Lecturers

Materiality and Historicism
PhD course, Paris, January 25-27, 2012

Plenary lecturers

Arnfinn Bø-Rygg is Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. His books include Kjersti Bale and Arnfinn Bø-Rygg (red.) (2008). Estetisk teori. En antologi. Universitetsforlaget. Arnfinn Bø-Rygg, Paul Brand, and Stein Rønning (2007). Paul Brand Arnfinn Bø-Rygg Stein Rønning. Ka Forlag. Arnfinn Bø-Rygg (2002). Musikæstetik. Gads forlag, København. Arnfinn Bø-Rygg (1973). Martin Heidegger. Oikos og techne. He is currently working on the project Pre-modern Aesthetic Theory, which will result in a Norwegian language anthology of aestethic theory, consisting of texts from pre-modern times.

Stéphane van Damme is Professor of History at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and has earlier held positions as senior researcher in Oxford and Associate Professor in Warwick. Van Damme has published the monographies L’Epreuve libertine. Morale, soupçon et pouvoirs dans la France baroque (2008); Paris, capitale philosophique de la Fronde à la Révolution (2005); Le Temple de la sagesse. Savoirs, écriture et sociabilité urbaine (Lyon, 17-18e siècles) (2005) og Descartes. Essai d’histoire culturelle d’une grandeur philosophique (XVIIe-XXe siècle) (2002). His current project addresses the development of a modern urban archaelogy: “Collecting the city, constructing the metropolitan past in Europe from Eighteenth-century to the XXIst century.”

Wolfgang Ernst

Wolfgang Ernst is Professor and Chair (Media Theories), Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. His books include: Das Rumoren der Archive: Ordnung aus Unordnung, (2002, in Swedish as Sorlet från arkiven, 2008), M.edium F.oucault. Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien, (2000), Im Namen von Geschichte: Sammeln, speichern, (er)zählen. A thesis on the infrastructure of memory. (2003), Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts) (2007). Co-author of: Semën Karsakov: Ideenmaschine. Von der Homöopathie zum Computer (2007, with Wladimir Velminski). Co-editor of: Suchbilder.Visuelle Kultur zwischen Algorithmen und Archiven (2003, with Stefan Heidenreich and Ute Holl), and: Computing in Russia. The history of computer devices and information technology revealed (2001, with Georg Trogemann and Alexander Nitussov).

Rolf Inge Godøy is Professor of Musicology at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. His books include: Rolf Inge Godøy and Marc Leman (ed.) (2010). Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning. Routledge. Rolf Inge Godøy and Harald Jørgensen (ed.) (2001). Elements of Musical Imagery. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse (Holland). Rolf Inge Godøy and Harald Jørgensen (2001). Musical Imagery. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse (Holland). Godøy is currently chair of the research project Sensing Music-Related Actions. This interdisciplinary project, combining scientific, technological and artistic methods, proposes three crucial topics for future development of multimodal devices: 1) the importance of action-sound couplings for both performance and perception of music 2) the control potential of human bodily movement 3) a move towards an active music experience.

Karin Sanders is Professor of Scandinavian literature, University of California at Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests are 19th century Scandinavian literature, visual arts, and theater; Danish literature (particularly Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Isak Dinesen); word and image (particularly theories on ekphrasis and interart representations of death); literary theory; feminist theory. Sanders has published Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination. Chicago University Press, 2009, and Konturer: skulptur-og dødsbilleder fra Guldalderlitteraturen. [Contours: Images of Sculpture and Death from the Golden Age Literature.] Museum Tusculanum Press. Copenhagen University Press, 1997.

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