The Experience of Emergence (2014-15 Lectures at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study)

Research Summary: The Experience of Emergence

Event Type: Academic lecture series and podium discussions

Institution: Durham Institute of Advanced Study

Duration: November 2014 – May 2015

Venue: Elvet Riverside, Room ER140 (primary); Palace Green Debating Chamber (20 January 2015)

Schedule: 18:00–20:00 (sessions begin 18:15)

Key Themes: Narrative emergence, flat ontology, the Anthropocene, digital studies, temporal practices, interdisciplinary paradigms, nonconscious cognition, and philosophical emergence

Notable Speakers: David Herman, Graham Harman, Bernard Stiegler, Katherine Hayles, Nigel Thrift, Patricia Waugh, Christina Howells

Format: Lectures (7), podium discussion (1)

Access: Not disclosed

‘The Experience of Emergence’
Workshops and Podium Discussions at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study

Lectures take place in Elvet Riverside, Room ER140 at 18.00 for 18.15-20.00

10 November 2014
David Herman (Durham)
Metamorphic emergence: narrative modelling of species transformations

15 December 2014
Graham Harman (Cairo)
The flat ontology of emergence

19 January 2015
Bernard Stiegler (Paris)
What is the Anthropocene? Or, negu-anthropology as new critique of philosophical and scientific anthropology

20 January 2015 (Palace Green Debating Chamber) Podium discussion: Digital Studies: The emergence of a paradigm for the humanities Katherine Hayles and Bernard Stiegler

2 February 2015
Nigel Thrift (Warwick)
Invention and emergence: the practices of time

16 February 2015
Patricia Waugh (Durham)
Paradigms lost: emergence and the brave new world of interdisciplinary consilience

2 March 2015
Katherine Hayles (Duke)
The emergence of nonconscious cognition

11 May 2015
Christina Howells (Oxford)
The emergence of the soul

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