At the Crossroads of Magic and Positivism: Walter Benjamin and
Anthropology
1-3 September 2009, Worcester College, Oxford
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Programme
At the Crossroads of Magic and Positivism: Walter Benjamin and
Anthropology
1-3 September 2009, Worcester College, Oxford
Tuesday 1 September
1.45 Registration
2.00 Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan (Oxford): Welcome
2.30-4.00 Session 1: Ethnology and Religion
Michael Jennings (Princeton): Syncretism: Benjamin, Religion,
Anthropology
Nicola Gess (FU Berlin): Benjamin's ‘Primitivism’? Berliner Kindheit
in the
Context
of Early Twentieth-Century Ethnology and Child Psychology
4.00 Coffee break
4.30-6.00 Session 2: Anthropological Materialism
Marc Berdet (Sorbonne): The Ragpicker’s Anthropological Materialism
Meike Schmidt-Gleim (Alessandria): The Revolution is Man-Made
Paola Ferruta (Bielefeld): The Pros and Cons of the Flesh: Carnal
Knowledge
and Subversive Gender Anthropology
Wednesday 2 September
9.00-11.00 Session 3: Media Theory
Brigid Doherty (Princeton): Daß alles Wahrgenommene, Sinnenfällige ein
uns
Zustoßendes ist: A ‘Formel der Traumwahrnehmung’ in Walter’s Benjamin’s
Theorization of the Work of Art
Sabine Müller (Oxford): Von der ‘Kunst, ohne Anführungszeichen zu
zitieren’:
Tensions in Walter Benjamin's Anthropologic Materialism
Mladen Gladic (Princeton): Education without Ends
11.00 Coffee break
11.30-1.00 Session 4: Dance and Movement
Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin): Gehen und Tanzen: Zu einer
Anthropologie
der Bewegung in der Moderne
Gustav Frank (LMU Munich): Benjamin’s Anthropological Gaze: On Dancing
Bodies and Moving Letters
1.00 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 5: Language
Sabine I. Gölz (Iowa): Language as ‘Non-Sensuous Archive’: Walter
Benjamin’s
Linguistic Anthropology
Juliane Prade (Frankfurt): Distinguishing Mimesis: Poetic Language and
the
Anthropological Distinction in Aristotle and Benjamin
4.00 Coffee break
4.30-6.00 Session 6: Materialism and Ideology
Sami Khatib (FU Berlin): Walter Benjamins trans-materialistischer
Materialismus
Blair Ogden (Oxford): Cycles, Lines and Exceptions: Elucidating the
Ideology of
Progress in ‘On the Concept of History’
7.30 Conference dinner
Wednesday 3 September
9.00-10.30 Session 7: Photography
Katja Haustein (Cambridge): Cool Conduct? Benjamin’s Aesthetic Self in
the
Face of Photography
Mareike Stoll (Princeton): Empty Places: Tat-Orte in Benjamin’s
Photographic
Anthropology
10.30 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Session 8: Literature and Gesture
Gerhard Neumann (LMU Munich/FU Berlin): Das Wissen vom Menschen:
Erlesen.
Walter Benjamins anthropologische Kafka-Lektüre
Tony Phelan (Oxford): tbc
12.30-1.00 Closing discussion
1.00 Lunch
Organised by:
Carolin Duttlinger ([log in to unmask])
Ben Morgan ([log in to unmask])
Tony Phelan ([log in to unmask])
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