The Disasters of Violence, War and Extremism
The Disasters of Violence, War and Extremism 1813 – 2015
Annual Conference of the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre
3. – 4.7.2015
Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main
3 July 2015 Goethe-University, Seminarhaus, Room 05.104 | |
08:00 | Conference Desk / Registration |
09:00 | Matthias Lutz-Bachman, Representative of the University Presidency, Frankfurt a. M.: Welcome Address |
09:05 | Steffen Bruendel / Frank Estelmann, Frankfurt a. M.: Introduction |
| Section 1: The Meanings of War and Violence Chair: Steffen Bruendel, Frankfurt a. M. |
09:15 | Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv: The German War-Machine (1800)
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| Markus Wriedt, Frankfurt a. M.: Religious Legitimation of Violence. The Support of War and Violence through Ecclesiastical Loyality and Militant Nationalism in German Protestantism between 1813 and 1945 |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Section 2: War Theatres - Theatres of War Chair: Christian Wiese, Frankfurt a. M. |
11:15 | Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv: Female Impersonation in World War I Internment Camps |
| Martina Groß, Hildesheim: Performing the Escape of Time - Hugo Ball, DADA and World War I |
| Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Frankfurt a. M.: Wars Without Battles - the Theatre of Brecht and Heiner Müller |
13:30 | Lunch Break |
14:30 | Campus Tour |
| Section 3: Contesting Memories: World War I Chair: Christoph Cornelißen, Frankfurt a. M. |
15:00 | Frederike Felcht, Frankfurt a. M. / Anja Peltzer, Mannheim: Epidemic Military Culture - Holger Madsen's Film "Lay Down Your Arms" (1914) |
| Gal Hertz, Tel Aviv: Deutschland ist Hamlet? Shakespeare und Deutscher Geist in World War I |
| Ahmet Sen, Frankfurt a. M.: Two Sides, One Faith. A Perspective on Jewish Soldiers’ Transnational Memories of World War I |
17:30 | Break or Visit of the Summer Festival on Campus |
20:00 | Dinner |
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4 July 2015 Goethe-University, Seminarhaus, Room 05.104 | |
| Section 4: Shadows of Conflicts and Violence Chair: Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv |
09:00 | Astrid Erll, Frankfurt a. M.: "Don't look back in anger". New Memory Studies Perspectives on the First World War |
| Omri Ben-Yehuda, Tel Aviv: The Renaissance of Hebrew and the European War: the Case of Agnon |
10:30 | Coffee Break |
11:00 | Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Bielefeld: Theatre Against War: From Erwin Piscator to the “Living Theatre” |
| Silja Behre, Tel Aviv: Long Shadows of the Past? The Meaning of Violence in the Memory of 1968 - A German-French Perspective | |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
| Section 5: Violence, Ideology and Statehood Chair: Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv |
13:30 | Mihran Dabag, Bochum: Gestaltung durch Vernichtung. Generationale Selbstermächtigung und die Politik des Genozids [Forming by Extermination. Generational Self-Empowerment and the Politics of Genocide] |
| Tilmann J. Röder, Heidelberg: Transitional Justice in Germany. 1945 - 2015 | |
15:00 | Coffee Break |
| Section 6: Audio-Visual Presentations of War and Violence Chair: Frank Estelmann, Frankfurt a. M. |
16:00 | Yaron Jean, Haifa: The Great War and the Birth of Modern Soundscape |
| Jochen Schuff, Frankfurt a. M.: Narrating the "War on Terror": Trauma and Justification in “Homeland”. |
19:00 | Steffen Bruendel / Frank Estelmann: Closing Remarks |
