FUTURITY NOW: Interdisciplinary German Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Perspectives
APRIL 13-14, 2012, AD WHITE HOUSE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
free and open to the public
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
SESSION I moderator Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University
9:00 Welcome Remarks Co-organizers Leslie A. Adelson and Devin Fore
9:15-10:15 Devin Fore Princeton University Fear of the Future: Franz Jung and the Industrial Novel
SESSION II moderator Paul Fleming, Cornell University
10:30-11:30 Rüdiger Campe Yale University Futures We Live In: Quetelet and Nietzsche
11:30-12:30 Nahum Chandler University of California, Irvine The Possible Future of an Interlocution: DuBois and Weber
SESSION III moderator Stefan Willer, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Berlin)
2:00-3:00 Julia Hell University of Michigan Imperial Mimesis or the Ruins of the Future
3:00-4:00 Peter Uwe Hohendahl Cornell University The Future as Past: Ernst Jünger’s Postwar Narrative Prose
SESSION IV: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
4:30-6:30 Samuel Weber Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University On the Aesthetics of Terror: Clouds moderator Timothy Murray, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
SESSION V moderator Brían Hanrahan, Cornell University
9:00-10:00 Patrizia C. McBride Cornell University Physiognomic Magic: Producing Experience in the Montage Narratives of the New Objectivity
10:00-11:00 Lutz Koepnick Washington University Herzog’s Cave: On Cinema’s Unclaimed Pasts and Forgotten Futures
SESSION VI moderator Devin Fore, Princeton University
11:15-12:15 Andreas Huyssen Columbia University Posthumous Modernism
SESSION VII moderator Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University
1:30-2:30 Birgit Erdle Fritz Bauer Institut & Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Thinking in Times of Danger: Adorno on Stupidity
2:30-3:30 Peter Gilgen Cornell University Reading Time: Oswald Egger’s Die ganze Zeit
SESSION VIII moderator Elke Siegel, Cornell University
4:00-5:00 Fatima El-Tayeb University of California, San Diego Time Travelers and Native Informers: Escape Narratives from the Muslim Underground
5:00-6:00 Madeleine Casad Cornell University Volatile Screens of Memory: The Last Cowboy and the Future of Utopia
6:00 concluding thoughts for the future
Co-organized by Leslie A. Adelson and Devin Fore
Sponsored by Cornell University’s Institute for German Cultural Studies together with the Department of German Studies, Society for the Humanities, Institute for Comparative Modernities, and Cornell Institute for European Studies
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