PROGRAMME 20/21 June to 24 June, 2017
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE - last update: 18 June 2017
> please click: overview (PDF) - see changes marked in yellow
> please click: conference booklet (pre-final PDF, with all the abstracts; please see "overview" and "list" for correct arrangements and confirmed participants. Unfortunately, there have been a number of cancellations after the booklet went into press.)
> please click: list (names/def. title of paper/def. day and time/page number where you find the abstract in the booklet/room; # = newly/time; ! = correct abstarct will be posetd on teh notice board)
All paper and roundtable sessions are given 2 hours. If you are in a paper session with two other participants, you can present for 20-30 minutes. If with three other delegates, we kindly ask you to limit your speaking time to 20 minutes, in order to allow for ample discussion time. Indiviudal arrangements apply in some sessions with mroe than 4 speakers.
> please click: overview (PDF) - see changes marked in yellow
> please click: conference booklet (pre-final PDF, with all the abstracts; please see "overview" and "list" for correct arrangements and confirmed participants. Unfortunately, there have been a number of cancellations after the booklet went into press.)
> please click: list (names/def. title of paper/def. day and time/page number where you find the abstract in the booklet/room; # = newly/time; ! = correct abstarct will be posetd on teh notice board)
All paper and roundtable sessions are given 2 hours. If you are in a paper session with two other participants, you can present for 20-30 minutes. If with three other delegates, we kindly ask you to limit your speaking time to 20 minutes, in order to allow for ample discussion time. Indiviudal arrangements apply in some sessions with mroe than 4 speakers.
PRE-CONFERENCE: TUESDAY, 20 June 2017
09.00 - 18.00 Please go to the WORKSHOPS page for details
18.30 - 19.00 Open to the public as well: Short evening performance by HORA
Location: Department of English (Englisches Seminar), Nadelberg 6
Remo Zarantonello will ask questions (translation into English provided) and
Julia Häusermann will then dance the answers. See also: This is Dance (2015)
19.00 - open Food and drinks
18.30 - 19.00 Open to the public as well: Short evening performance by HORA
Location: Department of English (Englisches Seminar), Nadelberg 6
Remo Zarantonello will ask questions (translation into English provided) and
Julia Häusermann will then dance the answers. See also: This is Dance (2015)
19.00 - open Food and drinks
CONFERENCE OPENING: WEDNESDAY, 21 June 2017
Opening in the University Main Building
16:15 - 16:45 Welcome Speeches by Vice-Rector for Research Ed Constable and SLSAeu President Manuela Rossini
16:45 - 17:30 Opening Lecture on the Conference Theme by Markus Wild
Empathies and Perspectives
17:30 - 17:50 Copenhagen 2017/2018 by Jens Hauser and Louise Whiteley
From Bacterial Empathy to Greenness
17:50 - 18:00 SLSAeu 2017: Programme overview
Short info about the video project Visual Science Communication@EMPATHIES by Jeanine Reutemann
18:00 - 20:30 Welcome Apéro (food and drinks)
16:15 - 16:45 Welcome Speeches by Vice-Rector for Research Ed Constable and SLSAeu President Manuela Rossini
16:45 - 17:30 Opening Lecture on the Conference Theme by Markus Wild
Empathies and Perspectives
17:30 - 17:50 Copenhagen 2017/2018 by Jens Hauser and Louise Whiteley
From Bacterial Empathy to Greenness
17:50 - 18:00 SLSAeu 2017: Programme overview
Short info about the video project Visual Science Communication@EMPATHIES by Jeanine Reutemann
18:00 - 20:30 Welcome Apéro (food and drinks)
THURSDAY, 22 June 2017
09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture by JEAN DECETY
The Complex Relation between Empathy and Morality:
A lesson from evolutionary biology, social neuroscience and psychopathy | abstract
Chair: Alexander Grob | Respondents: Alexander Grob and Hugues Marchal
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 13:00 Half-plenary Roundtables
1: Elemental Empathy (Biology, Literature) | abstract
2: Narrative Empathy (Literature, Film, Philosophy) | abstract
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
19:30 - 21.00 Reading/talk with DENISE RILEY (in cooperation with Literaturhaus Basel)
Moderator: Franziska Gygax
Denise Riley will read from her recent collection of poems Say Something Back (2016), which contains poems written after the sudden death of
her son. These poems challenge the possibilities of language while trying to establish some kind of [impossible] dialogue with the departed.
