DIS/APPEARING International Conference May 27 – 29, 2015 , PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 27 Friday, May 29

KEYNOTE Georges Didi-Huberman PANEL III Miroslav Petříček Prague 04:30#pm, Karolinum Que ce qui apparaît seulement s‘aperçoit. In English. 10:00 am – 01:30 pm Trembling of the Non-identical in Appearing. Karolinum 07:00 pm Welcome Reception Dieter Mersch Zürich Chair: Kateřina Krtilová Operativity, Ontologies, Speculations. Weimar Coffee Break

Thursday, May 28 Mark Hansen Durham On the Primacy of Dis-Appearance: The Operative PANEL I Bettine Menke Erfurt Ontologies of Topological Media. 10:00 am – 01:30 pm Appearing and Exiting, Stage and Offstage. Karolinum Discussion Josef Vojvodík Prague Chair: Karel Thein Prague «That which has disappeared ‹returns› »: On the 01:30 pm – 03:00 pm Lunch Mediality of Grief. PANEL IV Matthew Solomon Ann Arbor Coffee Break 03:00 pm – 06:30 pm Méliès and the Materiality of Modern Magic. Karolinum Jacques Aumont Paris Akira Mizuta Lippit Los Angeles Forgetfulness at Work: Film as a Site of Oblivion. Chair: Martin Pokorný Disapparition: On Phantom Departures. Prague Discussion Coffee Break

01:30 pm – 03:00 pm Lunch Claudia Blümle Berlin Behind the Curtain: Dis/Appearing in Surrealist Art. PANEL II James Elkins Chicago 03:00 pm – 06:30 pm Managing the Limits of Representation. Discussion Karolinum Wolfgang Struck Erfurt FILM SCREENING Introduction: Lucie Česálková National Film Archive, Prague Chair: Zdeňka Kalnická Fallen out of the World: A Geographical Fantasy. 08:00 pm Ostrava Ponrepo Bill Morrison New York Coffee Break Decasia (67’, 2002)

Astrid Lindenlauf Bryn Mawr 10:00 pm Closing Remarks + Wine & Cheese Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: The Disposal of Unwanted Objects in Ancient Greece.

Discussion DIS/APPEARING

Western philosophy and culture in general have, as it were, SPEAKERS always been more concerned with appearance than with Jacques Aumont disappearance: aesthetic, epistemic, religious, or technical Claudia Blümle practices are supposed to make something appear and thus Georges Didi-Huberman intelligible, perceptible, or imaginable. ! is bias parallels the James Elkins Mark B. N. Hansen ontological preference given to coming into being and becom- Astrid Lindenlauf ing present by neglecting the processes of disintegration, Akira Mizuta Lippit dissolution, and destabilization of formations and relations. Bettine Menke ! is notwithstanding, disappearing has always kept a some- Dieter Mersch what less apparent, but highly important, key place in Western Bill Morrison thought. Religious and political institutions and logics have Miroslav Petříček always worked on making anything (including, in the case Matthew Solomon of totalitarian regimes, people) that formed a contradiction Wolfgang Struck disappear. Nevertheless, references to dis appearance within Josef Vojvodík the humanities are traditionally accompanied by the restorative rhetoric of loss and endangerment. ! e conditions of highly CONFERENCE VENUES technological media societies were especially too easily held re- Karolinum, Patriotic Hall sponsible for dramatic disap pearances (of body, reali" , distance, Ovocný trh 3–5 etc.), virtualization, and dematerialization. Praha 1, 116 36

! e conference will examine disappearing and its relation- Kino PONREPO ship to appearing by drawing on the concept of «operative Bartolomějská 11 ontologies». Leaving behind a concept of being as a primordial Praha 1, 110 00 and reliable ontological realm, «operative ontologies» seek to document and unfold diff erent «modes of existence», CONTACT «ontological regimes», or «dispositions of being» (Haudricourt, Kateřina Svatoňová Viveiros de Castro, Descola, Latour following Souriau). In katerina.svatonova@ff .cuni.cz dialogue with plural and regional ontologies, the concept fo- cuses on the media technological constitution of the relation of Christoph Eggersglüß humans and things: neither subjects nor objects are understood [email protected] as essential entities given in advance and as a basis of relations, but rather as metastable results of generative operations which Filozofi cká fakulta produce realities, distinctions, collectives, and realms of being Univerzita Karlova v Praze in the fi rst place (all of which we wish to address as «media»). nám. Jana Palacha 2 Praha 1, 116 38 Drawing on «operative ontologies», the conference aims to explore two concrete operations: appearing and disappear ing, with particular regard to the second. In line with the pluraliz- info@ff .cuni.cz ation of beings, it is necessary to investigate diff erent modes of www.ff .cuni.cz going out of existence and out of sight and, thus, to investigate the ontological and aesthetic dimensions of disappearing. Ob- IKKM Bauhaus-Universität Weimar viously, disappearing can be a ma$ er of passing, of destruction, 99421 Weimar as well as a ma$ er of becoming invisible or infi nitesimally Deutschland small, of hiding, banishment, or of displacement. It is thus virtually impossible to think of both operations as independent [email protected] from each other. Both are characterized by a liminali" , raising www.ikkm-weimar.de questions of temporali " as well as spatiali" : Where does some thing disappear to and from where does it appear? Does ILUMINACE dis/appearance unfold gradually, suddenly, or tiltingly?