9:30 – 10:00

Opening remarks – Professor Homi K. Bhabha, Director, Harvard University Humanities Center

10:15 - 11:45: Panel 1 – Worldly Languages

Marta Figlerowicz – Beyond Introspection: Rethinking Novelistic Space Through Theater.

Mark Green – Are Rhythmic Objects Things We Know?: How one discipline changes another by listening to it.

Jarek Sierschynski – Language Structure in the Environment.

Discussant: Steve Caton

11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break

12:00 - 1:30: Panel 2 – Antedisciplines.

Sergio Delgado – Film, Media, (Re)Organization: Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera and the Phenomenology of Perception.

Sahan Evren – Is the world ensouled? Plato and Aristotle on the Study of the Soul within Natural Philosophy.

Dan Hirschman & Kelan Steel-Lowney – On the Discursive Construction of New Objects: The Birth of the Macroeconomy in the 1930s.

Discussant: Judith Surkis

1:30 – 2:45: Lunch

2:45 - 4:15: Panel 3 – Mediations Across Media

Michele Del Prete – Iconoclastic Composition. On A Space Beyond Discipline(s) in Luigi Nono.

LabStudio (Erica Swesey Savig and Andrew Lucia) – Architectural Visualization of Dynamic Cell Systems.

Ulrich Salaschek – Neuroimaging and Concepts of Man.

Discussant: Hélène Mialet

4:15 – 4:30: Coffee break

4:30 - 6:30: Keynote Address

The Object/ive of Black Judah: Emigrationism, Afrocentrism, and an Occulted Public Sphere.

John L. Jackson, Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology at The Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.

9:30 - 11:00: Panel 4 – Ethical Subjects / Ethical Objects

Ignace Adant – Ambiguous Objects of Exchange: An Economist’s Interdisciplinary Approach on Strategic Scientific Uncertainty.

Paola Castaño – Violence and its Victims as Objects of Knowledge: The Role of Social Scientists in the National Commission of Reparation and Reconciliation in Colombia.

Rebecca Peters – Observations Allowed, Observations Invited.

Discussant: Andrew Lakoff

11:00 – 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45: Panel 5 – Senses on Screen.

Jean Xavier Brager – Staging the Screen or Screening the Stage?

Joana Pimenta – Remapping the Virtual Worlds: At the crossroads of Architecture and Film.

Paul Ugor – Nollywood, Third World Cinema, and the Crisis of Practice and Theory: the Reinvention of Postcolonial African Cinema.

Discussant: Codruta Morari

12:45 – 2:15: Lunch

2:15 - 3:45: Panel 6 – Circulations

Alison D’Amato – Legible Bodies: Movement, Meaning and Ethical Engagement in Performance.

Adam Kaasa – The Architecture of ‘Lo Mexicano’: Mario Pani’s Multifamiliare Miguel Alemán and Transnational Modernism.

G. Craig Hobbs – Embodied Tactics of Social Space.

Discussant: Daniel Mielgo Bregazzi

3:45 – 4:00: Coffee break

4:00 - 6:00: Experimental Panel

What constitutes an object? (What) does it signify? In what fields of knowledge does it operate? How are these particular objects stabilized or in transformation? What do their dynamics of stability or transformation over time mean for those who have a stake in their constitution, maintenance or contestation? What processes result in/from the movement of objectification by which these knowledge objects are produced as such and situated in different domains?

In this panel, each participant is asked to reflect on an assigned object in light of these questions. Presentations will include a brief introduction of the object and a total of 15 minutes of analysis, followed by 15 minutes of open discussion with other panelists and the audience.

The panelists and their objects:

• Joana Pimenta – Recycling Trash, Recycling Practices
• Ignace Adant – The Lonely Artist and the Virtual Crowd
• Alison D’Amato – New Wine in Old Wineskins? The Somali Pirates
• Paola Castaño – The Flesh of Empty Spaces
• * Facilitated by Edgar Barroso