Contre\Enquête. Political and Aesthetic Forms of Investigation – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Thursday, May 15
13:00—13:30: Welcome and Reception
13:30—14:00: Felix Trautmann (Frankfurt) & Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen): Introduction

14:00—15:00: Laure Piguet (Berlin/Fribourg): “Enquête” or “Contre-enquête”? The Quantitative Surveys of Parisian Workers in the 1840s”
15:00—16:00: Christiane Schwab (München): From Caricature to Reformist Reportage: The Evolution of Social Observation in the Periodical Press, 1820—1870
Chair: Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen)

16:30—17:30: Franziska Wildt (Frankfurt/Offenbach): Peter Weiss and the Aesthetics of Counterinvestigation
17:30—18:30: Émeline Fourment (Rouen/Konstanz): Between Counter-Expertise and French Medical Knowledge: Vacuum Aspiration and the Movement against Paragraph 218 in West Germany (1973—1976)
Chair: Léa Renard (Heidelberg)

18:45—19:45: Maria Sitte (Hamburg/Frankfurt): The Ambivalent Role of Visual Credibility: Forensic Architecture and the Concept of “Counter Forensics”
Chair: Franziska Wildt (Frankfurt/Offenbach)

Friday, May 16
09:00—10:30: Network Session
Dirk Braunstein (Frankfurt): Archives of Investigation. Revisiting the Political Research Practice of the early Frankfurt School
Chair: Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen)

10:30—12:00: Network Meeting

13:00—14:30: Aluízio Marino (InfoCitizen, Antwerp), Catharina Dietrich (Data Politics, Frankfurt) Andreas Brück (K­Lab Berlin), Tobias Krauch (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt), and Timotheus Kartmann (DAM/Uni Frankfurt): Urban Counter-Inquiries: Aesthetics and Politics of Investigation in the City
Chair: Janine Hagemeister (Data Politics, Uni Frankfurt)

14:45—16:15: Christian Hammermann (Hamburg), NSU­Watch (tbc) and Max Pichl (Wiesbaden): Who investigates the investigators? The Case of Parliamentary Inquiries into the Right-Wing Terror of the NSU
Chair: Felix Trautmann (Frankfurt)

Please register until May 10 by email at: info[at]enquete-cultures.org