Modelling the Chaos, Narrating the Universe
Literary Studies in Interdisciplinary Conversation with Mathematics
6. – 7. June 2019
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Hugo-Rüdel-Str. 8
Bayreuth
Thursday 6. June 2019
11.00 – 11.15 Welcome and Introduction
11.15 – 12.30 Georg Hein: “Modell and Imagination”
12.45 – 14.00 Discussion
of Introductory Papers by Georg Hein und Susan Arndt and Tomupeishe Maphosa
Our Universe. Chaos, Waves and Likelihood
Georg Hein
Our Trans*Textual Universe: Chaos, Rhizomes & Intersectionality
Susan Arndt
Both: Neither Nor and Both, or: Complicating Complexities and Schrödinger’s Cat
Tomupeishe Maphosa
14:00 – 14:30 Break with Finger Food
14.30 – 15.30 Dilan Zoe Smida
Knowledge in (E)Motion: Travelling through Space*Time in the Wave of Feeling
15.30 – 16.30 Dikko Muhammad
Matter, Meaning, Imagination
16.30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 20:00
Mingqing Yuan
Manifold and Multiplicity in Deleuze’s Conceptualizations
Florian Kniffka
„Relation dans le „divers“/Relation im Divers“
To be discussed together with Susan Arndt’s „Relation. Ver/Irrender Versuch des Wissens im
Xin Li
Waves, Silence of the Universe & the Call of the Other
To be discussed together with Xin Li’s “Agency as Ethical Interverntion. Speaking from Silence”
20:00 Dinner
Friday 7. June 2019
12:00 – 13:00 Numaira Khan
Butterfly Effect
13:00 – 14:00 Taghrid Elhanafy A Black Hole: The Gate of Transformative Multiplicities
14:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Tobias Schickhaus Insular Waves
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Finalising Panel Discussion
Literary Studies ´n Conversation with Mathematics and Physics (to be recorded and transcribed)
on: Model and Imagination, Model and Chaos, Knowledge and Silence, Relation and Manifold, Space*time etc.
17:00 – 17:15 What now?
18:00 Barbeque
