WEDNESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2009
Venue: Alte Aula
18.45 – 19.00
WELCOME
President’s Address
Acting Director’s Address
19.00 – 20.00
OPENING LECTURE
Sarat Maharaj (London/Lund)
“Pandemonium Asia: Shifts and Surges in the Flow of Images, Media and Info-Data”
20.00 – 21.00
RECEPTION
THURSDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2009
Venue: Heuscheuer
09.00 – 09.15
INTRODUCTION
Christiane Brosius/Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg)
09.15 – 10.30
PANEL ONE – APPROACHING THE FIELD OF VISUALITY AND MEDIA
Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg)
Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
“Plato Plays Music to the Animals: Interpictorial Practice as a Dimension of Transcultural Visuality”
Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg)
“Love in the Age of Valentine and Pink Underwear: Negotiating Romantic Love and the Asymmetries of Transcultural Image and Media Flows”
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 12.45
PANEL ONE (Contd.)
Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Heidelberg)
“The Cosmopolitans' Visual Illusions. Conceptual Transculturality in Global History”
Patricia Uberoi (New Delhi)
“Inter-Asian Circuits: Popular Prints and their Circuits in China and India”
Alexandra Chang (New York)
“Visual Flows and the Art of Cosmopolitanism: Ma Jun, David Diao and Tomokazu Matsuyama”
12.45 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.15
PANEL TWO – HEAVENLY BODIES
Chair: Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg)
Timon Screech (London)
“The Battle of Lepanto as a Flowing Image”
Hans Harder (Heidelberg)
“Transcultural Mock History from India? Ramavatar Sharma’s Puzzling Mudgaranandcharit (1912-13)”
15.15 – 15.45
COFFEE BREAK
15.45 – 17.00
PANEL TWO (Contd.)
Catherine Yeh (Boston)
“Guides to Paradise: Entertainment Newspapers, Visual Wander and the Invention of Leisure”
Susanne Enderwitz (Heidelberg)
“’The 99’: Islamic Superheroes?”
Venue: Prinz Carl Palais, Spiegelsaal
19.00 – 20.00
PUBLIC LECTURE
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York)
“The Flow and The Flood: Mediation, Migration, Circulation and Climate Change”
20.00 – 21.00
RECEPTION
FRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2009
Venue: Heuscheuer
09.00 – 10.15
ANEL THREE – CIRCULATING ICONS
Chair: Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg)
Alexander Henn (Arizona)
“Iconic Encounters: Images and Shrines in Goa”
Eva Zhang (Heidelberg)
“Kannon – Guanyin – Virgin Mary: Early Modern Discourses on Alterity, Religion and Images”
10.15 – 10.45
COFFEE BREAK
10.45 – 12.00
PANEL THREE (Contd.)
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Durham)
“The Work of Goddesses in the Age of Technological Reproduction”
Eva Ambos (Heidelberg)
“The Changing Image of Sinhalese Healing Rituals: Performing Identity in New Public Spheres”
12.00 – 13.15
LUNCH
13.15 – 14.30
PANEL FOUR – FLOATING TECHNOSCAPES
Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
Ajay Sinha (South Hadley)
“Haunted Relationships and Cinephilic Imagination in India?”
Amelia Bonea (Heidelberg)
“The Telegraph as Medium and Mediator in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India”
14.30 – 15.00
COFFEE BREAK
15.00 – 16.15
PANEL FOUR (Contd.)
Sun Liying (Heidelberg)
“An Exotic Self? Flows of Western Nude Images in the Pei-yang Pictorial News (1926-1933)”
Mio Wakita (Heidelberg/Tokyo)
“Photography in Meiji Japan and the Making of the Icons of “National Femininity”: Re-Examining Female Images in Meiji Souvenir Photography”
16.15 – 17.00
CLOSING STATEMENTS & FINAL DISCUSSION
Sarat Maharaj (London/Lund)
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York)
Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg)
Nic Leonhardt (Heidelberg)
Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg)