Lydia Marinelli (1965-2008) was one of the finest and most inventive
Austrian historians and curators of her generation. Although scholars will
remember mostly her original and inspiring attempts to renew the
historiography of psychoanalysis and her exhibitions, her work had also
wider implications with regard to the ways knowledge is generated and
transmitted in the human sciences. At a time when historiographical
approaches were mostly discipline-bound and text-oriented, opening up the
world of the book and of other media in relation to psychoanalysis
involved a major reframing of the historical enterprise in this domain.
Marinelli's analyses of the role of visual technologies and of the
critical function of the archive and the museum in the transmission of
psychoanalytic knowledge constitutes a challenge for traditional
intellectual histories. This conference will honour her memory by
investigating the dynamics of the major knowledge vehicles in the human
sciences: books, journals and other print media, the role of the visual
arts and technologies and the multiple ways museum objects can spur
epistemic processes. Special attention should be given to those fleeting
and recalcitrant objects that haunt especially the sciences dealing with
mental phenomena. Studying the often paradoxical attempts to track the
ephemeral can yield new ways to think about what seems most evident and
familiar to us.
Participants: John C. Burnham, Jacqueline Carroy, James Chandler, Lorraine Daston, John Forrester, Baudouin Jurdant, Ruth Leys, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Andreas Mayer, Angela Mayer-Deutsch, Alexandre Métraux, Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Alison Winter, Barbara Wittmann.
Registration is necessary for this event. Further details on program and for registration please, contact: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de until 20 July 2009.
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