Program

Entgrenzte Gewalt − Unrestrained Violence

International Conference

07.11. - 09.11.2013, University of Giessen

Programme

November 07, 2013

14:00-14:15 Conference Opening (Christer Petersen)

14:15-14:30 Greetings by the Vice-President of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Prof. Dr. Adriaan Dorresteijn

14:30-15:00 Introduction to the Subject (Jörn Ahrens)

Panel I Concept 

Chair: Marco Gerster (Konstanz)

15:00-15:45 Lars Koch (Siegen): The Phantasm of Survival: Paranoia and Unrestrained Violence

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:00 Felix Schnell (Berlin): Understanding Unrestrained Violence

17:00-17:45 Jack Katz (Los Angeles): Points of No Return

18:30-20:00 Key Note:

Introduction and chair: Bernhard Giesen (Konstanz)

Randall Collins (Philadelphia) The Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations

November 08, 2013

Panel II Event

Chair: Daniel Ziegler (Gießen)

10:15-11:00 Katherine S. Newman (Baltimore): Why Terrible Things Happen in Perfect Places: The Pathways to Rampage Shootings among American Youth

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Anne Fuchs (Warwick): Framing Violence: The Bombing of Dresden and the Power of Templates

12:00-12:45 Annette Vowinckel (Potsdam): The Presence of Violence and the Absence of Torture in Contemporary Documentary Photography

12:45-14:15 Lunch Break

Panel III Narration

Chair: Silke Braselmann (Gießen), Steffen Krämer (Cottbus)

14:15-15:00 Christian Hißnauer (Göttingen): Order of Violence – Filmic Narratability of Systematical Violence in NS Concentation Camps

15:00-15:45 Alexander Garciá Düttmann (London): The Accused Accuser: Adorno, Sexuality and Unrestrained Violence

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Werner Binder: "Tales of Abuse and Torture. Narrating the Abu Ghraib Images"

16:45-17:30 Saul Newman: „Anarchism: Violence against Violence“

November 09, 2013

Panel IV Politics

Chair: Anne Nassauer (Berlin)

09:30-10:15 Sveinung Sandberg (Oslo): The Collective Nature of Lone-Wolf Terrorism. Anders Behring Breivik and the Anti-Islamic Movement

10:15-11:00 Susanne Krasmann (Hamburg): The Rise of the Drone’. On the adaptability and acceptability of a technology (of killing)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Ferdinand Sutterlüty (Frankfurt): Riots: Norms of Citizenship and Collective Violence

12:00-12:45 Michael Günter (Tübingen): Neo Fascist Heroes: Group Identity and Idealization of the Aggressor in Violent Adolescents

12:45-13:15 Coffee Break

13:15-13:45 Conference Summarization and Ending