Political Art and the Aesthetic-Political
International Workshop
June 12-13, 2015, JFKI, Room 319
Conveners: Thomas Greven (FU Berlin), Robert Pirro (Georgia Southern University), Jasper Trautsch (University of Regensburg)
Friday, June 12
2:00pm – 4pm Panel 1: Film and TV
Chair: Robert Pirro (Georgia Southern University)
William Glass (University of Warsaw): Conservative Means to Feminist Ends: Private Benjamin and the Tropes of the Service Comedy
Andreas Etges (LMU): Commander in Chief – Commander in Charge? War, Crisis and the President in Hollywood Films
Guisseppe Sacco (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli): Batman, an Imperiled Hero
Discussant: Thomas Greven (FU Berlin)
4-4:30pm Coffee Break
4:30pm – 6:30pm Panel 2: Images and Comics
Chair: Jasper Trautsch (University of Regensburg)
Oli Keinath (Berlin): The Art and Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility PR
Thomas Greven (FU Berlin): The Ninth Art and Hegemony
Birte Wege (FU Berlin): A Documentary of Documentation: MLK, Civil Rights Photography, and Graphic Narrative
Discussants: Robert Pirro (GSU), Marius Dahmen (FU Berlin)
Saturday, June 13
10am – 12:30pm Keynote Lecture: Josef Chytry (California College of the Arts)
From the Aesthetic State to the Aesthetic-Political (via the Aistheterion?)
Introduction by Robert Pirro (Georgia Southern University)
12:30pm – 2pm Brown Bag Lunch
2pm – 4 pm Panel 3: Varieties of Aesthetic Politics
Chair: Curd Knüpfer (FU Berlin)
Sherry Lee Linkon: (Georgetown University): Rust Belt Chic: Twenty-first Century Narratives of Industrial Heritage
Robert Pirro (GSU): Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Tragedy
Discussants: Josef Chytry (California College of the Arts), Frank Fischer (Rutgers University/Kassel University)
4pm – 5pm Final Discussion