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MELANCHOLIA: Imaging the End of the WorldJune 5–7th, 2013International Conference at Philipps University, Marburg, GermanyOrganized by Central Connecticut State University and Philipps UniversityWe live in a world at risk.  Various prophecies and clandestine calendars point to the end of the world, while serious theorists engage with the idea of scenario planning as a scientific tool for the evaluation of the future. Even the fictions of contemporary reality and social life present narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality.Despite their orientation towards the future, these catastrophic scenarios function to organize present social reality, and all are reflected in our audiovisual media.The conference Melancholia: Imaging the End of the World will present papers on a broad spectrum of issues and historical moments that engage critically with the topic of Visions of the End of the World, in film, television and digital media.CONFERENCE PROGRAM/ KONFERENZ PROGRAMMConference will be held at Philipps University Wilhelm Röpke Strasse 6AWEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 20134:00 PM : Registration (Philipps University)5:10 PM : Welcome notes5:15 – 6:00 PM : Keynote lecture: Scott Loren, St. Gallen (Switzerland) - Can Disaster Films be feminine? Lars von Trier’s challenge to the male gaze6:15 – 7:30 PM : Reception Cineplex7:30 – 9:30 PM : Film screening and discussion : Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier (Moderator: Angela Krewani, Philipps University, Marburg)THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 20139:00 – 10:00 AM : Prof. Dr. Joachim Herrgen (Dean)10:00 – 11:15 AM : Conference presentationsPanel 111: Early visions of the Apocalypse, Room 01C09Karen Randell (Southampton Solent University, UK) : Melancholia &#38; Melodrama in Silent Cinema after World War IClémentine Tholas-Disset (Paris East Créteil University) : World War I and Hollywood’s first modern Armageddon: understanding wartime and post-conflict representations of aglobal cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)Panel 112: 9/11 Trauma and Sacrifice, Room 01C10Leah A. Rosenberg, (University of Missouri, USA) : All That Remains: Examining the Immortal Undead in Post 9/11 Television and FilmTanya Shilina-Conte, SUNY at Buffalo : Representing the Unrepresentable: Black Screen as Negative Event and post-9/11 CinemaJon Pahl (Temple University, USA) : Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a Scandinavian AlternativePanel 113: The Apocalypse and historical transformations, Room 03F04Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK) : We’ll meet again: Endings and New Beginnings in Dr. Strangelove (1964) and Other Films about Global TransformationsAdrian Versteegh (New York University, USA) : Spectacles of Ruin: Apocalypse and the Afterlife of Cities in the Victorian ImaginaryThomas Prasch (Washburn University, USA) : ‘Radiation’s rising, but one mustn’t grumble too much’: Nuclear Apocalypse Played as Farce in Richard Lester’s The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)11:15 – 11:45 AM : Coffee Break11:45 AM – 12:45 PM : Keynote lecture: Frederick Wasser (Brooklyn College, NY, USA) - Disaster films and the End of the World1:00 – 2:00 PM : Lunch2:10 – 3:25 PM : Conference presentation :Panel 121: Converging Media, Room 01C09Andreas Kirchner (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany) : Experiencing the End of the World: Lars van Trier’s Melancholia as Hybrid Between Art and Genre FilMichael Mosel (University of Giessen, Germany) : Playing Zombified Versions of the End of the WorldPanel 122: Psycho-social functions I, Room 01C10Charles Antoine Courcoux (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) : The (Gender)Politics of DisasterPhilip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) and Hugh Ortega Breton (University of Surrey, UK) : The Eco Apocalypse: A psycho-cultural approach to Melancholic Loss, Political Alienation and the Desire for annihilationPanel 123: Apocalypse and Teens, Room 03F04Timothy Shary (Independent Scholar, USA) : Eschatological Ecstasy: the Thrills of Cataclysm in Teen CinemaKaren A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University) : Kids Killing Kids in Dystopia: The Hunger Games and Battle Royale3:30 – 4:00 PM : Coffee break4:00 – 5:15 PM : Conference presentationsPanel 131: Psycho Social Function II, Room 01C09Matthias Koch and Christian Köhler (Paderborn University, Germany) : Zombification: Undead (in) HistoryAngela Krewani (Philipps University, Marburg) : Film as lab: the apocalypse on film as laboratory for the futurePanel 132: Managing the Crisis, Room 01C10Scott Ellis (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) and Fiona Pearson (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Dead Narratives: Defining Humanity Through StoriesCarl James Grindly (City University of New York, USA) : Film as lab: The apocalypse on film as laboratory for the futurePanel 133: Apocalypse and Superstition, Room 03F04Joseph M. Conte, (University