Politics of Melancholia
International conference
We are looking forward to a reading with Ann Cotten (October 9) and lectures by: Timothy Attanucci, Rebecca Comay, Diedrich Diederichsen, Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Nadine Hartmann, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Hauke Lehmann, Juliane Prade-Weiß, Juliane Rebentisch, Anne Röhl, Antje Schmidt and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf.
Contact: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Flucher and Prof. Dr. Nacim Ghanbari
Everything at a glance
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Date
07.10.-10.10.2025 -
Venue
University of Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
US-S 001, 002
57072 Siegen -
Event format
Conference -
Event language
English
Program
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- 5:00 pm
Sound installation Mo(u)rning by Juan Pablo Martini - 5:30 pm
Introduction by the organizers - 6:00 pm
Juliane Rebentisch (HFBK Hamburg):
Mourningand Melancholia in the Anthropocene (Keynote lecture)
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
I. Melancholic Interventions
- 9:30 am
Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin):
Melancholia and the Diasporic Ordinary - 10:30 am
Anne Röhl (Siegen):
Postcolonial Melancholia in Contemporary Art - 11:45 am
Hannah Baader (Florence):
Sounds of Melancholy - 12:45 pm
Antje Schmidt (Hamburg):
FeministRefusal. 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 - 6:00 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 (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna):
Bring me the head of Jerry Garcia! - Melancholy and 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 canceled." 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 - 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
- 9:00 am
Rebecca Comay (Toronto):
Tragedy and Revolution: from the Eighteenth Brumaire to The Black Jacobins - 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
