13 DECEMBER 2019

(09:30-09:45) Welcome

(09:45-11:00) Session 3

Chair: Jiani Fan (Princeton University)

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Robert Krause (University of Freiburg)

‘On the Verge. The transformation of leisure into idleness in Baudelaire and Benjamin’

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Sofia Cumming (University of East Anglia)

‘Walter Benjamin’s modern mythologies & the possibility of an awakened history’

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Robert Pursche (University of Basel)

‘Archivists in the Library? How Benjamin’s 19th century survived through the catastrophic 20th century’

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(11:00-11:15) Coffee break

(11:15-12:30) Parallel session 3

Panel 3A

Chair: Erik Granly Jensen (University of Southern Denmark)

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Sara Giguère (University of Montréal)

‘Double or quits: ludification of the economy’

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Fernando Araujo Del Lama (University of São Paulo)

‘Walter Benjamin’s phantasmagoria haunts the 21st century: social media and Trump/Bolsonaro elections in perspective’

 

Enrico Campo (University of Corsica)

‘Degradation of attention? A critical analysis through Walter Benjamin’

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Panel 3B

Chair: Joseph Ford (Institute of Modern Languages Research)

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Anna Crofts (Stockholm University)

‘Charged distance: The “as ifs” of romantic irony and Benjamin’s aura’

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Christophe David (University of Rennes 2)

‘Thinking Utopia with Walter Benjamin and William Morris: Reflections on Utopia as a Standstill or Rest in the Wake of Miguel Abensour’

 

Joris Verheijen (Rotterdam Erasmus University)

‘Brushing Bildung against the Grain: Walter Benjamin and the German Tradition of Self-Cultivation’

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(12:30-14:00) Lunch

(14:00-15:15) Keynote speaker 2 

Marc Berdet (University of Brasilia)

‘Brasilia as a Capital of the 20th Century. A Benjaminian perspective on the modernist city’

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(15:15-16:30) Parallel session 4

Panel 4A

Chair: Peter Zusi (University College London)

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Fernando Augusto Bee Magalhães (University of Campinas)

‘Benjamin’s diagnoses of modernity’

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Judith Bordes (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)

‘Boredom and Erlebnis: paradoxical diagnoses on modernity?’

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Mariana Pinto dos Santos (New University of Lisbon, Institute of Art History)

‘Dreaming the past: revisiting the concept of aura after Jacques Rancière’s critique of Walter Benjamin’

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Panel 4B

Chair: Fernando Araujo Del Lama (University of São Paulo)

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Tony Phelan (Keble College, Oxford)

‘Syncretism and substitution: overcoming 19th century literary history’

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Karolina Jesien (University of Nottingham)

‘Innervation as Revolutionary Collective Expression. Walter Benjamin and the Body Politic’

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(16:30-16:45) Coffee break

(16:45-17:45) Session 4

Chair: Jean-Michel Gouvard (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)

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Clemens-Carl Härle (University of Siena)

‘Benjamin with Manet’

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Gustavo Racy (University of Antwerp)

‘Promises of future, failures of the present. Thinking Walter Benjamin’s 19th century today through the works of two photographers of the epoch’