Session 07: TERROR IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

Pirates, Bandits and other Enemies of the Roman State

Philip de Souza, University College, Dublin

Stewart Center 310

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 08: READINGS OF TERRORISM IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

La Décennie rouge by Michel Deutsch: Terrorism as Anachronism?

Antoine Krieger, Washington University, Saint Louis

Stewart Center 313

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 08: READINGS OF TERRORISM IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: from Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism

Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University

Stewart Center 313

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 08: READINGS OF TERRORISM IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

Totalitarian Threats and Colonial Geography: The Politics of Defining Terrorism in Beauvoir, Camus, and Dib

Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, Georgian Court University

Stewart Center 313

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 09: MEDIA AND TERRORISM: AN ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE

Rebels Without a Cause: Youth and Terrorism in Contemporary Italian Film

Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College

Stewart Center 318

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 09: MEDIA AND TERRORISM: AN ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE

Terrorism Then and Now, Terrorism Then as Now: Marco Baliani's Corpo di stato

Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University

Stewart Center 318

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 09: MEDIA AND TERRORISM: AN ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE

Terrorist Echoes in I, the Other

Fulvio Orsitto, California State University Chico

Stewart Center 318

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 10: 9/11, SUBJECTIVITY, AND OTHERNESS: COMPARATIVE READINGS IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Terrorist or Victim? Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Jess Walter’s The Zero and Khaled Khalifa’s In Praise of Hatred

Chloé Tazartez, University of Rennes 2

Stewart Center 310

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 10: 9/11, SUBJECTIVITY, AND OTHERNESS: COMPARATIVE READINGS IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Why Do They Hate Us? Formulations of the Terrorist ‘Other’ in United 93 and Flight 93

Inga Meier, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 11: TERRORISM FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO ROMANTICISM

Romanticism and Terrorism

Daniel Desormeaux, The University of Chicago

Stewart Center 313

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 11: TERRORISM FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO ROMANTICISM

The Invention of Modern State Terrorism during the French Revolution

Guillaume Ansart, Indiana University, Bloomington

Stewart Center 313

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 12: ITALIAN TERRORISMS: THE ‘ANNI DI PIOMBO,’ THE MAFIA, AND ECO- TERRORISM

Terrorism, Horrorism, and the Face of Italy

Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 12: ITALIAN TERRORISMS: THE ‘ANNI DI PIOMBO,’ THE MAFIA, AND ECO-TERRORISM

Ecoterrorism vs. Ecomafia? Contested Language, Contested Landscapes and Italian Cinema

Elena Margarita Past, Wayne State University

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 12: ITALIAN TERRORISMS: THE ‘ANNI DI PIOMBO,’ THE MAFIA, AND ECO-TERRORISM

Mafia as the New Italian Terrorism

Dana Renga, Ohio State University

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 13: BASQUE TERRORISM IN RECENT FILM AND FICTION

Writing Victims: Post-Terrorist Fiction(s) in the Basque Country and Spain

Roland Vazquez, Upper Iowa University

Stewart Center 310

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 14: TERRORISM IN GERMAN MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Media Photographs in the Cinematic Reception of the Red Army Faction

Carrie Collenberg, California State University, Long Beach

Stewart Center 313

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 14: TERRORISM IN GERMAN MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Metaphors for Terrorism in German Media Discourse

Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Technische Universität Berlin
Helge Skirl, Technische Universität Berlin

Stewart Center 313

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 14: TERRORISM IN GERMAN MEDIA DISCOURSE AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Regarding Terror: The German Autumn and Contemporary Art

Fabian Winkler, Purdue University

Stewart Center 313

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 15: HOLLYWOOD AND CONTEMPORARY TERRORISM

The Collaborative Film Work of Greengrass and Damon: a Stylistic State of Exception

Steven Peacock, University of Hertfordshire

Stewart Center 318

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 15: HOLLYWOOD AND CONTEMPORARY TERRORISM

The Trials of Cassandra: The Siege (1998)

Nick Cull, University of Southern California

Stewart Center 318

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 16: TERRORIST (IN)VISIBILITY: ETA AND THE SPANISH STATE

Forms of (In)Visibility in Recent Spanish Films on Basque Terrorism

Jaume Martí-Olivella, University of New Hampshire

Stewart Center 310

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 16: TERRORIST (IN)VISIBILITY: ETA AND THE SPANISH STATE

Terrorism, State Terror, and the Historical State of Exception: For a Postnational History of Violence in Spain and the Basque Country

Joseba Gabilondo, Michigan State University

Stewart Center 310

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 17: REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRORISM IN GERMAN LITERATURE

From New York City to Berlin to Baghdad: 9/11 in the Contemporary German Novel

Alexandra Hagen, University of Cincinnati

Stewart Center 313

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 17: REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRORISM IN GERMAN LITERATURE

Health Care, Witches, and Terrorists in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti (2009)

Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa

Stewart Center 313

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 17: REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRORISM IN GERMAN LITERATURE

Terrorism as Communication in Gregor Schnitzler’s Was tun wenn’s brennt (2001) and Leander Scholz’s Rosenfest (2001)

Sandra Dillon, Idaho State University

Stewart Center 313

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 18: TERRORISM, FICTION, AND THE EVERYDAY: HISTORY, GENDER, POLITICS

Female (Em)Bodied Justice: Terrorism, Self-Sacrifice, and the Joint Primacy of Gender and Nationality

Renee Lee Gardner, Western Michigan University

Stewart Center 318

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 18: TERRORISM, FICTION, AND THE EVERYDAY: HISTORY, GENDER, POLITICS

Historicizing the Present in 9/11 Fiction

Todd Kuchta, Western Michigan University

Stewart Center 318

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 18: TERRORISM, FICTION, AND THE EVERYDAY: HISTORY, GENDER, POLITICS

The Privilege of Ambivalence: Saturday’s Henry Perowne on the ‘War on Terror’

Jax Lee Gardner, Western Michigan University

Stewart Center 318

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM