PROGRAMME:

CHART OF KEYNOTE LECTURES,

PLENARY AND GROUP DISCUSSIONS, AND PAPER SESSIONS (revised 16^th Jan)

WED. 26^th JAN.

Transfers to and arrivals in Berlin

THURS 27^th JAN.	Venue: Medientheater, Humboldt: Institut für Musik- und Medienwissenschaft, Sophienstraße 22a	Activity	Curricular texts	Venue: Seminar room 1	Venue: Seminar room 2	Venue: Seminar room 3	Venue: Seminar room 4	Restaurants
09:30– 09.45	Medientheater Lars Sætre and the TBLR Board; Venue host: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst	Welcome, and Introduction
09:45– 10:30	Medientheater Astrid Erll	Lecture title: “Media and (Trans-) Cultural Memory”	Curricular texts: (1) From Astrid Erll: Memory in Culture (2011) (Will be forwarded snail-mail) (2) Astrid Erll: “Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction” --> English
10:30– 11:00	Medientheater	Comments, questions, plenary discussion of Astrid Erll’s paper (and her currcicular texts)
11:00– 11:15		Break; stretching of legs
11:15– 12:00	Medientheater Sigrid Weigel	Lecture title: “The Pictures as the lighting flash for the ‘long echoing thunder’ of theory formation. On the relevance of art for Benjamin’s epistemology” Benjamin being one of the most important contributors to memory and modernity, this lecture will be an investigation into the role of paintings for Benjamin’s theory.	Curricular texts: (1) Walter Benjamin: “On the Concept of History” --> English --> Norwegian --> German (2) Walter Benjamin: “Excavation and Memory” --> English
12:00– 12:30	Medientheater	Comments, questions, plenary discussion of Sigrid Weigel’s paper (and her currcicular texts)
13:00– 14:30		LUNCH						LUNCH at Restaurant “12 Apostel” Berlin Mitte, Georgenstrasse 2 / S-Bahn-Bögen 177-180 (Tel.: +49 (0) 30 - 20 10 222)
14:30– 15:30	Medientheater Group 1 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Group discussion of Erll’s and Weigel’s curricular texts		Seminar room 1 Group 2 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 2 Group 3 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 3 Group 4 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 4 Group 5 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)
15:30– 16:00	Medientheater	Plenary session summing up main points of group discussions
16:00– 17:30	Medientheater Group 1 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	PhD-paper sessions		Seminar room 1 Group 2 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 2 Group 3 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 3 Group 4 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 4 Group 5 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)
18.00	Optional: Medientheater (same venue as TBLR’s). Our venue Host, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst has kindly invited all of us to attend the Inaugural Lecture by Stefan Münker, their new colleague in Media Studies at the Institut für Musik- and Medienwissenschaft. Lecture topic: “Denken Medien” [Do Media Think?]. It will be held in German. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
20:00		DINNER						DINNER at Restaurant “Deponie Nr. 3”, Georgenstrasse 5 (Tel.: +49 (0) 30 -20165740)

FRI. 28^th JAN.	Venue: Medientheater, Humboldt: Institut für Musik- und Medienwissenschaft, Sophienstraße 22a	Activity	Curricular texts	Venue: Seminar room 1	Venue: Seminar room 2	Venue: Seminar room 3	Venue: Seminar room 4	Restaurants
09:30 – 10:15	Medientheater Erika Fischer-Lichte	Lecture title: “Invocation of the Dead – The Potsdam Antigone from 1841 and the Reinvention of Theatre as Cultural Memory”	Curricular texts: (1) Marvin Carlson: “Chapter One: The Haunted Stage: An Overview” --> Download (2) Stephen Greenblatt: “The Circulation of Social Energy” --> Download (3) Jane Ellen Harrison: “Chapter IV: The Dithyramb, the Spring Festival and the Hagia Triada Sarcophagos” --> Doc. Part 1 --> Doc. Part 2
10:15 – 10:45	Medientheater	Comments, questions, plenary discussion of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s paper (and her currcicular text(s))
10:45 – 11:00		Break; stretching of legs
11:00 – 12:00	Medientheater Group 1 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Group discussion of Fischer-Lichte’s curricular text(s)		Seminar room 1 Group 2 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 2 Group 3 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 3 Group 4 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 4 Group 5 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)
12:00 – 12:30+	Medientheater	Plenary session summing up main points of group discussions
13:00 – 14:30		LUNCH						LUNCH at Restaurant: Salumeria Culinario, Tucholskystrasse 34 (Tel: +49 (0) 30 -280 967 67) (Büro: …68)
14:30 – 16:30		Guided historical tour of Berlin by commissioned bus	BEROLINA Berlin-Service Courier: Frau Bischoff					Starting point: Sophienstrasse 22a; Drop-off point at hotel
18:00, or at your own discretion		DINNER						DINNER (tonight: on your own; form smaller groups and select your own restaurants. Each participant will be subsidized with EUR 15)

SAT. 29^th JAN. NB: We start at 09:00 !	Venue: Medientheater, Humboldt: Institut für Musik- und Medienwissenschaft, Sophienstraße 22a	Activity	Curricular texts	Venue: Seminar room 1	Venue: Seminar room 2	Venue: Seminar room 3	Venue: Seminar room 4	Restaurants
09:00– 09:45	Medientheater Charlotte Klonk	Lecture title: “Portraits without Qualities”	Curricular text: Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari: ”Year Zero: Faciality” --> English
09:45– 10:15	Medientheater	Comments, questions, plenary discussion of Charlotte Klonk’s paper (and her currcicular text)
10:15– 10:30		Break; stretching of legs
10:30– 11:15	Medientheater Ansgar Nünning	Lecture title: “On the Problems of Representing Personal and Cultural Memory: Literature as a Medium for Exploring Fictions and Frames of Memory” An overview of recent research pertaining to the topic of the course (Aesthetic Memory) and some hypotheses and suggestions for further research.	Curricular texts: (1) Astrid Erll & Ansgar Nünning: “Where Literature and Memory Meet: Towards a Systematic Approach to the Concepts of Memory Used in Literary Studies” --> Download (2) Dorothee Birke: “The Representation of Crises of Memory in the Novel: A Cognitive Narratological Approach” --> Download
11:15– 11:45	Medientheater	Comments, questions, plenary discussion of Ansgar Nünning’s paper (and his currcicular texts)
12:00– 13:30		LUNCH						LUNCH at Restaurant “Sophieneck” Grosse Hamburger Strasse 37 (Tel.: +49 (0) 30 -2834065) (Büro: …2822109)
13:30– 14:15	Medientheater Group 1 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Group discussion of Klonk’s and Nünning’s curricular texts		Seminar room 1 Group 2 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 2 Group 3 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 3 Group 4 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)	Seminar room 4 Group 5 (Chaired by the PhD-candidates)
14:15– 14:45	Medientheater	Plenary session summing up main points of group discussions
14:45– 16:15	Medientheater Group 1 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	PhD-paper session		Seminar room 1 Group 2 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 2 Group 3 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 3 Group 4 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)	Seminar room 4 Group 5 (Chaired by TBLR-faculty and guest lecturers)
16:15– 16:25	Medientheater The TBLR Board and guest lecturers	Brief closing statements; Diplomas
17:30		DINNER						DINNER at Restaurant Maximilians im Kontorhaus, Friedrichsstrasse 185-190 (Tel. +49 (0) 30 - 20 45 05 59)

SUN. 30^th JAN.

Departures and transfers from Berlin. Check out of hotel before 12:00 noon.