Astro-Morphomata
Sternenwissen und Weltbürgertum in Medien und Kultur
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18.-19.11.2011
Cosmology and cosmopolitanism describe two different types of knowledge or belief, one deriving from natural sciences, the other from the Humanities. Both discourses, each in its own epistemic frame, deal with concepts of cosmos, universe, globe, world, or planet. The conference explores the dynamic processes by which, on the one hand, cosmological ideas and, on the other hand, cultural, political, philosophical, or religious ideas have been affecting one another.
The conference is particularly sensitive to the role of the media in this exchange. It seeks to investigate how shifts in the history of media interact with epistemological and ideological changes - from the first telescopic observation of the solar system by Galileo in 1609, until our present age of digital astral photography, radio electronics, artificial satellites, and space travel, each time asking how new world-views force us to reinvent ourselves as (post-)modern, (post-)enlightened, and (post-)global subjects.
Programm
Freitag, 18. November 2011
Wie Welt denken / How to think the World?
10.00 Dietrich Boschung (Köln)
Begrüßung
10.15 Gerd Graßhoff (Berlin)
Ptolemaios und die Methode der Wissenschaft
11.00 Kaffeepause
Astro-Morphomata. Einführung / Introduction
11.30 Sonja Neef, Henry Sussman (Paris / Yale)
The glorious moment of Astro-Morphomata
13.00 Mittagessen
Politik der Sterne / Politics of the stars
14.30 Lucia Ayala (Berlin / Granada)
Cosmological and cosmopolitan ideas of a plurality of worlds in the early enlightenment
15.15 David Aubin (Paris)
On the cosmopolitics of astronomy in the 19th century Paris
16.00 Kaffeepause
Poetik der Sterne / Astro-poetics
16.30 Dietrich Boschung (Köln)
Astromorphomata: Kosmologische Vorstellungen in der Kunst der Antike
17.15 Annemarie Ambühl (Köln / Mainz / Groningen)
The „Coma Berenices“: From cosmology to comicology
19.00 Dinner
Samstag, 19. November 2011
Mediatisierte Welten / Mediated worlds
10.00 Hans-Christian von Hermann (Berlin)
Das Projektionsplanetarium als Figuration planetarischen Denkens
10.45 Bruno Clarke (Texas)
Mediations of Gaia
11.30 Kaffeepause
Mögliche Welten / Possible worlds
12.00 Sonja Neef (Paris)
Planetarische Ästhetik bei Mona Hatoum und Ingo Günther
12.45 Michael Wetzel (Bonn)
Welt-Raum-Erfahrung bei Husserl, Virilo, Kubrick und Carpenter
13.30 Mittagessen
15.00 Patricia Pisters (Amsterdam)
A metaphysical star war: Cosmic aesthetics and visions in „The Fountain“ and „The Tree of Life“
15.45 Henry Sussman (Yale)
From Leon to Hollywood boulevard by way of Paris: Astro-Celebrity in the broader moderniy
16.30 Kaffeepause
17:00 Thomas Macho (Berlin)
Hamlets Mühlen: Zur Geschichte des Panbabylonismus
17.45 Kaffeepause
18.15 Martina Leeker: Abschlussdiskusion / round table
19.30 Dinner
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Kontakt: Jan Willms (jan.willms@uni-koeln.de)
Konzept: Sonja A.J. Neef, Dietrich Boschung & Henry Sussman
Veranstaltungsort: Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Weyertal 59
(Rückgebäude), 3. Stock, 50937 Köln
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