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shenbuvTel Aviv University
Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity December 18-19, 2013
The Office of the Vice President
The Lester and Sally Entin School of Humanities
The Cohn Institute for the History of the Philosophy of Science and Ideas
The Philosophy Department
The Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinemathèques
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies
The Minerva Institute for German History
The English and American Studies Department
present
Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity
A two-day international conference
Day 1. December 18 2013 (Gilman room 496)
9:30-10:00 Registration
Section I. 10:00-11:30
Opening Remarks: Alberto Gabriele, English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University
Panel Chair: Gal Harz, Institute for German Studies, Tel Aviv University
James M. Brophy, University of Delaware and American Academy in Berlin, “Ironic Sensationalism: Popular Print Culture and Modern Political Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Germany”
Lee Michael-Berger, Tel Aviv University, “Hilarious Homicides: Humorous Representations of Murder in Comical Periodicals, Music Hall and Theatrical Comedies and Burlesques, London 1880-1914”
Annemone Ligensa, University of Cologne, “Shocking Pleasures: Sensationalism in Germany and Britain around 1900”
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
Section II. 12:00:13:00 Panel Chair: Evgenia Katz, School of Cultural Studies and French Studies, Tel Aviv University
Mary Ellen Kappler, Humberton College, Toronto, “Sensationalism and Fin de Siècle Documentary Realism”
Gregory Shaya, The College of Wooster, “Mayhem and Modernity: Violent Sensationalism in the French Mass Press of the Late Nineteenth Century”
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Section III. 14:30-16:00 Panel Chair: Lee Michael Berger, School of Historical Studies, TAU
Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “London as the Capital of Modernity: Walking the Streets with Charles Dickens”
Efrat Pashut, Tel Aviv University, "Urban Perils and the Sensational Bicycle: Textual and Visual Narratives in Cycling, 1892-96"
Stefanie Lethbridge, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, “The Horror of Clothing and the Clothing of Horror: Material and Meaning in the Gothic and Sensation Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century”
Section IV. 16:00-17:00 Panel Chair: Barbara Hochman, Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University
Amy Garnai, Tel Aviv University and Kibbutzim College, “From Revolutionary Comedy to Melodrama: Thomas Holcroft’s The Road to Ruin in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin, "Melodrama, Modernity, and the Transatlantic Stage"
Day 2 December 19, 2013 (Gilman room 133)
Section V. 10:00-12:00
Panel Chairs:
Ruth Amossy, French Studies, and Analysis of Discourse, Argumentation and Rhetoric, TAU;
Elana Gomel, English and American Studies, TAU
Presentation of the International Research Association for the Study of Popular Literature and Media Culture, Prof Jacques Migozzi, executive president
Jacques Migozzi, University of Limoges, “From Zigomar to Fantômas : Two Geniuses of Crime, Two Symbols of the Sensationalist Charms of Transmedial Popular Fiction in the Belle Époque Period”
Federico Pagello, Queen’s University Belfast, “Visual Narratives before Cinema: The Wordless Comics of the 1880s”
Katharina Rein, Humboldt University, Berlin, “Burned Alive and Sawed in Half! Sensationalist Magic Tricks in the early 20th Century”
12:00-1:30 lunch break
Section VI 1:30-3:00 Panel Chair: Efraim Sicher, Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Eli Friedlander, Philosophy, TAU, "Sense, Sensibility and the Sensational in Benjamin's Reading of Baudelaire"
Anat Messing Marcus, Cohn Institute, TAU, “Spatiality and Temporality in Benjamin and Adorno”
Katherine Boyce-Jacino, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University “‘To the Planetarium:’ Astronomical Spectacle in the Modern City”
3:00-3:30 coffee break
Section VII. 3:30-5:00 Panel Chair: Sonia Weiner, English and American Studies, TAU
Geertjan de Vugt – Tilburg University, the Netherlands, “Baudelaire’s Spheroid: on the Politics of Harmony”
James Glisson, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, “William James’s Theory of Art”
Ester Coen, Art History, Universitá dell’Aquila, “Urban Metaphysics: the Immaterial Objectivity in De Chirico’s Squares”
Day 3. December 20, 2013
Closing Event: 10 p.m. Tel Aviv Cinemathèque
Screening of Amerikanka [The Jobbing Press] (76’) Dir.: Leonard Esakya. Screenplay: Viktor Shklovsky with Giorgi Mdivani, and Giorgi Sturua, 1930.
http://www.cinema.co.il/movies/movie.aspx?movieId=10539
