C7: Global Terrorism and Cultural Representation

Seminar Leader: Elaine Martin, University of Alabama

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Westminster 2

Adelheid Eubanks, Coker College: “Camouflage, Confession, or Cri de Guerre? Bommi Baumann, Ulrike Meinhof, and the First-Person Terrorist Text”

Erin Williams, University of California – Los Angeles: “Symboliste/Saboteur: Anarchism and Symbolist Poetics”

Bastian Quindt, University of Alabama: “Discoursing Terror, Terrorizing Discourse: The Rise and Fall of a Genre”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Westminster 2

Stacy Burton, University of Nevada – Reno: “The Violent Spectacle: Travel Narrative and War”

Ileana Alexandra Orlich, Arizona State University: “Beyond Censorship: The Mad Men and Beats of Romania’s ‘Red Horizons’”

Elaine Martin, University of Alabama: “The Aesthetics of Violence? Representing Terror”