Re-visioning Terrorism

Conference Day 1

Schedule

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2011
Thursday, September 8th
5:15 PM

Keynote Address

Observations on Al Qaeda

Robert Adolph

Stewart Center 302

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

1:00 PM

Session 01: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11

After the Apocalypse: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as a Post-9/11 Novel

Margaret Scanlan, University of Indiana, South Bend

Stewart Center 310

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 01: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11

Before and After the Fall: Tribalism and Multicultural Poetics in Sherman Alexie

Daniel Morris, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 01: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11

Global Violence and Cosmopolitanism in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows

Suhaan Mehta, Ohio State University

Stewart Center 310

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 02: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM

Jihadis and the Use of the Terms Terrorism and Terrorist

Aaron Zelin, Brandeis University

Stewart Center 313

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 02: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM

The Martyr’s Vision: Why the Suicide Bomber’s Eye Is Cast Not to the Sky . . . but to the Other

Hatem Akil, University of Central Florida

Stewart Center 313

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 03: IMAGES OF GERMAN TERRORISM IN POP CULTURE, POLITICS, AND PROSE

Confronting Taboos: German Cinema’s Contribution to Discourses on Terrorism

Muriel Cormican, University of West Georgia

Stewart Center 318

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 03: IMAGES OF GERMAN TERRORISM IN POP CULTURE, POLITICS, AND PROSE

Pre-Visions of Terror/After-Images of Love. Gudrun Ensslin, Bernward Vesper and the Roots of West German Terrorism

Thomas J.A. Krüger, University of Ottowa

Stewart Center 318

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Session 03: IMAGES OF GERMAN TERRORISM IN POP CULTURE, POLITICS, AND PROSE

Vigilance, Vigilantism, and the Role of the Citizen in Combating German Terror, 1967-1977

Todd Michael Goehle, SUNY Binghamton

Stewart Center 318

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:45 PM

Session 04: FRAMING VIOLENCE: COMICS AND TERRORISM

From HYDRA to Al-Qaeda: Depictions of Terrorism in Comic Books

Cord Scott, Loyola University

Stewart Center 310

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 04: FRAMING VIOLENCE: COMICS AND TERRORISM

Knights of Justice: Blockbuster Terrorism in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Revolution

Aaron Choo, Indpendent Scholar
Wilson Koh, National University of Singapore

Stewart Center 310

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 04: FRAMING VIOLENCE: COMICS AND TERRORISM

No More Tall Buildings: American Superhero Comics and the Shadow of 9/11

Mauricio Castro, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 05: TERRORISM AND BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE 1930S TO TODAY

James Bond and Global Terrorism

James Chapman, University of Leicester

Stewart Center 313

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 05: TERRORISM AND BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE 1930S TO TODAY

Jihad Satire: The Case of Four Lions (2010)

Phil Hammond, London South Bank University

Stewart Center 313

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 05: TERRORISM AND BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE 1930S TO TODAY

London’s First Bus-Bombers: Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936)

Tony Shaw, University of Hertfordshire

Stewart Center 313

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 06: THE GERMAN AUTUMN ON FILM

Baader-Meinhof Goes to the Movies

Joshua Arnold, University of Cincinnati

Stewart Center 318

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 06: THE GERMAN AUTUMN ON FILM

From Baader to Prada: Memory and Myth in Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex

Chris Homewood, University of Leeds

Stewart Center 318

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Session 06: THE GERMAN AUTUMN ON FILM

Legends of Darkness: Terrorism in German Film

Sean Stumpf, Southwestern University

Stewart Center 318

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM