FRIDAY, 8 November
8:30-9:00 am: Welcome Coffee and Breakfast, Introductions
(Camden House Books table with Jim Walker available throughout conference)
9:00-9:35 am: Past Presidents Panel (Catriona MacLeod, Daniel Purdy, Clark Muenzer)
9:35-10:45 am: Plenary 1: Prof. Dr. Marion Schmaus, University of Marburg: “‚Vom Klang und Missklang der Welt: Natur, Geschlecht und ‚Rasse‘ in Goethes ‘‘Der Zauberflöte zweiter Teil’ und ‘Faust’”
Break: 10:45-11:00
11:00 am-12:30 pm: PANEL SERIES I
1. Travel and the World
Moderator: Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge
Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego: “The Invisible Hand and the Botanical Capsule: The Worlds of Adelbert von Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihl”
Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College, “Health(y) Worlds?”
Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University, “Leaving the (Western) World Behind: Orientalism in Marianne Ehrmann’s Leichtsinn und gutes Herz (1786)“
2. Dynamics in Worlds
Moderator: Daniel Purdy
Horst Lange, Emeritus, University of Central Arkansas, “Moving from Smaller to Larger Worlds and Back: Faust’s Failing Trajectory in Faust I”
Maya von und zur Mühlen, Duke University, “Atmospheres: The creation of a planetary perspective in the poetry of Goethe and Blake”
Ella Wilhelm, University of Chicago, “Runge’s Spheres and the Dynamics of Welt in Der Kleine Morgen (1808)”
3. The Worlds of Faust II (1)
Moderator: Matthew Childs
Eva Geulen, **Berlin**, “Über die 'Hefte zur Morphologie' in den 'Faust': Abwege und mögliche Auswege“
Daniel Carranza, Harvard, “Faustian Desire in Anmutige Gegend“
Kirk Wetters, Yale, “Poverty, Excess, Poetry: The "Hunger Man" in Faust II and Sokurov's Faust”
12:30-1:45 pm: LUNCH; and GOETHEANA Exhibit in Coates Library
1:45-3:15 pm: PANEL SERIES II
4. Goethe’s Science
Moderator: Elliot Schreiber
Bryan Klausmeyer (Virginia Tech), “Microworlds: Goethe’s Particles”
Jessica C. Resvick, Oberlin College, “Goethe’s Invisible Hands: Art, Craft, Chirognomy”
Ross Shields, Macalester College, “Goethes Gegenwelt”
5. Metaphysics of Worlds (1)
Moderator: Susan Morrow
Bryan Norton, Stanford University, “Poetry at the End of the World: Hölderlin and the Problem of Ancestrality”
Gabrielle Reid, Yale, “Schelling’s Magnet and the Possibility of Metaphysics”
Howard Pollack-Milgate, DePauw University, “World Metaphysics Inside-Out”
6. Subjectivity, Duality, and Network
Moderator: Gabriel Trop
Almut Nickel, Kassel, “Aus der Welt - In die Welt: Von Vergangenheit und Zukunft: Zur Freimaurerei in Goethes Märchen“ (1795)“
Josiah Simon, Austin Waldorf School, Austin, TX, “‘Drinnen und Draußen − Droben und Drunten‘: Goethe’s “World” as a Principle of Orientation“
Austen Hinkley, Yale University, “Wit and Nexus: Holding the (Poetic) World Together”
Maryann Piel, The College of Charleston, “A Woman’s Path to Literary Celebrity: Rahel Varnhagen’s Salon and Epistolary Writing”
3:30-5:00 pm: PANEL SERIES III:
7. Cultural Journalism and the World (1)
Moderator: Ellwood Wiggins
Richard B. Apgar, Sewanee: University of the South, “Un/Known Parts: The World of the Periodical around 1800”
Claire Baldwin, Colgate University, “Reading the World in Der teutsche Merkur”
Kit Belgum, University of Texas at Austin, “Reporting from around the World: Johann Friedrich Cotta and Foreign Correspondence”
8. Worlds Within Worlds
Moderator: John Lyon
Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma, “Worlds within Worlds and the Configuration of Reality in Faust I”
Eleanor ter Horst, University of South Alabama, “Worlds Within Worlds: The Dispersal of Categorical Thinking in Goethe’s Die guten Frauen”
John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine, “The world of self-alienated spirit: Hegel Translates Goethe Translating Diderot’s World of Rhetoric”
9. World of Faust II (2)
Moderator: Nick Reynolds
Joel Lande, Princeton,“Gebirgsgemasse: The Dramaturgy of War in Act IV”
Lars Friedrich, Universität Konstanz, “Faust als Deichbauingenieur“
David Wellbery, University of Chicago, “On the Structure of Act V “