Monday, 16 September

18.30 Welcome Notes

18.45
Evening Event: Theatricality of Waiting
Panel discussion about the play “What They Want to Hear”
with Christopher Balme (LMU), Raaed Al Kour (actor/Munich), Krystel Khoury (Kammerspiele Munich) et al.

Tuesday, 17 September

9.00 – 10.30
Kick-Off-Roundtable: Temporality of Waiting
Nadia Al-Bagdadi (CEU), William O’Reilly (Cambridge), Mirjam Zadoff (Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism)
Chair: Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU)

11.00 – 13.00 Panel I: Expectations and Practices

Allegra Fryxell (Cambridge): Mario Dessy’s Atteso (‘Waiting’): Modernist Aesthetics of the Present

Burcu Dogramaci (LMU): Artistic Practices at the Border: Waiting and Crossing in the Context of Escape and Migration

Celine Cantat (CEU): Narratives and Practices of Migration Solidarity along the Balkan Route

Chair: Tugba Basaran (Cambridge)

14:00 – 16.00 Panel II: Transformations

Ines Prodöhl (Bergen): Mitsui Bussan and the Manchurian Soybean Trade: Waiting for a Business Opportunity, 1870–1920

Aglaia Weindl (LMU): “Thronfolger-Ungeduld”. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este and the Experience of Waiting

Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU): Stasis or Transformation? What 19th-Century Ship Newspapers Tell us about Practices of Waiting

Chair: Martin Saxer (LMU)

16.30 – 18.30 Panel III: Retrospectives

Guido G. Beduschi (Cambridge): Retrospective and Modern History in Europe, 1715–1750

Jenny Mander (Cambridge): Going Nowhere Fast: Narration as Action (Eighteenth-Century Insights)

Ingo Berensmeyer (LMU): Dynamics of Waiting in Henry Green’s Novel Party Going (1939)

Chair: Nailya Shamgunova (Cambridge, tbc)