Workshop "Musical 'Meaning', Social Interaction, and Teleofunctionalism"
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Main Building, R. 2249a
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Programme
13 July 2018
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Opening Address
10.15 – 11.30 Matthias Vogel (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
"Push and pull, but no pushmi-pullyu"
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.15 Jin Hyun Kim (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
"Musical ‘meaning’, affectivity and sociality"
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15.45 Uwe Seifert (Universität zu Köln)
"Toward a biological foundation of the human music capacity and musical hermeneutics:
Might teleofunctionalism be a missing building block?"
15.45 – 16.45 Coffee break and poster presentations
Poster presentations: "How do we distinguish degrees of intentions in sounds in
immediacy? - a case study" (Gabriele Giacosa); "Making sense of social sound: insight
from speech prosody" (Daniela Sammler); "The sound image presented" (Mohammad
Sadegh Fayyaz Sendi); "Are intentions necessary for constituting the social dimension of
musical ‘meaning’?" (Runa Ya & Till Schwabenbauer)
16.45 – 18.00 Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins University)
"Unmediated vocality, shared intentionality, and meaningful music:
an evolutionary story"
19.00 Dinner
14 July 2018
10.00 – 11.15 Ian Cross (University of Cambridge)
"Situating the social: the case of music"
11.15 – 13.00 Round table with Thomas Dworschak (Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln),
Sebastian Klotz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Mariusz S. Kozak (Columbia University)
and all speakers