DAY ONE
17 SEPTEMBER – 13.30 – 14.30 : OPENING
17 SEPTEMBER — 14.30 – 16.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
Maria Enrica Giannuzzi -The Cosmic, the Catastrophic and the Melancholic. Walter Benjamin and the Styles of Mourning (EN)
Francisco Naishat – The Folds of the Idea of Natural History from Monadology to the Unconsciousness (EN)
Jakub Gorecki – Between Trauerspiel and Arcades Project: Allegory, Commodity and Unleashing of Affective Energies (EN)
PANEL 4 – POROSITY, MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURES, PASSAGES
Dario Gentili (Università di Roma Tre) – Maria Teresa Costa (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Nélio Conceição – Sobriety and Spielraum. Conceptual Passages in the Wake of Benjamin’s Travels to Southern Europe (EN)
Jeremy Rafuse – From Naples to Paris. Benjamin building a Poetic Sensibility (EN)
Gabriele Gallina – Paris, Naples and Berlin through the Mirror of Moscow (IT)
Markus Hennig – The Masses in Naples. About the Crisis of Experience and the Possibility of its Overcoming (EN)
PANEL 7 – CITY IMAGES AND TENDER EMPIRICISM
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Caroline Adler – «Incidentally, I found it surprisingly easy to extract the city images from Moscow».
Hans-Christian Riechers – Peter Szondi’s Editorial Practice of Walter Benjamin’s Städtebilder (1963) (EN)
Elliott Niblock – What has Ibiza to do with Moscow? ob Stadt oder Strand, «Alles faktische schon Theorie» (EN)
16.00 – 16.30 : COFFEE BREAK
17 SEPTEMBER — 16.30 – 18.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
José Rufino Belmonte Carrasco – Physiognomy of Decadence. A Related View of Melancholy in Gracián and Benjamin (IT)
Chiara Vita – The Mourning and Melancholy of Nature (IT)
Andrea Prizia – «Betray the world for the sake of knowledge». Prologues and Melancholy in Walter Benjamin (IT)
PANEL 4 – POROSITY, MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURES, PASSAGES
Dario Gentili (Università di Roma Tre) – Maria Teresa Costa (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
César Adolfo Arceo-Arévalo – Residual Modernity. A Dialogue between Gómez de la Serna and Benjamin (EN)
Antonio Cerquitelli – The “Use” of Urban Spaces. A Comparison between Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau (EN)
Vincenzo Cerulli – Technological Porosity: on the Endless Re-combinatorial Possibilities of the Digital Editing (EN)
PANEL 7 – BRAZILIAN BENJAMIN
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Marc Berdet – Walter Benjamin in Brasilia. A Dormant City-Image (EN)
Patricia Andrade – The Drone as a Body in the City of São Paulo (IT)
Theo Fellows – Benjamin and Decolonial Studies (EN)
18.00 – 18.30 : COFFEE BREAK
18.30 – 19.30 : KEYNOTE SPEECH
Carolin Duttlinger, Daniel Weidner, Sophia Buck – “DENN FERTIGGEMACHT UND ABGESCHLOSSEN WIRD NICHTS”: BENJAMIN’S JOURNALISM IN CONTEXT (EN)
DAY TWO
18 SEPTEMBER — 09.30 – 11.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
Klaus Mladek – Traurigkeit and Justice. Towards a Politics of Melancholia (GER)
Johannes Waßmer – Melancholy, Script and Typeface. On a Constellation in Walter Benjamin (GER)
Sebastian Kugler – The Popular Southern Counterpart to the Erudite Trauerspiel of the North (GER)
PANEL 2 – REVOLUTION, UPRISING, MATERIALISM, MARXISM
Leonardo Distaso (Università di Napoli Federico II) – Chiara Giorgi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Florian Telsnig - The Unconscious of Revolution. On Benjamin and Marx (EN)
Andrea Messner – Progress vs. Progress. Walter Benjamin’s Twofold Intervention (EN)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre), Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa)
Sebastian Truskolaski – The Centre of All Relations. Figuring Political Community with Walter Benjamin and Friedrich Hölderlin (EN)
Hannah Sabrina Hübner – The Force of Humanity towards Redemption. Reading Walter Benjamin’s Theological-Political Fragment (EN)
Georgy Layus – From Divine Violence to Allegory. Tracing the Transformation of the Concept from 1921 to 1925 (EN)
PANEL 4 – POROSITY, MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURES, PASSAGES
