Timetable

Conference Timetable – Wednesday 23^rd of June

9.00 – 9.30 Registration / Coffee

9.30 – 10.00 Introduction: Sas Mays (Westminster), Leena Petersen (Sussex)

10.00 – 12.00 Panel 1: Modern Crisis and the History of the Present – Part 1

Chair: Sas Mays (Westminster)

Nicholas Lambrianou (Birkbeck): ‘Figures of Interruption: Philosophical Dramas of Temporality and History in Benjamin and Rosenzweig’

Sami Khatib (FU Berlin): ‘The Messianic and the Archive: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Politics of Time’’

Leena Petersen (Sussex): ‘Messianic Libertarianism and Linguistic Philosophies of History in Benjamin and Related Writings of His Time’

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch Break

1.00 – 3.00 Panel 2: Poetics of Temporality

Chair: Keston Sutherland (Sussex)

Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths): ‘Word and Image in Celan’s Atemkristall’

Nitzan Lebovic (Tel Aviv / Sussex): ‘Paul Celan: Language of Loss at the Heart of  Time’

Shela Sheikh (Goldsmiths): ‘The Wounded Archive: Derrida Reading Celan’

3.00 – 3.30 Coffee Break

3.30 – 5.30 Panel 3: The Temporality of Archives – Part 1

Chair:  John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)

Elina Staikou (Goldsmiths): ‘Vigil of the Archive: On Derrida Dreaming Benjamin’

Rebecca Dolgoy (Montreal / FU Berlin): ‘The Work of Art as Archive: Examining Adorno’s Zeitkern as Time Capsule’

Wesley Phillips (Independent): ‘On the Concept of Counter-Tradition’

 5.30 – 6.00 Closing Discussion

Conference Timetable – Thursday 24^th of June

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee

10.30 – 12.00 Panel 4: Modern Crisis and the History of the Present – Part 2

Chair: Leena Petersen (Sussex)

Reut Paz (Humboldt University Berlin): ‘The Legal Transcendentalism of Hans Kelsen as a Hole in Time’

Dan Smith (Chelsea School of Art and Design): ‘Overlooking Bloch: Contemporary Art and Utopia’

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch

1.00 – 3.00 Panel 5: The External Archive

Chair: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

Tommaso Speccher (FU Berlin): ‘The Hole in Space: Fragmenting and Re-piecing the Archive between Walter Benjamin and Daniel Libeskind’

Manu Luksch (London): ‘Moonwalking in Real Time’

3.00 – 3.30 Coffee Break

3.30 – 5.00 Panel 6: The Temporality of Archives – Part 2

Chair: Nitzan Lebovic (Tel Aviv, Sussex) 

David Cunningham (Westminster): ‘Abstract Times: Benjamin, Kafka and the Modernism of Tradition’

Matt Charles (Middlesex): ‘The Snow Line of the Archive: Walter Benjamin On the Trail of Old Letters’

 5.00 – 5.30 Closing Discussion