Kickoff-Workshop: „Fühlen und Verstehen. Die Rolle von Empathie beim Verstehen von Personen und Literatur“
September 26th-27th 2018, University of Regensburg
Upcoming Workshop: Empathy, Understanding, and Appreciation
February 21st-23rd 2019, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Program
02/21/2019
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Welcome (Thomas Petraschka & Christiana Werner) |
Empathy, Understanding & „Verständnis“
| 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” |
02/22/2019
| 09.00 – 10.15 | Jean Moritz Müller: “Fellow Feelings, Responses and Acknowledgment“ |
Empathy, Fiction & „Appreciation“
| 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” |
02/23/2019
| 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 |
Abstracts
Anja Berninger: Empathizing with the Evil? Exploring the Reasons for Empathic Resistance |
Eva-Maria Düringer: Feeling and Being Understood |
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran: Emotion and the Appreciation of Fiction |
Benjamin Gittel: “To live as if one were a character in a book” – Appreciation, Empathy and Autofiction |
Stephen R. Grimm: Humane Understanding |
Claudia Hillebrandt: Empathy and appreciation for ambivalent fictional characters |
Eva-Maria Konrad: Empathy with the victim – or the perpetrator? Abbas Khider’s “Ohrfeige” and the reader’s change of perspective |
Jean Moritz Müller: Fellow Feelings, Responses and Acknowledgment |
Thomas Petraschka: How empathizing with real people differs from empathizing with fictional characters |
Karsten R. Stueber: Appreciating Otherness: Empathic Understanding and the Sensus Communis |
Christiana Werner: “What’s so funny about (Peace, Love and) Understanding” |