Writing these poems also meant engaging with the curious distortion of time after such a death since, as she puts it, “your own time stops
moving.” She will also read from her prose book, Timed Lived, Without Its Flow. Her writing provides evidence of the power of poetic
language in times of grief while also exploring a possible integration of death without mournfulness into one’s continuing life.
The Complex Relation between Empathy and Morality:
A lesson from evolutionary biology, social neuroscience and psychopathy | abstract
Chair: Alexander Grob | Respondents: Alexander Grob and Hugues Marchal
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 13:00 Half-plenary Roundtables
1: Elemental Empathy (Biology, Literature) | abstract
2: Narrative Empathy (Literature, Film, Philosophy) | abstract
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
19:30 - 21.00 Reading/talk with DENISE RILEY (in cooperation with Literaturhaus Basel)
Moderator: Franziska Gygax
Denise Riley will read from her recent collection of poems Say Something Back (2016), which contains poems written after the sudden death of
her son. These poems challenge the possibilities of language while trying to establish some kind of [impossible] dialogue with the departed.
Writing these poems also meant engaging with the curious distortion of time after such a death since, as she puts it, “your own time stops
moving.” She will also read from her prose book, Timed Lived, Without Its Flow. Her writing provides evidence of the power of poetic
language in times of grief while also exploring a possible integration of death without mournfulness into one’s continuing life.
FRIDAY, 23 June 2017
08.00 - 08:45 Meeting of the General Assembly (t.b.c.)
09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture by JESSE PRINZ
On the Genealogy of Empathy | abstract
Chair: Markus Wild | Respondents: Nicola Gess and Lori Gruen
11:00 - 13:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Pre-organised sessions with several speakers:
1: Assembling Empathy (Process Philosophy, Social Sciences, Theatre, Psychology) | abstract
2: Empathic Self-Control (Literature, Cognitive Studies) | abstract
3: Artists in the Hospital Zone (Nursing, Health Sciences, Psychology, Creative Writing) | abstract
19:00 - open Conference dinner in "Markthalle" Basel, near the train station and airport bus
Wonderful world food (vegan/vegetarian/meet/fish) - eat as much as you can.
At your own expenses, please pay your seat/food option online via the registration page.
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20:30 (t.b.c.) "Pinnacle" - an interactive opera
Performed by George Edwards and Jocelyne Kiss, with the help of Juan Nino
A 15 minute interactive opera called "Pinnacle" based on a science fiction scenario concerning people with radical differences and the struggle to
find acceptance in the midst of intolerance. The opera consists of a combination of pre-recorded virtual elements combined with live vocal
production and offers the audience the means to participate with their own voices in the denouement of the opera - the final scene plays out
differently depending on the quality of the audience's participation. It is still a work-in-progress. The opera's libretto was constructed with a focus
on difference, resonating with themes such as transgender acceptance, disability and mental illness. The presentation of this short opera allows us
to engage with audiences in interesting ways to address issues of embodiment, empathy, health and difference.
Performed by George Edwards and Jocelyne Kiss, with the help of Juan Nino
A 15 minute interactive opera called "Pinnacle" based on a science fiction scenario concerning people with radical differences and the struggle to
find acceptance in the midst of intolerance. The opera consists of a combination of pre-recorded virtual elements combined with live vocal
production and offers the audience the means to participate with their own voices in the denouement of the opera - the final scene plays out
differently depending on the quality of the audience's participation. It is still a work-in-progress. The opera's libretto was constructed with a focus
on difference, resonating with themes such as transgender acceptance, disability and mental illness. The presentation of this short opera allows us
to engage with audiences in interesting ways to address issues of embodiment, empathy, health and difference.
SATURDAY, 24 June 2017
09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture by JACKIE LEACH SCULLY
Other People's Lives: Empathy, ethics and epistemic justice | abstract
Chair: Rouven Porz | Respondents: Catherine Mills and Carolyn Pedwell
11:00 - 13:00 Half-plenary Roundtables
1: Entanglements of Matter and Disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Literature, BioArt) | abstract
2: Nonhuman Agents (Film, Literature, Law, Robotics) | abstract
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
18:45 - 19:15 WRAPPING UP AND FAREWELL
Other People's Lives: Empathy, ethics and epistemic justice | abstract
Chair: Rouven Porz | Respondents: Catherine Mills and Carolyn Pedwell
11:00 - 13:00 Half-plenary Roundtables
1: Entanglements of Matter and Disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Literature, BioArt) | abstract
2: Nonhuman Agents (Film, Literature, Law, Robotics) | abstract
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:30 Parallel Roundtable or Paper Sessions
18:45 - 19:15 WRAPPING UP AND FAREWELL