Friday, October 3
10.45 AM: Conference Opening
11 AM: Opening Keynote
"In Defense of Human Empathy"
Jodi Halpern (UCB)
11.45 AM - 1 PM: Lunch
1 - 2:00 PM: Panel I
Medieval and Early Modern Genealogies of Empathy
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“Fictions of Empathy: Uncertain Understanding and Dissimulation in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman”
Annegret Schäffler (LMU) -
“What We Owe King Lear: Performance, Politics, and the Problem of Other People”
Miles Drawdy (UCB)
2:00 - 2:15 PM- Coffee Break
2:15 - 3:45 PM: Panel 2
Feeling Across Time: Affect, Ethics, and Abolitionist Imaginaries
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"Staging Cruelty: Slavery, Colonialism, and the Textual Production of Empathy in Seventeenth-Century Fiction and Drama"
Tim Sommer (LMU) - "Abolitionist Affect: Grief, Refusal and the Emotional Infrastructure of Resistance"
Irene Franco Rubio (UCB) - "Drawing a Doctorate: Sketching as Ethnographic Inquiry and Representation"
Alena Zelenskaia (LMU)
Saturday, October 4
1:30 - 3 PM: Panel 3
Performing Otherwise: Empathy, Transformation, and AI
- “Empathy by Another Name”: Aesthetics and Politics of Storytelling in Contemporary Testimonial Theater"
Julia Rössler (LMU) - "Transformative Empathy"
Micah Dubreuil (UCB) - "Artificial Others: Empathy, Affect, and Agency in AI-Generated Visual Art"
Sonja Thiel (UCB)
3 - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:15 PM: Panel 4
Post-Humanitarian Bodies and Borders
- "Bodies, Borders, and Infrared Surveillance Technologies"
Isabella Williams (UCB) - "Inside Tania El Khoury’s Syria: Towards a Posthumanitarian Affect"
Oliver Thomas (UCB)
4:30 PM: Closing Keynote
Salvage in Global History
Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU)
5:30 - 7 PM: Closing Reception
440 Stephens Hall
UC Berkeley