Aesthetics & Politics in 2020: [virtual] Conference
Aesthetics and Politics in 2020 Conference
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Conference Program
Please note: The Keynote Lecture and the Friday roundtable will be live (and in webinar format); Columbia-internal papers (both students and faculty) will be pre-recorded. The live sessions on the internal papers will be discussion-focused.
Thursday, November 12
Keynote Lecture
6 pm: Tavia Nyong’o (Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies, Yale University): The Politics of Fabulation
Moderation: Claudia Breger, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Friday, November 13
Artistic Acts in Response to War, Revolution, and the Rise of Fascism
(Starting from Verbs)
10 am Vance Byrd (Frank and Roberta Furbush Scholar and Associate Professor of German Studies, Grinnell College): Opening the Wounds: Appropriation as Physical and Material Methodology in Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge
Moderation: Annie Pfeifer, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
11am Break
11:30 am Internal Panel (discussion-based)
Moderation and Response: Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French
Didi Tal: The Theater of History. Reenacting the French Revolution in Georg Büchner, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller
Hazel Rhodes: Staying Lucid, Caring, Calling Out: Isherwood’s Berlin Stories
12:15 Lunch break
Political Reading in the Age of Postcritique (Starting from Adverbs)
1:30 pm Beverly Weber (Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder): Reading Decolonially: Towards a Politics of Place
Moderation: Silja Weber (Lecturer, Germanic Languages and Literatures)
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Internal panel (discussion-based)
Moderation and Response: Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature
Cosima Mattner: Reading Empirically, Getting Close: Thoughts between Walter Benjamin and Today
Annie Pfeifer (Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures): Reading ‘Benjaminian-ly’ Today
3:30 pm Break
4:30 pm Columbia Faculty Roundtable: How We Read Politically Today
Moderation: Claudia Breger
Nico Baumbach, Associate Professor, Film/School of the Arts
Jack Halberstam, Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies, IRWGS
Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies
Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Saturday, November 14
Critical Reading and Postcritical Poetics: In the Contemporary Moment
10 am Olivia Landry (Assistant Professor of German, Lehigh University): In Defense of Anger
Moderation: Mark Anderson, Professor of German Language and Literature, Columbia University.
11am Break
11:30 am Internal panel (discussion-based)
Moderation and Response: Claudia Breger
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney: From Resistance to Reconfiguration: The “Everyday” in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
Luca Arens: Re/-producing Futurity: The Narrative Cell Biologies of Uwe Tellkamp and Alexander Kluge
Thomas Preston: The Body's Language in Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe and Grisebach's Western
12:15pm Closing Words