SATURDAY, 9 November
8:15-9:15 am: GSNA Business Meeting
9:15-9:45 am: Morning Coffee and Breakfast
9:45-10:45 am: Plenary Panel: Dan Wilson, Karin Schutjer, Horst Lange
11:00am-12:30 pm: PANEL SERIES IV:
10. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Goethezeit
Moderator: Todd Kontje
Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Reading Goethe in the World: Postcolonialism and the Bildungsroman”
Heidi Grek, College of the Holy Cross, “The Dichotomous Worlds of Herder”
Adam Davis, University of California, Davis, “Discordant Ideations of a German Nation? - Contrasting Herder and Fichte’s Nationalistic Conceptualizations”
11. Interiority, Identity, and Inner Worlds
Moderator: Eleanor ter Horst
Erin Ritchie, University of Illinois at Chicago, “The World Within: Ottilie’s Active Interiority in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften”
Mary Grayson Brook, Rice University, “[U]m der gebrechlichen Einrichtung der Welt willen”: Gender, Genre, and World in Kleist’s Die Marquise von O“
Jeffrey Jarzomb, University of Washington, Seattle, “‘Immer in eine fremde, feindliche Welt’: The Limits of Cosmopolitanism in Therese Huber’s Geschichte eines armen Juden (1815)“
12. Cultural Journalism in the World (2)
Moderator: Karin Schutjer
Daniel Purdy, Penn State University, “Weimar Media Competition between Goethe and Bertuch”
Michael Swellander, Skidmore College, “Making German Literature World-Ready in the Journals of Junges Deutschland”
Sean Franzel, University of Missouri, “Publication Format and the ‘World’: Rahel Varnhagen, Friedrich von Gentz, Hannah Arendt”
13. The Worlds of Faust (3)
Moderator: Jessica C. Resvick
Anne Bohnenkamp, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, „"Neue Aufregung zu Faust". Beobachtungen zur Arbeit am zweiten Teil“
Ernst Osterkamp, Humboldt University Berlin, „Felsbuchten, Vor dem Palaste des Menelas zu Sparta, Offene Gegend: Lebenswelten zwischen Land und Meer in Goethes 'Faust II'“
12:30-1:45 pm: LUNCH and GOETHEANA Exhibit in Coates Library
1:45-3:15 pm-PANEL SERIES V:
14. From Tahiti to Taurus: "Island Texts" around 1800”
Moderated by Chunjie Zhang
(Sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Catriona MacLeod, University of Chicago, “From Barkcloth to Ballgown: Dressing up as a Tahitian Shepherdess in Göttingen”
Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College, “Fantasy Worldbuilding in J.H. Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere”
Joseph O’Neil, Miami University of Ohio, “Forster's Archipelago: World-Regimes of Politics and Aesthetics”
Kirk Wetters, Yale University, “Island Getaway: Heinse's Ardinghello und die glückseligen Inseln“
15. Metaphysics of Worlds (2)
Moderated by Birgit Tautz
Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, “Dark Metaphysics: Vico, Schelling, Hegel”
Jocelyn Holland, California Institute of Technology, “The Possible Impossible: Metaphysics, World, and Uncertain Light”
Leif Weatherby, New York University, “Worldlessness”
16. Goethe’s Cosmology
Moderated by Joel Lande
Margaret Strair, Bryn Mawr College, “Haphazard Worlds: Rome and Beauty Between Goethe and Simmel”
Hyang Jo, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, “The Concept of a World Soul in Goethe’s Poems ‘Weltseele’ and ‘Eins und Alles’”
Christian P. Weber, Florida State University, “Realization(s) of World in Goethe’s Poiesis”
17. Entanglements and Relationality
Moderator: Kit Belgum
John B. Lyon, Georgia Tech, “Entangled Worlds in Novalis”
Shiqi Xu, Duke University, “Bridging the Earthly and the Unearthly: The Quest for Home between Two Worlds in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen”
James Rasmussen, U.S. Air Force Academy, “Hölderlin’s Neue Welt: The Empedokles Project”
3:30-5:00 PANEL SERIES VI:
18. Vibrant Patterns: Physical Dynamics and Writing in Motion
Moderated by Mary Helen Dupree
Susan Morrow, Princeton, “Spuren auf dem Eise: Figure Skating as Inscription Technique around 1800”
Stefani Engelstein, Duke, „Pollen on the Page: Goethe, Novalis, and Writing Plant Sex”
Daniel Carranza, Harvard, “Kleist’s Deictic Gestures”
19. Timekeeping and Bookkeeping
Moderated by Bryan Klausmeyer
Luca Arens, Columbia University, “Goethe’s Dates: The Poetics of Temporal Ordering”
Patrick Woodard, Columbia University, “Bildung via Double Bookkeeping: Accounting Practice as Formative Poetics in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”
William Carter, Iowa State University, “Faust and Insurance: From Firefighting to Modern Risk Management”
20. Philosophy and Aesthetics
Moderated by Matthew Birkhold
Jakob Norberg, Duke University, “Schopenhauer’s World”
Christopher Chiasson, Southern Illinois University, “Faust between Worlds: The End of the Sublime and the Reign of Homo faber”
May Mergenthaler, Ohio State University, “Can Being be Light? Poetics vs. Metaphysics of Lights in 18th Century Poetry”
21. Politics and Poetics
Moderated by Claire Baldwin
Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, “Kleist’s Unnatural World”
Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin, “Goethe’s Forgotten World: The Holy Roman Empire”
Angus Nicholls, Queen Mary University of London, “Putting the Comparative Back into World Literature: Re-Reading Goethe on Global Literary Comparison”
Ellwood Wiggins, University of Washington, From Hausfreund to Weltfreund: Constructing the World in Johann Peter Hebel’s Kalendergeschichten”