Wednesday 11 June

15.30

conference opening

16.00

John Berger on Political Affects: Visual Culture as Commitment, Resistance, or Loss

Francisco-J. Hernandez Adrián

16.45

Scoring the Future, Penetrating the Past (interactive performance lecture)

Deborah Pearson

19.00

conference warming // reception

Thursday 12 June

09.30

John Berger and the Chauvet Cave

Riccardo Venturi

10.15

On Berger, Animals and (Not) Looking

Monika Szuba

11.00

coffee break

11.30

John Christie and Hans Jürgen Balmes in conversation

moderated by Christian Schmitt-Kilb

12.30

students’ poster exhibition // interviews

13.00

lunch break

14.00

Brief as Photos: The Cartoonist as Primitive and Professional

Satish Poduval

14.45

"Neither Silent nor Audible": Finding Delhi in Pablo Lopez's The Ridge

Priyam Goswamy Choudhury

15.30

coffee break

16.00

Images, Words, and In-Between States

Tereza Stehlíková and Jitka Hanzlová

film screening – photo presentation – conversation moderated by Milica Labas

17.00

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19.00

In Tandem: Literature as Collaboration

Atefe Asadi, Daniela Dröscher and David Herd

conversation and reading moderated by Dirk Wiemann

Friday 13 June

10.00

“Always an Outsider’s View”:  The Place of the Writer, Coal, and Collaboration

Christian Schmitt-Kilb

10.45

Ways of (Un)Seeing:  Bento's Sketchbook and the Making of a Travel Graphic Novel

 Abiral Kumar

11.30

coffee break

12.00

Against Expulsion: Walking, Writing and Collaborative Acts

David Herd

13.00

lunch break

14.00

70 Years Old and still Busy Being Born: Berger’s Public Critic

Dirk Wiemann

14.45

Homo Proximus: People, Plethos, and the Democracy Zoo

Pavan Malreddy

15.30

coffee break

16.00

Looking Back at John, Looking Ahead with John

Cordelia Dvorák and Hans Jürgen Balmes in conversation moderated by Dirk Wiemann

17.15

Concluding Discussion – End of Conference