Organized by the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Hamburger Institute for Social Research.

Sunday, 13 November:
9:00 Gathering

9:30 Greetings:

Reuven Amitai
(Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Yfaat Weiss
(Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Ulrich Bielefeld
(Hamburger Institute for Social Research)

10:00-11:30 Victimhood

Chair: Manuela Consonni
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Noah Benninga
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Jean Améry and the Materiality of Language in Auschwitz

Victoria Fareld
(University of Gothenburg)
From victima to sacrificium: Historicity and Victimhood in Améry

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Ressentiment

Chair: Galili Shahar
(Tel Aviv University)

Thomas Brudholm
(University of Copenhagen)
On Hatred and Resentment

Andreas Kraft
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“No longer…at home in the world”: Resentments and the essayistic writing of Jean Améry

13:30-15:30 Lunch Break

15:30-16:30 Moral Responsibility

Chair: Itta Shedletzky
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Roy Ben Shai
(New School for Social Research)
Jean Améry as a Moral Philosopher: A Pathological View of Morality

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Reappraisals

Chair: Jakob Hessing
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Arno Dusini
(University of Vienna)
»Lachwehlaute«. Jean Améry’s poetics of fracturing language

Jan Philipp Reemtsma
(Hamburger Institute for Social Research)
Monsieur Bovary

Monday, 14 November

9:00 Gathering

9:30-11:00 Ressentiment again

Chair: Steven Aschheim
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Julijana Ranc
(Hamburger Institute for Social Research)
Ressentiment and Self-Suspicion

David Heyd
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Ethics of Resentment. The Tactlessness of Jean Améry

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Dislocation

Chair: Louise Bethlehem
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Dan Diner
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Memory Displaced – Re-reading Jean Améry’s “The Torture”

Ulrich Bielefeld
(Hamburger Institute for Social Research)
‘It is’. Existence, violence and colonialism

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-17:00 Contemporaries

Chair: Moshe Zimmermann
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Nicolas Berg
(Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig)
Jean Améry’s Intellectual Framework: His publications in the „Merkur“ in the 1960s

Heinz Bude
(Hamburger Institute for Social Research/University of Kassel)
The existential gesture. Jean Améry’s idea of the political

Dominik Rigoll
(Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
The Forest for the Trees. What Historians Might Discover by Reading Jean Améry

This invitation may be used as a parking permit for parking lot 2 of the Maiersdorf Faculty Club. Entrance only with invitation and appropriate identification.

Contact:
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
Fon: 00972-2-5881909
Email: rosenzweig@vms.huji.ac.il
http://rosenzweig.huji.ac.il