PROGRAM

Final Annual Conference of the DFG Graduate Research Training Group “Documentary Practices: Excess and Privation” (GRK 2132, Ruhr University Bochum)
May 8—10, 2025 | Location: Kunstmuseum Bochum

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025

1:00—2:00 pm	Registration
2:00—3:00 pm	Welcome and opening remarks
3:00—4:00 pm	Panel #1: Loss Ana Catarina Pinho (IHA, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal): The Politics of Archival Loss: Visual Remnants and Colonial Memory in the Digital Era Lisa Le Anh (Goethe University Frankfurt / Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany): Fragments of Farewell: CCTV Footage as a Documentation of Loss Moderation:Katharina Menschick(GRK 2132, RUB)
4:00—4:30 pm	Coffee break
4:30—5:30 pm	Panel #2: Film in the Anthropocene Aleksi Rennes (University of Turku, Finland): Petrified Cinema Beyond Death: Roberto Rossellini’s Volcanic Archive Felix Hasebrink ((Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany): Mud Fields of Cinematic Detritus, or Locating the Physical Endpoints of Film Moderation: Catherin Persing(GRK 2132, RUB)
5:30—6:00 pm	Coffee break
6:00—7:00 pm	Archives and Butterflies A reading dialogue by Helen Brecht (RUB, Germany)
From 7:00 pm	Buffet dinner and get-together

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025

10:00—11:00 am	Panel #3: After Film Chauhan Arundhati (Northwestern University, USA): Situating the Feminist Archive as Documentary: Reading Navina Sundaram’s Archive The Fifth Wall Elisa Linseisen (University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany) and Philip Widmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland): “THE END IS THE BEGINNING IS THE END IS”: Potentialities of Film Undone Moderation: Ying Sze Pek (GRK 2132, RUB)
11:00—11:30 am	Coffee break
11:30 am—1:00 pm	The Artwork as a Living System Artist talk with Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau (University of Arts Linz, Austria) Moderation: Anna Grelik and Amelie Wedel (GRK 2132, RUB)
1:00—2:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00—3:30 pm	Panel #4: Performing Temporalities Theresa Schlesinger (Münchner Kammerspiele, Germany): How to Experience Endings? A Performative Exploration on the Concepts of Endings and Beginnings in Theater Yon Natalie Mik (Free University of Berlin, Germany): The Unfinished Ritual: The Dancing Body as Documentary and Resistance. Ira Goryainova (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound, Belgium): Navigating Melancholia, Loss and Death through Image Recycling Moderation: Rose Beermann (GRK 2132, RUB)
3:30—4:00 pm	Coffee break
4:00—5:00 pm	Panel #5: Archiving the Digital Ruolan Wang (China Academy of Art, China): Echoes of the Past: The Reconstruction of Memory in Dead Souls Minna Lee (Princeton University, USA): Archiving Against the Jetztzeit of the Digital Present: A Case Study of Daum Road View on Jeju Island Moderation: Lana Uzarashvili (GRK 2132, RUB)
5.00—5:30 pm	Coffee break
5:30—7:00 pm	Technology at the End Times Keynote talk by Amanda Lagerkvist (Uppsala University, Sweden) Response: Franziska Barth (GRK 2132, RUB)
From 7:30 pm	Conference dinner at Masala Project (Viktoria Straße, 71, 44787 Bochum)

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025

10:00—11:30 am	Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory Keynote talk by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Response: Anne Küper (GRK 2132, RUB)
11:30 am—12:00 pm	Coffee break
12:00—1:00 pm	Panel #6: Disintegration Max Böhner (Humboldt University of Berlin / University of Potsdam, Germany): Destroyed Slides, Saved Porn, Rediscovered Collections: Shifting Cultural Heritage in the Case of Albert Hoxie Michael Klipphahn-Karge (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany): De-documenting: Visual Practices of Refusal in the Digital Field Moderation: Lena Demary (GRK 2132, RUB)
1:00—2:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00—3:30 pm	Queering Documentary Ends Roundtable Discussion with GRK 2132 Alumni and Colleagues Moderation: Paulena Müller (GRK 2132, RUB)
3:30—4:00 pm	Closing remarks by Ying Sze Pek & Anne Hemkendreis (GRK 2132, RUB)
From 7:30 pm	GRK 2132 Farewell Celebration at Schlegel Kultur Club (Willy-Brandt-Platz 5, 44787 Bochum)