Day 1
10:00 – Arrival, Registration & Coffee
10:45 – Welcome
11.00-12:30 – Panel 1: Proto-Posthumanism (i)
Elena Fabietti (Regensburg)
‘Posthuman Fantasies in the Age of Enlightenment: A Man with a Window on the Heart in Christian Heinrich Spieß’s Biographien der Wahnsinnigen (1796)’
Kerstin Borchhardt (KU Linz)
‘Of Man and Superman: The Afterlife of Nietzsche’s “Übermensch” in Politics, Science, and Popular Culture’
Ombre Tarragnat (Université Paris 8)
‘Neurodiversity and the Posthuman: Towards a New Account of Human Umwelten’
12.35-13:30 – Panel 2: Proto-Posthumanism (ii)
Kate Foster (King’s College London)
‘The Doppelgänger: Weimar Cinema and the Posthuman’
Caitlin Powell (University College London)
‘Subtractive Posthumanism: Pregnancy and Termination in Interwar Germany’
13.30-14:30 – Lunch
14.30-15:30 – Panel 3: Ontologies, Ecologies and Geographies (i)
Teresa Ludden (Newcastle)
‘Nonhuman Agency and Differential Becomings in Texts by Michael Donhauser and Oswald Egger’
Henrik Wehmeier (Hamburg)
‘The Blurred I: Posthumanist Concepts of Subjectivity in Contemporary Poetry’
15.30-16:00 – Coffee Break
16.05-17:00 – Keynote 1:
Stefan Herbrechter (Heidelberg): ‘Posthumanism’s German Genealogies’
17:00-17:30 – Wine Reception
17:30-19:00 – Guest Author Reading & Workshop
19:30 onwards: Conference Dinner: TAS Anatolian Restaurant, Bloomsbury
Day 2
09.00-10:30 – Panel 4: Ontologies, Ecologies and Geographies (ii)
Dana Bönisch (Bonn)
‘Entanglements: Posthumanist Poetics and Relational Ethics’
Peter Arnds (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Transhuman Moments in Norbert Scheuer’s Novels on War and Forced Migration’
Sarah Pogoda (Bangor)
‘The Buoy in the Elevator – Artistic Research into Heiner Müller’s Posthuman Utopia
10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 – Panel 5: (A)lterity, (I)dentity and Connection (i)
Maria Roca Lizarazu (Galway) and Simone Pfleger (U. Alberta)
‘In Touch with the In/Human’
Marlene Reich (NYU)
‘Hybrid Matters in Berit Glanz’s Pixeltänzer (2019)’
12:05-13:00 – Keynote 2:
Karin Harrasser (Kunstuniversität Linz) - ‘Para, not post’
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:30 – Panel 6: (A)lterity, (I)dentity and Connection (ii)
Benjamin Schaper (Oxford)
‘“Nicht einheimisch, aber auch nicht exotisch: Briten eben”: Loneliness and Human-Machine Interaction in
Maria Schrader’s Ich bin dein Mensch (2021)’
Tobias Heinrich (U. Kent)
‘My Friend Robot: Emotional Relationships with Artificial Intelligence in Fiction and Beyond’
Nicole Brandstetter (University of Applied Sciences, Munich)
‘Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media: Narrative Representations of Posthuman Societies’
15:30-16:00 – Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 – Early Career Researchers Workshop
17:00-18:30 – Panel 7: Rupture, Catastrophe and Renewal
Georgia Panteli (Vienna)
‘Pinocchio and Other Posthumans: The Art of Ausonia’
Suman Singh (Wuppertal)
‘Human and Non-Human Encounters in Arno Schmidt’s Schwarze Spiegel (1951) and Georg Klein’s Miakro (2018)’
Friederike Reents (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
‘Rupture as Creative Potential in Posthuman Scenarios in Philipp Weiss’ Der letzte Mensch (2019) Anja Utler’s kommen sehen (2020) and Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Cartage, encore (1979)’
18:30: Closing Remarks & End of Conference