at Buffalo) : The Ruins of the Future: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s Adaptation, and Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977Kinga Wlodarska, (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Shadows, Superstitions and the End of the World6:00 – 7:00 PM : Marburger Filmkunsttheater Roundtable Discussion:Chair: Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK)Panelists: Catriona McAvoy (Loner Films, UK); Richard Daniels (University of the Arts, London, UK); Tatjana Ljujic (Cambridge University, UK)7:30 – 9:00 PMFilm screening and discussion : Dr. Strangelove. Dir. Stanley KubrickFRIDAY, JUNE 7, 20139:00 – 10:00 AM : Breakfast10:00 – 11:15 AM : Conference presentationsPanel 211: Technologies, Room 01C09Kristine Larsen (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : ALICE and the Apocalypse: Particle Accelerators as Death MachinesShizuko Tomoda (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : Fear of What? Nuclear Power or Us?Michael Krzeminski (St. Augustin, Germany) : Apocaplyptic Images in Technological ApplicationsPanel 212: Apocalypse in Popular Culture, Room: Alter SenatssaalKatherine Sugg (Central Connecticut State University, USA) : A Sense of Ending: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in White Masculinity in the Frontier Fantasies of Deadwood and FireflyKerstin Stutterheim (HFF Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany) : Documenting the Rider of the ApocalypsePanel 213: Corporate End of the World, Room 03F04Cindy White (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Elizabeth Hall Preston (Westfield State University, USA): Evoking the Apocalypse: Patagonia, Inc. And Landscapes of Loss and RedemptionWendy Sterba (College of St.Benedict/St. John’s University): The Corporate and Corporeal: Min(d)ing the Body-Conscience and Consumption in Early 21st Century Hollywood Dystopia11:15 – 11:45 AM : Coffee break11:45 AM – 1:00 PM : Conference presentationsPanel 221: A critique of Modernism, Room 01C09Thomas Waitz (University of Vienna, Austria) : A World Without Us: The End of Modernity as the End of the WorldSven Weidner (Philipps University, Marburg, Germany) : 4:44 Last Day on Earth: An experimentalvision of the final and definite end of the WorldPanel 222: Politics of Images, Room 03F04Samm Deigham: Seeing Yourself to Death: Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World and the Disease of ImagesIulia Micu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Andrei Simut (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) : Toward a Psycho-Social Apocalypse: Depression, Death and the Dream of Total Annihilation1:00 – 2:00 PM : Lunch (Catering)2:00 PM – 3:15 PM : Conference presentationsPanel 231: Functions of narration, Alter Senatssaal RoomSolveig Nitzke (Bochum University, Germany) : Is there an end to it? Fictional shelters and shelter-fictionPeter Podrez (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany) Blank Screens and annihilated gazes. Radicalizing the End in filmic apocalypsesPanel 232: Erosions of Society, Room 01C09Natalia Laranjinha, (CIAC - Center for Arts and Communication, Portugal) : The Deadly Saturn in MelancholiaPierre Floquet (Bordeaux University, France) : Melancholia and the Apocalypse WithinPanel 233: Functions of narration, Room 03F04Tara Karajica (University of Barcelona, Spain) : One form of post-apocalyptic societal erosion: the banishment of feelings and artistic expression in Kurt Wimmer’s 2002 EquilibirumTatjana Ljujic (Cambridge University, UK): Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice and the end of the world3:30 PM : Walk to the Marburg Castle4:00 – 5:10 PM : Conference presentationsPanel 241: Kubrick and the apocalypse, Seminarraum Schloss RoomCatriona McAvoy (Loner Films, UK) : ‘Gentleman, You Can’t Fight in Here’: Gender Symbolism and the End of the World in Dr. Strangelove and MelancholiaRichard Daniels (University of the Arts, London, UK): 2001 – A Space Odyssey: Kubrick’s Second Brush with the Apocalypse6:00 PM : Marburger Schloss Roundtable DiscussionPolitical and Cultural Functions end time visionsPanel Moderators: Karen Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Angela Krewani (Philipps University)Panelists: Karen Randell (Southamptom Solent University, UK), Timothy Shary (independent scholar, USA), Clémentine Tholas-Disset (Paris East Créteil University, France), Pierre Floquet (Bordeaux University, France), and Cindy White (Central Connecticut State University, USA)7: 30 pm : Dinner at the Castle Restaurant BückingsgartenContactFor more information about the trip or to ask a question reguarding the trip please get in touch with Either:Prof. Dr. Angela KrewaniPhilipps-Universität MarburgInstitut für MedienwissenschaftWilhelm Röpke Strasse 6A35039 MarburgTel: +49-(0)6421-2824691e-mail: krewani@uni-marburg.deKaren A. Ritzenhoff, Ph.D.Professor, Department of CommunicationWomen, Gender and Sexuality StudiesCentral Connecticut State University1615 Stanley StreetNew Britain, CT 06050Tel: (001) - 860/832-2692e-mail: Ritzenhoffk@ccsu.edu