Conference Schedule
Thursday, April 6th, 8:00 p.m.
Reading by Christian Kracht, followed by a conversation between the author and his translator Daniel Bowles (Boston College)
Friday, April 7th, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Morning Session (10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Mie Mortensen (Columbia) - Soviet Unrealism: On Brodsky and Utkin's Architeggture
Respondent: David Hock (Princeton)
Claudia Breger (Indiana) - Con-figuring the Network: Text-Body-Assemblages in René Pollesch's Kill Your Darlings
Respondent: Sophie Schweiger (Columbia)
Lunch break (12:00 - 1:00)
First Afternoon Session (1:00 - 3:00)
Nicola Behrmann (Rutgers) - Notes of the Perplexed: Illness and Quotation in Wolfgang Herrndorf's Arbeit und Struktur
Respondent: Xan Holt (Columbia)
Christian Mandt (Williams) - Storytelling in Adaptation: Gender and Space in Franz Kafka's The Trial and David Lynch's Inland Empire
Respondent: Evan Parks (Columbia)
Coffee Break (3:00 - 3:15)
Second Afternoon Session (3:15 - 5:00)
Jessica May Fletcher (CUNY) - Work and Play: Hito Steyerl and the Frankfurt School
Ying Sze Pek (Princeton) - In and Out of View: Lessons in Vision with Hito Steyerl's How Not To Be Seen (2013)
Session Respondent: Alwin Franke (Columbia)
Dinner
Reading by Christian Kracht, followed by a conversation between the author and his translator Daniel Bowles (Boston College)
Friday, April 7th, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Morning Session (10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Mie Mortensen (Columbia) - Soviet Unrealism: On Brodsky and Utkin's Architeggture
Respondent: David Hock (Princeton)
Claudia Breger (Indiana) - Con-figuring the Network: Text-Body-Assemblages in René Pollesch's Kill Your Darlings
Respondent: Sophie Schweiger (Columbia)
Lunch break (12:00 - 1:00)
First Afternoon Session (1:00 - 3:00)
Nicola Behrmann (Rutgers) - Notes of the Perplexed: Illness and Quotation in Wolfgang Herrndorf's Arbeit und Struktur
Respondent: Xan Holt (Columbia)
Christian Mandt (Williams) - Storytelling in Adaptation: Gender and Space in Franz Kafka's The Trial and David Lynch's Inland Empire
Respondent: Evan Parks (Columbia)
Coffee Break (3:00 - 3:15)
Second Afternoon Session (3:15 - 5:00)
Jessica May Fletcher (CUNY) - Work and Play: Hito Steyerl and the Frankfurt School
Ying Sze Pek (Princeton) - In and Out of View: Lessons in Vision with Hito Steyerl's How Not To Be Seen (2013)
Session Respondent: Alwin Franke (Columbia)
Dinner