9:00 Registration
9:15-9:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks:
Ralf Haekel, Johannes Schlegel & Julia Kroll
9:30-10:30 Keynote: Prof Dr Gerold Sedlmayr (TU Dortmund)
“The Value of Value, or: The (Un-)Thinkability of a Postcapitalist Order of Things”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Panel I: Transforming the Archive: Feminism and Queer Studies
- Thinking sexual archives with Michel Foucault (Cornelia Möser)
- Queering the archive - The Lesbian archives of Cheryl Dunye’s „The Watermelon Woman“ and „The Owls“ (Nadine Dannenberg)
- Affect in the archive? Literary practices in the context of the Neue Frauenbewegung (Matthias Lüthjohann)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Panel II: Reading History through the Foucauldian Archive
- Contradiction and the archive (Martin Mauersberg)
- The Archive as Chronotopos. On Foucault’s understanding of the Archive as a Symbol of Modernity (Sina Steglich)
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel III: Contemporary Practices of the Archive in Context
- Archiving Folk Culture: The Emergence of Folklore Studies and the control of ethnic discourses (Johannes Müske)
- Literature in Other Spaces. Understanding Literary Museum Exhibitions Through Michel Foucault’s Concept of Heterotopia (Sebastian Böck)
- Foucault, archival science and the changing practice of the archivist (Knut Langewand)
17:00-18:00 Panel IV: Foucault and the Digital Age
- Foucault’s “film archive” and its inventory (Ulrike Allouche)
- Excavating Media (Jermain Heidelberg)
Venue: Convention Center at the Historical Observatory; Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
Convenors: Ralf Haekel, Johannes Schlegel & Julia Kroll
Attendance is free of charge. However, we would kindly like to ask you to register via email!