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Looking After Siegfried Kracauer. An International Conference - Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, November 6, 2008 - November 8, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

6.30pm - Welcoming Reception    Kim Gallery in the Hood Museum

Carol Folt (Dean of the Faculty) and Brian Kennedy (Director, Hood Museum

8:00 pm     Film Screening: Die Börsenkönigin/ The Queen of the Stock Exchange (1916) 028 Silsby

Introduction: Karola Gramann (Director, Kinothek Asta Nielsen)

 

Friday, November 7, 2008  Kreindler Auditorium ( Room 041), Haldeman Center.

8:45am    Welcoming Remarks:

Kate Conley (Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities) and Gerd Gemünden (German Studies).

 

9:00am–10:30 am   Session 1: The Werkbund, the Bauhaus, and Kracauer’s Architectural Criticism

Moderator: Karolina Kawiaka (Studio Art)

Kerstin Barndt (University of Michigan), “Showrooms of the Future: Kracauer and Weimar Exhibition Culture”

Elizabeth Otto (SUNY Buffalo), “Kracauer, Bauhaus

Photomontage, and the Salaried Masses

 

10:30 am      Coffee Break

11:00am–12:30 am    Session 2: Modes of Authorship: Feuilleton and Fiction

Moderator: Veronika Fuechtner (German Studies)

Christian Rogowski (Amherst College), “‘Written by Himself’: Kracauer’s Autobiographical Novels”

Andreas Huyssen (Columbia), “The Urban Miniature in Kracauer and Benjamin”

 

12:30pm    Lunch

2:00pm–3:30 pm   Session 3: Kracauer’s Public Spheres: Communication and “Erfahrung”

Moderator: Lynn Higgins (French and Italian)

Jaeho Kang (The New School), “Propaganda and the    Mediated Public Sphere: Kracauer and Critical Theory of Political Communication”

Eric Rentschler (Harvard), “Kracauer, Spectatorship, and the Seventies”

 

3:30pm    Coffee Break

4:00pm–5:00pm    Session 4: Kracauer and Asta Nielsen

Moderator: Al LaValley (Film and Media Studies)

Heide Schlüpmann (University of Frankfurt), “Love in the Street: The Critic and the Film Star”

 

6:30pm – 8:30pm   Dinner, Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn

8:30pm     Film Screening: Der Absturz/Downfall  (1923) - Arthur M. Loew Auditorium

Introduction: Karola Gramann

Live Piano Accompaniment by Bob Merrill

Saturday, November 8, 2008 Kreindler Auditorium (Room 041), Haldeman Center

9:00am-10:30am   Session 5: Kracauer in America: A Public Intellectual in Search of an Audience

Moderator: Klaus Milich (MALS)

Noah Isenberg (The New School), “This Pen for Hire: Kracauer as American Cultural Critic”

Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan), “Affinities: Kracauer’s American Writings, 1941-    1960”

 

10:30am    Coffee break

11:00am-12:30pm    Session 6: Photography and the Digital Turn

Moderator: Mark Williams (Film and Media Studies)

Miriam Hansen (University of Chicago), “Looking After Kracauer’s Photography Essay: From Dot Matrix to Central Archive”

Lutz Koepnick (Washington University), “In Kracauer’s Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image”

 

12:30    Lunch break

2:00pm-3:30pm    Session 7: Kracauer’s Sonic Environment

Moderator: Christina Gerhardt (Columbia)

Eric Jarosinski (University of Pennsylvania), “The Static Utopia: Kracauer’s Architectural Criticism of the Radio”

Theodore F. Rippey (Bowling Green), “Reading With an Anxious Ear”

 

3:30 pm   Coffee break

4:00pm-5:30pm    Session 8: Physical Reality and Material Culture

Moderator: Klaus Mladek (German Studies)

Sabine Biebl (University of Munich), “Beyond Human: Kracauer’s Anthropological Project and Agamben’s ‘Whatever’”

Michael Ermarth (Dartmouth College), “Girls Gone Wild: Kracauer on Girlkultur and the New Un-Kultur of Amerikanismus”

 

7:oopm

Dinner for Conference participants and invited guests.