December 10—11, 2019
Tuesday, December 10
Silver Center for Arts & Science
32 Waverly Place
Room 101A and Silverstein Lounge
New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, December 11
Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
Room 905/907
New York, NY 10012
Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York in collaboration with NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
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Day One
5:00 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks (Christian Martin, NYU and University of Kiel)
5:15 p.m. Welcome by David Gill, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York
5:30 p.m. Keynote Address: Ulrich Hoinkes, University of Kiel: “The States of Anxiety We Are In”
6:00 p.m. Opening reception
Day Two
09:00 a.m: Welcome to the Workshop, Introductory Remarks (Christian Martin, NYU and University of Kiel)
09:15—10:45 a.m: Panel One
Julie Mostov, NYU: “Borders and anxiety”
Frank Stengel, University of Kiel and Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, D.C.: “Anxious Populists”
Meike Hethey, University of Bremen: “Literature on Educational Crises: Anxiety Discourses in Times of Radical Social Change?”
11:00 a.m—12:30 p.m: Panel Two
Joseph LeDoux, NYU: “Therapeutic Implications of Six Simple Principles of Brain Organization”
John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center: “Anxiety in East Germany”
Stephanie Meltzer, Education Director and Project Manager, Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Living: "Three Forks Academy: Regenerative Methods for Sustainable Living in Relation to Anxiety Culture”
12:30—1:30 p.m: Lunch break
01:30—3:00 p.m: Panel Three
Avraham Rot, University of Regensburg: “Anxiety and Boredom”
Karen Struve, University of Kiel: " 'La peur de la violence.' Between 'gilets jaunes' and Varieties of Anxieties in Contemporary French Literature"
Christian Martin, NYU and U of Kiel: “Who is Afraid of Climate Change?—Exploring Individual Level Anxiety Using Machine Learning Approaches”
3:00—4:30 p.m: Panel Four
John P. Allegrante, Teachers College, Columbia University: “Moving Anxiety from Medical Idiom to Social and Cultural Concern”
Bàrbara Roviró, University of Bremen: “Proving Violence by Fear—A Pragmatical Dimension of Discursive Practices in in the Catalan Conflict”
Mar Mañes-Bordes, U of Kiel: "Language, identity and anxiety in discourses about language policy in Catalonia"
4:30—5:00 p.m: Concluding remarks
