Cinematographies: Fictional strategies and visual discourses in 1990s

Friday, March 4

15:00 Opening of the Workshop

15:15 Peter Brooker (Nottingham): Terrorism and Counternarratives. Don DeLillo and the New York Urban Imaginary

16:30–17:00 Coffee

17:00 Steven Jacobs (Ghent): From flâneur to Chauffeur: Driving Through Cinematic Cities

17:45 Kim Förster (Berlin): ABC No Rio’s Oppositional Spatiality and Iconography: A Study of the Politics of Space, Community and Art

18:30–19:00 Coffee

19:00 Kristiaan Versluys (Ghent): Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers or 9/11 and the Holocaust


Saturday, March 5

10:00 Holger Henke (New York): Brooklyn Babylon: The Reproduction and Consumption of Cosmological and Epistemological Space in New York City

11:00–11:30 Coffee

11:30 Karl-Heinz Magister (Berlin): Trans-Carribean CinematoGraphic Narratives in Jamaican Urban Diasporas

12:15 Günter H. Lenz (Berlin): New EthniCities: Recodifying Urban Spaces and Intercultural Translations in New York Fictions of the 1990s

13:00 Bart Keunen (Ghent): Idyllic Traces in the City of Dreadful Night

13:45–15:00 Lunch

15:00 Bart Eeckhout (Ghent): The Point of Getting Lost: Critical Reflections on a SoundwalkTM through Times Square

15:45 Dorothea Löbbermann (Berlin): Visualizations/Embodiments: Homelessness in New York City

16:30–17:00 Coffee

17:00 Antje Dallmann (Berlin): ConspiraCity: The Literary Discourse on an In/Visible New York

17:45 Jeroen Lievens (Ghent): The Woman at the Window: Spatial, Visual and Sexual Dislocation in Lynne Tillman’s No Lease on Life