Overriding Government: On the Theory, Iconography, and History of Storming, Assaulting, and Exploding Public Venues

Organizers: Dr. Melanie Merlin de Andrade (MPILHLT - Department Auer), Prof. Dr. Ricardo Spíndola Diniz (Universidade Federal do Tocantins - UFTO), Julius Schwarzwälder (TU Darmstadt), Martin Renz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

Please register by 01 October, 2025. Spaces are limited.

10:00—10:15
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dr. Melanie Merlin de Andrade

10:15—12:15
Panel I

• Prof. Dr. Luciana Villas Boas (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro): Storming Parliamentary Buildings in Germany, the US and Brazil: A Comparative Study in the Political Iconology of the Present
• Prof. Dr. Ricardo Spíndola Diniz (Universidade Federal do Tocantins): The irradiating and explosive light of fundamental rights: Paul Baumgarten, the Rote Zora, and the history of the building of the Bundesverfassungsgericht

Chair: Dr. Melanie Merlin de Andrade

12:15—13:30
Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:30
Panel II

• Dorothea Douglas (Graduiertenkolleg Organizing Architecture / TU Darmstadt): Terrible Pictures: Jan. 6th and the Aufgabe of Bildwissenschaften
• Julius Schwarzwälder (TU Darmstadt) & Martin Renz (Goethe Universität): The Formation of Massive Images: Stormings, Inundations, and Other Irresistibles

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ricardo Spíndola Diniz​