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