Programme
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Wolkensteinsaal
3:30 p.m.
Welcome
Rudolf Schlögl (Konstanz)
3:45 p.m.
Introduction
Anil Bhatti (New Delhi), Dorothee Kimmich (Tübingen)
4:15 p.m.
Key Note: Tracing Scenes of Voting – A Place for Similarities?
Andreas Langenohl (Gießen)
Moderation: Shalini Randeria (Zurich)
5:30 p.m.
Sandwiches
Evening Programme
Astoriasaal
8:00 p.m.
Reading by José F. A. Oliver
Moderator Özkan Ezli (Konstanz)
Friday, 5 October 2012
Wolkensteinsaal
Panel I Ähnlichkeit/Similarity as Comparison and Translation
Chair: Michael Rössner (Vienna/Munich)
9:00 a.m.
Statement
Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz)
9:15 a.m.
The Locale of Comparison and Transnationality: Towards Comparative Humanities
Naoki Sakai (Cornell)
10:15 a.m.
Coffee
10:30 a.m.
Das Differente im Ähnlichen. Zu einem Modus ästhetischen Vergleichens
Rüdiger Görner (London)
11:30 a.m.
Work of Similarities – Work on Similarities
Ulrike Kistner (Pretoria)
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
Panel II Settings of Similarities, Sameness and Difference
Chair: Daniel Müller-Nielaba (Zürich), Nicole Falkenhayner (Freiburg)
2:00 p.m.
Statement
John N. Kim (Riverside)
2:15 p.m.
Das Ähnliche und das Differente. Zentraleuropa und seine Identitätswissenschaften als Paradigma
Johannes Feichtinger (Wien)
3:15 p.m.
The Similar Yields Divergence: Global Notions of ‘Social Welfare’ and the Making of ‘Informality’ in Twentieth-Century India
Ravi Ahuja (Göttingen)
4:30 p.m.
Coffee
5:00 p.m.
General Discussion
Chair: Aleida Assmann (Konstanz)
7:30 p.m.
Dinner
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Panel II Settings of Similarities, Sameness and Difference
10:00 a.m.
The Urban Blight of the Ghetto and the Plight of the Resident: Difference, Multiculturalism and Similarities
Amir Ali (New Delhi)
11:00 a.m.
Coffee
Panel III Ähnlichkeit/Similarity as a Figure in Pluricultural Scenes and Discourses
Chair: Gurpreet Mahajan (New Delhi)
11:30 a.m.
Statement
Bernhard Kleeberg (Konstanz)
10:45 a.m.
De la Folie Européenne à l´Antropophagie Amérindienne: Déplacements dans l´Image de la Pensée
Peter Pál Pelbart (São Paulo)
12:45 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 p.m.
“Similarity” as Critical Concept in the Comparative Study of Religions
Johan Strijdom (Pretoria)
3:15 p.m.
Ähnlichkeit und Welterfahrung – anders als die “Einheit in Verschiedenheit”
Levent Tezcan (Tilburg)
4:15 p.m.
Coffee
4:45 p.m.
Final Discussion
Chair: Uwe Wirth (Gießen)
