32nd Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference ‘Beauty and Artifice’

Time: - 2:00 PMDate: Location: Zoom

Speaker: Moshtari Hilal

We would like to invite you to attend the 32nd Annual Berkeley Graduate student organized Interdisciplinary German Studies conference “Beauty & Artifice,” which will take place Friday, March 8th and Saturday, March 9th.
 
The keynote with author and artist Moshtari Hilal on March 7th 11-12:30 PM is organized in collaboration with the Archives of Migration series.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Beauty & Artifice”

32nd Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference

March 7-9, 2024 (Online)

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Zoom Meeting ID 975 2029 4528

 

Keynote: March 7, 2024

11:00-12:30 PST / 20:00-21:30 MEZ

“Ugliness as Political Construct” w/ Moshtari Hilal

Moderated by Lilla Balint and Be Schierenberg

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(Hosted by the Archives of Migration Series) 

 

Day One: Friday, March 8, 2024

 

10:00-10:10 PST / 19:00-19:10 MEZ

Introductory Remarks by Kayla van Kooten, Be Schierenberg, & Elizabeth Sun 

 

10:10-11:40 PST  / 19:10-20:40 MEZ

Panel 1: Staging Beauty

Commentator: Nicholas Baer

Moderator: Molly Krueger

  • Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso (Kunstverein Brackenheim) – Zwischen Anpassung und Rebellion. Schönheit und Künstlichkeit im Künstlerinnenselbstporträt
  • Dominik Baumgarten (University of Cologne) – Concepts of (Staged) Beauty in Autobiographies of Showgirls
  • Sean Lambert (UC Berkeley) – Cinema & Suspension of Aesthetic Judgment

 

11:40-12:00 PST / 20:40-21:00 MEZ

Break

 

12:10-1:40 PST / 21:10-22:40 MEZ

Panel 2: Conceptions of Beauty

Commentator: Karen Feldman

Moderator: Kayla van Kooten

  • Lina Uzukauskaite (University of Salzburg) – Das Schöne und die Artifizialität in den Erzählungen von Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Ioannis Dimopulos (Brown University) – Mehr oder weniger. Adornos Anthropomorphismus und die Dialektik des Naturschönen
  • Baharak Beizaei (Princeton University) – Mortification of Works: Benjamin and Kant on the Artifice of Beauty

 

Day Two: Saturday, March 9, 2024

 

10:00-11:30 PST / 19:00-20:30 MEZ

Panel 3: Beauty Ideals

Commentator: Jeroen Dewulf

Moderator: Ambika Athreya

  • Kate McGregor (University of New Brunswick) – How do I become beautiful? and how do I get my beauty?’ The Preservation of Whiteness in German South West Africa, 1884-1914
  • Lore Knapp (Bielefeld University) – Das Schöne im britischen Empirismus und seiner deutschsprachigen Rezeption
  • Sophia Weltman (UCLA) – Skims and Second Skin

 

11:30-12:00 PST / 20:30-21:00 MEZ

Break

 

12:00-1:30 PST / 21:00-22:30 MEZ

Panel 4: Beauty & Ephemerality

Commentator: Chenxi Tang

Moderator: Andrew Blough

  • Pauline Julia Preisler (University of Bonn & University of St. Andrews) – Staging the beautiful soul. Beauty and performativity in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen
  • Agnieszka Sowa (Jagiellonian University) – Schönheit und Form in Mosebach’s “Häresie der Formlosigkeit”
  • Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) – Ephemerality of Beauty and the Quest for Love and Happiness in Medieval German Literature

 

1:30-1:40 PST / 22:30-22:40 MEZ

Closing Remarks