<nettime> Walter Benjamin Congress 1997

[bakchos@slip.net (Scott Thompson)]

Nettime Critics,

Here is the program for the first Congress of the International Walter
Benjamin Association.  As an independent researcher, I will be delivering a
short 15-minute presentation on WB's hashish experimentation and its
implications within the workshop "Figures of Experience: Power, Presence,
Performance" [Friday, July 25, 11:45-13:15]. An overview of the Congress
will be posted at the beginning of August. For further information on the
International Walter Benjamin Association and the Amsterdam Congress,see
<http://www.phil.ruu.nl/~rob/events/Benjamin.html> and you can e-mail Helga
Geyer-Ryan at: Benjamin@let.uva.nl

Cheers,

Scott Thompson

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Walter Benjamin Congress 1997

Amsterdam, July 24-26, 1997

Perception and Experience in Modernity/
Wahrnehmung und Erfahrung in der Moderne

PROGRAMME


Schedule Passagen 2000

1. Monday 9-12 Reading Cities
 Vanderburgh
 Polsky
 Lindroos
 Gore
 De Leeuw

How did you "read" the city?
What/who were the mediations/mediators, e.g. other readers?
What constitutes the "text" you have been reading?

2. Monday 2-5 Bodies in the City
Jacobs
Blum
Dillon
Chisholm

Sexuality between public and private
Anonymity, performance versus identity
The factor of time

3. Tuesday 9-1 Utopia, Dystopia
Pold
Vojkovic
Walker
Halkes
Davies

Critique: Spell out the grounds of the judgments, underlying the analysis

Tuesday 2.30-5 visiting the city

4. Wednesday 9-12 Transmissions
Lord
Kitzmann
Quinn
Van der Ouderaa
Reeh

Translation as heuristics: access to alterity
Metaphor: analyze its function for your analysis
The meaning of time

5. Wednesday 2-5 Cultural history and cultural analysis
Discussing Michael Steinberg, ed. Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History

5-7 drinks at the home of Mieke Bal, Stadionweg 44, Amsterdam (tram 5 or 24
from the center; stop Gerrit van der Veenstraat)


Thursday-Saturday: Conference

PROGRAM

Thursday 24 July

Morning.
11.00-20.00
Registration. Bar/Cafeteria

Afternoon
15.00-17.00
[Concertzaal]
Meeting of the Members of the International Walter Benjamin Association

Evening
20.00-22.00
[Concertzaal]
Introduction: Helga Geyer-Ryan
Opening of the Congress: The Chancellor of the University of Amsterdam,
R.H.T. Bleijerveld
Public Lecture: George Steiner: "To speak of Walter Benjamin"
chair: Kiernan Ryan

22.00-24.00
Reception Bar Felix Meritis

Friday 25 July
Morning
10.00-11.15
[Concertzaal]
Plenary Session:
Samuel Weber:"Walter Benjamin and the Citability of Gesture

Gary Smith:"Benjamin, Scholem and Jonah: Towards a Jewish
Theory of  Justice"
chair: Anselm Haverkamp

11.15-11.45
Coffee/Bar
Michel van Nieuwstadt: Presentation of the Benjamin Journal

11.45-13.15
Parallel Workshops
I   Vision and Multimediality
II  The Politics of Image and Space
III Figures of Experience I: Power, Presence,Performance
IV  Figures of Experience II: Allegory, Memory, History
V  Figures of Experience III: Life, Biography, Philology


Concertzaal:Session I-1:
Henrik Reeh: "Wandering Vision: Walter Benjamin in
Search of Insensible Similarities"
Carrie L. Asman: "San Gimignano: Benjamin's Acoustic Space Image"
Can Bilsel : "Recollecting the Images of One Modernity: Reflections on "la
Maison" of Georges Salles, 1939 Paris
Soeren Pold: "Critical Writing and New Urban Forms"
chair:  David Rasmussen

Zuilenzaal:Session II-1:
Imaculada Kangussu: "Stillness: When Thought Discovers the Sublime"
Kia Lindroos: "Experiencing Spaces of Images"
Jennifer R. Ballengee: "Poet as Witness: Seeing the Traumatic Erfahrung of
Modernity"
Robert Russell: "Contemplation without Violence"
Chair:  Nathalie Raoux

Shaffyzaal:Session III-1:
Ulrich Hortian: "Surrealer Bildraum und profane Erleuchtung. Zu Benjamins
Deutung des Surrealismus"
Willem van Reijen: "Der Schwarzwald und Paris" Metaphorik und mehr in den
Philosophien Heideggers und Benjamins"
Gerard Raulet: "Die Erloesung des Parergon"
chair: Cornelia Vismann

Bungehuis:Session III-2: room 003
Carla Milani Damiano: "Contemplation, Diversion and Distraction"
Gustavo Flores: "Working with Images"
Graeme Gilloch: "'The Figure that Fascinates':
Seductive Strangers in Benjamin and Baudrillard"
Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska: "Joseph Kosuth's
'Passagen-Werk'"
chair: Sytze Steenstra

Bungehuis:Session III-3: room 004
G. T. M. Visser: "Erlebnis und Machenschaft"
Geret Luhr: "Die Erfahrung von Magie in Literatur der Moderne. Walter
Benjamins Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Stefan Georges"
Marleen Stoessel: "Aura und das verschleierte Bildnis von Sais"
Gerhard Wagner: "Politik, Bild und Raum in Benjamins Auseinandersetzung mit
der aesthetischen Kultur des Faschismus".
chair: John Neubauer

Tekenzaal: Session IV-1:
Johann Kreuzer: "Medieval backgrounds of Benjamin's essay 'Ueber
Sprache...'"
Juergen Thaler: "Die 'inverse Moderne': Walter Benjamins
Tragoedientheorie"
Thomas Regehli: ""Verschriftungsliebe'-Benjamin und der 'West-oestliche
Divan':eine hermeneutische Konjunktion"
Daniel Weidner: "Urszenen und konkrete Schreibweise- Benjamin liest Kafka"
chair: Jeanne Marie Gagnebin

Bungehuis:Session IV-2:room 005
Bella Brodzki: The Figure of Benjamin: Translation, Survival and Cultural
Memory"
Andreas Pangritz: "Memory - Theological and Political Aspects"
Nikolas k. Pethes: '"Wem sich das Leben in Schrift verwandelt...':
Benjamin's Narration ofMemory as a Memory of Narration"
Alexis Nouss: "Walter Benjamin - Paul Celan: Translation as Allegory of History"
chair: Hent de Vries

Bungehuis:Session IV-3:room 006
Robert Kahn: "Benjamin, lecteur du fonds "Proust"de la Bibliotheque
Nationale" (deutsch)
Henning Teschke:"Erfahrung und Erinnerung:Proust als Modell Benjamins"
Miroslaw Swit: "Walter Benjamins Auffassung der Philosophie der
Geschichte"
Wolfgang Bock: " 'Wie Blumen ihr Haupt nach der Sonne wenden...'.
Anmerkungen zur allegorischen Struktur einiger Bilder in Walter Benjamins
Geschichtsthesen"
chair: Juergen Thaler

Koepelzaal Session V-1:
Albrecht Goetz


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