3 July 2015:
(All presentations will be held at Goethe-University, Campus Westend: IG-Farben Building, Room 1.314 (Eisenhower Room))

08:00
Conference Desk / Registration

09:00
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Representative of the University Presidency, Goethe Univer-sity, Frankfurt a. M.: Welcome Address

Steffen Bruendel / Frank Estelmann, Frankfurt a. M.: Introduction

09:15 – 10:45 Section 1: The Meanings of War and Violence (Chair: Steffen Bruendel, Frankfurt a. M.)

Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv: The German War-Machine (Germany/1800)

Markus Wriedt, Frankfurt a. M.: Religious Legitimation of Violence. The Support of War and Violence through Ecclesiastical Loyalty and Militant Nationalism in German Protestantism between 1813 and 1945

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 13:30 Section 2: War Theatres – Theatres of War (Chair: Christian Wiese, Frankfurt a. M.)

Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv: Female Impersonation in World War I Internment Camps

Martina Groß, Hildesheim: Performing the Escape of Time – Hugo Ball, DADA and World War I

Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Frankfurt a. M.: Wars without Battles – the Theatre of Brecht and Heiner Müller

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break and Campus Tour

15:00 – 17:30 Section 3: Contesting Memories: World War I (Chair: Christoph Cornel-ißen, Frankfurt a. M.)

Frederike Felcht, Frankfurt a. M. / Anja Peltzer, Mannheim: Epidemic Military Culture: Holger-Madsen’s Film „Lay Down Your Arms” (1914)

Gal Hertz, Tel Aviv: „Deutschland ist Hamlet“? Shakespeare and “der Deutsche Geist“ in World War I

Ahmet Sen, Frankfurt a. M.: Two Sides, One Faith. A Perspective on Jewish Soldiers’ Transnational Memories of World War I

4 July 2015:
(All presentations will be held at Goethe-University, Casino, Room Cas. 1.802)

9:00 – 12:30 Section 4: Shadows of Conflicts and Violence (Chair: Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv )

Astrid Erll, Frankfurt a. M.: "Don't look back in anger": New Memory Studies’ Perspec-tives on the First World War

Omri Ben-Yehuda, Tel Aviv: The Renaissance of Hebrew and the European War: the Case of Agnon

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Bielefeld: Theatre Against War: From Erwin Piscator to the “Liv-ing Theatre”

Silja Behre, Tel Aviv: Long Shadows of the Past? The Meaning of Violence in the Memory of "1968" – A German-French Perspective

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:30 Section 5: Violence, Ideology and Statehood (Chair: Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv )

Arnd Bauerkämper, Berlin: Between National Security and Human Rights. The Intern-ment of Civilian ‘Enemy Aliens’ During the First World War

Mihran Dabag, Bochum: Gestaltung durch Vernichtung. Generationale Selbstermäch-tigung und die Politik des Genozids [Forming by Extermination. Generational Self-Empowerment and the Politics of Genocide]

Tilmann J. Röder, Heidelberg: „Transitional Justice“ in Germany, 1945 – 2015

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Section 6: Audio-Visual Representations of War and Violence (Chair: Frank Estelmann, Frankfurt a. M.)

Yaron Jean, Haifa: The Great War and the Birth of Modern Soundscape

Jochen Schuff, Frankfurt a. M.: Narrating the "War on Terror": Trau-ma and Justifica-tion in “Homeland”

17:30 Steffen Bruendel / Frank Estelmann: Closing Remarks