Time and temporality are omnipresent and we encounter them in almost all areas of life and society. They are a formative component for the structuring and quality of self-world relationships in antiquity and the present. The preoccupation with them and how they take shape in our social world has always been and still is unavoidable across cultures and societies. It is therefore also an interdisciplinary task. We would like to take this fact into account with our autumn conference of the International Graduate School Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices from 30 September to 2 October at the University of Graz. Under the title ‘The Role of Time in Self-World Relationships’, a series of lectures and workshops will approach the topic of temporality and its formative power in self-world relationships in order to facilitate a congenial exchange.
The IGS doctoral students Lukas Jung, Emma de Koning, Florian Oppitz, Marina Schutti and Lena Spickermann have invited a number of international experts from various disciplines to take part in this programme. Among other things, their presentations will focus on the different ways of dealing with the past and its relationship to the present. The participants will also discuss the socially, culturally and historically divergent variations of the embodiment and performance of time. And finally, the question of how temporality materialises in bodies and objects and allows them to become their testimonies or, conversely, how certain periods are made tangible in the first place through these materialisations will be addressed.
We look forward to insightful contributions and exciting discussions! The programme is available here.
Interested persons should register until 25 September 2024 with Anna-Katharina Rieger (anna.rieger(at)uni-graz.at).
