Phantasmata. Techniques of the Uncanny
"Worskhop" sur l'inquiétante étrangeté du 6 au 8 avril 2009
Berlin, ICI (Institut for Cultural Inquiry)
Evening events are public. We kindly ask those interested in attending the workshop to register in advance by e-mail (uncanny@ici-berlin.org). For further information, please visit the workshop website at the address http://uncanny.ici-berlin.org/.
Organisateurs:
- Fabio Camilletti (ICI-Berlin/University of Birmingham)
- Martin Doll (ICI-Berlin/Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
- Rupert Gaderer (ICI-Berlin)
- Jan Niklas Howe (Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
- Siouxzi L Mernagh (ICI-Berlin)
- Paula Schwebel (University of Toronto)
Programme:
Monday, April 6th
15.00-18:30 I Constellations
Chair: Christoph Holzhey
- Michaela Wünsch (Berlin) Uncanny Thinking
- Monika Shafi (Delaware) Houses and the Uncanny in Contemporary German Literature
- Roman Widholm (Vienna) Uncanny Methods for Uncanny People: How Behaviorism Approaches the Subject of Autism
19.00 Public Event
- Welcome (Christoph Holzhey, ICI Berlin)
- Keynote: Elisabeth Bronfen (Zürich) Visuality - Textuality: An Uncanny Encounter
Casual Reception
Tuesday, April 7th
10:00-13:30 II After-Image(s)
Chair: Fabio Camilletti
- Hécate Vergopoulos (Avignon/Montréal) Uncanny, but Towards What? A Referential Approach to the Uncanny Based on the
- Study of Legends
- Tan Wälchli (Chicago) «Living Images» and Literary Technique: E.T.A. Hoffmann at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy
- Orsetta Innocenti (Siena) Self Made Phantasmata and «Bleak» Houses. The 19th Victorian Society and its Well-Hidden Ghosts
- Giuseppe Episcopo (Naples) The Medieval Selva and the Postmodern Zone: The Locus Horridus as Spatial Dimensions of the Uncanny
15:00-18:30: III Creating Spectres
Chair: Rupert Gaderer
- Elisa Leonzio (Turin) «Er hatte eine Wasserscheu vor Gespenstergeschichten»: The Ghost Story in Late Eighteenth-Century. Germany in the Light of Jean Paul's Novel Die Unsichtbare Loge
- Victoria Llort-Llopart (Paris/Madrid) Aesthetics of the Uncanny Across the Arts: The Case of E.A. Poe and Claude Debussy
- Morena Corradi (New York) Staging the Uncanny. Phantasmagoria in Post-Unification Italy
- Catrin Misselhorn (Tübingen) Empathy and the Uncanny Valley
19:00 Public Event
The Dangers, short experimental narrative film by Siouxzi L Mernagh (Berlin/Sydney). Discussion led by Daniel Eschkötter (Weimar).
After-Screening Reception
Wednesday, April 8th
10:00-13:30: IV Figures
Chair: Jan Niklas Howe
- Simona Micali (Siena) The Disobedient Shadow
- Claudia Peppel (Berlin) Lifelike yet Impassive: The Puppet as a Transmutable Embodiment of Human Reality
- Vita Zilburg (Berlin) Engführung as a Case Study of Paul Celan's Poetics of the Uncanny
- Laurie Johnson (Illinois) Uncanny Love: Schelling's Meditations on the Spirit World
15:00-18:30: V Political Phantoms
Chair: Martin Doll
- Christine Blaettler (Potsdam/Berlin) Walter Benjamin's Phantasmagoria and the Aesthetical-Political Dialectics of the Un-Canny
- Matthias Korn (Berlin) On the Uncanniness of Death: Bio-Power in Venice between Modern Age and Modernity
- Sandra Evans (Tübingen) Intangible Notions of the Uncanny
- Jaime Cuenca (Bilbao) The Political Potential of the Uncanny: The Zombie as a Metaphor for the Consumer
19:00 Public Event
Keynote: Anneleen Masschelein (Leuven) Between Animism and Animation: The Challenges of the Uncanny as (Un)concept in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century
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