THURSDAY, 10/12/17
UC BERKELEY, DWINELLE HALL, ROOM 370

10.00
Chenxi Tang (Berkeley):
Reading: Hölderlin, Stimme des Volks

11.30
Coffee break

11.45
Jonas Teupert (UC Berkeley):
„Atemzug der deutschen Freiheit.” Germania’s Voices in Kleist’s Nationalist Newspaper Projects

12.30
Lunch Break

14.00
Saein Park (UC Santa Cruz):
Bilder des Volkes: Heinrich Heine’s Literary Critique of the Ideas of Volk and Volksgeschichte

14.45
Marius Reisener (HU Berlin):
In the Name of the Brother: Rhetorics of Masculinity and Fraternity in the 2016 US Election

15.30
Coffee break

16.00
Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley):
Reading: Kafka, Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer and Tadhg O'Sullivan The Great Wall

17.30
Break

19.15
Poetry Reading with Geoffrey O'Brien und Rusty Morrison, University Press Books (2430 Bancroft Way)

FRIDAY, 10/13/17
UC BERKELEY, DWINELLE HALL, ROOM 370

10.00
Niklaus Largier (UC Berkeley):
Reading: Siegfried Kracauer, Die Angestellten. Aus dem neusten Deutschland

11.30
Coffee break

11.45
Aurelia Cojocaru (UC Berkeley):
Poetry and the Crises of Ideology in the 1970s

12.30
Lunch Break

14.00
Sören Brandes (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin):
The State, the Market, the People. Neoliberal Populism in the TV Series Free to Choose and Yes Minister

14.45
Kumars Salehi (UC Berkeley):
Montage as protest and pedagogy in Kluge’s The Patriot

15.30
Coffee break

16.00
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Anatol Heller (HU Berlin):
„Contract with the people“: on a peculiar populist strategy

16.45
Burkhardt Wolf (HU Berlin):
The common sense of populism