Colloquium 'Turning to space'
Design and cognition of the spatial
in an interdisciplinary perspective.
A colloquium at the TU Dresden,
from January 20 to 24, 2005.
Organized by Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz
(Central European Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden)
Organization: MitteleuropaZentrum für Staats-,
Economic and Cultural Studies,
TU Dresden D-01062 Dresden
Phone: +49-(0)351-4633-7865
Fax: +49-(0)351-4633-7769
Program:
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Thursday, 20.01. 2005
I. Opening
16:00 Opening by the Rector of the TUD Dresden University of Technology, Prof. Hermann Kokenge
16:30 Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz (TU Dresden; Modern German Literature): Introduction: 'Socially interpreted spatial facts': A cognitive category of cultural studies in the interdisciplinary field. Report and program
II Shaping and shaping space
17:00 Prof. Hermann Kokenge (TU Dresden, Landscape Architecture): 'Of interior and exterior spaces - spatial planning and design in architecture / landscape architecture'
17:30 Jens Baumann (State Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Saxony): Managed space
18:00 Prof. Dr. Wolf Koch (TU Dresden, Theoretical Cartography and Map Design): On the concept of space in cartography
18:30 Prof. Dr. Arno Kleber (TU Dresden, Institute of Geography): From point to area in the semi-arid west of the USA
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Friday, 21.01. 2005
9:00 Prof. Dr. Dominik Faust (TU Dresden; Physical Geography): Landscape - Change - Protection
9:30 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller (TU Dresden, Institute for Ecological Spatial Development): Demographic change in Europe - new challenges for sustainable spatial development
10:00 Prof. Dr. Johannes Rohbeck (TU Dresden, Practical Philosophy and Didactics of Philosophy): Historical Space and Globalization
III. orders of the spatial
10:30 Prof. Dr. Ludger Udolph (TU Dresden, Slavic Literary Studies): The Empire in the East
11:00 Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße (TU Dresden, Slavic Linguistics): Space as axiological metaphor
11:30 Prof. Dr. Franz Merli (TU Dresden, Jean Monnet Chair for the Law of European Integration and Comparative Law with Special Reference to Central and Eastern Europe): Legal Spaces
13:30 Prof. Dr . Anton Sterbling (Rothenburg): Spaces, borders, border areas
14:00 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kowalke (TU Dresden, Institute of Geography): Current research in the Saxon-Bohemian border region
14:30 Dr. Melanie Morisse-Schilbach (TU Dresden; International Politics): External border areas of the European Union
15:00 Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte (TU Dresden, Economics and Transport): The economic influence of borders
15:30 Prof. Dr. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (TU Dresden, Sociological Theory, Theory History and Cultural Sociology): The state-socialist social project in the public space of the GDR
16:30 Dr. Eugen Kotte (University of Augsburg; Didactics of History): "Spaces written in times. Ideas on the spatiality of Europe from a historical-scientific and historical-didactic perspective
17:00 PD Dr. Josef Matzerath (TU Dresden, Saxon Regional History): The representation of political space in parliament
17:30 Pál Kelemen M.A.(Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, German Literature): Topos and figure. On the implicit spatial discourse of rhetorical reading
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Saturday, 22.01. 2005
IV Cities / Regions
9:00 PD Dr. Gabriela Christmann (Christian - Albrechts -University Kiel, Institute of Sociology): On the sociology of space - From the "oblivion of space" to the social construction of space.
9:30 Prof. Dr. Joachim Born (Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Institute of Romance Studies): Glocalization and globalization in the Cono Sur
10:00 Dr. Elisabeth Tiller (TU Dresden, Italian Cultural History): City-space and city-dream: urban representation and imaginary cities in 15th century Italy
10:30 Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst (Palacky University Olomouc; German Studies): Bohemia and Moravia - a cultural competition between regions?
11.00 Prof. Dr. Norbert Rehrmann (TU Dresden, Romance Cultural Studies): On the "dilapidated hypotheses of philosophical anthropology". Immanuel Kant's visions of America
11:30 Prof. Dr. Marek Zybura (Uniwersytet Wroclaw): The Polish myth of the 'krecy'
13:00 Prof. Dr. Hubert Or³owski (University of Poznan, German Studies): East Prussia - rediscovery of a historical province
13:30 Prof. Dr. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, German Literature): City - Country - River. On the rhetoric of stable and fluid topographies
V. Representations of the spatial
14:00 PD Dr. Elka Tschernokoshewa (Sorbisches Institut e.V., Bautzen): Hybridization of identities and spaces
14:30 Dr. Helmut Mottel (TU Dresden; Modern German Literature): "Justine and Juliette" as a travel novel.
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Monday, 24.01. 2005
9:30 Dr. Jürgen Joachimsthaler (TU Dresden; Modern German Literary Studies): Text and space
10:00 Dr. Konstanze Rudert (TU Dresden, Chair of Art History): From experience to construction. Representation of city and space in the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
10:30 Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz (TU Dresden; Modern German Literature): Entlegenheit. On the order of symbolic places.
11:00 Prof. Dr. Bettina Gruber (Ruhr University Bochum, Modern German Literature): Narration and space. Literary and cinematic strategies in Peter Handke.
11:30 Dr. Michael Neumann (TU Dresden; Modern German Literary Studies): "Magische Effecte". The desire for presence and the experience of space around 1800
12:00 Antje Johanning, M.A. (Max Hermann Neisse Institute of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): From Silesia to Silesia - textual spaces and pictorial spaces
VI Summary
12:30 Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz (TU Dresden; Chair of Modern German Literature): InterfaceMetaphor: On the cultural appropriation of virtual spaces