Upcoming Workshops

Workshop (Spring 2022): The Empathic Understanding of Persons, Art, and Literature

Past Workshops

Kickoff-Workshop: „Fühlen und Verstehen. Die Rolle von Empathie beim Verstehen von Personen und Literatur“

Workshop: Empathy, Understanding, and Appreciation

15.00 – 15.15

Welcome (Thomas Petraschka & Christiana Werner)

15.15 – 16.30	Eva-Maria Düringer: “Feeling and Being Understood”
16.30 – 17.45	Christiana Werner: “What’s so funny about (Peace, Love and) Understanding”
17.45 – 18.00	Break
18.00 – 19.30	Karsten Stueber: “Appreciating Otherness: Empathic Understanding and the Sensus Communis”

09.00 – 10.15

Jean Moritz Müller: “Fellow Feelings, Responses and Acknowledgment“

10.15 – 11.30	Jana Lüdtke: “Could we understand the contribution of reading fiction on the development of social cognition when we study the influence of empathy on reading literature?”
11.30 – 11.45	Break
11.45 – 13.00	Thomas Petraschka: “How empathizing with real people differs from empathizing with fictional characters”
13.00 – 15.15	Lunch Break
15.15 – 16.30	Benjamin Gittel: “To live as if one were a character in a book” – Appreciation, Empathy and Autofiction”
16.30 – 17.45	Eva-Maria Konrad: “Empathy with the victim – or the perpetrator? Abbas Khider’s “Ohrfeige” and the reader’s change of perspective”
17.45 – 18.00	Break
18.00 – 19.30	Stephen R. Grimm: “Humane Understanding”

09.00 – 10.15	Anja Berninger: “Empathizing with the Evil? Exploring the Reasons for Empathic Resistance”
10.15 – 11.30	Claudia Hillebrandt: “Empathy and appreciation for ambivalent fictional characters”
11.30 – 11.45	Break
11.45 – 13.00	Íngrid Vendrell Ferran: “Emotion and the Appreciation of Fiction”
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 15.00	Network-Meeting