University of Cologne | Online via Zoom
SoSe 2025 | 03.03.2025 – 01.12.2025 | Mondays 2pm – 3.30pm (CET)
Our lecture series sets out to reframe how we understand and engage with dementia—not through a narrow lens of cognitive decline, but by centering the lived experiences of those affected. With contributions from leading voices in theory and practice, the series brings together interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives that emphasize the intersubjective, socially and culturally situated dimensions of dementia. Rather than focusing solely on neurodegeneration, we explore psycho- and sociodegenerative processes through key concepts such as perception and resonance. In doing so, we aim to bridge the gap between diagnosis and therapy, theory and practice and create a space where new insights can emerge, and where the meaning-making capacities of music, touch, theater, and other lifeworldly experiences are recognized as vital to care.
Missed a talk? Take a look at our YouTube channel to explore the recordings and stay connected.
Organized by: Dr. Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen & Ragna Winniewski, Husserl Archives Cologne/a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
Zoom access: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/91365214213?pwd=cWFRQnZKcjlMY3RzNEdISHMzU09GUT09
(Meeting-ID: 913 6521 4213, Passwort: 252346)
Program SoSe 2025
03.03.2025
Ann V. Murphy (New Mexico)
„Caregiving and Paranoid Delusion: A Critical Phenomenological Approach“
07.04.2025
Susie Wimmer (München)
“Mit dem Herzen eines Clowns gedacht: Demenz als Geschenk - eine unerhörte Hypothese”
05.05.2025
Rasmus Dyring (Aarhus)
„Creating Intercorporeal Caring Spaces in Residential Dementia Care”
22.04.2025
Thomas Johannsen (Amsterdam)
„Making Dementia Matter Through Sound - the Stem&Luister project of the Genetic Choir“
02.06.2025
Ieva Stončikaitė (Barcelona) & Katharina Fürholzer (Rostock)
„Ageing and the Ethics of Dementia from the Lens of Medical Humanities: The Case of Gabriel García Márquez's Until August“
07.07.2025
Ida Vandsøe Madsen (Copenhagen)
TBA
01.09.2025
Paula Muhr (Hamburg)
“AI-Based Neuroimaging Research on Alzheimer’s Disease: Constructing Predictive Diagnostic Separability between Healthy Aging and Future Dementia”
06.10.2025
Sarah Wood (York)
"Does a self-pattern remain in people with dementia?"
03.11.2025
Carola Dietz (Bamberg)
TBA
01.12.2025
TBA