KONF: Eine haarige Angelegenheit: Gegenständliche Poetiken des Haares/A hairy Affair: The Material Poetics of Hair, International Conference, LMU Munich, online (01.–03.07.2021)
Hair is fundamentally characterized by its precarious and mutinous materiality, which subverts conventionalized dichotomies between the passive and the active. In this capacity, it also serves as a mediator of aesthetic reflection and formalization. One of the basic premises of this conference is that hair constitutes an interface between body aesthetics and issues of plot and narrative synthesis. Particular attention is paid not only to neatly ‘coiffed’ discursive formations or to hair’s narrative entanglements, but also to the poetological quality of hair as a disruptive literary factor.
By bringing together papers from various fields of the Humanities, this international conference seeks to open up new perspectives on the poetics, practices and functions of hair in literature and other media.
The conference is organized by the Class of Literature (LMU Munich) and will take place online via Zoom. There will be written papers to prepare for the conference. You will get access to these by registering on Eventbrite:
Programm:
Thursday, 01.07.2021
13:30 Introduction
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Juliann Knaus (Graz): Multisensory Hair Therapy: Exploring Intermediality and Identity in trey anthony’s ‘da Kink in my hair
13:50–14:30
Ozlem Koksal (London): Veiling the Hair: Ataman’s Women Who Wear Wigs (1999) and Aydemir’s Veils on Veils (2020)
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14:30–14:45 Break
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Gregor Specht (München): Scham, Haar, Poetik
Aglaia Kister (Tübingen): Scham und Haare. Zur Verflochtenheit
zweier Motivstränge bei Paul Celan und Elfriede Jelinek
14:45–15:45
Katharina Alsen (Hamburg): Trichotillotechne. Ausgerissene Haare in immersiven Performance-Installationen und das Paradox schmerzhafter Kunst
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15:45–16:30 Break
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16:30–18:00 KEYNOTE
Emma Tarlo (London): Human Crop: Commercial frictions and racial fictions from the global trade in human hair
Friday, 02.07.2021
Bharati Jagannathan (Delhi): The Gender of Hair
13:00–13:40
Erika Loic (Tallahassee): Prophetess, Harlot, and Mourner: “Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts” and Gender in Medieval Iberian Manuscript Illumination
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13:40–13:50 Break
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Jan Mohr (München) und Julia Stenzel (Mainz): Holy hair styles. Claiming authenticity in the Oberammergau Passion Play
13:50–14:30
Anna Kasafi Perkins (Kingston): Delilah Speaks Hairily: Re-Reading Scripture, Dreadlocks and the Feminine Today
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14:30–14:45 Break
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Martina Wernli (Mainz): Starre Locken und pelzige Löffel. Haar als Kontaktzone bei Meret Oppenheim
14:45–15:25
Elisa Risi (Marburg): „Die Haare messen das Leben“. Haare als widerständige und prekäre Dinge in Herta Müllers Herztier
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15:25–15:40 Break
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Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (München): Simson, Wieland, Blaubart. Theodor Fontanes Männlichkeits- und Produktivitätsimagologien im Zeichen des Bartes
15:40–16:20
Anna Hordych (Potsdam): Contradictions of Vitality: Vivid White Hair in Zola’s L’Argent
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16:20–18:00 Break
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18:00–19:30 KEYNOTE
Seán Williams (Sheffield): On Splitting Hairs: Hairdressing, Literature, and Scholarship
Saturday, 03.07.2021
Tanja Schwan (Leipzig): Vom (Ab-)Schneiden eines alten Zopfes – Haar-Spaltereien in Rodenbachs Bruges-la-Morte
13:00–14:00 Jonas Meurer (Bamberg): Von Männeraugen und Hexenhaar. Plädoyer zur Wiederentdeckung von Bruno Franks Novelle ‚Das Haar‘ (1921)
Heather Hind (Exeter): The Unrealised Potential of “Gold Hair”
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14:00–14:15 Conclusion & Goodbye
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