Thinking Together
Discourse and Listening
Thinking Together – the discourse format is dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of time in its socio-political, philosophical and artistic dimensions.
Consisting of lectures, workshops, public talks and experimental settings, the project provides time and space to reflect current time-related issues together with international guests from the fields of philosophy, political and social science, cultural studies, computer and neuroscience as well as music, dance, performance and visual art.
Thinking Together 2019
Thinking Together 2019 looks at history and historiography through a politically focused lens of time. In its fifth year of investigation, the discourse format scrutinizes common and dogged conceptions of linear time and history in order to disclose their underlying political matrices. What are the variegated politics behind historically contingent philosophies of history? What conceptions of time are they based on? And how do they, in turn, influence views onto the present, the ways of relating to the past and the ability to shape the future? The title of the conference, “Circluding History”, hints at a different way to approach history. “Circlusion” (a term coined by Bini Adamczak) is the antonym of penetration. It suggests non-linear understandings, inverts the relation between activity and passivity, and calls for symmetrical distribution of agencies. Following its speculative trajectories, Thinking Together will investigate and (re)imagine relations to the past, present and future, alternative genealogies, decolonized, global, connected as well as queer histories.
Saturday, 23 March 2019
Conference
Thinking Together
Circluding History I
With Anke Charton (AT), Dag Herbjørnsrud (NO), Timothy Morton (USA), Rolando Vázquez (MX/NL)
Sunday, 24 March 2019
Conference
Thinking Together
Circluding History II
With Elizabeth Freeman (USA), Amelia Groom (AU/DE), Vali Mahlouji (GB), Björn Schmelzer (BE)
Monday, 25 March 2019
Workshop
Thinking Together
Beyond Eurocentrism and Tribal History: Towards Decolonization and Connected Histories
Workshop with Dag Herbjørnsrud (NO)
Workshop
Thinking Together
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Workshop with Elizabeth Freeman (USA)
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Reading Group
Thinking Together
History as a warm wet place
Reading Group with Catalina Insignares (CO) & Carolina Mendonça (BR)
Listening Session
Thinking Together
Ways of Listening 1
Listening Session with Lucia Farinati (GB)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Reading Group
Thinking Together
History as a warm wet place
Reading Group with Catalina Insignares (CO) & Carolina Mendonça (BR)
Workshop & Reading Group
Thinking Together
History and Time in the context of the Gaia hypothesis
Workshop & Reading Group with texture
Listening Session
Thinking Together
Ways of Listening 2
Listening Session with Kamila Metwaly
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Workshop & Reading Group
Thinking Together
History and Time in the context of the Gaia hypothesis
Workshop & Reading Group with texture
Reading Group
Thinking Together
History as a warm wet place
Reading Group with Catalina Insignares (CO) & Carolina Mendonça (BR)
Listening Session
Thinking Together
Ways of Listening 3
Listening Session with Myriam van Imschoot (BE)
Film presentation Myriam Van Imschoot: Le Cadeau (BE 2018)
Friday, 29 March 2019
Workshop & Reading Group
Thinking Together
History and Time in the context of the Gaia hypothesis
Workshop & Reading Group with texture
