The Graduiertenkolleg 2638 will host its first international conference in 2023. "Moving Normativity" will be held on May 11 and 12 at the Uferstudios in Berlin. Bringing together researchers from Philosophy, Law, Political Theory, Religious Studies, and several disciplines from the Arts, the conference seeks to create a space for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to pressing questions on normativity, agency, and social change. According to a general premise of our research, action is based on norms on the one hand, and only possible through a distance from norms on the other. In this understanding, critique is inherent to normativity. The conference sheds light on the various sites of tension inherent to agency, normative action and critique in four panels.

Friday, May 12 23

Panel 3: Reshaping Norms Through Counter Memories

How does story-telling and the (re-)writing of history contribute to the constitution of both individual and collective agents? Is the contribution in question realized through a negation of social standards or through the re-affirmation of them? Might the reappropriation of forgotten or repressed memories, images, and myths of the past empower new imaginative spaces of the present and future?

Speakers: Jessica Ullrich (Art Studies and Aesthetics), Massimiliano Tomba (Philosophy), Sarah Colvin (German Studies and Literature) / Moderation by Isabel Mehl

9:30-10:15 Talk 1 (45min incl. discussion)

10:15-11:00 Talk 2 (45min incl. discussion)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break (15min)

11:15-12:00 Talk 3 (45min incl. discussion)

12:00-12:45 Panel discussion (45min)

12:45-14:00 Lunch Break (1h 15min)

Panel 4: Disabling/Enabling Agency through the negation of movement of body and mind

Given that movement is crucial to both understanding and representing human action, how does the choreography of body and mind change in situations of disruption, error or restriction? What are the generative potentials of the body or mind in pause or passivity? What are blocking and paralyzing factors that shape the movement of the body and the mind, and in which way can these factors open new spaces for agency?

Speakers: André Lepecki (Performance Studies), Fiona McGovern (Art History), Francesca Raimondi (Philosophy) / Moderation by Jochen Schuff

14:00-14:45 Talk 1 (45min incl. discussion)

14:45-15:30 Talk 2 (45min incl. discussion)

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break (15min)

15:45-16:30 Talk 3 (45min incl. discussion)

16:30-17:15 Panel discussion (45min)

Closing remarks

Conference Concept: Friederike Allner, Johanna Baumgardt, Marlena Jakobs, Ina Karkani, Marta Lietti, Rodrigo Maruy van den Broek, Andrea Messner, Yon Natalie Mik, Ben Seel, Dr. Deborah Mühlebach, Dr. Jochen Schuff, Dr. Tobias Wieland, Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram

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