Program
Friday, July 31, 2009
14.00-14.30
Conference Opening
Michael C. Frank/Eva Gruber (Constance)
14.30-16.30
The Emergence of the Terrorist in Fiction: Literary-Historical Approaches
(Session 1)
Gudrun Braunsperger (Vienna): “Sergej Nechaev and Dostoevskij’s ‘Devils’: The Literary Answer to Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Russia”
Michael C. Frank (Constance): “Plots on London: Terrorism in Turn-of-the-Century British Fiction”
Hendrik Blumentrath (Constance): “Defigurations: Fading Silhouettes of the Enemy”
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break
17.00-18.20
Pre- and Post-9/11 Representations of Terrorism in American Fiction: Continuities and Breaks
(Session 2)
Eva Gruber (Constance): “Narrating Terrorism on the Eve of 9/11: Ann Patchett’s ‘Bel Canto’”
Martina Wolff (Cologne): “Self, Identity and Terrorism in Current American Literature: ‘Terrorist’ and ‘American Pastoral’”
18.20-18.30
Break
18.30-19.30
Keynote Address
Margaret C. Scanlan (Indiana): “After the Apocalypse: Novelists and Terrorists since 9/11”
20.15
Conference Dinner (Restaurant Wessenberg, Münsterplatz)
Saturday, August 1, 2009
10.00-11.20
Narrativizations of Terror I: Media and Modes
(Session 3)
Kirsten Mahlke (Constance): “The Fantastic Dimensions of Terror: Argentina’s Military Dictatorship (1976-1983)”
Ulrich Meurer (Vienna): “Double-Mediated Terrorism: Don DeLillo’s ‘The Uniforms’ and ‘Baader-Meinhof’”
11.20-11.40
Coffee Break
11.40-13.00
Narrativizations of Terror II: Plot and Form
(Session 4)
Marie-Luise Egbert (Freiburg): “Narratives of Terror: A New Paradigm for the Novel?”
Georgiana Banita (Constance): “Unfolding the Plot of Terror: Andre Dubus III’s ‘The Garden of Last Days’”
13.00-14.20
Lunch Break (Restaurant Arche, on campus)
14.20-15.40
The Question of Genre: Drama and Narrative Literature After 9/11
(Session 5)
Ilka Saal (Ghent): “Violent Narratives and Narrative Violence: The Construction of Cultural Memory in Post-9/11 American Theater”
Herbert Grabes (Giessen): “The Impact of ‘September 11’: Dramatic and Narrative Creations”
15.40-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-18.00
Literary Responses to 9/11: Transnational Perspectives
(Session 6)
Roy Scranton (New York): “Revisiting the 9/11 Novel: Literature, Terrorism, and the Politics of Narcissism”
Michael König (Münster): “Poetics of Terror: Literary Accounts on Terrorism and Politically Motivated Violence in Contemporary German Literature”
