DISFIGURING WAR, 1918-2018
Happy to be chairing a session of this conference convened upon the centenary of the armistice that effectively ended the First World War.
(Dis)Figuring War: Literature and the Arts, 1918-2018
Stanford University, Humanities Center - November 9th and 10th
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th
4pm - Opening Remarks
4.30 - 7pm - 1st PANEL
Chair: Russell Berman (Stanford University, Professor)
Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross, Lecturer)
‘Death is not an event of life’: How Wittgenstein’s War Experience Re-Shaped His Philosophy
Victoria Zurita (Stanford University, PhD Student)
Ironic prospects: Hope in Jean Giono’s To the Slaughterhouse
André Fischer (Auburn University, Assistant Professor)
Politics by other means: War photography in the work of Ernst Jünger
Nicholas Jenkins (Stanford University, Associate Professor)
The Unknown Grave of the Warrior
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
9 – 11am - 2nd PANEL
Chair: Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago, Associate Professor)
Aubrey Knox (CUNY, PhD Student)
The Regulated Body: The Grand Palais as Military Hospital in World War I
Joanna Fiduccia (Reed College, Assistant Professor)
A Destructive Character: Alberto Giacometti’s Crisis of the Monument
Hadrien Laroche (INHA, France, Philosopher and Researcher)
Duchamp's waste: Trauma, Violence and Aesthetics
11.30am - 12.45pm – KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jay Winter (Yale University, Emeritus Professor)
All the Things We Cannot Hear: Silences of the Great War
2 - 4.30pm - 3rd PANEL
Chair: Peter Stansky (Stanford University, Emeritus Professor)
Martin Löschnigg (University of Graz, Austria, Professor)
‘The extreme fury of war self-multiplies’: First World War Literature and the Aesthetics of Loss
Ron Ben-Tovim (Ben Gurion Univ., Israel, Post-Doc), Boris Shoshitaishvili (Stanford, PhD Student)
Re-Enchanting the World after War: J. R. R. Tolkien, David Jones, and the Revision of Epic
Anna Abramson (MIT, Post-Doc)
Atmospheric Myths of The Great War
Isaac Blacksin (UC Santa Cruz, PhD Student)
Senseless Encounter, Immutable Sense: The Contradictions of Reporting War
4.45 - 6pm KEYNOTE
Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Professor)
A Soldier Killed in the First World War
