Powers, Processes and Persistence

Powers, Processes and Persistence is the final manifestation of the DFG-Network on Change and Change-Makers (CCM). The goal of CCM was to enable a dialogue about the future of the debate about persistence. In contrast to the standard debate about persistence, where change is simply presupposed, CCM looks closer at how changes come about and how they are mitigated through time. The working hypotheses was that powers are the change makers bringing about change, which unfold as processes over time. These, in turn, are the basis for persistence. Powers, Processes and Persistence is thus not just a random sequence of words, but the blueprint of a novel ontology of persistence. This ontology will be illuminated from various sides by contributions from experts of all three fields.

Confirmed Speakers
Dan Deasy (Dublin)
Heather Demarest (Boulder)
Catherine Diehl (Leiden)
Kristina Engelhardt (Trier)
Florian Fischer (Siegen)
Dirk Franken (Mainz)
David Ingram (York)
Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Helsinki)
Anne Sophie Meincke (Vienna)
Walter Mesch (Münster)
Ulrich Meyer (Colgate)
Thomas Sattig (Tübingen)
Norman Sieroka (Bremen)
Niko Strobach (Münster)
Federico Vigilone (Milano)