All events take place in the Jay S. and Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge at the Alumni Center on the Binghamton University main campus.
For information on how to register, please see here.
Friday, April 5
8:15 am Breakfast
8:50 am Welcome
9 am - 10:15 am Panel 1: Violence, Religion, and Theology
Sean Dunwoody (Binghamton University): ‘A very funny and very serious story’: Ambivalent emotional responses to reports of religious violence in sixteenth-century Germany
Peter Gilgen (Cornell University): Hermeneutic Violence: Lessing's Theological Polemics
Matthew Stoltz (Cornell University): The Letter, the Spirit, and the Sword: Exploring Violence in the Polemical Writings of Luther and Müntzer
Moderator: Carl Gelderloos (Binghamton University)
10:30 am - 12 pm Panel 2: Violent Trespasses
Ute Bettray (Lafayette College): Critical Crossings: Herbert Marcuse's Essay on Liberation and Its Genealogical Journey to Current Conceptions of National and Transnational Transfeminism
Axel Hildebrandt (Moravian College): The 1978 Airplane Hijacking from Gdansk to West Berlin in Film, Texts, and Stasi Files
Sunka Simon (Swarthmore College): Binge-Worthy Violence – Recasting German History and Memory on Netflix
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages (Binghamton University)
12 noon Lunch
1 pm - 2:15 pm Panel 3: Violence, Critique, and the Public Sphere
Silke Felber (Universität Wien): Gewaltakte: Elfriede Jelineks Tragödienfortschreibungen
Nadia Schuman (Binghamton University): Welcome to “The Madhouse”: The Then and Now of August Klingemann’s Nachtwachen des Bonaventura
Michael Swellander (University of Iowa): Cutting Off Cats’ Tails: Ludwig Börne’s Devastating Wit
Moderator: Harald Zils (Binghamton University)
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Panel 4: Political Violence and Critical Theory
Daniel Binswanger Friedman (Cornell University): Violence, Vision and Redemption in Kracauer’s “Head of Medusa”
Sabine Gölz (University of Iowa): Walter’s Aura-Engineering: The Gespinst that Haunts the Benjamin-Industry
Imke Brust (Haverford College): Expressing Agency Through the Body: Reconciling Arendt and Fanon on Violence Through Rage Against the State
Moderator: Neil Christian Pages (Binghamton University)
4 pm Wine and cheese reception
5pm Keynote: The Larry Wells Lecture 2019
Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers University): “Witnessing and Fighting Nazi Violence During World War II”
8 pm Dinner for registered participants at P.S. Restaurant, Vestal
Saturday, April 6
8:30 am Breakfast
9 am - 10:15 am Panel 5: Particles and Masses: War, Revolution, and Radiation in the 20th Century
Eckhard Kuhn-Osius (Hunter College): Men Against Material: The Violence of World War I as Seen in Popular Literature
Sophia Léonard (Cornell University): Envisioning Resistance in Ernst Toller’s Masse Mensch
Stefan Soldovieri (University of Toronto): Radioactive Memories: Volker Koepp’s Die Wismut (1993) and the Slow Violence of the Atom
Moderator: Harald Zils (Binghamton University)
10:30 am - 11:45 am Panel 6: Violence in Contemporary Literature
Johannes Dreyer (Universität Bielefeld): Gewalt ohne Zentrum – Postmoderne Lebensverhältnisse und ihre literarische Darstellung am Beispiel von Roman Ehrlichs Die fürchterlichen Tage des schrecklichen Grauens
Mona Eikel-Pohen (Syracuse University): Gewaltnarrative und narrative Gewalt in ausgewählten Romanen Juli Zehs
Kim Misfeldt (University of Alberta): Violent Females Created by Female Authors in Contemporary German Literature
Moderator: Carl Gelderloos (Binghamton University)
12 noon Lunch
1 pm Workshop
Jochen Hellbeck: "Reading the German-Soviet War"
2:30 pm End of Colloquium