The a.r.t.e.s. forum 2025 will take place on the 10th of July in the Neuer Senatssaal, located in the university’s main building. The theme of the forum will be “Disturbance:s”. “Disturbance” is a complex term, indicating disruptions of different kinds as well as political unrest. We would like to approach the term from different perspectives, with a thematic spectrum ranging from political events and their cultural representation to the construction and negotiation of normality.
Our first panel, Dissonances, will be concerned with dissonances in political and social debates and their representation in culture and the media. The subsequent panel, Disruption, will centre the dynamics of interaction and cultural representations, whose disruption raises fundamental questions about their nature. Our final panel will focus on Disputed Normalities. Every disruption or disturbance is by its very nature preceded by a status quo which is then upset. The talks in this panel will discuss how normality is constructed and negotiated.
Our day will conclude with “Disturbances”, a multimedia exhibition that explores the disruption of normality in both representation and reality. Through painting, photography, video art and short films, the evening event confronts environmental and political disturbances, as well as the distortions of the media itself. Open to the public, it is also an opportunity to chill, connect and mingle with participants of the a.r.t.e.s. forum and the MESH Symposium, in an atmosphere of creative exchange, accompanied by live music.
All talks will be in English.
Eröffnung/Opening
Universität zu Köln, Hauptgebäude, Neuer Senatssaal
9:45 - 10:00 Begrüßung/Introduction
Panel I: Dissonance
10:00 - 11:00 Hypervisibility, Invisibility, and the Historico-Racial Schema
Hyunjung Lee (Leipzig)
11:00 - 12:00 Making Room for Dissonance in Literary and Cultural Responses to Brexit
Johanna Rostek (Leipzig)
12:00 - 13:00 Mittagspause
Panel II: Disruption
13:00 - 14:00 Interstate Arbitrations and Inter-poleis Relations within the Achaian Koinon
Rebecca Massinelli (Trento)
14:00 - 15:00 TBA
Johanna Schaffer
15:00 - 15:15 Kaffeepause
Panel III: Disputed Normalities
15:15- 16:15 TBA
Sandra Jasper (Nürnberg)
16:15 - 17:15 ‘There is F(r)iction in the Space Between’* On the Intersubjective Making and Unmaking of Normality
Maren Wehrle (Rotterdam)
Abendveranstaltung/Evening Event
Ab 19:30 “Disturbances” - Multimediale Perspektiven auf Störungen (in Kooperation mit MESH)
Veranstaltungsort: Arty Farty Gallery (Vogelsanger Str. 195a, 50825 Köln)
