CONFERENCE PROGRAM/ KONFERENZ PROGRAMM
Conference will be held at Philipps University Wilhelm Röpke Strasse 6A
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013
4:00 PM : Registration (Philipps University)
5:10 PM : Welcome notes
5:15 – 6:00 PM : Keynote lecture: Scott Loren, St. Gallen (Switzerland) – Can Disaster Films be feminine? Lars von Trier’s challenge to the male gaze
6:15 – 7:30 PM : Reception Cineplex
7:30 – 9:30 PM : Film screening and discussion : Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier (Moderator: Angela Krewani, Philipps University, Marburg)
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013
9:00 – 10:00 AM : Prof. Dr. Joachim Herrgen (Dean)
10:00 – 11:15 AM : Conference presentations
Panel 111: Early visions of the Apocalypse, Room 01C09
Karen Randell (Southampton Solent University, UK) : Melancholia & Melodrama in Silent Cinema after World War I
Clémentine Tholas-Disset (Paris East Créteil University) : World War I and Hollywood’s first modern Armageddon: understanding wartime and post-conflict representations of aglobal cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Panel 112: 9/11 Trauma and Sacrifice, Room 01C10
Leah A. Rosenberg, (University of Missouri, USA) : All That Remains: Examining the Immortal Undead in Post 9/11 Television and Film
Tanya Shilina-Conte, SUNY at Buffalo : Representing the Unrepresentable: Black Screen as Negative Event and post-9/11 Cinema
Jon Pahl (Temple University, USA) : Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a Scandinavian Alternative
Panel 113: The Apocalypse and historical transformations, Room 03F04
Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK) : We’ll meet again: Endings and New Beginnings in Dr. Strangelove (1964) and Other Films about Global Transformations
Adrian Versteegh (New York University, USA) : Spectacles of Ruin: Apocalypse and the Afterlife of Cities in the Victorian Imaginary
Thomas Prasch (Washburn University, USA) : ‘Radiation’s rising, but one mustn’t grumble too much’: Nuclear Apocalypse Played as Farce in Richard Lester’s The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
11:15 – 11:45 AM : Coffee Break
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM : Keynote lecture: Frederick Wasser (Brooklyn College, NY, USA) – Disaster films and the End of the World
1:00 – 2:00 PM : Lunch
2:10 – 3:25 PM : Conference presentation :
Panel 121: Converging Media, Room 01C09
Andreas Kirchner (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany) : Experiencing the End of the World: Lars van Trier’s Melancholia as Hybrid Between Art and Genre Fil
Michael Mosel (University of Giessen, Germany) : Playing Zombified Versions of the End of the World
Panel 122: Psycho-social functions I, Room 01C10
Charles Antoine Courcoux (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) : The (Gender)Politics of Disaster
Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) and Hugh Ortega Breton (University of Surrey, UK) : The Eco Apocalypse: A psycho-cultural approach to Melancholic Loss, Political Alienation and the Desire for annihilation
Panel 123: Apocalypse and Teens, Room 03F04
Timothy Shary (Independent Scholar, USA) : Eschatological Ecstasy: the Thrills of Cataclysm in Teen Cinema
Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University) : Kids Killing Kids in Dystopia: The Hunger Games and Battle Royale
3:30 – 4:00 PM : Coffee break
4:00 – 5:15 PM : Conference presentations
Panel 131: Psycho Social Function II, Room 01C09
Matthias Koch and Christian Köhler (Paderborn University, Germany) : Zombification: Undead (in) History
Angela Krewani (Philipps University, Marburg) : Film as lab: the apocalypse on film as laboratory for the future
Panel 132: Managing the Crisis, Room 01C10
Scott Ellis (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) and Fiona Pearson (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Dead Narratives: Defining Humanity Through Stories
Carl James Grindly (City University of New York, USA) : Film as lab: The apocalypse on film as laboratory for the future
Panel 133: Apocalypse and Superstition, Room 03F04
Joseph M. Conte, (University at Buffalo) : The Ruins of the Future: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s Adaptation, and Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977
Kinga Wlodarska, (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Shadows, Superstitions and the End of the World
6:00 – 7:00 PM : Marburger Filmkunsttheater Roundtable Discussion:
Chair: Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK)
Panelists: Catriona McAvoy (Loner Films, UK); Richard Daniels (University of the Arts, London, UK); Tatjana Ljujic (Cambridge University, UK)
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Film screening and discussion : Dr. Strangelove. Dir. Stanley Kubrick
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013
9:00 – 10:00 AM : Breakfast
10:00 – 11:15 AM : Conference presentations
Panel 211: Technologies, Room 01C09
Kristine Larsen (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : ALICE and the Apocalypse: Particle Accelerators as Death Machines
Shizuko Tomoda (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Fear of What? Nuclear Power or Us?