Dario Gentili (Università di Roma Tre) – Maria Teresa Costa (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Valentín Díaz – Dialectics of Poverty. Porosity and Tension in Architectural Matter (EN)
Volker Bernhard – Porosity and Subjectivity. Dwelling as Catastrophe and Transformative Power (EN)
Antonio Roselli – On the Hidden Virtues of Porosity. From Walter Benjamin to Giancarlo de Carlo (and beyond) (IT)
11.00 – 11.30 : COFFEE BREAK
18 SEPTEMBER — 11.30 – 13.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
Steen Knudsen – «Beyond the Mourning Principle». Benjamin and Nostalgia (EN)
Alex Wai-Lok – Melancholy as Device of Thought. On Benjamin’s Trauerspiel Study (EN)
Francesco Simoncini – Languages of Inconsolability (EN)
PANEL 2 – REVOLUTION, UPRISING, MATERIALISM, MARXISM
Leonardo Distaso (Università di Napoli Federico II) – Chiara Giorgi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Chiara De Cosmo – Benjamin’s Traces and the Image of Revolutionary Uprising (EN)
Karolina Jesién – Walter Benjamin and the Popular Front. Universal Emancipation against the Politics of Reconciliation (EN)
Rolando Vitali – Art without Creation and Power without Decision. Revolution and the Critic of Aesthetic Forms in Walter Benjamin (EN)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre), Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa)
Leonardo Arigone – The Story of a Typical Friendship. Auerbach and Benjamin (IT)
Fulvio Rambaldini – Celebrating the Past. The Festival as Revolutionary Memory (EN)
Angelica Rocca - ”Heretic Benjamin”. Figures of Apocatastasis in German Baroque Drama (IT)
PANEL 4 – POROSITY, MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURES, PASSAGES
Dario Gentili (Università di Roma Tre) – Maria Teresa Costa (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Thomas Regehly – Katastrophen-Kompetenz. Walter Benjamin und die Ruinen Pompeijis (GER)
Sabine Schiller-Lerg – In merkwürdiger Verfassung. Walter Benjamins Gang durch Pompeiji (GER)
Christopher Johnson – Porous Metaphorics in Naples and Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (EN)
13.00 – 14.00 : LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30 : PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
“NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES” AND “WALTER. BENJAMIN & CO.”
18 SEPTEMBER — 14.30 – 16.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
Stefano Marchesoni - Collapsing Modernity. On Walter Benjamin’s Subversive Idea of Ruins (EN)
Turkuaz Benlioglu – A Counterpoint to Melancholy. Concerning Two Figures of the Sun in Benjamin (EN)
Garris Rogonyan – Childhood and Homesickness. Walter Benjamin and Stanley Cavell on Language and Forms of Life (EN)
PANEL 2 – REVOLUTION, UPRISING, MATERIALISM, MARXISM
Leonardo Distaso (Università di Napoli Federico II) – Chiara Giorgi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Anna Nutini – The «greatest humorist» and the «teacher of satire». Benjamin, Brecht and the Art of Dialectic (IT)
Silvia Lorusso – From the Stage Audience to the Class Struggle. Cultural Production, Hegemony and Political Praxis in Benjamin and Brecht (EN)
Caterina Diotto – Asja and the Others. Images of the Revolutionary Feminine in Walter Benjamin’s writings (IT)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre)
Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa)
Nicolas Rault – Effectiveness of Language and Historicity of Knowledge. Reflections on Walter Benjamin’s Early Ethics through the Lens of a Letter to Buber (July 1916) and notes on Trauerspiel (EN)
Noa Levin – Benjamin and Deleuze on Baroque, Mannerism and El-Greco (EN)
Flavio Luzi, Francesco Giuseppe Trotta – Friedlaender’s Indifferenz aller Polarität. About a Neglected Source of Benjaminian Dialectics (EN)
16.00 – 16.30 : COFFEE BREAK
18 SEPTEMBER — 16.30 – 18.00
PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY
Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
Omer Oushia – Adam and the Prostitute. The Primacy of Listening in Walter Benjamin’s Early Conception of Language (EN)
Xiaoyao Guo – Constellating Melancholy. Star Media in Warburg’s Heidnisch-antike Weissagung and Benjamin’s Trauerspiel (EN)
Susanna Kampff Lages – On the Translator’s Melancholy and Luciferine Usurpation.
