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HGGS Summer Forum 2023: "Agency in Time"

 

What is the relationship between agency and time, and how do they interact in the humanities, law and social sciences? The HGGS Forum 2023 brought together interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary experts from around the world to discuss the increasing importance of these themes in numerous academic disciplines, deepening our understanding of humanities, law and social sciences as a whole. Experts at various stages in their academic careers – doctoral candidates, postdocs, professors – were invited to join us for an exciting day of discussions, breaking down barriers between disciplines and shining a new light on the fascinating interaction of agency and time.

 

In their presentations on the relationship between agency and time, participants experimented with different visions of expressing and communicating scholarly findings individually or in teams: short papers alternated with video collages and poster presentations. Thanks to the HGGS mobility grants, outstanding external doctoral candidates from other German university and from abroad were invited to join the HGGS Forum 2023 in person.

 

Programme: 8 September 2023

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Video presentations on the relationship between agency and time, and how these themes interact in the humanities, law and social sciences. The HGGS encouraged experimenting with different visions of expressing and communicating scholarly findings:

Matias Lennart Castrén, SAI Political Science, Heidelberg University, Timing is Crucial: Examining India’s Prospects for Greater Agency in Global Politics.

Milena Dietz, Law, Heidelberg University, The Agency of States in the Centralisation of Taxes - 100 years Ago and Today.

Erika Mosebach, Political Sociology, Heidelberg University, Policy change and path dependencies in European prostitution policy - Germany as an extreme case.

Sara Ibáñez-O´Donnell, Transcultural Studies & Ilaria Pinzo, Classical and Modern Literature, Heidelberg University, Body and Bodies.

Marco Del Din, Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dance the Virus Away: Artistic Responses to AIDS from Sakyō-ku, Kyoto.

Julian Tobias Klar, Political Science, Heidelberg University, John Dewey’s unified perspective on the political difference examined – politics versus the political in Dewey’s writings.

Allyson Duarte Vela, Philosophy, Texas A&M University, Refracted Undocumented Agency in Time.

Juliette Ortiz & Ariel Zulueta, Psychology, Havana University, Irene Ramirez, Education & Ricardo Ruiz, Anthropology, University of the Andes, The Transformative Power of Education.

 

Poster Session

The HGGS Forum hosted poster presentations on the relationship between agency and time, and how these themes interact in the humanities, law and social sciences.

 

Selection of Posters

Juliette Ortiz & Ariel Zulueta, Psychology, Havana University, Irene Ramirez, Education & Ricardo Ruiz, Anthropology, University of the Andes, The Transformative Power of Education.

Cristian Camilo Cuervo, English Literature, Heidelberg University, The Uchronian Machine.

Minh Doi Nguyen, Political Science & Carlos Fabris, Sociology, Heidelberg University, Agency in Social Transformation.

 

 

 

 

The HGGS Forum is an interdisciplinary conference and/or workshop organised by doctoral members of the HGGS in collaboration with the managing director. It permits members of the Graduate School to discuss in depth central academic questions from different disciplinary angles and to re-think their own academic work in the dialogue with experts and invited guests from leading research universities in Europe and abroad.

In recent years, Forum topics included “21st Century Risks and Opportunities”, “Interdisciplinary Research” as well as cross-disciplinary concepts, such as “Mobility”, “Space”, “Change”, "Communication", and “Identities”.

 

 

 

 

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