Michael Krzeminski (St. Augustin, Germany) : Apocaplyptic Images in Technological Applications
Panel 212: Apocalypse in Popular Culture, Room: Alter Senatssaal
Katherine Sugg (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : A Sense of Ending: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in White Masculinity in the Frontier Fantasies of Deadwood and Firefly
Kerstin Stutterheim (HFF Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany) : Documenting the Rider of the Apocalypse
Panel 213: Corporate End of the World, Room 03F04
Cindy White (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Elizabeth Hall Preston (Westfield State University, USA): Evoking the Apocalypse: Patagonia, Inc. And Landscapes of Loss and Redemption
Wendy Sterba (College of St.Benedict/St. John’s University): The Corporate and Corporeal: Min(d)ing the Body-Conscience and Consumption in Early 21st Century Hollywood Dystopia
11:15 – 11:45 AM : Coffee break
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM : Conference presentations
Panel 221: A critique of Modernism, Room 01C09
Thomas Waitz (University of Vienna, Austria) : A World Without Us: The End of Modernity as the End of the World
Sven Weidner (Philipps University, Marburg, Germany) : 4:44 Last Day on Earth: An experimentalvision of the final and definite end of the World
Panel 222: Politics of Images, Room 03F04
Samm Deigham: Seeing Yourself to Death: Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World and the Disease of Images
Iulia Micu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Andrei Simut (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) : Toward a Psycho-Social Apocalypse: Depression, Death and the Dream of Total Annihilation
1:00 – 2:00 PM : Lunch (Catering)
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM : Conference presentations
Panel 231: Functions of narration, Alter Senatssaal Room
Solveig Nitzke (Bochum University, Germany) : Is there an end to it? Fictional shelters and shelter-fiction
Peter Podrez (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany) Blank Screens and annihilated gazes. Radicalizing the End in filmic apocalypses
Panel 232: Erosions of Society, Room 01C09
Natalia Laranjinha, (CIAC – Center for Arts and Communication, Portugal) : The Deadly Saturn in Melancholia
Pierre Floquet (Bordeaux University, France) : Melancholia and the Apocalypse Within
Panel 233: Functions of narration, Room 03F04
Tara Karajica (University of Barcelona, Spain) : One form of post-apocalyptic societal erosion: the banishment of feelings and artistic expression in Kurt Wimmer’s 2002 Equilibirum
Tatjana Ljujic (Cambridge University, UK): Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice and the end of the world
3:30 PM : Walk to the Marburg Castle
4:00 – 5:10 PM : Conference presentations
Panel 241: Kubrick and the apocalypse, Seminarraum Schloss Room
Catriona McAvoy (Loner Films, UK) : ‘Gentleman, You Can’t Fight in Here’: Gender Symbolism and the End of the World in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia
Richard Daniels (University of the Arts, London, UK): 2001 – A Space Odyssey: Kubrick’s Second Brush with the Apocalypse
6:00 PM : Marburger Schloss Roundtable Discussion
Political and Cultural Functions end time visions
Panel Moderators: Karen Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Angela Krewani (Philipps University)
Panelists: Karen Randell (Southamptom Solent University, UK), Timothy Shary (independent scholar, USA), Clémentine Tholas-Disset (Paris East Créteil University, France), Pierre Floquet (Bordeaux University, France), and Cindy White (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
7: 30 pm : Dinner at the Castle Restaurant Bückingsgarten
Contact
For more information about the trip or to ask a question reguarding the trip please get in touch with Either:
Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Institut für Medienwissenschaft
Wilhelm Röpke Strasse 6A
35039 Marburg
Tel: +49-(0)6421-2824691
e-mail: krewani@uni-marburg.de
Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Communication
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Tel: (001) – 860/832-2692
e-mail: Ritzenhoffk@ccsu.edu