Haroldo de Campos and Walter Benjamin’s Transcreative Interpreter (EN)
PANEL 2 – REVOLUTION, UPRISING, MATERIALISM, MARXISM
Leonardo Distaso (Università di Napoli Federico II) – Chiara Giorgi (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Isabel Jacobs – Morphological Materialism. Benjamin and Bogdanov reading Goethe in Capri (EN)
Jaime Cuenca – The Critic as Producer. Violence and the Task of a Materialist Criticism in Walter Benjamin (EN)
Clemens-Carl Härle – Benjamin on Haltung (EN)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY, MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre)
Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa)
Minseok Kim – The Spatialization of the Temporal. Benjamin’s Concept of Secularization in the Origin of the German Trauerspiel (EN)
Santhia Velasco Kittlaus – Becoming Jewish. Benjamin’s Turn towards the Messianic Now (EN)
Anna Migliorini – State of Exception as Threshold (EN)
18.00 – 18.30 : COFFEE BREAK
18.30 – 19.30 : KEYNOTE SPEECH
ENZO TRAVERSO – WALTER BENJAMIN AND/FROM THE SOUTH (EN)
DAY THREE
19 SEPTEMBER — 09. 30 – 11. 00
PANEL 3 – PLAY, THEATRE, CHILDHOOD’S LITERATURE
Marina Montanelli (Università di Firenze) – Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)
Jeanne Marie Gagnebin – Spielraum, Poverty, South (EN)
Ludovica Picchi – Play as δύναμις of the Benjaminian Utopia (IT)
Rossana Menghini – Figures of the Threshold and Spaces of Play. The Phenomenon of the Neapolitan Femminielli investigated through Benjaminian Lenses (IT)
PANEL 6 – PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM, CAPITALISM, MODERNITY
Elettra Stimilli (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Barbara Chitussi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Elena Albanese – Desolation and Pomposity between Lutheranism, Paganism and Capitalism (IT)
Lorenzo Mizzau – «Theological Niceties». Walter Benjamin and the Warensprache between Allegory and Phantasmagoria (IT)
Valentina Napolitano – Benjamin’s Addolorata (IT)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY AND MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre), Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Luigi Casolino – Porous Sounds, Petrified Landscapes. Aesthetic Forms of Repetition in Benjamin and Adorno’s Philosophies of Music (EN)
Gregor Schäfer- The Revolution and its Rest. On the Time and the History of Revolution in Benjamin (EN)
Ludmila Fuks – Epistemological Rhythms. Walter Benjamin between Myth, Tragedy and Messianism (EN)
PANEL 7 – WALTER BENJAMIN AND MARSEILLE
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Robert Krause – Of Seals or Phoenicians? Exploring Benjamin’s Marseille (EN)
Pavel Arsenev – The Wind and Ruins. Marseille Pre-text of one Popular Apocalyptic Image (EN)
Sajjad Lohi – «Similia similibus curantur»? Benjamin, Freud and the Experience of a Self-Analysis without a Self (IT)
11.00 – 11.30 : COFFEE BREAK
19 SEPTEMBER — 11.30 – 13.00
PANEL 3 – THEATRE AND CHILDHOOD’S LITERATURE
Marina Montanelli (Università di Firenze) – Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)
Everet Smith – On Childhood and the Productive (Un)conscious (EN)
Nina Rabuza – Ungebremste Erfahrung. Walter Benjamin’s Pedagogy of Play (EN)
Carmen Guarino – Ablenkung, Zerstreuung. At the Threshold of «die kleine Pforte» (EN)
PANEL 6 – PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM, CAPITALISM, MODERNITY
Elettra Stimilli (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Barbara Chitussi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Vinsent Nollet – From Heidelberg to Capri. Benjamin’s Sociological Enquiries into the Demonic Life of Money (EN)
Yu-jin Chang – Capitalism and Original Sin in Benjamin (EN)
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg – Inflationary Notes as Method (EN)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY AND MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre) Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Mikel Molano – The Court of History : Sovereignty, Justice and Death. Towards a New Grammar of History (EN)
Monika Tokarzewska – The Question of the Preconditions for Political Agency in Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History (GER)
Piero Carreras – Historiography as Criticism of Myth. Jesi and Carchia Readers of Benjamin (EN)
PANEL 7 – THE STYLE OF THE SOUTH
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Agata Kobylska – Journey Through Style. City Images and Walter Benjamin’s Style Evolution (EN)
