Programme "Fanaticism, Extremism, Radicalism"

PROGRAM 

Friday November 28 (all papers in Norwegian):

• Hjem, hjemland og das Unheimliche (10.15–11)
  Svein Haugsgjerd

• Discussion (11.00–11.15)

• Racisme og udskillelse – et psykoanalytisk perspektiv (11.15–11.45)
  René Rasmussen

• Handke i hermeneutiske sirkler (11.45–12.15)
  Preben Jordal

• Discussion (12.15–12.30)

• Lunch (12.30–13.30)

• Wergelands radikale opplysningsprosjekt (13.30–14.00)
  Trude-Kristin Mjelde Aarvik

• Chilensk radikalisme: Estetikk, vold og politikk i Nocturno chileno og Estrella distante av Roberto Bolaño (14.00–14.30)
  Hans Jacob OhldieckHans Jacob Ohldieck

• Discussion + break (14.30–15.00)

• Lengselen etter det reelle ved historiens slutt (15.00–15.30)
  Anders Gullestad

• Fanatisme, vold og romanen (15.30–16.00)
  Kjersti Aarstein

• Discussion (16.00–16.30)

Saturday November 29 (all papers in English):

• The Spectre of Radicalisation (09.15–10.00)
  Alberto Toscano

• Discussion and break (10.00–10.30) 

• Monstrous Feasts and Modern Celebrations? Some Notes on American Fanaticism in the Age of Modernity (10.30–11.00)
  Gisle Selnes

• La condition humaine, the Real of Antagonism and Radical Subjectivity (11.00–11.30)
  Magnus Michelsen

• Discussion  (11.30–12.00)

• Lunch (12.00–13.00)

• Mainstream Extremism: Racism, Antifeminism and Cultural Legitimacy (13.00–13.45)
  Stine Bang Svendsen

• Discussion (13.45–14.00)

• The Causes of Extremism: A Lacanian Approach (14.00–14.30)
  Kjell Roger Soleim

• The Sexuality of Extremism: A Reading of Two ‘Manifestos’ (14.30–15.00)
  Kari Jegerstedt

• Discussion and break (15.00–15.30)

• The Thin Black Line (15.30–16.00)
  Andrea Rinaldi

• Colonialism and the 'Jewish Question': Hannah Arendt and the Transformation of Anti-Semitism in NS-literature (16.00–16.30)
  Torgeir Skorgen

• Discussion (16.30–17.00)

20.30: Conference dinner @ Bølgen & Moi

The conference is open to all interested.

The conference is organized by the research group Radical Philosophy and Literature, University of Bergen, in collaboration with Centre for Women’s and Gender Research