Workshop: The Cabin in the Woods and Other Utopian Confinements
Workshop:
The Cabin in the Woods and Other Utopian Confinements.
Hopes and Horrors of Living in Small Houses in Remote Areas
Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen (Gießen), Dr. habil. Solvejg Nitzke (Bochum)
RCSC, University of Giessen, 1-2 July 2025
Program:
Talk 20-30 Min. + discussion (=45 min).
July 1, 2025
13:00 Intro and Welcome (Kirsten von Hagen & Solvejg Nitzke)
Intro-Talk (Solvejg Nitzke)
13:30-15:00 Robert Winkler (Salzburg): In the Mood for Nature? Toward a Phenomenology of
Being-in-the-Cabin
Caroline Rosenthal (Jena): Thoreaus Hütte und das digitale Phänomen des Cabin
Porn
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Till
Places
Michael Bassler: The cabin as a racialized space: Uncle Tom, Jim Trueblood, Emmett
Mark Schmitt (HU Berlin): Don‘t Go in the Cabin! Corporeal Horror and Forbidden
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-18:30 Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo, Pegaso Digital University: In þe forest eche day. A medieval
representation of life in nature
Matthias Schmidt: From King Solomon to Tintoretto: In Search of a Biblical Shack
18:30 Dinner
July 2, 2025
9:00-10:30 Kylie Crane (Rostock): Bunkering Down: A Cabin Case Study
Jörg Metelmann (St. Gallen): From Isola to Isolation. A Berlin Utopology, or: The
Production of Social Imaginary Spaces 1960-2020
10:30-11:00 Break11:00 – 12:30 Nirina Ralantoraritsimba (China/France): The cabin or "trano kely" in the literary
space of Malagasy Francophone literature
Kirsten von Hagen: ‘Qualités requises pour survivre en forêt": Of huts and other
dwellings in contemporary Francophone literature
12:30-13:30 Lunch (bagged incl. Discussion?)
13:30-15:00 Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz: “I did not wish to take a cabin passage”, I want “Glamping
under the Polar Lights”: Icy Cabins and the Anthropocene
Anna Tabouratzidis (independent scholar): From the Arboreal to the Maritime. The
Neoliberal Utopia in 21st-Century Narratives of Retreat
15:00-15:30 Closing