Juliana Lugão – Scenes of Remembering, Traces of Forgetting. The Visual and the Acoustic in Benjamin’s Berlin Texts (EN)
Tom Vandeputte – «A New Deluge». Nature and History in Benjamin’s Images of Mitteleuropa and Pompeii (EN)
13.00 – 14.30 : LUNCH
19 SEPTEMBER — 14. 30 – 16. 00
PANEL 6 – PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM, CAPITALISM, MODERNITY
Elettra Stimilli (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Barbara Chitussi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Andrés Arce González – The Forlorn Angel’s Thesis. Outlining a Baroque Eschatology (EN)
Stephanie Graf – Anachronic Modernities, Parasitic Temporalities : the Theological-Political Constellation of Walter Benjamin’s Baroque Plays (EN)
Suhyang Baek – Benjamin’s Dialectical Approach to Modernity and the Dead. From the Baroque to Capitalism Today (EN)
PANEL 5 – SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORY AND MESSIANISM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Università di Roma Tre), Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Ori Rotlevy – The Fourfold Spatialization of History (EN)
Mariana Ruiz Verduzco – The Unraveling of Sovereignty. Benjamin, Fanon and the Critique of Colonial Law (EN)
Alexis Radisoglou – Sovereignty , History, Crisis. Thinking Contemporary Europe from the South, with Walter Benjamin (EN)
Sami Khatib – A Southern Concept of Barbarism (EN)
PANEL 4 – SOUTH OF THE TRAUERSPIELBUCH. BENJAMIN AND THE CONTRACONQUISTA OF LATIN
AMERICAN CRITICAL THEORY
Dario Gentili (Università di Roma Tre) – Maria Teresa Costa (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Valentín Díaz – Dialectics of Secularization. Walter Benjamin and José Lezama Lima facing Resemblance (EN)
Daniel Weidner – Excentric Modernities. Allegory in Walter Benjamin and Severo Sarduy (EN)
Francisco Naishtat – Political Variations on Some Characters of the Trauerspiel. Benjaminian Calibanization of Calderon’s Sigismund and Latin-American Calibans (EN)
16.00 – 16.15 : COFFEE BREAK
16.15 – 17.15 : ECR & POSTGRAD NETWORKING
17.15 – 17.30 : COFFEE BREAK
17.30 – 19.00 : MEETING – INTERNATIONAL WALTER BENJAMIN SOCIETY
20.00: CAPRI -REVOLUTION FILM
DIRECTED BY MARIO MARTONE – WRITTEN BY MARIO MARTONE AND IPPOLITA DI MAJO
TEATRO PALLADIUM – PIAZZA BARTOLOMEO ROMANO 8
DAY FOUR
20 SEPTEMBER — 09. 30 – 11. 00
PANEL 7 – NORTH AND SOUTH INTERPENETRATING
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Sara Fadabini – Walter Benjamin and the Underground Souths (EN)
Francesco Restuccia – Where the New interpenetrates the Old. Northern Perspectives on Southern Collectivities (EN)
Alex Taylor - White Island, Cool Conduct. Shadows of Bachofen and Gracián in Benjamin’s Ibiza (EN)
PANEL 3 – PLAY, THEATRE, CHILDHOOD
Marina Montanelli (Università di Firenze) – Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)
Daniel Gönitzer – «They are not the goal, to be sure, but one cannot do without them». Animals in Walter Benjamin’s Thought (EN)
Mattias Engling – Sawed Clowns and Fallen Airmen. Bertolt Brecht’s The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent and the Cheerfulness of Destruction (GER)
Russel Stephens – Child’s Play in the Arcades Project (EN)
10.00 – 13.00: ITALIAN BENJAMIN
WITH: LAURA BOELLA, FABRIZIO DESIDERI, DONATELLA DI CESARE,
PAOLO VINCI, PAOLO VIRNO
(IT)
11.00 – 11.30 : COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 13.00
PANEL 7 – BENJAMIN’S ITALY
Massimo Palma (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa) – Sophia Buck (University of Oxford)
Elenio Cicchini – Porosity. Genealogy of a Material Concept (IT)
Carla Damião – Walter Benjamin’s Italian Journeys (EN)
Vincenzo Mele – Metropolis as Tragedy. Metropolis as Trauerspiel. Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin and Italy’s Historic Cities (IT)
PANEL 3 – PLAY, THEATRE, CHILDHOOD
Marina Montanelli (Università di Firenze) – Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)
Benjamin Yazdan – Technology and Profane Play. Childhood and Re-enchantement in Das Telefon (1938) (EN)
Andrew Webber – Playing in the Haunted House. Spectres of Property with Benjamin and Disney (EN)
Clara Ramundo – «Ni la razón, ni la fuerza». Notes on South American cacerolazo following Walter Benjamin (IT)
Christian Ferencz-Flatz – Play as Critique. Benjamin and the Phenomenology of Queer Use (EN)
13.00 – 14.00 : CLOSING