12 DECEMBER 2019

(09:00-09:30) Registration

(09:30-09:45) Welcome by Jean-Michel Gouvard (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)

(09:45-11:00) Session 1

Chair:  Susan Reynolds (British Library)

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Carola Borys (University of Siena & University of Paris 3)

‘Kitsch and the 19th century’s “passion for masks”’

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Francisco Camêlo (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

‘Toys, miniatures and old children’s books’

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Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (University of Munich & University of Potsdam)

‘Signs and Wounds. Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Tattoos between Art, Kitsch, and Language’

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(11:00-11:15) Coffee break

(11:15-12:30) Parallel session 1

Panel 1A

Chair: Joris Verheijen (Rotterdam Erasmus University)

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Bassiri Tabrizi Artin (École des Hauts Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

‘Through the mirror: The dialectic of mirroring in Benjamin's Passagenwerk’

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Erik Granly Jensen (University of Southern Denmark)

‘Infrastructure and Communication Technology in the Arcades Project’

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Nika Kochekovskaia (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University 'Higher School of Economics')

‘London, the “Capital of 19th century”: the city as allegory in Sweeney Todd and Benjamin’s theory of kitsch’

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Panel 1B

Chair: Anna Crofts (Stockholm University)

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Jiani Fan (Princeton University)

‘Antiquity and Modernity at a Standstill. Analysis of Walter Benjamin’s Allegoric image and Dialectic image through Charles Baudelaire’

 

Martin Mees & Natacha Pfeiffer (Saint-Louis University, Brussels)

‘The Ruin of the World? Walter Benjamin Reading Baudelaire’

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Bruna Della Torre (University of São Paulo)

‘Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu and the critical theories of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno’

 

(12:30-14:00) Lunch

(14:00-15:15) Keynote speaker 1

Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University)

‘Baudelaire and the Will to Apokatastasis’

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(15:15-16:30) Parallel session 2

Panel 2A

Chair: Karolina Jesien (University of Nottingham)

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Peter Zusi (University College London)

‘Thomas de Quincey: A Prose-Poet in the Era of High Capitalism’

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Victor Guerrero Apráez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá)

‘Ghosts and Specters: rereading Henry James through Benjamin’s Gaze’

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Ambra Celano (International University of Language and Medias, Milano)

‘Benjamin’s influence over Brecht’s Kriegsfibel’

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Panel 2B

Chair: Sara Giguère (University of Montréal)

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Nicola Alessio Sarracco (Berlin Free University)

‘The influence of Benjamin’s Romanticism’

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Wolfgang Bock (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

‘Benjamin and Kierkegaard’

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Djamel Benkrid (Université de Paris VIII)

‘Benjamin and Nietzsche’s question of being/language: Two tragic destinies’

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(16:30-16:45) Coffee break

(16:45-18:00) Session 2

Chair: Sofia Cumming (University of East Anglia)

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Susan Reynolds (British Library)

‘Benjamin, Kracauer, Adorno: past, present, future’

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Alexis A. Chausovsky (Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos & Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, Argentina)

‘Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer: towards a dialogue on gambling and temporality in the Ninetieth century’

 

Hélène Orain (University of Paris 1)

‘Walter Benjamin: A photographic thought of the 19th century out of time’