All events related to the Conference take place in the Conference Room at the College of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
MONDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2024
8.45-9.00 Opening Address: Jerzy Axer, Agata Zalewska, Szymon Wróbel
9.00-9.50 Keynote Lecture: Michał Paweł Markowski
Cruelty, Community, and Culture. A Case Study
9.50-10.00 Coffee Break
10.00-11.30 Panel 1 – Theorising Cruelty
Nikolai Kostin, “Techne”, personality and violence. The theories of L. Karsawin and Y. Hui
Ivan Dimitrijević, Cruelty through its opposites
Bettina Szabados, Does Cruelty have Ethic?
11.30-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-12.30 Keynote Lecture: Adam Lipszyc
At the Back of My Head: Cruelty, Submission and Desire in Dolan’s Tom at the Farm
12.30-12.40 Coffee Break
12.40-13.30 Keynote Lecture: Paweł Dybel
Ontological Cruelty and Art. The Surreal World of Hans Bellmer’s Dolls
13.30-14.20 Lunch
14.20-15.20 Panel 2 – Social Infrastructures of Cruelty
Felix Birch, Infrastructure and the Rhythm of Cruelty
Jakub Babuśka and Dorota Orzechowska, Cruelty Without Intimacy. Cruelty Beyond Subjectivity – The Great Silence of Institutions
15.20-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.20 Keynote Lecture: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Mickey Mouse and Cruel Technicity: Revisiting Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Technical Reproducibility in the Age of AI
16.20-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Panel 3 – Technological Cruelty
Brett Zehner and Adam Kingsmith, The Gray Race: How Tech is Re-racializing White Supremacy in the Age of Brutalism
Denis Petrina, The Cruelty of Code
Tirza Ben-Ezzer, Civilization and its Digital-contents: Fascism in the Internet-Age
18.00-18.10 Coffee Break
18.10-19.00 Keynote Lecture: Monika Rogowska-Stangret
Slow Brutalism of Exhausted Bodies-Environments. Case Study for the Cross-Scale Ethics for the Anthropocene
TUESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2024
9.00-9.50 Keynote Lecture: Jakub Momro
Terror of the Ear
9.50-10.00 Coffee Break
10.00-11.30 Panel 4 – Representations
Eero Suorsa, Brutalized Body: Representations of Aesthetic Surgery and Wretched of the Earth
Alicja Antosz, Unbearable Happiness of Writing. The Cruelty of Euphoria according to Franz Kafka’s Letters and Diaries
11.30-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-12.30 Keynote Lecture: Joanna Bednarek
“That Misbegotten Accident of Space”. Realism, Materialism and the Question of Affect in Philosophy
12.30-12.40 Coffee Break
12.40-13.30 Keynote Lecture: Ewa Mazierska
The Violence and Kindness of Modernity
13.30-14.20 Lunch
14.20-15.10 Keynote Lecture: Andrew Culp
On the Cruel Thrill of Exploiting Others
15.10-15.20 Coffee Break
15.20-16.50 Panel 5 – Cruel Capitalism
Andrzej Frelek, Bourgeois Coldness and Brutalized Nature
Václav Sklenář, Capitalist Realism Fifteen Years Later
Katarzyna Szafranowska, The Cruel Fantasy of Non-Relationality: Depressed Society in an Isolation Tank
16.50-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-18.30 Panel 6 Practices of Cruelty and Brutalism
Daniel Kisliakov, Envisioning Sociocultural Communication: Australian Insights for Human Cohesion
Maria Wodzińska, Brutalism of Migration/ Migration of Brutalism
Nestor Ngong Dzenchuo, Cruelness of Belligerents – Ambassonian War
18.30-18.40 Coffee Break
18.40 Closing Remarks: Szymon Wróbel
Werner Herzog or Documents of Cruelty