Programm

Conference "Mind Crossing Borders"

Thursday, 25.02.2010

13.30 - 14.30 Registration and refreshments


14.30 - 15.00 Welcome address
Dr. Angelika Willms-Herget (BMBF, Bonn)
15.00 - 15.40 Testimonial lecture "Mind Crossing Borders"
Prof. Dr. Homi Bhabha (Harvard University, Cambridge)

15.40 - 16.00 Discussion


16.00 - 16.30 Break

16.30 - 17.00 Transfer of ideas and research quality
Karl-Heinz Minks (Hochschul-Informations-System, Hannover)

17.00 - 18.00

Panel and discussion I: Transfer of ideas

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus University Weimar)
Prof. Dr. Kiran Patel (European University Institute, Florence)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Scholl (National Museums of Berlin)

18.00 - 18.30 Break


18.30 - 19.00 Panel and discussion II: Research quality

Prof. Dr. Ryuichi Higuchi (Meiji-Gakuin University Tokyo)
Prof. Dr. Werner Sollors (Harvard University, Cambridge)
Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt University, Berlin)

19.30 - 20.00 Musical finale and buffet
Organ and trumpet: Mareile Schmidt and Friedemann Immer (Köln)



Friday, 26.02.2010

9.30 - 10.00 Career paths, scientific language and publication practice
Karl-Heinz Minks (Hochschul-Informations-System, Hannover)


10.00 - 11.30 Panel and discussion III: Career paths

Dr. Ulrike Albrecht (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Naoki Murata (Executive Director of JSPS)
Dr. Marie Luise Ehrenschwendtner (University of Aberdeen)

11.30 - 12.00 Break


ab 12.00

Panel and discussion IV: Scientific language and publication practice

Prof. Dr. Barend ter Haar (University of Leiden)
Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Ludwig M. Eichinger (German Language Institute, Mannheim)
Dr. Dorothea Rüland (Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sigrid Weigel (Center of Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin)


Closing address: Dr. Karin Korn-Riedlinger (BMBF, Bonn)

ab 13.00

Refreshments


Moderator: Armin Himmelrath (Science journalist, Cologne)


We would also like to draw your attention to the public discussion of "The Humanities in Dialogue" on the evening before the conference: "Is the legacy lost? The German humanities as reflected by the world",
Wednesday, 24th February 2010 6pm - 9 pm at Kunstmuseum Bonn

 


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