Conference
May 16
9:30 – 10:00 : Registration
10:00 : Welcome addresses. Governance of the University of Latvia
Ineta Kivle, University of Latvia.
« The conference thematic and actuality »
« Conference Navigation »
10:30 : Keynote lecture
Pascal Michon, International interdisciplinary research platform “RHUTHMOS”
« Why we need the notion of rhuthmos today ? »
Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 — Section I. RHYTHMANALYSIS TOWARDS STABILITY
Maija Kūle, University of Latvia
« Rhythm and fundamental phenomena »
Branko Klun, University of Ljubljana
« Repetition and stability within human temporality. An existential-phenomenological approach »
Patrick Burke, Gonzaga University in Florence (Video record)
« The Rhythm of Reversibility »
Lunch break
14:00 – 17:00 — Section II. RHYTHMS OF BODY, LIFE AND SOCIALITY : EXISTENCE AND ETHICS
Leo Singer, University of Liverpool
« No Master Clock, no Body Slave : Lefebvre’s metric rhythm versus the anarchic body time »
Monika Rogowska-Stangret, University of Białystok
« Cross-scale Rhythms of Posthumanity in Times of Environmental Crisis. Transforming the “anthropo” in the Anthropocentre »
Maja Bjelica, Science and Research Centre Koper
« Rhythms of Silence for a Posthuman Ethics »
Justina Šumilova, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
« Maurice Blanchot : Exploring the Interplay of Rhythm, Silence, and Hacking »
Coffee
Reena Cheruvalath, The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, BITS Pilani
« Making a truce between one’s original rhythms of life with exhibited rhythms and its aftereffects »
Eric Goodfield, American University of Beirut
« Wu wei and the Daoist Paradoxes of the Political »
Gal Gerson, The University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel
« The open society and technological change : Karl Popper on the potentiality of a digitally- managed civilization »
17:00 — WELCOME RECEPTION !
May 17
11:00 : Keynote lecture
Lenart Škof, Science and Research Centre Koper
« Rhythms of Breath, Rhythms of Love »
Coffee
12:00 – 13:30 — Section III. HUMANITY, RHYTHMS, AND NATURE
Gina Stamm, The University of Alabama
« Plant-time in Life and Poetry »
Johanna Kirschbauer, University of the Arts in Berlin
« Learning from Fluid Forms : On the potential of clouds, swarms, and mucus as models for the post-human age »
Anne Sauka, University of Latvia
« Rhythm and Rupture : Experiential Realms of the Naturecultured Self »
Suneel Jethani, University of Technology in Sydney
« Rhythm in geo and bio media »
Lunch break
15:00 : CULTURE PROGRAMME
May 18
11:00 – 14:00 — Section IV. RHYTHMS OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Valda Vidzemniece, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music
« Rhythm in dance : traditions and alternative approaches »
Salomé Lopes Coelho, University of Lisbon
« Rhuthmanalysis beyond human exceptionalism. The intra-connectedness of human and extra-human rhythms in film »
Pedro Florêncio, University of Lisbon
« After Ruhr (2009) : rhythmic modulations and critical hypnosis in James Benning’s redemptive cinema »
Coffee
Paulina Zguda, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
« Fine feathers make fine birds (or robot) : Design and perception of social robots »
Matti Pulli, University of Turku
« Transformed Humanity and Rhythm. Love, Rhythm and Computation »
Ineta Kivle, University of Latvia
« The violent rhythm : the technique of imposed existence »
Hareesh A. G., The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, BITS Pilani
« Change, Ontology, and Search for Stability : Rejuvenating Essentialism Concerning Human Nature »
CONCLUSIONS
