Thursday, June 24, 2010
2 - 3 p.m. Reception
Introductory Note
Jürgen Martschukat, Silvan Niedermeier, Michael Wildt
3 - 5 p.m. Section I: Performances
Chair: Michael Wildt, HU Berlin
Dora Apel, Wayne State University:
“Wish I Were There”: The Possibilities and Impossibilities of Historical Reenactment
Belinda Davis, Rutgers University:
Visualization of the Violent in 1960s/70s West Germany
Comment: Annette Jael Lehmann, Free University of Berlin
5 - 5. 30 p.m. Coffee
5.30 - 7.00 p.m. Keynote
Moderation: Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt University
Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University:
Torture by Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantánamo
7.30 p.m. Dinner
Friday, June 25, 2010
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Section II: Popular Culture
Chair: Silvan Niedermeier, Erfurt University
Thomas Weitin, Konstanz University:
The Visibility of Torture in Collections of Judicial Case Studies in the 19th Century
Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College:
Scandalous Murders in the History of the United States
10.10 - 10.30 a.m. Coffee Break
Amy Wood, Illinois State University:
Cinema, Modernity, and the ‘Scandal’ of Racial Violence in the U.S.
Comment: Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt University
12 - 2 p.m. Lunch
2 - 5 p.m. Section III: Warfare
Chair: Michaela Hampf, Free University of Berlin
Friedrich Balke, Bauhaus-University Weimar:
„In fact, it makes me laugh!“ The Violence of War and Wit in Kleist‘s Partisan Drama
Sebastian Jobs, Rostock University
Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence
3.10 - 3.40 p.m. Coffee Break
Amie Siegel, Artist and Filmmaker:
Establishing Shots
Comment: Alf Lüdtke, Erfurt University
7.45 - 11 p.m. Forum „Picturing Violence“
Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Film Screening:
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris USA 2008)
Panel Discussion
Moderation: Michael Wildt, History, HU Berlin
Dora Apel, Art History, Wayne State University
Robert Chappell, Director of Photography, Standard Operating Procedure
Colin Dayan, Humanities, Law, and History, Vanderbilt University
Romuald Karmakar, Filmmaker, Berlin
Saturday, June 26, 2010
9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Section IV: Race
Chair: Norbert Finzsch, Cologne University
Martha Hodes, New York University:
Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900
Silvan Niedermeier, Erfurt University:
Race, Visibility, and the Documentation of Torture in the American South
10.40 a.m. - 11 a.m. Coffee Break
Michael Wildt, HU Berlin:
Pictures of Anti Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Comment: W. Fitzhugh Brundage,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
12.30 - 2.30 p.m. Lunch
2.30 - 4.30 p.m. Section V: Photography
Chair: Holt Meyer, Erfurt University
Anton Holzer, Vienna:
Killing as Spectacle: Voyeurism and Violence in First World War Photography
Petra Bopp, Jena University:
Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers’ Private Photo Albums
Comment: Jens Jäger, Cologne University
4.30 - 5 p.m. Wrap up