Alexander Kluge: New Perspectives on Creative Arts and Critical Practice
A.D. White House
October 11-13, 2018 at Cornell University’s A.D. White House
Organized by: Leslie A. Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies
SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
4:30pm: Opening Remarks & Welcome Organizer Leslie A. Adelson (Ithaca)
4:45pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Michael W. Jennings (Princeton) Untimely Interventions: Alexander Kluge & the German Media Landscape
6pm: RECEPTION
7:30pm: Experimental Minute Films by Alexander Kluge (2018) discussants Erik Born & Sabine Haenni CORNELL CINEMA, Willard Straight Theatre
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
9am: Alan Beyerchen (Portland) Kluge and Clausewitz: Chance & Imagination in the Real World respondent: Max Pensky (Binghamton)
10:15am: Alexander Kluge (Munich remote) & Kevin Ernste (Ithaca) The Music of History, the Polyphony of Things a conversation inspired by The Temple of the Scapegoat (2018)
11:30am: Ross Etherton (Wooster) Interrupting the War Machine / respondent: Suman Seth (Ithaca)
12:30pm: LUNCH Film available for lunchtime viewing: A. Kluge, On Differences in Speaking: 20 Examples (2016)
2pm: Alexander Kluge (Munich remote) “Theory like swimming in the storm” co-moderators Leslie A. Adelson & Richard Langston (Chapel Hill)
4pm: Hans Jürgen Scheuer (Berlin) Tricksterprosa: Alexander Kluges apokryphes Erzählen respondent: Erik Born (Ithaca)
5pm: Dorothea Walzer (Bochum) Marx as a Model and Question: Alexander Kluge’s Critical Inquiries respondent: Paul Fleming (Ithaca)
8pm: Ben Lerner (New York City) The Snows of Venice: The Lerner-Kluge Container literary reading and discussion moderated by Devin Fore (Princeton)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
9am: Erik Porath (Berlin) Alexander Kluge: Text & Bild—eine unendliche Beziehung respondent: Patrizia C. McBride (Ithaca)
10am: Sabine Haenni (Ithaca) Time Lapse: Preliminary Notes on Alexander Kluge & City Symphonies respondent: Esra Akcan (Ithaca)
11:30am: Juan-Jacques Aupiais (Ithaca) Alexander Kluge’s Parallel Globalizations: Other Places, Other Lives, Writing Otherwise respondent: Brett de Bary (Ithaca)
12:30pm: LUNCH
2pm: Tara Hottman (Berkeley) Kluge’s Installations respondent: Richard Langston (Chapel Hill)
3pm: Ulrike Vedder (Berlin) Musealisierung und Vergegenwärtigung: Alexander Kluges Museumskonstellationen respondent: Annetta Alexandridis (Ithaca)
4:30pm: Alexis Radisoglou (Oxford) (Anti-)Realism for the Anthropocene: Kluge’s Political Aesthetic for the 21st Century respondent: Matthew Miller (Colgate in Hamilton)
5:30pm: Concluding roundtable with Devin Fore, Susan Buck-Morss (New York City), Richard Langston, and Leslie Adelson