15.00-18:30 I Constellations Chair: Christoph Holzhey
- Michaela Wünsch (Berlin)Uncanny Thinking - Monika Shafi (Delaware) Houses and the Uncanny in Contemporary German Literature - Roman Widholm (Vienna) Uncanny Methods for Uncanny People: How Behaviorism Approaches the Subject of Autism
19.00 Public Event
- Welcome (Christoph Holzhey, ICI Berlin) - Keynote: Elisabeth Bronfen (Zürich) Visuality - Textuality: An Uncanny Encounter
Casual Reception
Tuesday, April 7th
10:00-13:30 II After-Image(s) Chair: Fabio Camilletti
- Hécate Vergopoulos (Avignon/Montréal) Uncanny, but Towards What? A Referential Approach to the Uncanny Based on the - Study of Legends - Tan Wälchli (Chicago) «Living Images» and Literary Technique: E.T.A. Hoffmann at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy - Orsetta Innocenti (Siena) Self Made Phantasmata and «Bleak» Houses. The 19th Victorian Society and its Well-Hidden Ghosts - Giuseppe Episcopo (Naples) The Medieval Selva and the Postmodern Zone: The Locus Horridus as Spatial Dimensions of the - Uncanny
15:00-18:30: III Creating Spectres Chair: Rupert Gaderer
- Elisa Leonzio (Turin) «Er hatte eine Wasserscheu vor Gespenstergeschichten»: The Ghost Story in Late Eighteenth-Century - Germany in the Light of Jean Paul’s Novel Die Unsichtbare Loge - Morena Corradi (New York) Staging the Uncanny. Phantasmagoria in Post-Unification Italy - Catrin Misselhorn (Tübingen) Empathy and the Uncanny Valley
19:00 Public Event
Preview of The Dangers, a short experimental narrative film by Siouxzi L Mernagh (Berlin/Sydney). Discussion led by Daniel Eschkötter (Weimar).
After-Screening Reception
Wednesday, April 8th
10:00-13:30: IV Figures Chair: Jan Niklas Howe
- Simona Micali (Siena) The Disobedient Shadow - Claudia Peppel (Berlin) Impassively True to Life. The Doll and Human Identity
- Vita Zilburg (Berlin)Engführung as a Case Study of Paul Celan’s Poetics of the Uncanny - Laurie Johnson (Illinois) Uncanny Love: Schelling’s Meditations on the Spirit World 15:00-18:30: V Political Phantoms Chair: Martin Doll
- Christine Blaettler (Potsdam/Berlin) Walter Benjamin’s Phantasmagoria and the Aesthetico-Political Dialectics of the Un-Canny - Matthias Korn (Berlin) On the Uncanniness of Death: Bio-Power in Venice between Modern Age and Modernity - Sandra Evans (Tübingen) Intangible Notions of the Uncanny - Jaime Cuenca (Bilbao) The Political Potential of the Uncanny: The Zombie as a Metaphor for the Consumer 19:00 Public Event
Keynote: Anneleen Masschelein (Leuven) Between Animism and Animation: The Challenges of the Uncanny as (Un)concept in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century