Day 1 (January 21st)
9.20-9.45 Welcome and Opening by Prof. Dr. Thomas Vaessens, dean faculty of Humanities Open University and Presentation of conference volume of the previous OU conference: The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons
9.45-10.45 Keynote Prof. Dr. Eddo Evink (Open University): Security, Certainty, Trust.
Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Safety
10.45-11.00 Coffee/tea break
11.00-12.00 Session 1: Defining safety: philosophical and historical perspectives
Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga (École Pratique des Hautes Études):
Tolerance, a safety policy in Pierre Bayle’s thought
Dr. Tom Giesbers (Open University):
The modern philosophical underpinnings of ‘Public Safety’
Dr. Kai Preuß (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main):
Unsettling the secular – Late Antique perspectives on (in)securitization and power
Carlotta Voß (Freie Universität Berlin):
“what is profitable goes with security, and that which is just and honourable with danger”? The Athenian Security Discourse in Thucydides
12.00-13.00 Session 2: Imaginaries of future safety
Dr. Susan Hogervorst (Open University):
Testimonies against terrorism. The use of the past to control the future
Darja Jesse (Freie Universität Berlin):
“A Potential Threat to the World”? The visual framework of safety in post-war Germany
Jilt Jorritsma (Open University):
A Future in Ruins: History, Memory and Space in the Imagination of Sustainable Futures in Amsterdam, New York and Mexico City
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Session 3: Safety, health and social order
Irene Geerts (Open University):
Safety for whom? Dutch family members of people with a severe mental illness caught between a rock and a hard place, 1960-1990
Dr. Jan Oosterholt (Open University):
The Transfer of 19th Century Representations of Unsafety: Dutch Adaptations of Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris
Anubhav Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai):
Mutinous Ghosts, Malarial Fears. ‘Improving’ the Red Fort in British Delhi
Mario Silvester (Open University):
Dangers of the working-class neighbourhood (1870-1940). Slums as a hotbed of infectious diseases
15.00-16.00 Session 4: Urban vice, Urban order: regulating safety in public space
Vincent Baptist (Erasmus University Rotterdam):
Criminal or Cosmopolitan: Discourses of Safety on Rotterdam’s Interbellum Pleasurescape in Municipal and Audiovisual Sources
Jasper Bongers (Open University):
“Give us the fair!” Negotiating perceptions of safety in the context of Utrecht’s fairs (1915-1926)
Dr. Wim de Jong (Radboud University):
The Construction of urban ‘social safety’. Policing ethnic minorities in Amsterdam and Nijmegen, 1970-2000
16.00-16.15 Coffee/tea break
16.15-17.15 Keynote Prof. Dr. Beatrice de Graaf (University of Utrecht): Taming the future. Historicizing security and the rise of the national security state since the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Age
Day 2 (January 22nd)
9.30-10.30 Keynote Dr. Debra Benita Shaw (University of East London): Leaving Home: Safer Spaces Beyond the Neoliberal Family
10.30-11.30 Session 5: Places and spaces of safety
Dr. Muzayin Nazaruddin (University of Tartu):
Contesting the ‘disaster prone area’: the case of local communities on the slopes of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Ruby (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen):
Domesticity and domestication as politics of safety
Roos van Strien (Independent scholar):
Brace for Impact: how perceptions of safety influenced architecture and urban planning in the cities Belfast and Oslo
11.30-11.45 Coffee/tea break
11.45-12.45 Session 6: Feeling safe: the impact of media
Dr. Jaqueline Hylkema (Leiden University):
Lyes in Print: Fake News and a Sense of Unsafety in Early Modern Europe
Nicolas de Keyser (University of Gießen):
The Chronotopes of (In)Security in Crime-Appeal Television
Daniel Michaud Maturana (UcLouvain):
News, quantifiers and the perception of safety
Dr. Elizabeth Parke (University of Toronto):
Filming Safety: Dashcams, Cars, and the Sinosphere
12.45-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Session 7: Experiencing safety
Dr. Marieke Borren (Open University):
The Color of Safety. Racializations of Lived Embodied Experiences of Un/Safety of Public Spaces
Dr. Bianca Briciu (Saint Paul University, Ottawa):
I See It So That You Don’t Have To: Safety, Compassion and Vicarious Trauma in Films about War Correspondents
Dr. Frederik van Dam (Radboud University Nijmegen):
Safety as Nostalgia: Literary Representations of the European Question in Interwar Fiction
Dr. Femke Kok (Open University):
Feelings of being (un)safe. A philosophical exploration of feelings of unsafety in the work of Magda Szabó (1917-2007)
15.00-16.00 Session 8: Representations of safety in word and image
Dr. Lizet Duyvendak (Open University):
Art works performing unsafety: Tumbling into someone else’s life?
Dr. Frauke Laarmann-Westdijk (Open University):
The Image of the Hangman
Dr. Erik Swart (Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen):
The massacre of the innocents. The imagination of unsafety during wartime in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European painting
Dr. Karen Westphal Eriksen (The National Gallery of Denmark):
Portraying the feeling of being unsafe in art by Svend Wiig Hansen and Dan Sterup Hansen
16.00–16.15 Coffee/tea break
16.15-17.15 Keynote Prof. Dr. Nils Büttner (State Academy of Arts Stuttgart): The „Golden Age“ Revisited: Images and Notions of Safety from Insecure Times
17.15 -17.30 Closing remarks by Prof. Dr. Gemma Blok, head of research faculty of humanities Open University