Events
Wednesday, 22 - Friday, 24 April 2009
Co-Ordinators: Daniel Hall and Maike Oergel (Nottingham)
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome and Introduction
Maike Oergel and Daniel Hall (Nottingham): Transnational Cultural and Intellectual Networks around 1800
14.30 Keynote Lecture
Elinor Shaffer (London): The Role of Hostilities in Literary Reception: Changing Ideologies and Images
15.30 Tea
16.00 Cultural Transfers: Translation and Reception
Barry Murnane (Halle): Radical Translations: Dubious Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790s
Angela Wright (Sheffield): Contaminated Waters: Gothic Invasions of the English Channel in the 1790s
Galin Tihanov (Manchester): Work, Value and Property: Post-Romantic Positions in the Weimar Republic
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
9.30 Keynote Lecture
Susanne Kord (London): Lotte in London: English Werther-Stories of the 1790s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Campaign against Sentimentality
10.30 Coffee
11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS: Women Writers and Revolutionary Practices
Julia Augart (Nairobi): The Influence of the French Revolution on Sophie Mereau’s Work and Ideas
Zefiryna Zegnalek (Lodz): Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vision of Society as Opposition to Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Views on Social Relations?
11.00 Periodicals and the Revolution
Renata Schellenberg (Sackville, NB): Print and Preserve: Periodicals in late 18th-century Germany
Birgit Tautz (Brunswick, ME): Revolution, Abolition, Aesthetic Compensation: German Responses to News from France in the 1790s
Christian Deuling (Jena): Aesthetics and Politics in the Journal London and Paris (1798-1815)
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Modernity
Christine Blättler (Stanford/Berlin): Superman’s Effort Required: on Immanuel Kant’s Moral Philosophy
Peter Krilles (Paris): Knowledge and Imagination at the End of the 18th Century: New Epistemological Paradigms in Early German Romanticism
Jennifer Horan (New York/Paris): Love and the Coming Community: Poetic Drama in Hölderlin and Shelley
14.30 Social Perils/Social Progress
David McCallam (Sheffield): Xavier de Maistre and Angelology
Melissa Deininger (Pittsburgh): Sade and Revolutionary Boundaries
16.30 Tea
17.00 Keynote Lecture
Judith Still (Nottingham): A Fictional Response to the Categorical Imperative: Women Refugees, Servants and Slaves
19.00 Conference Dinner (further details)
Friday, 24 April 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House
9.00 The Impact of the French Revolution on the 'Res Publica'
Daniel Wilson (London): The French Revolution in Weimar
Maike Oergel (Nottingham): Changing Authorities on the HMS Bounty: Public Images of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian in the 1790s in Britain and Germany
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Cultural Referents: Art and Antiquity
Sibylle Erle (Lincoln): William Blake’s Response to Late 18th-Century Physiognomic Theory: Re-Viewing the Relationship between Text and Image
Laura Belloni (Milan): The French Revolution from a 20th-Century Perspective: The Sacrifice of a Foretopman of the British Fleet in 1797 in the Words and Music of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd
Ian Macgregor Morris (Nottingham) and Uta Degner (Berlin): Événements de Circonstance: The Ancient World in the Age of Revolution
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Literature, Philosophy and Politics
Jakob Ladegaard (Aarhus): Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion and the French Revolution
Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham): Challenging Time(s): Memory, Politics and the Philosophy of Time in Jean Paul’s Quintus Fixlein
Imke Heuer (Chawton House/York): ‘That war with softer cares may be united’: Harriet Lee, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the Thirty Years’ War and the Politics of Adaptation
16.00 Tea
16.30 Keynote Lecture
Andrew Bowie (London): The Idea of Revolution in Philosophy: Kant and German Idealism
17.30 End of Conference
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 27 March 2009.
Conference Fees
3 Days
£55.00
£50.00 Reduced Rate
£35.00 Student Rate
1 Day
£35.00
£30.00 Reduced Rate
£25.00 Student Rate
Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only
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