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CONF: Playing False: Representations of Betrayal, Lincoln College, Oxford, Sept. 16-17, 2011 *With apologies for cross-postings* Please find below the programme for the upcoming interdisciplinary conference "Playing False: Representations of Betrayal" at Lincoln College, Oxford, September 16-17, 2011. For conference details and registration please visit the following website: http://www.linc.ox.ac.uk/index.php?page=Betrayal+Event+Info Please note: The deadline for lunch registration has been extended to the 6th of September. Registration fee can be paid by cheque, transfer, or in cash upon arrival. £25 or £20 (for students). Contact: [log in to unmask] CONFERENCE PROGRAMME All sessions held in Lincoln’s EPA Science Centre, Museum Road, Oxford, OX1 3PX FRIDAY, 16.9.2011 1:30pm – 2:15 Welcome, Registration 2:15pm –2:30 Opening Remarks PANEL 1: BETRAYAL – POLITICS AND THEOLOGY KEYNOTE 2:30pm – 3:15 Prof. Horst-Jürgen Gerigk: Towards a Theory of Betrayal: Knut Hamsun, Arthur Koestler, and Ezra Pound (Heidelberg) 3:15pm – 3:45 Dr Ute Wölfel: Between the Lines: Betrayal and the Masquerade of Freedom (Reading) 3:45pm – 4:15 Dr Constance Goh: Aesthetics and Politics in Kishi’s and Borges’s Labyrinths (Nagoya University, Japan) 4:15pm – 4:45 Discussion 4:45pm – 5:15 Coffee Break 5:15pm – 5:45 Prof. Eric Dodson-Robinson: “By a Brother’s Hand”: Betrayal and Brotherhood in Shakespeare and Seneca (West Chester) 5:45pm – 6:15 Joachim Harst: (Per)versions of Judas (Bonn) 6:15pm – 6:45 Discussion SATURDAY, 17.9.2011 PANEL 2: ETHICAL FIELDS OF BETRAYAL KEYNOTE 10:30am – 11:15 Prof. Ritchie Robertson: Schiller, Machiavelli, and the Ethics of Betrayal (Oxford) 11:15am – 11:45 Dr Betiel Wasihun: Eth(n)ical Betrayal: Kleist’s "Betrothal in St. Domingo" and Roth’s "The Human Stain" (Oxford) 11:45am – 12:15 Dr Bernd Blaschke: The Multiple Betrayals in Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fake Holocaust-Memories "Bruchstücke" (FU Berlin, Languages of Emotion) 12:15pm – 12:45 Discussion Lunch 1pm – 2 2pm – 2:30 Sarah Pines: Paranoia as Projection: Jealousy in Chabrol’s "L’Enfer" (Stanford) 2:30pm – 3 Anne Julia Fett: Aesthetic Manifestations of (Self-)Betrayal in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s "In a Year with 13 Moons" (Bergamo) 3pm – 3:30 Discussion 3:30pm – 4 Coffee Break PANEL 3: MASKS OF BETRAYAL 4pm – 4:30 Kristina Mendicino: Lunacy – Betrayal by Moonlight in Hegel and Aristophanes (Yale/Frankfurt a. M.) 4:30pm – 5 Anna Elizabeth Henke: Sound and Unsound Advice: Unveiling Walter Benjamin’s Umlaut (Yale) 5pm – 5:20 Discussion 5:20pm – 5:30 Break 5:30pm – 6:00 Gillian Granville Bentley: An Ancient Othello in Chariton’s "Callirhoe" (King’s College, London) 6pm – 6:30 Felisa Baynes: Ambages and Double Visages: The Meaning of Betrayal in Chaucer’s "Troilus and Criseyde" (Fordham University, New York City) 6:30pm – 6:50 Discussion 7:15pm Dinner at Balliol College, Old Common Room (Conference Panelists only) Convenors: Dr Betiel Wasihun and Kristina Mendicino