Thursday, 27 November 2008
Room ST 273, 274, 275

09.15 Registration
09.45 Welcome and Introduction

10.00 Plenary Lecture
Duncan Large (Swansea): 'The Magic of the Extreme': Hyperbolic Rhetoric in Ecce Homo

10.45 Coffee

11.15 Parallel Sessions
Frank Chouraqui (Warwick): Culture, Knowledge and Politics from Schopenhauer as Educator to Ecce Homo
Rainer J. Hanshe (New York): From Metaphysics to Grains of Sand: On the Value of Small Things
Nicholas Martin (Birmingham): Ecce Homo: How One Reviews One's Self

12.00 Plenary Lecture
Lesley Chamberlain (London): Did Nietzsche want Success?

12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15 Parallel Sessions
James Griffith (Chicago): Nietzsche's Perfect Day: On the Exergue to Ecce Homo
Kathleen Merrow (Portland): 'How One Becomes What One Is': Intertextuality and Autobiography in Ecce Homo
Herman Siemens (Leiden): Nietzsche's 'Umwertung': On the Relation between 'War-Praxis' and 'Great Politics' in Ecce Homo

15.00 Plenary Lecture: Paul Bishop (Glasgow): Nietzsche's Concept of Character in Ecce Homo

15.45 Tea

16.15 Parallel Sessions
Rebecca Bamford (New York): Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh?
Andrew Inkpin (London): Ecce Homo: A 'Cheerful and Profound' Work?
Hugo Drochon (Cambridge): Why Great Politics is Nietzsche's Destiny

17.00 Plenary Lecture
Rüdiger Görner (London): 'Nitimur in vetitum' oder: 'Hat man mich verstanden?' Zu einer Argumentationsfigur in Nietzsches Ecce Homo

17.45 Reception

Friday, 28 November 2008
Room ST 273, 274, 275

09.30 Parallel Sessions
Anthony Jensen (Cincinnati): Historiography in Ecce Homo
C. Heike Schotten (Boston): 'Ecrasez l'infâme!': A Revolution for All and (N)one
André van der Braak (Amsterdam): 'How One Becomes What One Is'

10.15 Plenary Lecture
Daniel Conway (Texas): 'And so I tell my life to myself': Ecce Homo as an Exercise in Autobiography

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Parallel Sessions
Maria Branco (Lisbon): Nietzsche's Inspiration: Philosophical and Artistic Creative Freedom in Ecce Homo and Other Writings
Katrina Mitcheson (Warwick): Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's 'Honest Lie'
Aaron Parrett (Great Falls): Ecce Homo and Confessiones Augustini: Autobiography and the End(s) of Faith

12.15 Plenary Lecture
Carol Diethe (Fortrose): Rhubarb, Rhubarb

13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15 Parallel Sessions
Martine Prange (Amsterdam): Ecce Homo: Autobiography, Preface, or Model of Philosophical Life?
Yannick Souladié (Toulouse): A 'Foretaste' of Inversion
John Whitmire (Cullowhee): Apocalyptic 'Madness': Reading Ecce Homo

15.00 Plenary Lecture
Thomas Brobjer (Uppsala): The Purpose and Context of Ecce Homo

15.45 Tea

16.15 Parallel Sessions
Julia Happ (Oxford): '[K]ein Nordwind bin ich reifen Feigen': Nietzsche's Ambivalent Concepts of (Literary) Decadence
Alexander-Maria Zibis (Menden): Der Mut zum Eigen-Leben. Nietzsches Versuch mit Ecce Homo eine neue philosophische Tapferkeit zu demonstrieren
Martin Liebscher (London): Podachs zusammengebrochenes Werk: Erneutes Abschreiten der Grenzen pyschologischer Nietzsche-Deutung

17.00 Plenary Lecture
Werner Stegmaier (Greifswald): Schicksal Nietzsche? Zu Nietzsches Selbsteinschätzung als Schicksal der Philosophie und der Menschheit (Ecce Homo, 'Warum ich ein Schicksal bin', 1)

17.45 Concluding Discussion

18.00 End of Conference