European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres
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"Grand Challenges for the Humanities?"
2012 Annual ECHIC Conference to be hosted by the CfH at Utrecht University from Feb 28- Mar 1, 2012. The purpose of ECHIC is to provide a forum to discuss important issues in the field of arts and humanities.
More specifically, the Consortium aims to speak up on behalf of members in dialogues with ESF, EU and others on matters concerning humanities research and to establish a network for mutual benefit and possible identification of partners for European research collaboration ECHIC is committed to organize an annual Humanities Conference at one member institution which would involve all partners and interested stakeholders.
Conference convener: Prof. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht)
Organizing Committee: Prof. Poul Holm (Dublin); prof. Marxiano Melotti (Florence)
PROGRAMME
Tuesday February 28, 2012
15.30-16.00 Arrival & registration of participants
16.00-16.15: Welcome by Prof. Rosi Braidotti (Chair, Director Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University)
16.15-17.00: Keynote lecture by Prof. Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)
17.00-18.30: The Digital Humanities
- 17.00 – 17.45 Dr. Almila Akdag (E-Humanities platform, KNAW): “Pitfalls of Digital Humanities”
- 17.45 – 18.30 Dr. René Glas (New Media, Utrecht University) and Ronald Lenz (CEO 7Scenes): “Citizin Science for Smartphones”
18.30-21.00: Welcoming drinks & conference dinner
Wednesday February 29, 2012
08.45-09.15: Welcome & registration of participants
09.15-09.30: Official Opening Conference by Research Dean Prof. Keimpe Algra
09.30-11.00: Panel 1 Global Humanities
Chair: Prof. Siep Stuurman (CfH, Utrecht University)
- 09.30 – 09.50: Prof. Ed Jonker (Utrecht University): “Memory and the Humanities: Uni-directional, multi-directional, omni-directional?”
- 09.50 – 10.10 Prof. Teresa Vallès “María Zambrano’s version of Antigone and how the humanities awakens civic awareness” (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona)
- 10.10 – 10.30: Prof. Svetlana Slapsak “Global Homer: from the cornerstone of humanities to the pitfalls of localization” (Ljubljana University)
- 10.30 – 11.00: responses and discussion
11.15-12.45: Panel 2 Civic Responsibility of the Humanities
Chair: Prof. Susan Manning (IASH, University of Edinburgh)
- 11.15 – 11.35: Prof. Wijnand Mijnhardt (Director Descartes Centre, Utrecht University) “Digital Humanities and the Classroom: Catching up for Lost Time”
- 11.35 – 11.55: Prof. Luis Adão da Fonseca (Oporto University & CEPESE) “The Ethical and Civic Responsibility of the Historical Science as a Humanistic Discipline”
- 11.55 – 12.15: Prof. Sami Pihlstrom (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): “Holistic Pragmatism as a Philosophical Framework for Humanistic Inquiry”
- 12.15 – 12.45: responses and discussion
12.45-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-15.30: Panel 3 Environmental Humanities
Chair: Prof. Rosi Braidotti (CfH, Utrecht University)
- 14:00 – 14:20: Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University): “New Materialism: Ecology, Tecnology and Subjectivity beyond Antropocentrism”
- 14:20 – 14:40: Sara Spanu (University of Sassari): “Sustainable Development as a Challenge for Cities in the 21st Century: the case of Freiburg”
- 14:40 – 15:00: : Dr. Heide Hackmann (ISSC): “Transformative cornerstones of social science research for global change: Towards a new international funding programme.”
- 15:00 – 15:30: responses & discussion
15.45-17.15: Panel 4 Cognitive Humanities
Chair: Prof. Frank Kessler
- 15.45 – 16.05: Prof. Harry Kunneman “Hermeneutic naturalism: connecting the life sciences and the humanities “(Director University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht)
- 16.05 – 16.25: Prof. Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam): “Patterns in the Humanities”
- 16.25 – 16.45: Prof. Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam): “The Neuro-Image: Methodological Challenges of Exploring the Neuroturn in the Humanities”
- 16.45 – 17.15: responses and discussion
17.15 – 18.00: Round-up discussions
18.00 – 22.00: Official Conference Dinner
Thursday March 1, 2012
09.50 -11.30: Bringing out the Best: Humanities Towards 2020
Chair: Prof. Poul Holm (Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin)
- 09.50 – 10.10: Rüdiger Klein (ALLEA)
- 10.10 – 10.30: Maarten Prak (Dutch Research Council, NWO)
- 10.30 – 10.50: Angela Schindler-Daniels (net4society)
- 10.50 – 11.10: Wim van den Doel and Wiljan van den Akker (LERU)
- 11.10 – 11.45 responses and discussion
11.45 – 12.00: Prof. Wiljan van den Akker (Dean Humanities faculty, Utrecht)
Closing Remarks
12.00 – 12.30: Short Break
12.30 – 14.00: Business meeting ECHIC members
Chairs: Rosi Braidotti, Poul Holm
14.30 Closing and departure conference delegates.
The 2012 ECHIC conference is financially supported by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
