Program

Thursday, 7. July 2011: FOUNDATIONS & CONCEPTS
09.30 – 09.45 Opening remarks
09.45 – 10.45 Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus): Thinking about thinking with diagrams
10.45 – 11.15 Tea / coffee
11.15 – 12.15 Michael Marrinan (Stanford): The “thing-ness” of diagrams
12.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Helsinki): Is there a general diagram concept?
15.00 – 16.00 Sun-Joo Shin (Yale): How do diagrams show what they show?
16.00 – 16.30 Tea / coffee
16.30 – 17.30 Christina Ljungberg (Zürich): The diagrammatic nature of maps
Reception

Friday, 8. Juli 2011: COGNITION & ICONICITY
09.30 – 10.30 Dieter Mersch (Potsdam): On iconic differences
10.30 – 11.30 Jan Wöpking (Berlin): True conclusions from false pictures. Iconicity and instrumentality in diagrams
11.30 – 12.00 Tea / coffee
12.00 – 13.00 Valeria Giardino (Paris): Diagramming. Using space to reason
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Matthias Bauer (Flensburg): Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein
15.30 – 16.30 Steffen Bogen (Konstanz): The diagram as game-plan. Notation in Alfonso el Sabio’s Book of Games (1283)

Saturday, 9. Juli 2011: PHILOSOPHICAL CASE STUDIES
09.30 – 10.30 Sybille Krämer (Berlin): Plato revisited. ‘Diagrammatology’ as an irreducible dimension of European Philosophy
10.30 – 11.30 Emmanuel Alloa (Basel): Capturing the flow. On Husserl’s aporetic time diagrams
11.30 – 11.45 Tea / coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Mark Halawa (Berlin) / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (Berlin): Pragmatism on paper. On Charles S. Peirce’s graphic practice and pragmatic thinking

Closing remarks

Program

7.7.2011
Thinking about thinking with diagrams
Frederik Stjernfelt
The "thing-ness" of diagrams
Michael Marrinan
Is there a general diagram concept?
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
How do diagrams show what they show?
Sun–joo Shin
The diagrammatic nature of maps
Christina Ljungberg
On iconic differences
Dieter Mersch
True conclusions from false pictures. Iconicity and instrumentality in diagrams
Jan Wöpking
Diagramming. Using space to reason
Valeria Valeria Giardino
Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein
Matthias Bauer
The diagram as game-plan. Notation in Alfonso el Sabio’s Book of Games (1283)
Steffen Bogen
Plato revisited. "Diagrammatology’ as an irreducible dimension of European Philosophy
Sybille Krämer
Capturing the flow. On Husserl's aporetic time diagrams
Emmanuel Alloa
Pragmatism on paper. On Charles S. Peirce’s graphic practice and pragmatic thinking
Mark Halawa
Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer