Habitus in Habitat I. Emotion and Motion
In Cooperation with:
Berlin School of Mind and Brain (Arno Villringer, Daniel S. Margulies)
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité (Thomas Schnalke)
Association of Neuroesthetics (Alexander Abbushi)
Emotion and Motion - First conference in the series Habitus in Habitat
Emotions are central to human experience and behavior. They condition our actions and are inherent in all forms of communication. It has also become widely accepted that there is no cognition without emotion, suggesting that every formation of cognitive skills and epistemological faculties, every cultural practice and any form of human communication is accompanied by specific emotional habitualizations and the formation of an emotional habitus – a set of habits involved in emotional communication.
Program
Thursday, 9 July 2009
15: 30 Conference Opening
16:00 Transference – Transmission – Negotiation (Moderator: Paula Droege)
Shaun Gallagher: Emotional Disruption and Delusional Experience
Christine Kirchhoff: Affected by the Other – Emotions in psychoanalysis
Barbara Rosenwein: Emotional Communities and the Body
19:00 Exhibition Opening
THE GLASS VEIL by Suzanne Anker
Friday, 10 July 2009
10:00 Spatial Emotions (Moderator: Gerhard Scharbert)
Jan Söffner: On Homesickness
Doris Kolesch: Motion and Emotion – Taking a walk in Versailles
Felicity Callard: Umbrellas, Lanterns and Companions – Propping the agoraphobic subject
14:00 Guided tour of Berlin Museum of Medical History
Thomas Schnalke: The Body as Inventory and Environment – Tracing the Virchow concept of displaying human specimens
16:00 Corporeal Contagions (Moderator: Jörg Fingerhut)
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Performing Emotions – How to conceptualize emotional contagion in performance
Daniel Margulies: Mirroring Systems and Emotional Contagion – Re-mapping the brain within a social habitat
Thomas Fuchs: Intercorporality: How embodied interaction shapes the mind and the brain
Ohad Parnes: From 'Self-Nonself Discrimination' to Mediation between the Body and its Environment – The recent paradigm shift in immunology and its historical roots
Saturday, 11 July 2009
10:00 Sensorium (Moderator: Ryan Cordell)
Alexander Thiele: Attention – How the brain enables (conscious) perception
Arno Villringer: The Body and its Representation in the Brain
Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek: Shame and Grace
Sabine Flach: Lament in Contemporary Arts
14:30 Crossing Aesthetics (Moderator: Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink)
Alexander Abbushi: Artistic Practice – Sound – Space – Art
Jin Hyun Kim: Embodiment of Musical Expressiveness
John Krois: Experiencing Emotion in Depictions – Being moved without motion
Michel Chaouli: Aesthetic Feeling in the Critique of Judgement
18:00 Locomotion (Moderator: Ida Momennejad)
Marta Braun: Animal Locomotion – The bodies reveal
Erik Porath: Situation and Motion – The art of expression in Fiedler and Freud
Sunday, 12 July 2009
10:00 Ritual and Revelation (Moderator: Perdita Ladwig)
Robert Turner: Ritual Action Shapes our Brains
Heike Schlie: The Excentric Crucifixion
Barbara Larson: Through Stained Glass – Communities of reverence and revelation in early avant-garde circles
12:30: Finissage
TWIST by Alexia Walther funded by ProHelvetia
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