Dear Sir or Madam, Dear Colleagues, We would like to inform you about the interdisciplinary conference, "Unimaginable Silence," organized in collaboration with the VDP. For more information, see the email below. Kind regards, Katherina Krobath -- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> philosophie(a)univie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/ Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2026 4:32 PM Subject: Invitation to the interdisciplinary conference "Unimaginable Silence" Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the interdisciplinary conference "Unimaginable Silence" that will take place at Uni Vienna on November 6th and 7th, in Room 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna). Across the disciplines of aesthetics, phenomenology, history and psychology, the conference explores the manifold ways in which silence, representation and expression interact to address the singularity of traumatic experiences in which meaning struggles to take hold. Central questions include: What can an image do in the face of the unimaginable? How can it account for the singularity of an event that escapes conscious expression? What does discursive silence reveal about such events, and can spaces of silence create occasions for critical engagement with the unresolved past? The program for the two days is as follows: // 6. November · Friday - 10:00–12:00 Guided Tour at the Jewish Museum Vienna (please register, see below) - 13:00 Official Start of the Conference - 13:30 Sabine Apostolo (Jewish Museum Vienna): Changing Constellations of Silence: Holocaust Memory Across Generations - 14:15 Marija Petrovic (HFBK Hamburg): Across the Silent Time of Interrupted Communications - 15:00 COFFEE BREAK - 15:30 Leo Dressel (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): In-Between Layers of Time – The Potential of Silence and Emptiness for Narrative Media in the Traumatized Space - 16:15 Fabian Buxhofer (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Mnemoscape: Landscape as Collective Memory - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK - 17:15 Emily-Rose Baker (University of Southampton): Listening and/as Looking: Photographing Post-Holocaust Landscapes // 7. November · Saturday - 10:00 Introduction - 10:15 Björn Puhr (University of Vienna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): In the Anechoic Chamber: Listening Listening - 11:00 Adriana Mickiewicz (Jan Długosz University Czestochowa): When the Body Remains Silent: Insensitivity to Physical Pain from a Phenomenological Perspective - 11:45 COFFEE BREAK - 12:15 Chiara Dankl (University of Vienna): Silence and the Fullness of Time - 13:00 Dan Degerman (University of Bristol): Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK - 14:45 Michał Maczuga (University of Vienna, Jagiellonian University Kraków): Towards a Responsive Phenomenology of Silence - 15:30 Remus Breazu (National University of Arts Bucharest): Silence: Refusal and Withdrawal of Sense - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK - 16:30 Pascal Delhom (Europa-Universität Flensburg): The Witness of Silence - 17:15 Closing Remarks If you would like to participate in the guided tour at JMW, please get in touch via bjoern.puhr(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:bjoern.puhr@univie.ac.at> , places are limited. For further information, see https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/silence We look forward to a fruitful academic exchange, Chiara, Michał and Björn