, France)
“The Repression of the World: Globalization in Light of a Philosophy of Mondial Modernity”