Program

Day 1, Wednesday, 9 October 2019

01:00 - 02:00 pm:
Christiane Voss (Weimar): Welcome and introductory lecture
02:00 - 03:30 pm:
Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht): Corporeal Literacy
Johanna Seifert (Weimar): Torn, Crushed, Shredded. The Reconstruction of wounded bodies in World War I

coffee break, 30 min

04:00 - 05:30 pm:
Julia Bee (Weimar): From Film Anthropology to Audio Visual Becomings – Individuations and Documentary Ecologies
Martin F. Manalansan IV (Minneapolis-Saint Paul): Queer Mess as Entangled Politics: Marie Kondo, Domesticity, and Makeover Media in the Age of Global Populism

conference dinner

Day 2, Thursday, 10 October 2019

10:00 - 11:30 am:
Eleni Ikoniadou (London): The Voices
Bernhard Siegert (Weimar): Unfolding Bodies (Animal/Human). Art and Ontology of the American Northwest Coast

coffee break, 30 min

12:00 am - 01:30 pm:
Friedlind Riedel (Weimar): Music’s Humans
David Trippett (Cambridge): Human sounds and the obscenity of information

lunch break, 1h

02:30 - 04:00 pm:
Gabriele Schabacher (Mainz): In Control of Algorithms. Human-machine relations at the train station
Brian Larkin (New York): The ambient infrastructure of generators

coffee break, 30 min

04:30 - 06:00 pm:
Christina Brandt (Jena): Anthropological Transformations in the late 20th Century. Perspectives from the History of the Life Sciences
Philipp Gries (Weimar): Neutral Time

ca 06:30pm:
KOMA farewell party

Day 3, Friday, 11 October 2019

10:00 - 11:30 am:
Jason Pine (New York): Meth = Sorcery
Lorenz Engell (Weimar): On the Anthropology of the Mode Double Click

coffee break, 30 min

12:00 am - 01:30 pm:
Martin Zillinger (Cologne): Skill, Scale and New Communities of Practice
Christoph Carsten (Weimar) : A Life in the Interstices. The Micropolitics and Aesthetics of Everyday Life

closing remarks