Conference: SENTIMENTAL STATE(S) – SENTIMENTAL POLITICS OF ORDER AND BELONGING

FRIDAY, 22.09.
09:00 – 10:30 Panel III: Modern Intimacy
Chair: Silke Steets
Larissa Pfaller (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“How to Make Friends – Idealizing and Functionalizing of Friendship in Popular
Self-Help Literature”
Theresa Siebach (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“Care and Activism: Exploring the Intersection of Sentimentalism, Intimacy, and Politics in
‘Self-Care’ Culture”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break (Neue UB)
11:00 – 12:30 Panel III: Modern Intimacy
Chair: Katharina Gerund
Charleena Schweda (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“’More than a toy, […] a part of the family’: Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Interpersonal
Intimacy and Family Values in M3GAN (2023)”
Sarah Pritz (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“Sentimental Spaces, Space for Sentimentality? Towards a Sociological Concept of the
Sentimental Using the Example of ‘Lost Places’”
12:30 – 13:00 Wrap-Up

20.09. – 22.09.
Poster Session: The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics (Neue UB)