Figures of the disturbance
Renowned scholars, authors, and advisors were regularly invited to the lecture series “Figures of Disorder” to explore the principles of disorder from the perspective of their respective fields of research.
- May 18, 2018 - Dietmar Dath: “Evidence for Life: Science Fiction, the Present, and Politics”
- October 26, 2017 – Oliver Fahle and Elisa Linseisen (Bochum): “Realisms as Delegations of the Documentary”
- July 11, 2017 – Sabine Sanio (Munich):“ : Disturbance of the Imprint or Reflection of Perception?”
- November 15, 2016 - Georg Mein: Before the Law—and Beyond: The Crime of Private Lortie
- June 30, 2016 - Nicholas Saul (Durham): Contagionism and Literature. A Shift in Perspective from Wells, Laßwitz, and Nordau to the 20th Century
- April 28, 2016 - Oliver Jahraus (Munich): On the Tree of Knowledge: The Acquisition of Knowledge and the Loss of Innocence. Situations of Epistemological Disruption
- November 11, 2015 - Manfred Schneider (Bochum): The Transitional Subject. Disruption in Spaces of Transit
- June 19, 2015 - Tom McCarthy (London): “Recessional” – or, “The Time of the Hammer”
- June 10, 2015 - Frank Bösch (Potsdam): Disturbances of the Peace. The Emergence, Development, and Consequences of Scandals
- June 10, 2015 - Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (Münster): Authorship Scandals. Theatricality and Narrative Grammar
- December 10, 2014 - Ralf Schnell (Siegen): Curses, Cursings, and Invectives—A Cultural-Historical Panorama
- June 24, 2014 - Hartmut Böhme (Berlin): On the Cultural Drive Toward Transhuman Figurations and Prosthetics
- June 24, 2014 – Niels Werber (Siegen): Stirring Up an Anthill: Homeostasis and Disruptions in Complex Societies
- May 7, 2014 (University of Siegen) - Michael Hagner (Zurich): Canguilhem, Freud, and the (Dis)ruption of Life
- December 12, 2013 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen) - Hans-Christian von Herrmann (TU Berlin): Museum Meltdown. Strategies of “Choc” Between Psychotechnology, Art, and Play
- June 26, 2013 (University of Siegen) - Bernhard Siegert (Weimar): From an Epistemology of Disruption to an Ecology of Disruption and Back