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"Testimony" and "bearing witness" are key figures in cultural and epistemological practices. Within current debates in the humanities both have turned into controversial concepts that convey seemingly incommensurate claims: On the one hand, testimony is seen as a reliable source of information and knowledge, as a piece of evidence promising objectivity (predominantly in discourses of epistemology and law). On the other hand, "bearing witness" carries ethical and political reflections in terms of memory and history (for instance in the testimonies of survivors of genocide and extreme violence). We are even confronted with diverse epistemological ambitions and methodological trajectories: At one end of the spectrum a general concept of testimony as knowledge through the words of others, is reflected; at the other end, there is a skepticism towards general definitions, combined with the desire to shape figures of bearing witness by tracing their manifold sources in religion and cultural history.
This conference aims to channel the debate on bearing witness and giving testimony especially towards those aspects that appear precarious and controversial between philosophy and cultural history: What are the opportunities and limits involved in communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of testimony and bearing witness?
PROGRAM
Thursday, 15.01.2015
2:30 p.m. Welcome and introduction
I. The 20th and 21st Centuries – Witnesses between Memory, Politics, and Justice
(Chair: Sybille Krämer)
3 p.m.–5. p.m.
José Brunner (Tel Aviv): A Narrative Turn in Human Rights Discourse? Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations: Between Truth Commissions and the Right to the Truth
Marcel Lemonde (Strasbourg): Testimony/Bearing Witness in Light of the Khmer Rouge Trial
5:30 p.m.
Sigrid Weigel (ZfL): Tensions and Interplay of Different Types of Testimony in a Film from the Warsaw Ghetto – A Film Unfinished by Yael Hersonski (2010)
II. Historical Perspectives on the Concept of Testimony
(Chair: Sigrid Weigel)
7 p.m. Evening lecture
François Hartog (EHESS Paris): The Presence of the Witness
Friday, 16.01.2015
10 a.m.–12 a.m.
Axel Gelfert (Singapore): Enlightenment Perspectives on the Problems of Testimony
Michèle Bokobza Kahan (Tel Aviv): Can We Believe in What We See? Historical and Philosophical Approaches of Testimonial Discourses in the 17th and 18th Century in France
III. The Epistemology of Testimony: Secondhand Belief or Genuine Knowledge?
(Chair: Sibylle Schmidt)
1 p.m.–3 p.m.
Sybille Krämer (Berlin): Epistemic Dependence and Trust
Miranda Fricker (Sheffield): Having Your Say: The Expressive Value of Testimony
3:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Dirk Koppelberg (Berlin): How to Account for Group Testimony?
6:30 p.m. Film presentation
Venue: Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin
A Film Unfinished (ISR/D 2010), directed by Yael Hersonski
Followed by a discussion with Yael Hersonski (Tel Aviv)
Moderation: Aurélia Kalisky
Saturday, 17.01.2015
IV. Trauma and Testimony – Perspectives from Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
(Chair: Aurélia Kalisky)
9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Steve Weine (Chicago): Testimony and Therapeutic Culture
Zohar Rubinstein (Tel Aviv): The Testimony of the Traumatic Witness: The Tension between the Therapeutic Act and the Loss of Words and Meaning
12 a.m.–1 p.m.
Janine Altounian (Paris): Quand le témoignage ne peut s’effectuer que par la médiation de la seconde ou troisième génération – Le cas arménien
V. Testimony and Visual Evidence in Art and other Media
(Chair: Heike Schlie)
2 p.m.–4 p.m.
Carolin Behrmann (Florence): Somatic Evidence: On the Scopic Regimes of Juridical Testimony
John Durham Peters (Iowa City): Like a Thief in the Night: Witnessing and Watching
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Peter Geimer (Berlin): Remembrance of Things Past: Testimony and Imagination
Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
Termin:
15.01.2015 ab 14:30 - 17.01.2015 18:30
Veranstaltungsort:
Venues
Conference location: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
Film screening (Friday, 6.30) :
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin
14195 Berlin
Berlin
Deutschland
Zielgruppe:
Studierende, Wissenschaftler
Relevanz:
international
Sachgebiete:
Geschichte / Archäologie, Recht, Sprache / Literatur
Arten:
Konferenz / Symposion / (Jahres-)Tagung
Eintrag:
12.01.2015
Absender:
Sabine Zimmermann
Abteilung:
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZFL)
Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:
ja
Textsprache:
Englisch
URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event49599
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