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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th

4pm - Opening Remarks

4.30 - 7pm - 1st PANEL   

Chair: Russell Berman (èצӰÏñ, Professor)

• Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross, Lecturer)

‘Death is not an event of life’: How Wittgenstein’s War Experience Re-Shaped His Philosophy

• Victoria Zurita (èצӰÏñ, PhD Student)

Ironic prospects: Hope in Jean Giono’s To the Slaughterhouse

• André Fischer (Auburn University, Assistant Professor)

Politics by other means: War photography in the work of Ernst Jünger

• Nicholas Jenkins (èצӰÏñ, Associate Professor)

The Unknown Grave of the Warrior

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

9 – 11am - 2nd PANEL

Chair: Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago, Associate Professor)

• Aubrey Knox (CUNY, PhD Student)

The Regulated Body: The Grand Palais as Military Hospital in World War I

• Joanna Fiduccia (Reed College, Assistant Professor)

A Destructive Character: Alberto Giacometti’s Crisis of the Monument

• Hadrien Laroche (INHA, France, Philosopher and Researcher)

Duchamp's waste: Trauma, Violence and Aesthetics

11.30am - 12.45pm – KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Jay Winter (Yale University, Emeritus Professor)

All the Things We Cannot Hear: Silences of the Great War

2 - 4.30pm - 3rd PANEL

Chair: Peter Stansky (èצӰÏñ, Emeritus Professor)

• Martin Löschnigg (University of Graz, Austria, Professor)

‘The extreme fury of war self-multiplies’: First World War Literature and the Aesthetics of Loss

•  Ron Ben-Tovim (Ben Gurion Univ., Israel, Post-Doc), Boris Shoshitaishvili (èצӰÏñ, PhD Student)

Re-Enchanting the World after War: J. R. R. Tolkien, David Jones, and the Revision of Epic

• Anna Abramson (MIT, Post-Doc)

Atmospheric Myths of The Great War

• Isaac Blacksin (UC Santa Cruz, PhD Student)

Senseless Encounter, Immutable Sense: The Contradictions of Reporting War

4.45 - 6pm KEYNOTE

• Alexander Nemerov (èצӰÏñ, Professor)

A Soldier Killed in the First World War