Programme
Violence Elsewhere Symposium
16 - 17 September 2021
Thursday 16 September
11.30-12.00: Welcome and Introduction
Panel 1, 12noon – 2pm
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
Panel 2, 3 – 5pm
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
7 – 8.30pm: Film Viewing and Discussion
Hito Steyerl, November (2004) (25 mins) and Lovely Andrea (2007) (30 mins)
Friday 17 September
Panel 3, 9.30 – 10.50pm
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
Panel 4, 1.00 – 3.00pm
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
Closing Round Table, 4.00 – 5.00pm
Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies