Conference Program

Thursday July 7th, 2011

until 15:00 Arrival/Registration

15:00–15:45 Opening by Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert, and Sabine Zubarik

15:45–16:45 Niklaus Largier (Berkeley/Berlin): "Figuration, Plasticity, and Affect"

Coffee break

17:00–18:00 Katherine Mezur – Berkeley/Berlin "Cold Burn: On Touch in Contemporary Japanese Dance"

Dinner

20:00 Performance: Philipp Gehmacher (Wien): "walk + talk Nr. 10", afterwards talk with Gabriele Brandstetter (in German)


Friday July 8th, 2011

10:00–11:00 Mark Paterson (Exeter): "Writing the motile body. Kinaesthetic and proprioceptive bodies"

11:00-12:00 Isabel Dziobek (Berlin): "Cognitive, emotional, and kinesthetic empathy: behavioral and brain evidence from psychopathology"

Coffee break

12:30-13:30 Corinne Jola (Guildford): "Do You Feel the Same Way Too?"

Lunch

15:00-16:00 Ann Cooper Albright (Oberlin): "The Empathy of Difference"

Coffee break

16:30-17:30 Adriana Pegorer (London): "CLOSE YOUR EYES AND... DANCE:  Touch and vision in Argentine tango"

17:30-18:30 Sonia Abadi (Buenos Aires): "To Dance Tango: The Weave of an Emotional, Physical and Social Network"

20:00 Performance: Susanne Opitz and Rafael Busch (Berlin): "Tango Relations", afterwards talk with Sabine Zubarik (in English) (Free admission)


Saturday July 9th, 2011

10:00-11:00 Marie-Luise Angerer (Köln): "Feeling the invisible"

11:00-12:00     Dee Reynolds (Manchester): "Destabilizing vision and impacting touch: filmic affects in Rosie Kay's '5 Soldiers'"

Coffee break

12:30-13:30 Robin Curtis (Berlin): "Is the movement of the film image a sign of vitality?"

20:00 Performance: Martin Nachbar (Berlin): "Urheben Aufheben", afterwards talk with Gabriele Brandstetter and Susanne Linke (in German)