Programme

1.00 – 2.00 pm:

Conference Registration
(Room: C I - 1 /Kleiner Konferenzraum)

2.00 – 2.15 pm:

Opening
Lothar Bluhm,
Dean of the Faculty “Cultural and Social Sciences”, University of Koblenz-Landau

2.15 – 2.35 pm:

Introduction: Sharing in the 21st Century
(Stella Butter/ Felix Kirschbacher / Heidi Liedke)

2.35 – 3.35 pm:

Keynote: Nicholas John (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
'Sharing' Over Time and Across Cultures

3.35 – 4.00 pm:

Coffee Break

4.00 – 4.30 pm:

Panel 1: Sharing Kinship and the Intimate
Chair: Christiane Hansen (Koblenz-Landau)

• Irina Kretser (St. Petersburg State University):
  Sharing as Relatedness in the Context of Kinship

4.30 pm:

Performance workshop with the artist Sophie Innmann (Room: C IV - 266)

7.00 pm:

Conference Dinner at Restaurant "Raffaele" (Industriestraße 7a, 76829 Landau)

10.00 – 10.30 am:

Panel 1 (continued): Sharing Kinship and the Intimate

• Katherine Burn (Manchester Metropolitan University):
  An Antidote to Oversharing: Reading the Uncanniness of Shame in Eley Williams' Attrib

10.30 – 11.00 am:

Panel 2: Sharing in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Chair: Achim Hescher (Koblenz-Landau)

• Conor Moloney (Queen Mary University of London):
  Private makes Public: The Domestic Technologies of Sharing in Lois Weaver’s 'Public Address Systems’

11.00 – 11.30 am:

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.00 pm:

Panel 2 (continued)

• Heidi Liedke (Koblenz-Landau / Queen Mary University of London):
  ‘Be Part of the Conversation’: Theatre Livecasting and the Sharing of Experience

12.00 – 2.00 pm:

Lunch Break

2.00 – 3.00 pm:

Keynote: Julian Hanich (Groningen)
Sharing Emotions vs. Feeling Together: Two Types of Affective We-Experience in the Cinema

3.00 – 3.30 pm:

Coffee Break

3.30 – 4.30 pm:

Panel 3: Forms of Sharing in the Digital Age
Chair: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (Koblenz-Landau)

• Jeff Coons (Gießen):
  Let’s Play ‘Friendship Simulator!’ Social Connections in Gaming-Related Livestreaming

• Jarkko Toikkanen (Academy of Finland): 
  Sharing Contagion in Social Media: The Case of Slender Man

4:30 – 5.00 pm:

Panel 4: Sharing Authors, Fans and Books
Chair: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (Koblenz-Landau)

• Silvia Gerlsbeck (Erlangen-Nürnberg):
  The Return of the Author: The Ethics and Ideology of ‘Sharing’ in a Postcolonial Tradition

7.00 pm:

Conference Dinner and Winetasting at Weinstube "Zur Blum" (Kaufhausgasse 9, 76829 Landau)

09.30 – 10.30 am:

Keynote: Btihaj Ajana (Kings College London)
Data Philanthropy: Reflections on the Sharing Culture of the Quantified Self

10.30 – 10.45 am:

Coffee Break

10.45 – 11.45 am:

Panel 4 (continued)

Chair: Didymus Douanla (Koblenz-Landau)

• Dorothee Birke (Innsbruck):
  Sharing Books: Reading Culture in the Digital Age

• Maria Fleischhack (Leipzig):
  Sharing- and Gifting-Culture in Transformative Fan Practices

11.45 – 12.15 pm:

Concluding Discussion