STREAMS
The conference will be structured around the following subthemes:
- Empathy, Ethics, Morality (Convenors: Markus Wild)
Possible themes:
- Empathy as the foundation of ethics and morality
- The “Against Empathy” movement
- Cruelty and pleasure in being anti-empathetic
- Political dimensions of empathy
- Empathy, Narrative, Imagination (Convenors: Franziska Gygax and Susanne Schmetkamp)
- Empathy as the precondition of fiction and imagination
- Strategies of prompting and/or preventing empathy
- Structures of empathy in sound and image
- Evolution of empathy and historical perspectives on empathy - Empathy and the Nonhuman (Convenors: Manuela Rossini and Jakob Zinsstag)
- Future developments in robotics and AI, including humanoid robots and robot assistants
- Responsibility and legal and moral aspects of new technologies
- Cyber wars
- Animals and plants - Collective Empathy (Convenors: Chris Mueller)
- Cultural differences and cultural politics of empathy
- Empathy as a phenomenon of mediation
- Communication and quantum physics
- Collective feelings and affects
- Empathy, populism and political activism