From: Davide Ermacora <davide.ermacora@gmail.com>
Subject: Looking Through the Occult (conference in Berlin on 14 and 15 Nov)
Date: 6. November 2013 15:20:27 MEZ
Dear Friends: Please forward to any colleagues you believe may be
interested. Flyers may be found the bottom of the page. More info online
at http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/occult/
You are cordially invited to join us on November 14th and 15th in Berlin
for the conference:
*Looking Through the Occult:*
Instrumentation, Esotericism, and Epistemology in the 19th Century
online at *http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/occult/
November 14 & 15, Humboldt University of Berlin, Main Building
(Hauptgebδude), Unter den Linden 6—Room 2103
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
*pre-register by writing to bernard.geoghegan@hu-berlin.de
In recent years the history of science has cast new light on how
technical instrumentation in the nineteenth-century shaped conceptions
of scientific objectivity as non-subjective and independent of human
intervention. A parallel body of research in media studies has
demonstrated how the contemporaneous rise of technical media (e.g.
telegraphy, photography) informed spiritualistic beliefs that automated,
technical inscriptions would provide faithful representation of a
transcendental or spiritualistic world. /Looking Through the Occult
/brings together scholars in media studies, the history of technology,
science studies, and religious studies to consider how these phenomena
interrelate.
Conference Schedule:
*14 November 2014**
*9:00 Coffee & snacks*
*9:30 Christian Kassung: Opening Remarks
10:00
Bernard Geoghegan: Occult Knowledge and Plain Sight: On the Popular
Display of Scientific Wonders
Florian Sprenger: Occult Occultism and the Afterlives of /Actio in Distans/
11:30
Ehler Voss & Erhard Schόttpelz: From Medium to Media: Oliver Lodge’s
Radio History
Margarida Medeiros: An Historical and Philosophical View on the Purpose
of Documenting Non-Observational Matter
15:00
Robert Brain: “A Medium is a Medium is a Medium”: Ectoplasm Images,
Psychical Research, and the Futurist Moment”
Tessel M. Bauduin: “Modest recording instruments without talent”:
Automatism in Surrealism
* *
16:30 First Keynote Address
John Durham Peters:
Nineteenth-century Mormonism between angelic visitations and scientific
rationality (and other tales of scrambled modernity)
*15 November 2013*
9:30
John Tresch: ‘Matter No More’: Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of
Materialism
Simone Natale: The Spectacular Supernatural
11:00
Stephan Gregory: Code und Kontakt. Mythologien der magischen Wirksamkeit
Anthony Enns: Spiritualist Writing Machines
14:30
Egil Asprem: Scientific rationalism, occult empiricism? Representations
of the microphysical world, ca. 1900
Petra Lφffler: Geister der Stadt. Spektrologie urbaner Rδume
*16:00 *Second Keynote Address
Jeremy Stolow:
On Mediumnic Lights, X^x Rays, and the Spirit who Photographed Herself
17:30 Closing discussion
Subject: Looking Through the Occult (conference in Berlin on 14 and 15 Nov)
Date: 6. November 2013 15:20:27 MEZ
Dear Friends: Please forward to any colleagues you believe may be
interested. Flyers may be found the bottom of the page. More info online
at http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/occult/
You are cordially invited to join us on November 14th and 15th in Berlin
for the conference:
*Looking Through the Occult:*
Instrumentation, Esotericism, and Epistemology in the 19th Century
online at *http://www.culture.hu-berlin.de/occult/
November 14 & 15, Humboldt University of Berlin, Main Building
(Hauptgebδude), Unter den Linden 6—Room 2103
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
*pre-register by writing to bernard.geoghegan@hu-berlin.de
In recent years the history of science has cast new light on how
technical instrumentation in the nineteenth-century shaped conceptions
of scientific objectivity as non-subjective and independent of human
intervention. A parallel body of research in media studies has
demonstrated how the contemporaneous rise of technical media (e.g.
telegraphy, photography) informed spiritualistic beliefs that automated,
technical inscriptions would provide faithful representation of a
transcendental or spiritualistic world. /Looking Through the Occult
/brings together scholars in media studies, the history of technology,
science studies, and religious studies to consider how these phenomena
interrelate.
Conference Schedule:
*14 November 2014**
*9:00 Coffee & snacks*
*9:30 Christian Kassung: Opening Remarks
10:00
Bernard Geoghegan: Occult Knowledge and Plain Sight: On the Popular
Display of Scientific Wonders
Florian Sprenger: Occult Occultism and the Afterlives of /Actio in Distans/
11:30
Ehler Voss & Erhard Schόttpelz: From Medium to Media: Oliver Lodge’s
Radio History
Margarida Medeiros: An Historical and Philosophical View on the Purpose
of Documenting Non-Observational Matter
15:00
Robert Brain: “A Medium is a Medium is a Medium”: Ectoplasm Images,
Psychical Research, and the Futurist Moment”
Tessel M. Bauduin: “Modest recording instruments without talent”:
Automatism in Surrealism
* *
16:30 First Keynote Address
John Durham Peters:
Nineteenth-century Mormonism between angelic visitations and scientific
rationality (and other tales of scrambled modernity)
*15 November 2013*
9:30
John Tresch: ‘Matter No More’: Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of
Materialism
Simone Natale: The Spectacular Supernatural
11:00
Stephan Gregory: Code und Kontakt. Mythologien der magischen Wirksamkeit
Anthony Enns: Spiritualist Writing Machines
14:30
Egil Asprem: Scientific rationalism, occult empiricism? Representations
of the microphysical world, ca. 1900
Petra Lφffler: Geister der Stadt. Spektrologie urbaner Rδume
*16:00 *Second Keynote Address
Jeremy Stolow:
On Mediumnic Lights, X^x Rays, and the Spirit who Photographed Herself
17:30 Closing discussion
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