Contact
Prof. Dr. Erik Redling
phone: +49 (345) 55-23520
erik.redling@amerikanistik....
Dachritzstraße 12
06108 Halle (Saale)
American Studies / Literary Studies,
Managing Director of the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies
Program
| Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | |
|---|---|
| 19.00 | Meet-and-Greet at the “Hofwirtschaft (Cranachhof)” |
| Thursday, June 25, 2015 | |
|---|---|
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks: Gastón Espinosa, Erik Redling, Jason Stevens |
| 1. History and Theory of Protestantism in Religion and Film Studies (Chair: Jason Stevens, Pittsburgh) | |
| 09.30 - 10.15 | William D. Romanowski (Calvin College) "Protestant Responses to Hollywood, Censorship, and Art Cinema" |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Andrew Quicke (Regent University) "Independent Protestant Film in the USA, from the Silent Era to its Contemporary Resurgence" |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Clive Marsh (University of Leicester) "Protestant Themes Within Secular Models of Salvation" |
| 12.15 - 14.00 | Lunch at the "Best Western Hotel" |
| 2. Protestant Reformation on Screen (Chair: Erik Redling and Christin Reimann, Halle) | |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Welcome: Consul General Scott R. Riedmann (Leipzig) |
| 14.15 - 14.45 | Esther Wipfler (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München) "Conflicting Visions of Martin Luther in European and American Movies" |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Gastón Espinosa (Claremont McKenna College) "Conflicting Visions of the English Reformation in Cromwell" |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 3. Protestant Impulses in European Films (Chair: Martin Meyer and Julia Nitz, Halle) | |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Mark Le Fanu (University College London) "Protestant Miracle in the Danish Film Ordet by Carl Dreyer" |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University) "Protestant Crises in the Swedish Trilogy Silence of God by Ingmar Bergmann" |
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Buffet at the "Bibliothek (Leucorea)" |
| 19.30 - 22.00 | Public film screening: Ingmar Bergmann The Silence (1963) with subsequent panel discussion (Chair: Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm) |
| Friday, June 26, 2015 | |
|---|---|
| 3. Protestant Impulses in European Films (Chair: Julia Straub, Bern, and Martin Meyer, Halle) | |
| 09.30 - 10.15 | Erik Redling (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) "Resistance to Protestant Allegory in the German-Austrian Film The Scarlet Letter by Wim Wenders" |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Georg Maas (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) "Musical Meditations: Bach's Sacred Music and Other Musical Traces of Protestantism in European Movies" |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break |
| 4. Protestant Representations in American Movies (Chair: Gastón Espinosa, Claremont, and Julia Nitz, Halle) | |
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Julia Helmke (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) "Evangelical Fundamentalism in American Versus European Films" |
| 12.15 - 14.00 | Lunch at the "Best Western Hotel" |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Timothy Beal (Case Western Reserve University) "Apocalypticism and Protestant Evangelical Horror from Thief in the Night to Left Behind" |
| 5. Protestant Themes in Film Genres (Chair: Jason Stevens, Pittsburgh, and Erik Redling, Halle) | |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Mark Scott (Villanova University) "Divine Presence and Absence in a World of Woe: The Problem of Evil in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life" |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Victor Sage (East Anglia University) "Horror: The Devil, Witchcraft, and Sex in The Wicker Man & The Witchfinder General" |
| 16.45 - 17.30 | Sara A. Vaux (Northwestern University) "The Western: Typology and Morality in High Plains Drifter & Pale Rider" |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Students from the University of Halle present: "Protestantism and Violence in The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke" (Marcus Bachmann, Emily Blume, and Maurice Theek) "Protestantism and Seriality in the TV-Series True Detective" (Norbert Herbstreit) |
| 18.30 - 20.00 | Dinner at the "Brauhaus Wittenberg" |
| Saturday, June 27, 2015 | |
|---|---|
| 5. Protestant Themes in Film Genres (Chair: Gastón Espinosa, Claremont, and Michael Sauter, Augsburg) | |
| 09.30 - 10.15 | Jason Stevens (University of Pittsburgh) "Film Noir: Calvinism and Self-Surveillance in Paul Schrader's Hardcore" |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.30 - 11.15 | Kjell Lejon (Linköping University) "Protestant Pietism, the Conflict of Spirit and Flesh, and Reconciliatory Grace in the Danish Babette's Feast " |
| 11.15 - 12.00 | Concluding discussion |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Guided tour of the "Lutherstadt Wittenberg" (engl.) |