Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• 5:00 pm 
  Sound installation Mo(u)rning by Juan Pablo Martini
• 5:30 pm 
  Elisabeth Flucher, Nacim Ghanbari: Welcome and Introduction
• 6:00 pm 
  Juliane Rebentisch (HFBK Hamburg): 
  Mourning and Melancholia in the Anthropocene (Keynote lecture)

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

I. Melancholic Interventions

• 10:00 am 
  Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin): 
  Melancholia and the Diasporic Ordinary
• 11:00 am 
  Anne Röhl (Siegen): 
  Postcolonial Melancholia in Contemporary Art
• 12:30 pm 
  Antje Schmidt (Hamburg): 
  Feminist Refusal. Melancholy and the Poetics of Obscurity
• 3:00 pm 
  Liliana Ruth Feierstein (HU Berlin): 
  Melancholia: Political Resistance in Time
• 4:15 pm 
  Timothy Attanucci (Mainz): 
  When the Bubble Bursts: Melancholia and Financial Crisis
• 5:15 pm 
  Juliane Prade-Weiss (LMU): 
  Melancholia and Failed Participation

Thursday, October 9, 2025

II. (Non-)Melancholic Narratives and Visual Cultures

• 10:00 am 
  Diedrich Diederichsen (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien): 
  Bring mir den Kopf von Jerry Garcia! – Melancholie und Counterculture
• 11:00 am 
  Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (Münster): 
  Disquiet. Forces of Melancholy in Pessoa, Biller and Zaimoğlu
• 12:15 pm 
  Nadine Hartmann (HfG Karlsruhe): 
  »My drama is cancelled.« Heiner Müller’s Melancholic Rewritings of the (Post)Oedipal
• 2:30 pm 
  Hauke Lehmann (FU Berlin): 
  Evacuating the Image. Tracing Melancholy Futures in the Films of Marguerite Duras
• 3:45 pm Guided tour: For the Birds | Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen
• 6:15 pm 
  Reading with Ann Cotten: 
  Can a ladder of excuses get me out of a sad state by causing new problems that had never occurred to me? Thoughts on slapstick as political methodology, with hidden examples.

Friday, October 10, 2025

III. Post-Revolutionary Affects – Post-Revolutionary Poetics

• 10:00 am 
  Elisabeth Flucher (Greifswald): 
  Heine’s Comments on the July Revolution in Ludwig Börne: A Memorial
• 11:15 am 
  Nacim Ghanbari (Siegen): 
  Melancholic Authorship: Stifter
• 12:15 pm End of the conference