Symposium: Cross-disciplinary Humanities

Dear HHP members,

On the 23rd of May, the Humanities Honours Programme (HHP) will organize a symposium with a kaleidoscopic perspective on cross-disciplinarity. The event will include general introductions to various cross-disciplinary fields by Utrecht University staff and guest speakers. It will explore several approaches, from the integration or assimilation of disciplines into neo-disciplines, to more informal encounters and dialogues that can be just as promising.

This symposium offers general introductions of different cross-disciplinary fields by UU staff and some guest speakers. HHP-students will present case-studies from the recent course ‘Humanities in Context’. A panel discussion led by Iris van der Tuin, Dean of Interdisciplinary Education UU, will conclude the symposium. For a more in-depth discussion of the subject, you can read more at https://www.uu.nl/en/events/symposium-cross-disciplinary-humanities. The programme of the day can be found below and on the attached poster!

Registration has to be done before the 19th of May. To apply, please send an email to: cross.disciplinarysymposium@gmail.com

Programme:

09:30 – 11:00 | JK 2.3 – 021
Introduction: 9.30-9.55
Frans Willem Lantink, Humanities Honours Director (UU): Crossroads beyond the Boundaries of the Humanities?
Iris van der Tuin, Dean of Interdisciplinary Education (UU): The Ongoing Debate on Interdisciplinarity
9.55-10.10: Caspar Safarlou (UMC): Medical Humanities – conceptual Problems
10.10-10.25: Flora Roberts (UU): Environmental Humanities
Questions/Coffee break

11:00 – 15:45 | JK 2.3 – 021
11.00-11.15: Rick Dolphijn (UU)/Irena Chawrilska (University of Gdańsk): Swamp Thinking
11.15-11.30: Anastasia Hacopian (UU): Architectural Humanities
11.30-11.45: Steije Hofhuis (WZB Berlin): Darwinian Cultural Evolution
11.45-12.00: Lukas van den Berge (UU): Law and Humanities
12.00-12.15: Questions
12.15-13.15: Lunch break

13.15-13.30: Stefan Gaillard (RU): An Ideology of Interdisciplinarity? The Vienna Circle in Historical Retrospective – History of Science
13.30-13.35: Questions
13.40-13.55: Rosalie lemhoff (UU): Logic and the Humanities: friends or foes?
13.55-14.10: Natalia Petrovskaia (UU): Where Mathematics Helps the Medievalist: Fuzzy Sets in the Humanities
14.10-14.20: Questions
14.20-14.30: Jochem Truijman (HHP-student): AI and Copyright: The Confluence of Humanities, Technology and Law – Digital Humanities
14.30-14.40: Suzanne Otto (HHP-student): William Utermohlen and the influence of his portraits on neuropsychological care – Medical Humanities
14.45-14.55: Yara May van den Broek (HHP-student): Marina Abramović. Performance Art – Creative Humanities
14.55-15.10: Questions
15.10-15.20: Elena Lamprou (HHP-student): Titling Brazilian Amazon lands back to Indigenous Populations – Environmental Humanities
15.20-15.30: Sophia Eberhard Zolle (HHP-student): Colonial survival: Examining the Longevity of Portuguese Rule in Mozambique through a Cultural Darwinist Lens – Cultural Darwinism
15.30-15.40: Questions
15.40-15.45: Tea break

16:00 – 17:00 | JK15A – 004
16.00-16.45: Paneldiscussion and conclusions led by Iris van der Tuin
Panel: Caspar Safarlou, Rick Dolphijn, Natalia Petrovskaia and Adam Kind, Thirza Baer, Diede Mulder (HHP-students organization symposium)

Drinks (Location TBA)