Against Exclusivity: New Aesthetics in Literature and Film
November 11 - 12, 2021
2021 Max Kade Conference
Organizers: Nadjib Sadikou (Max Kade Visiting Professor, UIC/Europa-Universität Flensburg) and Imke Meyer (UIC)
Join via Zoom: https://go.uic.edu/kade-conference-2021
Detailed Schedule
Thursday, November 11, 2021
3:30pm - Welcome
- José Camacho (Director, School of Literatures, Cultural Studies & Linguistics, UIC)
- Susanne Rott (Head, Department of Germanic Studies, UIC)
3:45 - Panel I
- Priscilla Layne (Germanic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“What Is the Black in Black German Literature?” - Birgit Tautz (George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages, Bowdoin College)
“Critiquing Europe – But is it all Fake? Erich Scheurmann’s Der Papalagi (1920)” - Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies, UIC)
Friday, November 12, 2021
9:00am - Keynote
- Introduction: Susanne Rott (Head, Germanic Studies, UIC)
- Nadjib Sadikou (Max Kade Visiting Professor, UIC/ Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany)
“Writing Against Exclusivity: Some Reflections on the New Aesthetics of Wide Diversity”
10:15am - Panel II
- Sigrid Köhler (Neuere deutsche Literatur, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen)
“In the Antechamber of Speech: Belonging and the Aesthetics of Truth Telling in Olivia Wenzel's Novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst” - Lucas Riddle (Mellon Postdoc Fellow, Bowdoin College)
“The Humorous, Frivolous, Precarious Everyday in the Refugee Narratives of Mounira Al-Solh, Abbas Khider, and Hamed Abboud” - Moderator: Elizabeth Loentz (Germanic Studies, UIC)
11:30am - Panel III
- Chunjie Zhang (German and Comparative Literature, University of of California at Davis)
“On the Freedom of Choosing Our Identity” - Catriona MacLeod (Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
“Making the Invisible Visible: Women’s Craft in the Age of Goethe” - Moderator: Sara Hall (Germanic Studies, UIC)
12:45pm - Break
1:30pm - Panel IV
- Matthias Bauer (Germanistik, Europa-Universität Flensburg)
“Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty and the Concern for Inclusion” - Laurie Johnson (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Aesthetics and Ethics in Photojournalism and Documentary on Armed Conflict" - Moderator: Susanne Rott (Head, Germanic Studies, UIC)
2:45pm - Panel V
- Iulia-Karin Patrut (Germanistik, Europa-Universität Flensburg)
“Franz Kafka's Narrative Process: Non-Participation from the Perspective of the Excluded” - Carl Niekerk (Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Orientalism, the Borders of Europe, and the Rise of Fascism in Franz Werfel's Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933)” - Moderator: Patrick Fortmann (Germanic Studies, UIC)
4:00pm - Panel VI (UIC Graduate Student Roundtable)
- Wiktoria Adamczyk: "Contemporary Silesian Art Against the Exclusivity of Silesia”
- Charlie Johnson: "Alternative Dialectics: Intertextuality in Uwe Timm’s Morenga”
- Kelsi Morefield: "Hybridity in Morenga: How Uwe Timm Uses Form and Opposing Perspectives to Reflect Postcolonial Aesthetics”
- Lara Schlömer: "Writing Against the Exclusivity of Origin: Saša Stanišić's Herkunft"
- Essowazina Tchatakoura: "Colonization and the Othering of Africa"
- Andrew Tuider: "Similarities in Waberi's In the United States of Africa"
- Patrick White: "Endless Masquerade"
- Moderator: Imke Meyer (Germanic Studies, UIC)
5:30pm - Concluding Remarks
Sponsored by:
- Germanic Studies
- School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics
- Institute for the Humanities
- Max Kade Foundation
Date posted
Oct 27, 2021
Date updated
Nov 3, 2021