JVF Conference Papers
The volume we are presenting is a result of this focus.
Last year’s Conference of Junior Fellows at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), which took place on December 16, 2010, was largely dedicated to various encounters with things which have disappeared or are about to do so in the future. Our speakers analyzed the genesis of this process, looked into its trajectories and dynamics, and speculated on the possible outcomes. This bias places our studies in disappearance in the domain of social memorizing of absence.
The important common feature of the papers in this volume is their concern with things which have once been there, aimed at tracing their impact on our reality.
