PROGRAM
Conference Location
All conference events (unless otherwise indicated on the program) will take place at:
David Rubenstein Forum
University of Chicago
Address: 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4th
5:00-7:00 PM
Opening reception
University Room A
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th
8:00–8:45 AM
Continental breakfast/Registration, Peter May Boardroom
8:00 AM–4:45 PM
Book Display, Bernard J. Delgiorno Conference Room
8:45–10:00 AM
Welcome and Presidential Forum
Peter May Boardroom • [Zoom]
Anne Walters Robertson, Dean, Humanities Division (University of Chicago)
Catriona MacLeod, GSNA President (University of Chicago)
“Goethe’s Thinking Through Things,” Daniel Purdy (Pennsylvania State University)
“From Books to Beer, From Freemasonry to Fricassee: Working with Goethe’s (and Carl August’s) Invoices,” W. Daniel Wilson (University of London)
“Competing Interventions: The Clinic, Self-Care, and Cure,” Alice Kuzniar (University of Waterloo)
10:15–11:45 AM
Session 1: The Precarity of Things around 1800
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Christian Weber (Florida State University)
“Goethe and the Disorder of Things,” Jocelyn Holland (California Institute of Technology)
“Unconditioning Objects,” Gabriel Trop (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)
“How Nothing Becomes a Thing,” Leif Weatherby (New York University)
Session 2: Sculpture and Aesthetics
Room 602 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago)
“‘[...] über allen Ausdruck groß und herrlich:’ Goethe on Colossal Artworks,” Florian Breitkopf (University of Pennsylvania)
“Historicizing the Ideal: Goethe and the Antiquarian Sciences,” Daniel Carranza (Harvard University)
“The Thingly Statue and the Decline of Allegorical Self-Evidence in German Romanticism,” Chris Chiasson (Southern Illinois University)
Session 3: Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts I
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Jonathan Fine (Brown University)
“‘Exakte sinnliche Phantasie’ and the Genesis of Morphological Concepts,” Iris Hennigfeld (Leuphana University)
“Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Plan,” John Noyes (University of Toronto)
“‘Zerbrochen ist das Steuer:’ The Goethean Modulation of Form,” Bryan Norton (University of Pennsylvania)
Session 4: Fabric/s and Metal
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: William Carter (Iowa State University)
“Gewebe,” Martha Helfer (Rutgers University)
“Gespinst/Schleier,” Dorothea von Mücke (Columbia University)
“Iron Mendings: Götz von Berlichingen's Prosthetic Hand,” Isabelle Egger (Columbia University)
Session 5: Fashions and Luxury
University A • [Zoom] • Moderator: Karin Wurst (Michigan State University)
“Integrating Foreign Luxuries within the German Idyl,” Daniel Purdy (Penn State University)
“Clothing, Makeup, and Desire: Material Mediation in ‘Der Mann von fünfzig Jahren,’” Joseph Haydt (University of Chicago)
“Luxury and Acceleration around 1800,” Matt Erlin (Washington University)
12:00–1:15 PM
“Die Dinge und die Gelegenheiten. Die Bedeutung materieller Gegenstände für Goethes Lyrik,” Ernst Osterkamp (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Peter May Boardroom • [Zoom]
Moderator: David Wellbery (University of Chicago)
1:15–2:30 PM
Lunch, The dining room
2:30-2:45 Pm
Break, Peter May Boardroom
2:45–4:15 PM
Session 1: Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts II
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Clark Muenzer (University of Pittsburgh)
“Flower,” Horst Lange (University of Central Arkansas)
“Goethe’s Yo-Yo,” Jane Brown (University of Washington)
“Actor as Mediator in the Hoftheater Experiments,” Ashley Clark (University of Chicago)
Session 2: Werkpraktiken/Work Practices
Room 602 • [Zoom] Moderator: Vance Byrd
“Das römische Carneval across Book and Journal Formats,” Sean Franzel (University of Missouri)
“Museum Work and the Profanity of the Temple of Art,” Alice Goff (University of Chicago)
“‘Alles ist Blatt’: Goethe’s Paperwork,” Bryan Klausmeyer (Virginia Tech)
Session 3: Poetic Exchange and Transformation
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Daniel Carranza (Harvard University)
“‘Gib dich mir aus freier Wahl’: Poems as Objects of Exchange in Goethe’s West-Östlicher Divan,” Eleanor ter Horst (University of South Alabama)
“Ways of Becoming Water in Goethe’s Lyric Poetry,” Jingsi Shen (University of Washington)
“Reineke's Fabulous Things: Objects, Animals, and Examples in Goethe's Reineke Fuchs,” Allan Madin (University of Pennsylvania)
Session 4: Goethe’s Kosmos: The Makeup of the World in Faust
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Dorothea von Mücke (Columbia University)
“The Elements of Stagecraft: On Clouds, Images, and Other Duplicitous Things in Goethe’s Faust,” Katerina Korola (University of Chicago)
“‘Nur mit dem Gold herein!’ The Creation of Metals and Origins of Metallurgy in Goethe’s Faust,” Del A. Maticic (New York University)
“Lord of the Fly? Mephistopheles in the World of Fashion,” Benjamin Nikota (New York University)
4:45–6:00 PM
Smart Museum of Art, Study Room Exhibition
(pre-registration required)
6:30-7:30 PM
Reception for hotel guests at the Sophy Hotel, Fireside Lounge
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6th
8:00–8:45 AM
Continental breakfast/Registration, Peter May Boardroom
8:00 AM–4:45 PM
Book Display, Bernard J. Delgiorno Conference Room
8:45–10:15 AM
Session 1: Science and Perception
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Jocelyn Holland (California Institute of Technology)
“From Farbenlehre to Geisterlehre: Goethe and Kerner on Synesthesia and Senses,” Margaret Strair (Bryn Mawr College)
“On Seeing Things: Goethe’s Changing States of Perception in Dichtung und Wahrheit,” Daniel DiMassa (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
“Goethe's Entoptic Colours via Chladni's Sound Figures,” Steven Lydon (Oxford University)
“Goethe’s Naturalism,” Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins University)
session 2: Goethe and the Divine
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“Divine Precincts and the Inviolability of Life,” Joel B. Lande (Princeton University)
“Whence God in Goethe’s Gott und Welt?” Karin Schutjer (University of Oklahoma)
“Die Dinge des Divan,” David Wellbery (University of Chicago)
Session 3: Things Worth Recovering: The Goethezeit and the Future of Feminist Theory
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois–Chicago
“Apparitional Texts: Re-examining Women-authored Gothic in German Studies,” Sarah Luly (Kansas State University)
“Dreaming with the Orient: Benedikte Naubert and Fictions of the East,” Julie Koser (University of Maryland)
“Karoline von Günderrode’s Hildgund: Recovery and Reception in Contemporary Drama,” Amy Emm (The Citadel)
10:15-10:30 AM
Break, Peter May Boardroom
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session 1: Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts III
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator, Iris Henningfeld (Leuphana University)
“Un-, Ein, All, Ur-, and Ewig: Goethe's Satyros and his Heterodox Things,” Clark Muenzer (University of Pittsburgh)
“Gegenstände,” Jonathan Fine (Brown University)
“On Finite and Infinite Things in Goethe,” John H. Smith (University of California, Irvine)
“Materie: What Matters to Goethe,” Jennifer Caisley (University of Cambridge)
Session 2: Ruins and Renovations: Goethe’s Römische Elegien
Room 602 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Eleanor ter Horst (University of South Alabama)
“‘Saget, Steine, mir an’: Substance and Resonance,” Claire Baldwin (Colgate University)
“The Dynamic of Ruined Things – Antiquity in Goethe’s Römische Elegien” Sebastian Meixner (Universität Zürich)
Carolin Rocks, “The Dynamic of Ruined Things – Love in Goethe’s Römische Elegien,” Universität Hamburg
Session 3: Value and Commodity Culture
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Sean Franzel (University of Missouri)
“Goethe on Coins,” William Carter (Iowa State University)
“German Universalism and English Practicality: Novalis and Wedgwood,” Antje Pfannkuchen (Dickinson College)
“Comparisons Out of the Blue: Goethe, Wedgwood, and Novalis,” Séan Williams (University of Sheffield)
Session 4: Materiality and Theatrical Performance
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University)
“Iffland’s Prompt Books and the Language of Affect,” Vance Byrd (Grinnell College)
“Props to Goethe: Stage Objects between Function and Symbol,” Ellwood Wiggins (University of Washington)
“Media of Recognition in Minna von Barnhelm,” Luca Arens (Columbia University)
12:00–1:00 PM
Lunch, The Dining Room
1:00–2:30 PM
