Walter Benjamin et le XIXe siècle aujourd’hui
Walter Benjamin & the 19th Century Today/Walter Benjamin et le XIXe siècle aujourd’hui
Colloque international organisé par Jean-Michel Gouvard (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne)
à l’Institute of Modern Languages Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London),
en collaboration avec Textes / Littératures: Ecritures et Modèles (EA 4195, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne)
Date: 12 et 13 Décembre 2019
Lieu: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House
Conférenciers invités :
Pr Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University)
Pr Marc Berdet (University of Brasilia)
La langue du colloque est l’anglais.
Programme
12 December 2019
(09:30-09:45) Registration
(09:45-10:00) Welcome
(10:00-11:15) Session 1
Carola Borys (University of Siena & University of Paris 3): ‘Kitsch and the 19th century’s “passion for masks”’
Francisco Camêlo (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): ‘Toys, miniatures and old children’s books’
Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (University of Munich & University of Potsdam): ‘Signs and Wounds. Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Tattoos between Art, Kitsch, and Language’
(11:15-11:30) Coffee break
(11:30-12:45) Parallel session 1
Panel 1A
Bassiri Tabrizi Artin (École des Hauts Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): ‘Through the mirror: The dialectic of mirroring in Benjamin’s Passagenwerk’
Erik Granly Jensen (University of Southern Denmark): ‘Infrastructure and Communication Technology in the Arcades Project’
Nina Kochekovskaia (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities): ‘London, the “Capital of 19th century”: the city as allegory in Sweeney Todd and Benjamin’s theory of kitsch’
Panel 1B
Jiani Fan (Princeton University): ‘Antiquity and Modernity at a Standstill. Analysis of Walter Benjamin’s Allegoric image and Dialectic image through Charles Baudelaire’
Martin Mees & Natacha Pfeiffer (Saint-Louis University, Brussels): ‘The Ruin of the World? Walter Benjamin Reading Baudelaire’
Bruna Della Torre (University of São Paulo): ‘Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu and the critical theories of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno’
(12:45-14:00) Lunch
(14:00-15:15) Keynote speaker 1
Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University): ‘Baudelaire and the Will to Apokatastasis’
(15:15-16:30) Parallel session 2
Panel 2A
Peter Zusi (University College London): ‘Thomas de Quincey: A Prose-Poet in the Era of High Capitalism’
Victor Guerrero Apráez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá): ‘Ghosts and Specters: rereading Henry James through Benjamin’s Gaze’
Ambra Celano (International University of Language and Medias, Milano): ‘Benjamin’s influence over Brecht’s Kriegsfibel’
Panel 2B
Nicola Alessio Sarracco (Berlin Free University): ‘The influence of Benjamin’s Romanticism’
Wolfgang Bock (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): ‘Benjamin and Kierkegaard’
Djamel Benkrid (Université de Paris VIII): ‘Benjamin and Nietzsche’s question of being/language: Two tragic destinies’
(16:30-16:45) Coffee break
(16:45-18:00) Session 2
Susan Reynolds (British Library): ‘Benjamin, Kracauer, Adorno: past, present, future’
Alexis A. Chausovsky (Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos & Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, Argentina): ‘Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer: towards a dialogue on gambling and temporality in the Ninetieth century’
Robert Pursche (University of Basel): ‘Archivists in the Library? How Benjamin’s 19th century survived through the catastrophic 20th century’
13 December 2019
(09:45-10:00) Welcome
(10:00-11:15) Session 3
Robert Krause (University of Freiburg): ‘On the Verge. The transformation of leisure into idleness in Baudelaire and Benjamin’
Danielle Esther Levinas (University of Paris 4): ‘The jumping tiger: allegory and deformation of time, language and narrative’
Sofia Cumming (University of East Anglia): ‘Walter Benjamin’s modern mythologies & the possibility of an awakened history’
(11:15-11:30) Coffee break
(11:30-12:45) Parallel session 3
Panel 3A
Sara Giguère (University of Montréal): ‘Double or quits: ludification of the economy’
Fernando Araujo Del Lama (University of São Paulo): ‘Walter Benjamin’s phantasmagoria haunts the 21st century: social media and Trump/Bolsonaro elections in perspective’
Enrico Campo (University of Corsica): ‘Degradation of attention? A critical analysis through Walter Benjamin’
Panel 3B
Anna Crofts (Stockholm University): ‘Charged distance: The “as ifs” of romantic irony and Benjamin’s aura’
Christophe David (University of Rennes 2): ‘Thinking Utopia with Walter Benjamin and William Morris: Reflections on Utopia as a Standstill or Rest in the Wake of Miguel Abensour’
Joris Verheijen (Rotterdam Erasmus University): ‘Brushing Bildung against the Grain: Walter Benjamin and the German Tradition of Self-Cultivation’
(12:45-14:00) Lunch
(14:00-15:15) Keynote speaker 2
Marc Berdet (University of Brasilia): ‘Brasilia as a Capital of the 20th Century. A Benjaminian perspective on the modernist city’
(15:15-16:30) Parallel session 4
Panel 4A
Fernando Augusto Bee Magalhães (University of Campinas): ‘Benjamin’s diagnoses of modernity’
Judith Bordes (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne): ‘Boredom and Erlebnis: paradoxical diagnostics on modernity?’
Mariana Pinto dos Santos (New University of Lisbon): ‘Dreaming the past: revisiting the concept of aura after Jacques Rancière’s critique of Walter Benjamin’
Panel 4B
Tony Phelan (Keble College, Oxford): ‘Syncretism and substitution: overcoming 19th century literary history’
Karolina Jesien (University of Nottingham): ‘Innervation as Revolutionary Collective Expression. Walter Benjamin and the Body Politic’
Emile Fromet de Rosnay (University of Victoria): ‘High-speed melancholy: Benjamin, dromology, and the open air of history’
(16:30-16:45) Coffee break
(16:45-18:00) Session 4
Clemens-Carl Härle (University of Siena): ‘Benjamin with Manet’
Hélène Orain (University of Paris 1): ‘Walter Benjamin: A photographic thought of the 19th century out of time’
Gustavo Racy (University of Antwerp): ‘Promises of future, failures of the present. Thinking Walter Benjamin’s 19th century today through the works of two photographers of the epoch’
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27/11/2019