Closing Conference (L)imitation: Boundaries of Mimesis

8 & 9 April 2021
Online via Zoom

Closing Conference
of the Munich Doctoral Program for Literature and the Arts MIMESIS

The conference schedule includes public lectures and related working groups.
The public lectures are open to everyone interested, please register for lectures here.

The title (L)imitation addresses possible boundaries of mimesis: Is mimetic potential limited? Are these limitations determined, even constructed; or are they needed as a driving impetus? The conference adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and aims at exploring the limits of mimesis as an aesthetic, socio-cultural and anthropological key concept. Looking back on the work of the IDP MIMESIS, the conference intends to further explore and productively review these concepts, as well as historical and political aspects of the mimetic.

 

Conference Programme

All time indications are Munich local time.

Thursday, 8 April 2021

2:30 PM (CEST)
Welcoming Address (IDP MIMESIS)

Public Lecture
3:00 PM (CEST)
RICCARDO NICOLOSI (LMU MUNICH)
Literature and Experiment: Zola and Dostoevsky

4:00 PM (CEST)
Break

Public Lecture
4:30 PM (CEST)
MONIKA WAGNER (UHH HAMBURG)
Shine and Transparency: Notions of Dematerialising Materials

5:30 PM (CEST)
Break

6:30 PM (CEST)
Working Groups
Each lecture is accompanied by a related working group.
Places are limited. Registration is open until March 10 (see below).

Working Group 1:
RICCARDO NICOLOSI (LMU MUNICH)
Mimesis and Poiesis
Chair: Franziska Link (LMU Munich)

Working Group 2:
MONIKA WAGNER (UHH HAMBURG)
(Im)Materiality (in German)
Chair: Hubertus Kohle (LMU Munich)

8:00 PM (CEST)
Digital Get together

 

Friday, 9 April 2021

11:00 AM (CEST)
Closed Session for Members and Alumni of IDP MIMESIS

12:30 PM (CEST)
Lunch Break

Public Lecture
2:00 PM (CEST)
NIDESH LAWTOO (KU Leuven)
HOM Theory: Mimetic Patho(-)Logies in the Age of COVID-19

3:00 PM (CEST)
Break

Public Lecture
3:30 PM (CEST)
ELISABETH BRONFEN (UZH Zurich)
Westworld's Shakespearean Hauntings

4:30 PM (CEST)
Intermediate Closing Remarks

4:45 PM (CEST)
Break

6:00 PM (CEST)
Working Groups
Each lecture is accompanied by a related working group.
Places are limited. Registration is open until March 10 (see below).

Working Group 3:
NIDESH LAWTOO / RESEARCH GROUP “HOMO MIMETICUS” (KU LEUVEN)
From Plato to (New) Fascism
Chair: Marc Adamczack (LMU Munich)

Working Group 4:
ELISABETH BRONFEN (UZH Zurich)
Adaptation, Appropriation, Crossmapping
Chair: Tobias Döring (LMU Munich)

7:30 PM (CEST)
Internal Closing Remarks and Digital Get together

Contact
IDP Mimesis/ Franziska Link
E-Mail: l-imitation@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Organisation
Marc Adamczack, Franziska Link, Joana Mylek, Irma Petraityte-Luksiene, Marik Roos, Bettina Vitzthum