DFG-Network Complicity:

Enfoldings and Unfoldings

Convenor: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter

4 - 5 November 2022

Technical University of Dresden: Klemperer-Saal, Sächsische Landes-, Staats-, und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden

Thursday, 3 November 2022

18:30 Conference Warming

Friday, 4 November 2022

10:00-10:15 Opening

10:15-11:30 Gregory Mellema (Calvin College, Michigan)
Enabling and Facilitating Harm

11:45-13:00 John Storey (University of Sunderland)
Darkness on the Edge of Mansfield Park: Slavery, Complicity, and the Return of the Repressed

14:00-15:15 Jan Dammel (University of Potsdam)
The Affective Dimensions of Complicity

15:30-16:45 Sue Vice (University of Sheffield)
Revisiting Modernity‘s ‘Soliciting the Victims‘ Cooperation’:
Zygmunt Bauman, Claude Lanzmann and the Outtakes of
Shoah

17:00-18:15 Mark Sanders (New York University)
Complicity and Conspiracy: Schreber’s Accusation

20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 5 November 2022

09:00-10:15 Ivan Stacy (Beijing Normal University)
Alignment and the Rhetoric of Complicity in Post-9/11 Fiction

10:30-11:45 Ronja Waldherr (RWTH Aachen)
Resilient Nation: Neoliberal Utopianism and (Black) Feminist Complicity in Evaristo‘s Girl, Woman, Other

12:00-13:15 Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Oppositional Lifestyles, Self-Help and Complicity

14:15-15:30 Eli Teram (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Ambiguous Complicity in Social Work Practice and the Movie The Club

15:45-17:00 Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University)
Partners in Crime: American Movies on Systemic Complicity

17:15-18:30 Florian Cord (Technical University of Dresden)
Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene

20:00 Dinner

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