Stanford Humanities Center
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th
4-4:30pm 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 eesthetics
11-11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30am-12:45pm – KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jay Winter (Yale University, Emeritus Professor), All the Things We Cannot Hear: Silences of the Great War
12:45-2pm - LUNCH BREAK
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
4:30-4:45pm - COFFEE BREAK
4:45-6pm - KEYNOTE
Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Professor), A Soldier Killed in the First World War
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