Conference Programme

‘Spatiality & Temporality’ International Conference

11-13 December 2015 – Warsaw, Poland

Interdisciplinary Research Foundation

 

Friday, 11 December 2015

 

13:00 – 15:00

Panel 1: Spatio-Temporal Representations in Philosophy and Culture

 

Melanie Swan, New School for Social Research, New York (USA)

Bergson’s Qualitative and its link to Free Will and Subjectivation

 

Sophia Emmanouilidou, TEI of the Ionian Islands (Greece)

Narrative Identities and the Spatio-Temporal Hermeneutics in Chicana Writings

 

Iwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk, Academy of Music in Kraków (Poland)

Experience of Space in Music: Some Thoughts About the Ontological Status of Musical Work

 

15:30 – 17:00

Panel2: Globalisation and Cultural In-Betweenness

 

Edda Ostertag, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

Globalisation and urban spaces. Culture globalisation as an initiator of alternative forms of temporary public space

 

Ramze Endut, UCD, Dublin (Ireland)

Network of Media: The Concept of Cultural In-Betweenness

 

Saturday, 12 December 2015

 

12:00 – 14:30

Panel 3: Spatial and Temporal Aspects in Fiction

 

Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Virtual Urban Landscape in William J. Mitchell’s E-topia

 

Julita Kula, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland)

A City as an ‘Oppressive Agent’: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Auster’s Dystopian Vision in In the Country of Last Things

 

Ralitsa Lyutskanova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria)

“The Ballad of the Sad Café” – an “architectural” metaphor for the broken heart

 

Inese Vičaka, University of Latvia (Latvia)

Space and Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels “The Orchard Keeper”: An Ecocritical Perspective

 

15:00 – 17:00

Panel 4: Heterotopias and Heterochronies

 

Jennifer M. Raymond, Union Institute & University (USA)

The Ever Present Village: Parenting, Personal blogs and the Blurring of Time and Space

 

Jodi H. Cohen, Bridgewater State University (USA)

and Jennifer M. Raymond, Union Institute & University (USA)

Preservation for Whom?: World Heritage and the Heterotopic Arena

 

Giuseppe Resta, Università Roma TRE (Italy)

Autocratic spaces in Albania

 

Sunday, 13 December 2015

 

12:00 – 14:00

Panel 5: Chronotopes of Urbanity

 

Koen De Wandeler, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Temporality and Rhythmanalysis in Brussels

 

Deyala Altarawneh, University of Birmingham (UK)

Marginal Space Industry in Amman; Politics and Dynamics of Socio-Spatial Planning

 

Shweta Sharma,  School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada (India)

Temporal and Spatial Boundaries of Working: A Case study of Hawkers in NDMC, Delhi

 

15:00 – 16:00

Panel 6: In Search of Lost Time and Space

 

Ahmed Kalaja, Europian University of Tirana (Albania)

Issues on Religious Coexistence Tolerance in Albania  (1912-1945)

 

Galina Saganenko, Elena Stepanova, Sociological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Baltic State Technical University VOENMEH (Russia)

In Search for Lost Global Dimansions in Education