Theorising Response and Response-ability in the Face of Violence: Exteriority, Embodiment, Implication
Chair: Katie Stone
Katharina Karcher and Evelien Geerts (Birmingham University)
Theorizing Terrorist Violence & the Annual Security Reports in the FRG since 1970: A post-9/11 New Materialist Critical Analysis
Francesca Lewis (University of York)
“The one out there, the one in here, the one that’s coming.”: The Entangled Mess of the Embodied Elsewhere in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)
Marie Kolkenbrock (KCL)
Intersections of Emotional and Spatial Distance in the Ethics and Politics of Care
Literature, Genre and Form
Chair: Kathrin Wunderlich
Lizzie Stewart (KCL)
Theatrical Engagement with Violence Elsewhere: Serious Play at the Gorki
Frauke Matthes (University of Edinburgh)
Encountering Violence Elsewhere at Home in Clemens Meyer’s short-story collection Die stillen Trabanten (2017)
Susanne C. Knittel (Utrecht University) and Sofia Forchieri (Radboud University Nijmegen)
There Is No “Elsewhere”: Scaling Complicity and Implication in Contemporary German Family Novels
Hito Steyerl, November (2004) (25 mins) and Lovely Andrea (2007) (30 mins)
Violence Elsewhere, Violence Here
Chair: Francesca Lewis
Esra Özyurek (University of Cambridge)
Export-Import Theory of Antisemitism in Germany
Daniela Pisoiu (Austrian Institute for International Affairs [oiip], Vienna)
ISIS Women Abroad
Reflections of German History and Violence Elsewhere
Chair: Lizzie Stewart
Leila Essa (Utrecht University)
Partitioned Nations and Violent Paradises: Probing Utopian Possibilities in Salman
Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and Lutz Seiler’s Kruso
Jenny Watson (University of Edinburgh)
Rediscovering Intimacy: Intimate Violence and the Holocaust in German-Language Literature since 2010
Kathrin Wunderlich (University of Cambridge)
War of Words/Words of War: The “Normalisation” of Language & Literary Form in the Context of Germany’s War in Afghanistan
Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies