Thursday, 14 July 2011, 7.30 pm
Keynote David Simpson (University of California, Davis)
"After 9/11: The Fate of Strangers"
Friday, 15 July 2011
Panel I, 9.30 am - 11 am
Jürgen Wilzewsky (Kaiserslautern University of Technology)
"9/11, the National Security State and America's Decline"
Joanne Meyerowitz (Yale University)
"History, Historians, and the Multiple Meanings of September 11th"
Panel II, 11.30 am - 1 pm
Jeffrey Melnick (University of Massachusetts)
"9/11 Triangles: Projecting Unity in American Film and Music after the Fall"
Kristiaan Versluys (Ghent University)
"9/11: the Discursive Responses"
Panel III, 2.30 pm - 4 pm
Devin Zuber (Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley)
"Sanctimony, Memorials and Sanctification: the Sacred and Profane in Re-membering Ground Zero"
Ingrid Gessner (University of Regensburg)
"Continuity or Change? The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11"
4.30 pm - 6 pm
Panel Discussion in German
"9/11 in Transatlantic Perspective"
With Conrad Tribble, U.S. Consul General in Munich and Mathias Bröckers, author and journalist, and guests