Time and Artefact

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Description

The aim of the Topical Program is to create a platform of exchange for scholars located at the University of Münster whose work touches on different forms and aspects of artefacts. Although the study of artefacts has been a long-standing concern in some disciplines within the Humanities, other Humanities and Social Science disciplines have only recently started to (re)focus attention on artefacts and their embedding in changing social and historical settings. The Topical Program capitalizes on the unique combination of empirical-descriptive and systematic-normative expertise on artefacts available at the University of Münster to propose two novel perspectives. First, it will explore in a systematic way and from various disciplinary angles the various ways in temporalities and artefacts relate to and affect and mold each other. Second, in contrast to a tendency in the Humanities to equate artefacts with material objects or “things”, it conceives of artefacts as material and immaterial entities.