FRIDAY, 10 JUNE

9:45 Welcome (Antonello, Gragnolati, Holzhey, Webb)

Session 1

Chair: Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University)

10:00 Wolfgang Palaver (Theology, Universität Innsbruck):

    “The mystic-spiritual heart of René Girard's book Deceit, Desire, and the Novel”

10:45 Karen Feldman (German Literature, UC Berkeley):

    “On Girardian Auto-Critique and Biblical Epistemology”

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Manuele Gragnolati (Italian Literature, University of Oxford / ICI Berlin) & Christoph Holzhey (Physics / German Literature, ICI Berlin):

    “Mimetic and Performative Desire in Dante and Pasolini”

12:45 Fatima Naqvi (German/Austrian Literature, Rutgers University / ICI Berlin):

    “Twins and Triangles: The Doubling of Desire from Musil to Bernhard”

13:30 Lunch Break

Session 2

Chair: Heather Webb (Ohio State University)

15:30 Hania Siebenpfeiffer (German Literature, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald / ICI Berlin):

    “Deceivable Desires in Christa Wolf’s Medea”

16:45 Robert Buch (Comparative Literature, University of Pittsburgh):

    “Mimetic Desire in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes”

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Jobst Welge (Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin):

    “Desire and Deceit in the Work of Roberto Arlt”

18:45 Friedrich Balke (Philosophy / Cultural and Media Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar):

    “Mimetic Rivalry, Sovereignty, and Fiction in Political and Military Theory”

19:30 Reception

SATURDAY, 11 JUNE

Session 3

Chair: Manuele Gragnolati

10:00 Sara Fortuna (Philosophy, Università Guglielmo Marconi / ICI Berlin):

    “Multiple images and aspect change: Girard and Deleuze on Proust”

10:45 Marco Formisano (Classics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):

    [Panegyric and Deleuze]

11:30 Coffee Break

Chair: Christoph Holzhey

12:00 Luca Di Blasi (Philosophy, ICI Berlin):

    “Beyond Mimetic Desire: Girard and Žižek”

12:45 Gunter Gebauer (Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin):

    “Models and control of desire in literature and in games”

13:30 Final Discussion