The PhD Centre warmly invites you to this year’s ZHdK PhD Graduation Day. Three ZHdK-associated graduates will present their successfully completed PhD projects. All will be celebrated in the ensuing Apéro. Furthermore, the Graduation Day will be opened by guest speaker Dr. Ben Spatz, a scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of artistic research and critical theories of embodiment and identity. Participation at the PhD Graduation Day is open to the public.
Programme
15.00-15.10
Introduction and welcome by Bea Böckem, Head of Research Affairs
15.10-16.00
Ben Spatz (University of Huddersfield): Planetary Forms: Artistic Research and the Edges of Europe. This keynote will also be livestreamed online: https://vimeo.com/event/3753976/035c276cc3
16.00-16.45
Laura von Niederhäusern (Zurich University of the Arts, Art University Linz): Face No Dial of a Clock. Investigating Asynchronic Experiences of Present Time by Means of Art
16.45-17.15
Break
17.15-18.00
Marisa Godoy (Coventry University): Generating co-presence: Dancers’ ways of knowing and discoveries in improvisation choreography
18.00-18.45
Gaudenz Metzger (Zurich University of the Arts, University of Zurich): Sterben in der individualisierten und digitalisierten Gesellschaft 2020_2023
19.00-19.15
Closing speech by Karin Mairitsch, Rector of the Zurich University of the Arts.
19.15
Apéro