Itinerary
Monday, October 27th, 2025
Arrival
11:00: Tanja Kapp (Tübingen): Welcome & Introduction: "Must a trace endure [...]?" Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters
Panel 1: Collaborative Forms and Aesthetics of Resistance
11:30: Hayley Toth (Newcastle): Collective Form
11:50: Fabiola del Rincón Fernández (British Columbia): Ephemeral Poetics: Bioart and More-than-human Dialogism
12:10 Ádám Havas (Barcelona): Disobedient Soundscapes: Ephemerality and the Aesthetic Politics of Free Improvisation
12:30: Panel Discussion
Lunch Break
12:40-14:00: Catering
Panel 2: Traces, Bureaucracies, and Media Flows
14:00: Florian Zeilinger (Graz): Early Modern Reports of Imperial Chamber Court Summoners as Sources of Ephemeral Delivery Practices
14:20: Alexander Wierzock (Essen/Berlin): Trading the Ephemeral: Newspaper Clipping Agencies and Scholarly Knowledge-Making around 1900
14:40: Alexandra Irimia (Bonn): Paper Trails and Vanishing Acts: Permanence and Ephemerality of Bureaucratic Forms
15:00: Georg Noeffke (Pretoria): Tragic Wills: Dual Ephemerality in Southern African Cinematic Adaptations of Shakespeare
15:20: Panel Discussion
Tea and Coffee Break
15:40-16:10
Panel 3: Queer Epistemologies and Archival Absences
16:10: Stefan Lessmann (Yale): Queer Knowledge between Dictionary, Archive and Academia
16:30: Carolin Jesussek (Mainz): Ephemeral Evidence as Counter-Archive
16:50: Panel Discussion
A Walkshop around Campus
17:00-18:00: Psychogeography as Method
Dinner
18:30
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Panel 4: Artistic Ephemerality and Temporal Tensions
09:30: David Krych (Vienna): The Reconstruction of the Present: The Problem of Time in Research on Ephemeral Practices
09:50: Anja Schürmann (Essen): Hallucinating Meaning: Photography and the Future of Vibes
10:10: Marisa Karyl Franz (New York): Ephemeral Art of Nuclear Sites
10:30: Francesca Melina (Venice/Pavia): Ephemeral Encounters: Art as a Catalyst for Ethical and Ecological Transformation
10:50: Panel Discussion
Tea and Coffee Break
11:10-11:30
Panel 5: Material Natures, Ritual Time
11:30: Sam Cox (Adelaide/Tübingen): His Ephemeral Materials: A Geopoetics of Dust
11:50: Penelope Volinia (Augsburg): On the Menu by Nature: Histories of (Sea)Food
12:10: Somak Mukherjee (Tübingen): Relinquish and Return: The Ephemeral History of Pratima Visarjan in Calcutta
12:30: Panel Discussion
Closing Remarks & Departure
12:40
Each presentation should be around 10-15 mins, allowing for a few subsequent questions. There will be an additional 10+ mins for discussion after each panel.