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2011
Friday, September 9th
5:15 PM

Keynote Address

Fictions of Counterinsurgency

Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

Stewart Center 302

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Thursday, September 8th
1:00 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

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

Friday, September 9th
9:00 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

10:45 AM

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

Nationalism, Alterity, and Cognitive Studies in Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, and Jess Walte

Aaron DeRosa, Purdue University

Stewart Center 310

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

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 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

1:30 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

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

3:15 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 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

Saturday, September 10th
9:00 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 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 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 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

1:30 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

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

Tele-visioning Terror

Caroline Zekri, University of Paris Est-Créteil

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