DFG-Network Complicity:
Enfoldings and Unfoldings
Convenor: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
4 – 5 November 2022
Technical University Dresden
Venue: Sächsische Landes-, Staats-, und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB) / Klemperer-Saal
3 November 2022
18:30 Conference Warming at Ristorante Da Franco (Weberplatz 3, 01217 Dresden; top floor of the guesthouse)
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 at Der Schwan An der Frauenkirche 13, 01067 Dresden
5 November 2022
9:00–10:15 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 | Technische Universität Dresden
‘Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene’
20:00 Dinner at Planwirtschaft Louisenstraße 20, 01099 Dresden