Re-visioning Terrorism

Conference Day 3

Schedule

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2011
Saturday, September 10th
5:15 PM

Keynote Address

"Wand Me!": Assuming the (Subject) Position of the Compliant Body in the Age of Terror

William T. Bryan, University of Kentucky

Stewart Center 302

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

9:00 AM

Session 19: THE MORO AFFAIR AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

Fictions: The Moro Affair in Italian TV Drama

Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & Graduate Center

Stewart Center 310

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 19: THE MORO AFFAIR AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno notte and the Language of Terrorists

Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis

Stewart Center 310

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 19: THE MORO AFFAIR AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS

Cinema and Terrorism: The Narrative Struggle of Italian Filmmakers

Chiara Ferrari, California State University, Chico

Stewart Center 310

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 20: MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSLIM OTHER 1

Arabs in Post- 9/11 Hollywood Films: A Move towards a More Realistic Depiction?

Ouidyane Elouardaoui, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stewart Center 313

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 20: MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSLIM OTHER 1

Violence that Heals: Bombay Films’ Response to Terrorism

Manisha Sethi, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
Tanweer Fazal

Stewart Center 313

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 21: REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 1

State Counter-Terrorism in Ancient Rome: Toward a New Basis for the Diachronic Study of Terror

Ricardo Apostol, Case Western Reserve University

Stewart Center 318

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 21: REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 1

The Cultural Politics of WMD Terrorism in Post-Cold War America

Harold Williford, New York University

Stewart Center 318

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Session 22: CINEMATIC PERSPECTIVES OF TERRORISM IN ITALY

Ending terrorism? Perpetrators and Victims in Recent Italian Cinema.

Philip Cooke, Strathclyde University

Stewart Center 310

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 22: CINEMATIC PERSPECTIVES OF TERRORISM IN ITALY

Film in the Face of Atrocity: Giorgio Diritti's L'uomo che verrà and the Massacre of Marzabotto

Millicent Marcus, Yale University

Stewart Center 310

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 23: MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSLIM OTHER 2

Cinema, Systematic Terror, and the Aesthetics of Passivity

Khatereh Sheibani, University of Guelph

Stewart Center 313

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 23: MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSLIM OTHER 2

Re-Visioning Islam: Terrorism and the Hip-Hop Dialogue

Lara Dotson-Renta, University of Pennsylvania

Stewart Center 313

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 24: REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 2

America, Accountability, and 9/11: Re-Visiting Governance and Authority

Itai Sneh, John Jay College/CUNY

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 24: REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 2

How We Became Immune to Terrorism

Jerry Miller, Haverford College

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 24: REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 2

Terror‟s Audience: Cognitive Theatricality, Terrorist Acts, and the Collective Trauma of “Democracy”

Paul “Spike” Wilson II, University of Pittsburgh

Stewart Center 318

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

1:30 PM

Session 25: RELATING TERROR AND VIOLENCE: 9/11, THE HOLOCAUST, AND ECO-TERRORISM

9/11, America, and the Holocaust: Reading Violence through Art Spiegelman’s Cover for The New Yorker

Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 25: RELATING TERROR AND VIOLENCE: 9/11, THE HOLOCAUST, AND ECO-TERRORISM

Producing the Spectacle of Terror: The Rise of Eco-Terrorism and the Ideology of the ‘Green Scare’

Matt Applegate, Binghamton University

Stewart Center 310

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 25: RELATING TERROR AND VIOLENCE: 9/11, THE HOLOCAUST, AND ECO-TERRORISM

Reading 9/11 through the Holocaust in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers

Stella Setka, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 26: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM

Architecture and Terror in Space

Alon Kantor, Purdue University

Stewart Center 313

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 26: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM

Symbolic Violence as Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy of Terrorism

Jonathan Beever, Purdue University

Stewart Center 313

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 27: THE SEMIOTICS OF TERRORISM: HOW RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA CONSTRUCT TERRORISM

Crafting the ‘Enemy’ of ‘The People’: The ‘War on Terrorism’ and the Institutionalization of the Two Minutes Hate

Geoffrey D. Klinger, DePauw University

Stewart Center 318

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 27: THE SEMIOTICS OF TERRORISM: HOW RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA CONSTRUCT TERRORISM

Tele-visioning Terror

Caroline Zekri, University of Paris Est-Créteil

Stewart Center 318

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session 27: THE SEMIOTICS OF TERRORISM: HOW RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA CONSTRUCT TERRORISM

Terrorism as ‘Open Text’: Georg Klein’s novel Libidissi

Mark Looney, Iowa State University

Stewart Center 318

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:15 PM

Session 28: IMPACTS OF THE DEPICTIONS OF TERRORISTS

So, What Is Terrorism? Framing the 9/11 Attacks in African Editorial Cartoons

Duncan Mainye Omanga, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Stewart Center 310

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 28: IMPACTS OF THE DEPICTIONS OF TERRORISTS

Extraordinary Renditions: Imaging, Mapping, and Immobilizing the Lives of Others

Manori Neelika Jayawardane, State University of New York at Oswego

Stewart Center 310

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 28: IMPACTS OF THE DEPICTIONS OF TERRORISTS

The Terrorist As Monster: Depictions of Inhumanity

Gavin Cameron, University of Calgary

Stewart Center 310

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 29: POETIC AND NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM

It Could Have Been Me: Writing the United Red Army

Mariko Schimmel, Grinnell College

Stewart Center 313

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Session 29: POETIC AND NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM

Narratives of Religiously Motivated Terrorism and Modernity – Making Sense of Ourselves and Terrorist Others in a (Post)-Secular Society

Alex Holznienkemper, Ohio State University

Stewart Center 313

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM