Conference
19 Nov 2009 – 21 Nov 2009 · 1.00 am

Habitus in Habitat II. Other Sides of Cognition

Venue: Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1 (ehemals Schumannstr. 20/21), 10117 Berlin, Hörsaalruine
Contact: Sabine Flach
Research project(s): Emotion and Motion

In Cooperation with:
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Institut für Künstlerische Forschung
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
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Association of Neuroesthetics

Other Sides of Cognition - Second conference in the series Habitus in Habitat
This conference will address the other sides of cognition, that is, those aspects not yet focused on as such by brain research – such as ‘twilight’ or scansion phenomena of consciousness, states of boredom or meaninglessness, and spectrums of empathy. Drawing attention to these nuances of cognition, Other Sides of Cognition will specifically attempt to shed light on how the knowledge surrounding cognition can address forms and figurations of cultural and social understanding.

Program

Thursday, 19 November 2009

9:30 Conference Opening

Sabine Flach (ZfL), Arno Villringer (School of Mind and Brain), Ryan Cordell (Charité), Jan Söffner (ZfL)

10:0-12:00 Phenomenologies of Cognition (Chair: Jörg Fingerhut)

Alva Noë (Berkeley): The Aesthetics of Cognition

Marc Jeannerod (Lyon): Action, Body and Consciousness

David Freedberg (New York): Painting and the Other Side of Consciousness

13:00-14:30 Twilight Zones (Chair: Thomas Eller)

Daniel S. Margulies (Berlin) / Felicity Callard (London): The Subject at Rest

Jan Slaby (Marburg): A Proposal for the Study of (Existential) Feelings. The Case of Boredom

15:00-16:30

Holger Schulze (Berlin): The Generativity of Boredom. Morton Feldman, Aphex Twin, and Einstürzende Neubauten

Sabine Flach (Berlin): On Twilight

17:00-19:00 Disruptions (Chair: Uta Kornmeier)

Steffen Schneider (Tübingen): Texts on Drugs – Towards a Phenomenology and Epistemology of Literary Intoxication

Kirsten Kramer (Erlangen): Phantasms of the Mind. On Memory and Dream Perception in Early Modern Poetry

Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Lille): Plural Minds and Turing machines

19:30 Opening: Enception
An international photo exhibition, organized by Ryan Cordell, introduction by Thomas Schnalke, Sabine Flach, and Ulrich Dirnagl

Friday, 20 November 2009

10:00-12:00 Habituations
(Chair: Sabine Flach)

Yvonne Wübben (Berlin): Accommodation. Peripheral Response in Late 19th Century Physiology

Isabelle Moffat (Berlin): Neuroplasticity avant la lettre

Hans-Christian von Herrmann (Jena): A Setting of Frameworks and Attitudes. Aleksej Gastev's Conception of Proletarian Culture

13:30-15:00 Cognitive Mediations (Chair: Martin Treml)

Harold Schweizer (Bucknell): Writing in the Shade. A Meditation on Tone

Jan Söffner (Berlin): What Is It Like to Be With Bats? Some Thoughts on Jean Painlevé

15:30-17:00

Michael Pauen (Berlin): Beyond Consciousness. The Other Side of Social Cognition

Sigrid Weigel (Berlin): Compassio. A Christian Pathos Formula and the corpus communis

17:30-19.00 Modern Brains (Chair: Margarete Vöhringer)

Warren Neidich (Berlin): Neuropower

Jörg Thomas Richter (Berlin): Semblant Experimentation. On James Mark Baldwin's Genetic Aesthetics

19:30 Art Presentation: Brain Study
by Julian Klein (Berlin)

Saturday, 21 November 2009

9:30-11.30 Modern Souls
(Chair: Justus Fetscher)

Fabienne Liptay (München): The Limits of Control. Understanding Cinema Beyond Signs and Meanings

Gerhard Scharbert (Berlin): Cognitio animi experimentalis – Intoxication, Hallucination, Imagination, and Modernity

12:00-14:00 Flows of Meaning – Flows without Meaning (Chair: Ryan Cordell)

Ida Momennejad (Berlin): Remembering the Future with a Brain. On Intending What Is Not Done Yet

Armin Schäfer (Berlin): Interruptions. Stories of the Falling Sickness

Cornelia Müller (Frankfurt/Oder): Cognition and Emotion Embodied in the Flow of Discourse

15:00-17:00 Artistic Interplays (Chair: Alex Arteaga)

Nicolas de Oliveira & Nicola Oxley (London): We Were Never Being Boring. Between Concentration and Inattention

Cornelius Borck (Lübeck): Surfing on the Sea of Brain Waves. The EEG in Art Practice

Julian Klein (Berlin): The Other Side of the Frame. Artistic Experience as Felt Cognition

Publications

Sabine Flach, Jan Söffner (ed./eds.)

Habitus in Habitat II
Other Sides of Cognition

Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste/Nature, Science and the Arts/Nature, Science et les Arts vol. 4
Peter Lang, Bern 2010, 266 pages
ISBN 978-3-0343-0531-0