Conference, Marburg,18-19. October 2012: Nomadic Concepts, Biological concepts and their careers beyond biology
„Nomadic concepts. Biological concepts and their careers beyond biology”
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Second Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts
in cooperation with the Department of History, Central European University in Budapest
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Dates: 18-19. October 2012
Venue: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Conference hall (Vortragssaal), Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg
http://www.herder-institut.de/startseite/kontakt/anreise.html
Organizers:
Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute, Marburg)
Katalin Straner (CEU Budapest)
Jan Surman (DAAD-Leibniz Research Fellow, Herder Institute, Marburg)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
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9:00-9:10 Peter Haslinger: Welcoming words
9:10-9:30 Katalin Straner, Jan Surman: Conceptual preliminaries
9:30-11:00 Section 1
Alexandra Claudia Manta: A Genealogy of “Vitalism” from the 17th - 18th Century Life Sciences to Contemporary (Bio)philosophies: The Historical and Theoretical Lives of a Vital Question
Mikhail Konashev: Evolutionary theory and evolutionary humanism: what is the first, what is the second?
Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Section 2
Gerhard Müller-Strahl: Explaining organismic phenomena. Metaphors, objectivity and mechanisms
Charles Wolfe: The organism as ontological go-between: hybridity, boundaries and limit cases in its conceptual history
Discussion
13:00-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:45 Section 3
Tatyana Skrebtsova: The concept of organism in linguistics: interpretations and implications
Julian Bauer: Organismen als Grenzobjekte. Zur Zirkulation von Wissen zwischen Biologie und Soziologie seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert
Discussion
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:30 Section 4
Andrew Reynolds: Suicide and Altruism in the Society of Cells: an illustration of nomadic concepts and rhetorical devices
Andreas Musolff: From social to biological parasites and back: the conceptual career of a metaphor
Jörg Richter: Mutation between biology and the humanities
Discussion
Friday, October 19, 2012
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9:30-11:00 Section 5
Björn Felder: "Who owns the soil should also saw!" Eugenics, Bio-Politics and the biologized nation in the Baltics 1926-1940
Pieter C. van Duin, Zuzana Poláčková: Ethno-national discourse and biological vocabulary in Slovakia, with special reference to the age of Leibniz
Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Section 6
Christopher Donohue: From ‘Natural Selection’ to ‘Social Selection’: The Differentiation and Career of a Concept in Early Twentieth Century Social Thought.
Anna Piotrowska: Adaptation of biological vocabulary in musicological writings
Discussion
13:00-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:45 Section 7
Christina Wessely: Milieu. Surroundings of Life
Wolf Feuerhahn: A Spectre is haunting Germany - the French Spectre of Milieu
Discussion
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:45 Section 8
Michael Weingarten: Nanotechnologie - Die Entwicklung eines Projektes im Spannungsfeld von Theologie, Life Sciences und technologischer Phantasie
Stefan Halft: Der ‚Klon‘ als Wissensobjekt. Konzeptuelle Prozesse der Wissensgenese und Wissensgestaltung
Discussion
17:45-18:30
Katalin Straner, Jan Surman: Final comment
Final discussion
Contact:
Jan Surman
DAAD-Leibniz Research Fellow
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
+49-6421-184-101
jan.surman@univie.ac.at
Ina Alber
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
+49-6421-184-122
ina.alber@herder-institut.de
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Second Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts
in cooperation with the Department of History, Central European University in Budapest
------------------------------
Dates: 18-19. October 2012
Venue: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Conference hall (Vortragssaal), Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg
http://www.herder-institut.de/startseite/kontakt/anreise.html
Organizers:
Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute, Marburg)
Katalin Straner (CEU Budapest)
Jan Surman (DAAD-Leibniz Research Fellow, Herder Institute, Marburg)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
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9:00-9:10 Peter Haslinger: Welcoming words
9:10-9:30 Katalin Straner, Jan Surman: Conceptual preliminaries
9:30-11:00 Section 1
Alexandra Claudia Manta: A Genealogy of “Vitalism” from the 17th - 18th Century Life Sciences to Contemporary (Bio)philosophies: The Historical and Theoretical Lives of a Vital Question
Mikhail Konashev: Evolutionary theory and evolutionary humanism: what is the first, what is the second?
Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Section 2
Gerhard Müller-Strahl: Explaining organismic phenomena. Metaphors, objectivity and mechanisms
Charles Wolfe: The organism as ontological go-between: hybridity, boundaries and limit cases in its conceptual history
Discussion
13:00-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:45 Section 3
Tatyana Skrebtsova: The concept of organism in linguistics: interpretations and implications
Julian Bauer: Organismen als Grenzobjekte. Zur Zirkulation von Wissen zwischen Biologie und Soziologie seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert
Discussion
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:30 Section 4
Andrew Reynolds: Suicide and Altruism in the Society of Cells: an illustration of nomadic concepts and rhetorical devices
Andreas Musolff: From social to biological parasites and back: the conceptual career of a metaphor
Jörg Richter: Mutation between biology and the humanities
Discussion
Friday, October 19, 2012
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9:30-11:00 Section 5
Björn Felder: "Who owns the soil should also saw!" Eugenics, Bio-Politics and the biologized nation in the Baltics 1926-1940
Pieter C. van Duin, Zuzana Poláčková: Ethno-national discourse and biological vocabulary in Slovakia, with special reference to the age of Leibniz
Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Section 6
Christopher Donohue: From ‘Natural Selection’ to ‘Social Selection’: The Differentiation and Career of a Concept in Early Twentieth Century Social Thought.
Anna Piotrowska: Adaptation of biological vocabulary in musicological writings
Discussion
13:00-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:45 Section 7
Christina Wessely: Milieu. Surroundings of Life
Wolf Feuerhahn: A Spectre is haunting Germany - the French Spectre of Milieu
Discussion
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:45 Section 8
Michael Weingarten: Nanotechnologie - Die Entwicklung eines Projektes im Spannungsfeld von Theologie, Life Sciences und technologischer Phantasie
Stefan Halft: Der ‚Klon‘ als Wissensobjekt. Konzeptuelle Prozesse der Wissensgenese und Wissensgestaltung
Discussion
17:45-18:30
Katalin Straner, Jan Surman: Final comment
Final discussion
Contact:
Jan Surman
DAAD-Leibniz Research Fellow
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
+49-6421-184-101
jan.surman@univie.ac.at
Ina Alber
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
+49-6421-184-122
ina.alber@herder-institut.de
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