Conference Program

5:00pm | Gesellschaft und ästhetische Praxis in der Gegenwart. (Contemporary society and aesthetic practice.)

Max Czollek, Sasha Salzmann
Moderator: René Aguigah

Introduction: Eva Geulen,
Andrea Krauss, Elisabeth Strowick 

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10:45am–11:30am | Andrea Krauss (NYU)
Dark Times nach Hannah Arendt

11:30am–12:00am | coffee break

12:00am–12:45pm | Alexander Braunegg (NYU)
Umschreiben. Zur neurechten Paraphrase in der Briefedition Mohler-Jünger (Antaios, 2016)

12:45pm–1:30pm | Rahel Jaeggi (HU Berlin)
Eine Welt in Stücke zerfallen: Politische Entfremdung und Regression (in) der Demokratie

1:30pm–3:00pm | lunch

3:00pm–3:45pm | Claudia Olk (LMU)
Beckett’s Darknesses

3:45pm–4:30pm | Elisabeth Strowick (NYU)
Zeitgenossenschaft aus Finsternis. Wolfgang Hildesheimers Diagnostik der Gegenwart

4:30pm–5:00pm | coffee break

5:00pm–5:45pm | Raymond Blankenhorn (NYU)
(More) Men in Dark Times: Evgenii Shvarts, Dragon-Slayer of Kazan 

5:45pm–6:30pm | Eran Schaerf (Berlin)
Verblendet beim Erinnern der Gegenwart? Frag Franz

6:30pm | dinner at Frannz

9:30am–10:15am | Jens Andermann (NYU)
Im Unterdeck der Welt: Negrozän und Nachleben bei Pedro Costa

10:15am–11:00am | Ana Gabriela Álvarez (NYU)
An Archive of Fading Traces: Storying Trans Memories in Argentina

11:00am–11:30am | coffee break

11:30am–12:15pm | Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin)
Dunkelziffer – Schatten-Archive der Performance

12:15pm–1:00pm | Carly Whitefield (LAS Art Foundation)
Inaugurating an Interspecies Future

1:00pm | lunch

3:00pm | Writing in Exile: Germany Today

Kader Konuk (TU Dortmund, Academy in Exile), Stella Nyanzi (PEN Zentrum Deutschland), Sanaz Azimipour (HU Berlin).

Moderator: Gabriella Etmektsoglou (NYU Berlin)

Reception to follow

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