6. – 7. June 2019
Modelling the Chaos, Narrating the Universe
Literary Studies in Interdisciplinary Conversation with Mathematics
6. – 7. June 2019

Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Hugo-Rüdel-Str. 8
Bayreuth

Thursday 6. June 2019



11.00 – 11.15 Welcome and Introduction


11.15 – 12.30 Georg Hein: “Modell and Imagination”


12.45 – 14.00 Discussion 
of Introductory Papers by Georg Hein und Susan Arndt and Tomupeishe Maphosa


Our Universe. Chaos, Waves and Likelihood
Georg Hein

Our Trans*Textual Universe: Chaos, Rhizomes & Intersectionality
Susan Arndt 

Both: Neither Nor and Both, or: Complicating Complexities and Schrödinger’s Cat
Tomupeishe Maphosa

14:00 – 14:30 Break with Finger Food

14.30 – 15.30 Dilan Zoe Smida Knowledge in (E)Motion: Travelling through Space*Time in the Wave of Feeling


15.30 – 16.30 Dikko Muhammad Matter, Meaning, Imagination 


16.30 – 17:00 Coffee Break


17:00 – 20:00 

Mingqing Yuan Manifold and Multiplicity in Deleuze’s Conceptualizations

Florian Kniffka „Relation dans le „divers“/Relation im Divers“
To be discussed together with Susan Arndt’s „Relation. Ver/Irrender Versuch des Wissens im 

Xin Li Waves, Silence of the Universe & the Call of the Other
To be discussed together with Xin Li’s “Agency as Ethical Interverntion. Speaking from Silence”


20:00 Dinner



Friday 7. June 2019



12:00 – 13:00 Numaira Khan Butterfly Effect


13:00 – 14:00 Taghrid Elhanafy A Black Hole: The Gate of Transformative Multiplicities


14:00 – 14:30 Lunch


14:30 – 15:30 Tobias Schickhaus Insular Waves


15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break


16:00 – 17:00 Finalising Panel Discussion 
Literary Studies ´n Conversation with Mathematics and Physics (to be recorded and transcribed)
on: Model and Imagination, Model and Chaos, Knowledge and Silence, Relation and Manifold, Space*time etc.


17:00 – 17:15 What now? 


18:00 Barbeque


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