Convenors: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter and Dr. Ivan Stacy
4 - 6 June 2023
Technical University of Dresden: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Seminar room 9.2, Lingnerplatz 1, 01069 Dresden
Sunday, 4 June 2023
19:30 Symposium Warming
Monday, 5 June 2023
09:00-09:15 Symposium opening
09:15-10:30 Keynote: Kim Johnson (former Director of the Carnival Insitute of Trinidad and Tobago)
Resistance is Futile
10:45-12:15 Panel 1: Writing and Reading Complicity
Stephanie Bird (University College London)
Who are you? Complicity and the Second Person in Yishai Sarid’s The Memory Monster (2017) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Bory (2018)
Jerrine Tan (City University of Hong Kong)
Prosopopoeia, Silence, and Complicity in the Global Afterlives of Lolita: Chang-Rae Lee‘s A Gesture Life and Ruth Ozeki‘s A Tale for the Time Being
Lena Seauve (FU Berlin)
Complicity and the Emotionalization of the Reader in Fictional Texts about the Military Dictatorship in Chile and Argentina
13:45-15:15 Panel 2: Systemic Complicities and Structures of Power
Ali Ahmadi (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)
Complicity and Economic Sanctions
Bryant Scott (Texas A&M, Qatar)
Beneficiaries, the World-System, and Distant Suffering: Thinking through Complicity with Mohsin Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Nuruddin Farah‘s Crossbones
Rebecca Finkel (Queen Mary University of London)
Complicities in Experiential
Environments: Approaches to Inclusion and Diversity in Critical Event Studies
15:30-17:00 Panel 3: Colonialism and its Legacies
Jarula Wegner (Zhejiang University)
Implicated in Imperial Intimacies: Questions of Power in the Reparations Movement
Jeremy Ekberg (Fort Hayes State University)
History Commodified: Complicity, Colonialism and Simulacra in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul and Julian Barnes
Mary Grace D. Arcigal (FEU Institute of Technology)
The Reproduction of Norms as a Disguised Form of Resilience and the Complicity in the Present: Revisiting the Impacts of Typhoon Yolanda in the Phillipines through Selected Poems and Photographs in Agam
17:00-17:15 Day 1 closing remarks
19:30 Symposium dinner
Tuesday, 6 June 2023
09:00-10:15 Keynote: Cathal Ó Gabhann (former humanitarian aid worker)
Complicity with the Taliban: how should aid agencies respond to increasing restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan?
10:30-11:20 Panel 4a: Chinese Contexts I
Ronald Torrance (Sino-British College, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
Complicity and Compromise: A Case Study of Three Contemporary Chinese Writers
Emma Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Grassroots Complicity in Silencing Dissent: The Wuhan Diaries Controversy
11:30-12:30 Panel 4b: Chinese Contexts II
Li Yuanyuan (Beijing Normal University)
Envy and Complicity:
The Green-eyed Monster in the Cultural Revolution, Slavery, and Post-Holocaust Era
Judith Neder (Technical University of Dresden)
‚The Necessity of Violence‘ – Complicity with and Resistance against Empire in Rebecca Kuang’s Babel
14:00-15:30 Panel 5: Japanese Contexts
Motoko Sugano (Tsurumi University)
Hesitation and Hindsight: The Japanese TV Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World
Mohor Chakraborty (South Calcutta Girls’ College)
War, Women and War Crime: Tracing Complicity and Seeking Humanitarian Redress
Ngoi Hui Chien (University of Malaya)
Complicity and Hibakusha Victimhood: The Representation of the (In)secure Self in Jackie Copleton’s A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
15:45-17:15 Panel 6: Dictatorship and Totalitarianism
Will Norman (University of Kent)
Sartre, Arendt and the Organization of Guilt
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Inner Freedom: The Complicity of Dissent with its Repression
Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU Munich)
Memory, Politics and Complicity in Eastern Europe
17:15-18:00 Closing Discussion
19:30 Dinner
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