Dreams of Birth and Death. Liminal Bodily Experiences in Dreams: Literature, the Fine Arts, Theatre, Music and Film (Saarbrücken)
International Conference
Dreams of Birth and Death. Liminal Bodily Experiences in Dreams:
Literature, the Fine Arts, Theatre, Music and Film
hosted by t
he DFG-funded Research Training Group “European Dream Cultures” (GRK 2021)
21 - 23 March 2018 at Saarland University
Keynote Speaker: Prof. John Deathridge (King’s College London), Wagnertraum(a): 421 recorded dreams of a composer from Germany
Birth and death are situated at or beyond the borders of life; as such, they occur too early or too late to be perceived and recorded as authentic experiences. However, dreams – fictionalized, imagined, and performed – can open up experiential spaces for these extreme physical transitions.
The mysterious elements of dreams – their disregard for the physical laws of time and space, and for cultural models of identity, coherence and logic, are magnified in dreams of the beginning and end of life. Simultaneously, the artistic depiction of such experience is particularly challenging: memories and stories of dreams have to find ways and means to transform that which is “elsewhere” and unimaginable into something palpable and conveyable. From the antiquity to the present day we can find representations of dreams – whether in literary texts, paintings, music or in film – that focus on the limitations and boundaries of human life.
Bearing in mind the goal of pursuing a literary, cultural and media history of dreams and dreaming, the international conference “Dreams of Birth and Death”, hosted by the DFG-funded Research Training Group “European Dream‑Cultures”, is dedicated to the phenomena of dreamed birth and death, related discourses and artistic realisations.
The conference will take place at Saarland University from March, 21-23, 2018.
Conference languages are German, English and French.
The symposium is free to attend but registration is required no later than 1 March 2018 (traumkulturen@uni-saarland.de)
For further information see http://www.traumkulturen.de/veranstaltungen/konferenzen-co.html
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
09.15 Uhr | Registration and Coffee
09.30 Uhr | Introductory Remarks
Chair: Christiane Solte-Gresser and Mauro Fosco Bertola
I. Dreams in Middle Age and Protestantism
Chair: Abdoulaye Samaké
10.30 Nine Miedema (Universität des Saarlandes): Träume über die Geburt in mittelhochdeutschen Texte
11.15 Mireille Demaules (Université d'Artois): Du rêve de naissance au rêve de reniassance: l'exemple de Christine de Pizan
12.00 Yanan Qizhi (Pennsylvania State University): Lutherans' Dreams about Death in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch
II. Dreams and Agency
Chair: Romana Weiershausen
14.00 Hanna Matthies (Universität des Saarlandes): Handlungs(un)möglichkeiten in Todesträumen: Motivische Überlegungen zur Hand
14.45 Johanne Mohs (Hochschule der Künste Berlin): Dem Tod einen T/Raum geben. Überlegungen zu einer Poetik des Eingeschlossenseins bei Georges Perec
15.30 Christiane Solte-Gresser (Universität des Saarlandes): Das Sterben der Anderen: Zur Traum-Sprache des ›Muselmanns‹ bei Vercors und Delbo
16.15 - 16.45 Coffee break
II. Dreams and Agency
Chair: Henrieke Stahl
16.45 Katina Baharova (Universität Trier): »Ja splju, a smert’ moja vo mne…« (»Ich schlafe und mein Tod in mir…«). Tod und (Wieder-)Geburt in den oneirischen Gedichten von Elena Švarc
17.30 Dorothea Redepenning (Universität Heidelberg): Raskolnikows Traum
Walking together from Graduate Centre to Aula
18.00 Recital: Traumlieder | Liederträume
Reuben Willcox – baritone
Corinna Korff-Willcox – piano
New PhD-Students meet old graduates
Postersession and Get Together: Wine, Cheese and Chat
Thursday, March 22, 2018
IV. Painting and Cinema
Chair: Sigrid Ruby
09.30 Katharina Thurmair (Universität München): ›Dans le Rêve‹ und ›Les Origines‹ – Genese von Bewusstsein und Materie in den Noirs von Odilon Redon
10.15 Emmanuel Plasseraud (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): ›La Ville des pirates‹ (1984) de Raoul Ruiz. Un rêve de naissance et de mort
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
V. Traumatic Dreams of Birth
Chair: Marlen Schneider
11.30 Sigrid Ruby (Universität Gießen): Der Traum gebiert Ungeheuerliches: Gemälde von Dana Schutz
12.15 Mauro Fosco Bertola (Universität des Saarlandes): »Non senti?« Traum und/als Musik an der Schwelle von Geburt und Tod in Salvatore Sciarrinos „unsichtbarer Handlung“ ›Lohengrin‹ (1983)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
VI. Dreaming the Beyond
Chair: Manfred Engel
14.30 Axel Schröter (Universität Bremen): »Dass ich tausend Leben überstanden habe«. − Jakobs Traum und seine visionäre Fortspinnung in Arnold Schönbergs Oratorium ›Die Jakobsleiter‹
15.15 Oliver Schmidt (Institut für Humanities, Technische Universität Hamburg): Jenseits(t)räume im Kino der 1990er Jahre
16.00 Roland Spiller (Universität Frankfurt): Borges liest Dante: Körper, Tod und Empathie
16.45 - 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 | Keynote
John Deathridge (King’s College London): Wagnertraum(a): 421 recorded dreams of a composer from Germany
Friday, March 23, 2018
VII. French Dreams from the 17th to the 19th Century
Chair: Patricia Oster-Stierle
9.30 Katja Priebe (Universität Kassel): Von Geburt und Tod im ›Songe de Francion‹
10.15 Angela Calderón Villarino (Universität Heidelberg / Universität des Saarlandes): »Je me dis, c’est sa mort ou la mienne«. Tod und Todesfantasien in Gérard de Nervals ›Aurélia‹
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
VIII. Cinema and Photography
Chair: Mauro Fosco Bertola
11.30 Elena Tyushova (Université Paris 8): Le temps non chronologique du rêve et les rencontres entre les arts dans l’œuvre cinématographique d’Ingmar Bergman
12.15 Carlos Kong (Princeton University): Dreaming Delay: Photography and Survival in Jacques Derrida’s ›Demeure, Athènes‹
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
IX. (Other)Worldly Dreams in Literature
Chair: Janett Reinstädler
14.00 Sylvester Bubel (Universität des Saarlandes): »La régression vers les règnes les plus élémentaires de la nature«: Zur Funktion der Geburts- und Todes-Träume in Prousts ›À la recherche du temps perdu‹
14.45 Peter Brandes (Universität Bochum): Liegekur und Totenbett: Geträumte Tode in Thomas Manns ›Der Zauberberg‹
15.15 Manfred Engel (Universität des Saarlandes): Träume vom Leben nach dem Tode bei Jean Paul