Programme Class A1

Monday 9th October (LMU, room number A125)

09:15 - 09:30am
Prof. Poul Holm
Welcome Address

09:40 - 10:45am
Presentations by new members

10:45 - 11:15am
Tea and coffee break

11:15am - 12:30pm
Dr. Gabi Lombardo, Executive Director, European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Professor Liviu Matei, Head of the King's School of Education, Communication & Society
Professor Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Humanities engagement in Scientific Policies and Diplomacy

12:30 - 2:00pm
Lunch break

2:00 - 4:45pm
Section meetings (see programmes below)

5:00 - 6:30pm
Annual Business meeting

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History and Archeology section
(LMU, room number A125)

Migrant knowledge: building bridges between worlds.
The Migrant Knowledge History & Archaeology Section workshop welcomes papers that address, in historical terms, the social, material and intellectual impacts of the flows of knowledge that accompanied massive migratory processes. The aim is to discuss the transformations, for good and for bad, brought about by knowledge transfers. Social, religious and cultural practices, ecological alterations, transformations in material culture, as well as of various forms of knowledge, science and technology, all derived from actions by multi-gender, multi-religious and multi-ethnic actors at various points in time. All these are some of the topics to be illuminated in this workshop.
A focus on migrant knowledge is a focus on power relations. At all times in history, knowledge production, circulation and consumption contributed decisively to essential changes in the existing social and economic organisation around different worlds. The production and circulation of knowledge are linked to the establishment of communication processes that often involved coercion and social, economic, or racial inequality. With this in mind, we welcome papers addressing how the circulation of knowledge impacted upon, and was in turn transformed by, the construction of global connections. The performance of actors "on the margins" of the systems, traditionally overlooked and prone to oblivion by historiographic practices will be in the focus of this workshop.
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Literature section
Theresienstr. 41, room number C 419 (4th floor)

Why Literature in time of Disasters?

1:50pm
Françoise Lavocat
Welcome

2:00pm
Giancarlo Alfano
A History of Disbelonging. Representing Trauma in Italy after the Second World War

2:25pm
Maxime Decout
Surviving works in the face of the Holocaust or how to write death in progress

2:50pm
Marina Grishakova
Literature in the face of a catastrophe: Complicity or resistance?

3:15pm
Florian Mussgnug
The Poetics of Regret: Alternate History in the Anthropocene

3:40pm
Ingo Berensmeyer
What if this present were the world’s last night’: Fear and hope in literary end-of-world scenarios

4:10 - 3:55pm
Susana Onega, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Serge Zenkine
Round Table and Discussion

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Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies Section

Theresienstr. 41, room number C307 (3rd floor)

Nozick on Utopia: Philosophy, Ideology, History
Robert Nozick lived long enough to reread critically (and partly refute) his own seminal book, Anarchy, State, Utopia (1974). Utopian studies specialists have rarely engaged this work, for reasons that are worth examining. This interdisciplinary panel (with three MAEs from two countries and two sections) aims to bring Nozick’s reflections upon Utopia to the fore once more, taking stock of whatever happened and was discussed over the last fifty years.

Keynote address (30 minutes):
Professor Mircea Dumitru, University of Bucharest, Vice-President of the Romanian Academy: Frames of Utopias. From Nozick to Us and Beyond (please see abstract below).

Comments (15 minutes each):
Professor Gregory Claeys, Professor Emeritus of History, University of London, President of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe
Sorin Antohi, Orbis Tertius Association, Bucharest, member of the Committee, Utopian Studies Society / Europe

General Discussion
Moderator: Sorin Antohi

Building upon some of Nozick’s views on the role of utopias in setting up a political theory and philosophy, the paper explores the concept of the frames of utopias. I assess the methodological virtues of this concept pointing out inapparent but fertile analogies between the work of the concept of frames in the philosophy of utopias and the corresponding work of the very same concept in the contemporary metaphysics of modality and especially in the metalogic of modal logic. The talk is philosophical and keeps the more technical discussion about the concept of frames in modal logic at an acceptable semi-formal level. The upshot is to show how concepts and methods from metaphysics of modality and modal logic can do some important work in political philosophy, especially in the utopian studies.

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Linguistic Studies

Theresienstr. 41, room number C 406 (4th floor)

Dan Xu Song
The language and population admixture on the Silk Road

Didier Demolin
Sound change and quantal aspects of speech sounds

Martin Haspelmath
Coexpression and synexpression patterns in lexicon and grammar

Martin Kümmel
How close and how old are Indo-Aryan and Iranic: problems in phylogenetic linguistics

Aditi Lahiri
Metrical stress differences in Germanic

Daniel Petit
The beginning of sociolinguistics in the 19th century

Frans Plank
Ejectives and prosodic phrasing in Bavarian

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Film, Media & Visual Studies

Theresienstr. 41, room number C107 (1st floor)

Roundtable: "The future of film, media and visual studies in the European funding landscape”

As film, media and visual culture is increasingly penetrating all spheres of society, there is a need to discuss not only the limits of our field of research, but also how this influences funding structures nationally and internationally. In many calls, for example within Horizon Europe (and the previous framework programmes), film, media and visual studies seems to be add-ons to thematics that focus other issues. Such projects can have great value also to the partaking media, film and visual studies researchers, but we also need to ask how we as researchers can influence calls to be formulated with questions raised from within our field? How can we avoid being a discipline that contributes with empirical examples to research questions formulated in other fields? And what would be our most valuable contributions to multidisciplinary research? This roundtable gathers some of the members of the FMVS section in a discussion around those issues.

Roundtable participants include:

Göran Bolin (moderator), Södertörn University, Sweden
Fausto Colombo, Catholic University, Milano, Italy
Aphra Kerr, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Nelson Ribeiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Jo Pierson, Hasselt University, Belgium
John Downey, Loughborough University, UK