When: Friday, February 24th, 2017
Where: Condon 260
Announcing the program for an interdisciplinary symposium on aspects of extreme right-wing tendencies in the present, their historical echoes, their potential consequences, and possible responses.
Topics include: the assault on language, populist co-optation of the media, circulation of nationalist ideologemes, corruption, the devalorization of science and knowledge, aesthetics, misogyny, and xenophobia.
(Open to the public, sponsored by the Editorial Board of Konturen, the German Studies Committee, and the Dept of German and Scandinavian at UO — co-organized by Professors Sonja Boos and Jeffrey Librett)
The Triumph of the Will? Theoretical-Critical Assessments of the New Era in American Politics
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
Panel 1: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Moderator: Martin Klebes (German and Scandinavian)
Jeffrey Librett (German and Scandinavian) — “Sovereignty and the Cult of Immediacy
Nathalie Hester (Romance Languages) — “Trumpusconi”
Cory Browning (Romance Languages) — “Braggadocious! Père Ubu Goes to Washington”
Joe Lowndes (Political Science) — “From New Class Critique to White Nationalism: Telos, the Alt Right, and the Origins of Trumpism”
Panel 2: 2:00 – 2:45 pm
Moderator: TBD
Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) — “Immigration and Mexico in the Trump Era”
Kenneth Calhoon (Comparative Literature and German and Scandinavian) — “No Accounting for Taste: From Mar-a-Lago to the White
House”
Anita Chari (Political Science) — “Political Hysteria: Conversion Disorders of the Trump Era”
Panel 3: 2:45 – 3:30 pm
Moderator: Gantt Gurley (German and Scandinavian)
Dawn Marlan (Comparative Literature and German and Scandinavian) — ” ‘Broad-Shouldered’ Rhetoric: the Trump Era and the Peculiar Contempt for Words”
Bonnie Mann (Philosophy) — “Pussy Politics”
Sonja Boos (German and Scandinavian) — “No Joke: Trump and Humor”