Session 1: Gifts and Circulation
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Elliott Schreiber (Vassar College)
“Regifting Goethe: Orality, Pedagogy, and the Anthology Around 1800,” Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University)
“Gift-Giving Machines: Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Gift-Giving,” Peter Erickson (Colorado State University)
“On the Merits of Circulation and Ideenbearbeitung: Josias Ludwig Gosch’s Fragmente über den Ideenumlauf and Novalis’s Blüthenstaub,” Dennis Schäfer (Princeton University)
Session 2: Social and Natural Landscapes
Room 602 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Heather Sullivan (Trinity University)
“Goethe and Climate Change,” Beate Allert (Purdue University)
“Mimetic Contagion in Goethe’s ‘Sankt-Rochus-Fest zu Bingen,’” Simon Friedland (University of Chicago)
“Minimal Exposure: Homeopathy on Contagion and Cure,” Alice Kuzniar (University of Waterloo)
Session 3: Books and Writing
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Carlos Spoerhase (Universität Bielefeld)
“Shelf Life: Goethe’s Library in a Network of Objects,” Stefan Höppner (Klassik Stiftung Weimar)
“Violence in Goethe’s Scenes of Writing,” Kurt Hollender (St. John’s University)
Session 4: Goethe’s Novels
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Birgit Tautz (Bowdoin College)
“Painting and the Self in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,” Nicholas Reynolds (Trinity University)
“The Obsession with Things and Overcoming Them in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,” Susan Gustafson (University of Rochester)
“Ungeschickt läßt grüßen: Benjamin and Goethe’s Things in Die Wahlverwandtschaften,” Joseph O’Neil (Miami University)
2:30-2:45 P AM
Break, Peter May Boardroom
2:45–4:15 PM
Session 1: Toys and Miniatures
Room 601 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Bryan Klausmeyer (Virginia Tech)
“The Fairy Tale as Fantastic Apparatus: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s ‘Der Kuckkasten,’” Elliott Schreiber (Vassar College)
“Goethe’s Gondolas and the Duke’s Diamonds,” Patricia Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
“Kästchen: Small Objects, Narrative Episodes,” Birgit Tautz (Bowdoin College)
Session 2: Philosophy of Things
Room 602 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Leif Weatherby (New York Unviersity)
“The Romantic Thing as Transitional Object,” Howard Pollack-Milgate (DePauw University)
“Faust Thinking Things,” Christian Weber (Florida State University)
“Collecting and Recollecting: Goethe’s Ephemeral Thinking and the Material World,” Renata Schellenberg, Mount Allison University
“Kleist’s Thing,” Edgar Landgraf (Bowling Green State University)
Session 3: Physicality of Emotions
Room 701 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Julie Koser (University of Maryland)
“Goethe and the Prose of the Everyday,” Karin Wurst (Michigan State University)
“Lotte’s Bird and the Language of Sexuality in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers,” Carl Niekerk (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
“An Indebted Goethe? La Roche's Influence on Werther,” Maryann Piel (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Session 4: Moving Things
Room 702 • [Zoom] • Moderator: Karin Schutjer (University of Oklahoma)
“Moving Textures: Affect, Touch, and Meaning in Grillparzer’s Kloster bei Sendomir,” Imke Meyer (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“Moving Pictures: Movement without Bildung in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,” Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois–Chicago)
“Goethe’s Moving Plants,” Heather Sullivan (Trinity University)
4:15 PM
Art tour of the Rubenstein forum
5:30–7:00 PM
Keynote Address
“‘Äußere Form’: On Goethe’s Format Theory,” Carlos Spoerhase (Universität Bielefeld)
Peter May Boardroom • [Zoom]
7:00–9:00 PM
Dinner, City View Room
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7th
8:30–11:30 AM
Dissertation Workshop, Breakfast
1) Faculty readers: Patty Simpson and Gabriel Trop: Romanticism
Cobb Hall, Room 219
Austen Hinkley
Ella Wilhelm
2) Faculty readers: Heather Sullivan and Heidi Schlipphacke: Goethe
Cobb Hall, Room 202
Ben Swakopf
Tianya Wang
3) Faculty readers: John Smith and Daniel Purdy: Idealism/Early Romantic Theory
Cobb Hall, Room 203
David Takamura
Joseph Haydt