critical matter
3rd international graduate conference 2012
may 31 – june 2
goethe university frankfurt
Thursday, May 31
13:00 Registration & Refreshments (Foyer Casino, 1st floor)
13:30 “The IG-Farben Campus – Its Past and Present”: Guided tour provided by Initiative Studierender am IG Farben Campus
15:00 Welcome & Opening Address: Sabine Flick & Jeanette Ehrmann
(Casino 1.801)
15.30 - 17:15 Concurrent Panels
Biopolitics
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Tino Plümecke
Verena Namberger (Free University Berlin): Re-thinking the Racialised Body: On the Materialisation of ‘Race’
Orazio Irrera (Paris VII Denis Diderot): An Environmental Genealogy of Forest Management in India under British Rule (1864 - 1931)
Moritz Altenried (Goldsmiths, University of London): The Border as Milieu: On the Spatiality of Biopolitics
Ontology
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Nadja Meisterhans
Felix Trautmann (Goethe University Frankfurt/University of Basel): Material Imaginations. The Critique of Ideology in Louis Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism
Josef Barla (University of Vienna): New Materialism, Technology, and the Body: Theorizing Technology-Body Entanglements and Apparatuses of Bodily Production from an Agential Realist Perspective
Moritz Hagemann (Goethe University Frankfurt): Opening Hegelian Dialectics to an Irreducible Otherness
17:15 Refreshments
18:00 Keynote Address (Casino 1.801)
Prof. Nina Lykke (Linköping University): Feminist Post-Constructionism
Chair: Andreas Folkers
20:00 Reception (Casino Foyer & Terrace)
Friday, June 1st
10:00 - 11:45 Concurrent Panels
Revolutionary Matter
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Darja Klingenberg
Le Zhou (Université Paris Dauphine): Chinese Women in Cultural Revolution: An Experience of Emancipation?
Jeanette Ehrmann (Goethe University Frankfurt/Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): From ‘Algeria Unveiled’ to ‘Topless Warriors’: The Un-/Veiled Woman’s Body as a Revolutionary Matter
Alexander Neupert (University Osnabrück): No_body should starve. Physical Needs as an Index for Utopia
Fetishes
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Daniel Loick
Thomas Telios (Goethe University Frankfurt): Thing, Commodity, Product: Towards a Materialist Politics of Solidarity and Coalition
Valentin Badura (Humboldt University Berlin): Towards a Neo-Durkheimian Approach to the Theory of Ideology: Sacralization as Integrative Mechanism
Eva Youkhana (University of Bonn): Religious Belonging as Expression for Colonized Transnational Bonds: Latin American Migrants in Madrid
11:45 Refreshments
12:15 - 14:00 Concurrent Panels
The Matter of Revolution
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Julia König
Mareike Schwarzwälder (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Potentiality of Revolutionary Action
Miguel Candioti
(Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona): On the Anti-Materialism of Early Italian Marxism
Oliver Schupp (University of Siegen): Layers of Communist Memories
Things
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Daniel Keil
Francesca Caligiuri (Humboldt University Berlin): Adorno’s Reification of Things
Elena Lange (University of Zurich): Transcendental Materialism. Contrasting Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s Materialist Epistemology with Adorno’s Reading of the Kantian Ding an sich
Elmar Flatschart (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna): Between Materialism and Constructivism: The Commodity and its Other
14:00 Lunch
15:15 - 17:30 Concurrent Panels
Art
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Sonja Kleinod
Martin Tanšek (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt): Who’s Afraid of the Heterosexual Matrix?
Viviana González González (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): The Ontology and Epistemology of Bolívar Echeverría’s Materialistic Approach to Art
Peter Müller (University of Potsdam): The Strange Case of the Humans Leaving the Picture
Landi Raubenheimer (University of Johannesburg): The Materiality of Relational Artworks
Affectivity
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Sabine Flick
Guido Croxatto (Universidad de Buenos Aires): The Law, the Body and Affectivity
Filipe Campello (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Social Reality of Affects. A Critical Interpretation in Light of Hegel
Till Hilmar (University of Vienna): Storyboards of Remembrance. Representations of the Past in Visitor’s Photography at Auschwitz
Dave Mesing (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh): Complicating Utopia: Materialism, Death, and Hope
17:30 Refreshments
18:15 Keynote Address (Casino 1.801)
Prof. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Hochschule Niederrhein): The Materiality of Reason – Die Materialität der Vernunft
Chair: Philip Hogh
Translation: Felix Hauf
Saturday, June 2
10:00 - 12:15 Concurrent Panels
Space
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Nadine Marquardt
Simon Sontowski (University of Zurich): Opening the Black Box of Border Management
Sascha Engel (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Rhythm of the World: Toward a General Economy of Spatial Materiality
Daniel Keil (Goethe University Frankfurt): Territory and Tradition – Some Notes on the Relation of the Rescaling of Statehood and National Identity
Nicolas Schlitz & Katharina Fritsch (University of Vienna): ‘Anormal Bodies’ under Construction – Analysing Viennese Squats
Translation
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Jeanette Ehrmann
Lotte Arndt (Humboldt University Berlin/Paris VII Denis Diderot): Against the Grain of the (Post-)Colonial Museum Archives: Sammy Baloji’s Work on Chief Lusinga’s Skull
Franziska Dübgen (Goethe University Frankfurt): Translating Emancipation(s)
Tobias Berger (Free University Berlin): Lost in Translation? Transnational Law and Legal Practices in Bangladesh
Dina Spörri (University of Bern) & Maya Hatsukano (Goethe University Frankfurt): Translating Vulnerability. (Post-)Colonial Reverberations in the International Climate Change Regime
12:15 Brunch
13:15 - 15:30 Concurrent Panels
Body
(Casino 1.801)
Chair: Greta Wagner
Katharina Fritsch (University of Vienna): Trans-Skin – Skin bleaching as Diasporic Embodiment
Anna Petran (University of Vienna): Binge-Drinking in Youth in Neoliberal Society
Benjamin Haas (Humboldt University Berlin): Making of Impairment – Material Effects of Disourses on ADHD
Economy
(Casino 1.802)
Chair: Alexander Brunke
Marina Martínez Mateo (Goethe University Frankfurt): Neoliberalism and the Sovereignty of Life. About the Politics of Abortion in Chile
Federica Bueti (Journal …ment, Berlin) & Hilary Koob-Sassen (London): Kata strephein and the Semiotic Machine of Catastrophe
Andreas Folkers (Goethe University Frankfurt): After virtù and fortuna. Foucault and Althusser on the Governmentality of Aleatory Economic Events
15:30 Refreshments
16:15 Keynote Address (Casino 1.801)
Prof. Hanjo Berressem (University of Cologne): Actual Media | Virtual Media
Chair: Tobias Goll
19:00 End of Conference & Dinner at Apple Wine Tavern Dauth-Schneider
22:00 We ♥ IvI Bar Night Institut für vergleichende Irrelevanz [IvI] Frankfurt am Main