Thursday, February 24

12:30 Uhr Opening with Greeting Address

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul Director of the Bavarian American Academy, Chair of American Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen

Prof. Dr. Pierre-Héli Monot Principal Investigator of the Project „The Arts of Autonomy“, Professor of Transnational American Studies, Political Theory, Aesthetics and Public Humanities at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

13:00–14:15 Uhr Keynote: Flugblatt, Pamphlet und Karikatur im Struktur- und Medienwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Sigrid Weigel Former Director of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin and Chair of the Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin, Prof. em. at the Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte der Technischen Universität Berlin

14:30–15:45 Uhr Panel 1: Claiming the Public Sphere – Pamphleteering on the Way to Modernity

Wiebke Voigt (TU Dresden): Activist Writing in the Name of God: Reformation Pamphlets and the Emergence of the Public Sphere during the Early Reformation Period

Dr. Christoph Streb (LMU München): Enter the Author: Ultra-Personal Polemical Writing in Late 18th-Century Pamphlets and its Ambivalent Democratic Function

16:00–17:30 Uhr Panel 2: Politics in the 1920s – Agitation and Action in Italian Fascism and the German Communist Party

Dr. Manlio Della Marca (LMU München): „Ideas Going into Action“: Ezra Pound and Trans-media Pamphleteering in Fascist Italy

Daphne Weber (HU Berlin) The Means of Agitation: Pamphleteering as Production of Small Forms Organizing Crowds and Cadre in 1920s’ German KPD Agitprop Publications

17:30–18:30 Uhr Break

18:30–20:00 Uhr Keynote: Erobern oder Verzichten? Politisches Fordern im Neoliberalismus

Prof. Dr. Robert Pfaller Professor for Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz and at the Technische Universität Wien

Friday, February 25

10:00–11:30 Uhr Keynote (Lecture and Discussion): Revolution für das Leben

Dr. Eva von Redecker Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow at the University of Verona, Centre for Politics and Theories of Sexuality (PoliTeSse)

11:45–13:00 Uhr Panel 3: Agents of Change: Practices of the Pamphlet

Prof. Dr. Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU München), Prof. Dr. Dominik Markl (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome), Dr. Vladimir Petrović (Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade): Appeals to Historical Authority Justifying Mass Violence in Pamphlets

Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier (LMU München, Project Member, „The Arts of Autonomy“): From Text to Event ... to Text: Pamphletary Appeals for Sovereignty in the Digital Public Sphere

13:00–14:00 Uhr Break

14:00–15:30 Uhr Keynote (Discussion): Between Financialization and Digitalization: Transformations of the Public in Hyper-Modern Capitalism

Prof. Dr. Philipp Staab (Professor for Sociology of the Future of Work at Humboldt-Universität Berlin): Grace Blakeley Economist, Commentator, Author, and Activist („Stolen. How to Save the World from Financialisation“ 2019, „The Corona Crash. How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism“ 2020)

15:45–17:00 Uhr Panel 4: Pamphlets and Factuality: Information and Disinformation in Public Discourse

Dr. Nils C. Kumkar (Universität Bremen): Outsmarting Reality: Alternative Facts as the Opportunistic Lubricant of Public Discourse

Dr. David Bebnowski (LMU München, Project Member, „The Arts of Autonomy“): Voicing Reality. The Pamphlet as a Medium of Partisan Truths

17:30–18:30 Uhr Break

18:00–20:00 Uhr Keynote (Lecture and Discussion): Dirtbag Amber A’Lee Frost Co-Host of the Podcast „Chapo Trap House“, author, activist („Dirtbag“ forthcoming)

Saturday, February 26

10:00–11:15 Panel 5: Pamphletary Practice in Manifestos Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker (TU Dresden) The Manifesto as Form: Queering the Subject of Polemical Writing?

Stefanie Kremmel (Universität Wien) Translation as Pamphletary Practice: Insight Into the Translation History of the Communist Manifesto

11:30–12:45 Panel 6: Re-Forming and Re-Cycling Pamphlets by African American Pamphleteers

Prof. Dr. Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg): Frederick Douglass and the Pamphlet as Re/Form

PD. Dr. Florian Sedlmaier (FU Berlin): Ida B. Wells Barnett’s Pamphlets. Re-Cycling, Media Monitoring, and Racial Leadership

13:15–14:00 Uhr Concluding Discussion