Singularity and the We

In this interdisciplinary workshop, co-organized by Christopher Stephan (KU) and Rasmus Dyring (AU), anthropologists and philosophers deliberate the relationship(s) between sociality and singularity.

Programme

Day 1 (11 September)

09:30

Coffee

10:00

Welcome

10:15

First panel (30-minute talks):

  • Rasmus Dyring | Intercorporeal Aging
  • Lone Grøn | It’s not, not love. Responsive couple dynamics in love and dementia
  • Maria Louw | Reasons for Not Owning a Teapot: Specters of Obligation among Kyrgyz Migrants in New York City

11:45

First-panel discussion

12:45

Lunch (75 minutes)

14:00

Second panel (30-minute talks):

  • Anne O’Byrne | Land, Landscape, Community
  • Line Ryberg Ingerslev | Memory work and latency in collective remembering
  • Jason Throop and Devin Flaherty | On Singular Particulars

15:30

Second-panel discussion

16:30

Coffee + snacks

Day 2 (12 September)

09:30

Coffee

10:00

First panel (30-minute talks):

  • Cheryl Mattingly | The Event of Surprise: Singularity and Plurality in a Neurodiverse Landscape
  • Anthony Fernandez and Peter Stillwell | How Others Shape the Self in Pain: Disrupting, Restoring, and Reconstructing the Self in Clinical and Community Contexts
  • Thomas Schwarz Wentzer | Communities of Fate: On Messages in Bottles, Orphan Hermeneutics and Events

11:30

First-panel discussion

12:30

Lunch (90 minutes)

14:00

Second panel (30-minute talks):

  • Jarrett Zigon | The Opening Toward Sociality
  • Nicolai Krejberg Knudsen | Groups and Moral Anger
  • Marieke Borren | A Critical Phenomenology of Radical Democratic Urban Walking Practices

15:30

Second-panel discussion

16:30

Concluding remarks

16:45

Coffee + snacks

Deadline for registration: 4 September 2024

Please direct any questions to christopher.stephan@hum.ku.dk