Panels

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Call for Papers: 2015 ASECS

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Goethe Society of North America (GSNA) Session at ASECS, Los Angeles, March 2015

The Idea of Europe in the Goethezeit

Convener, John H. Smith, Dept. of European Languages and Studies, University of California, IrvineThe decades around 1800 in German-speaking countries saw major developments in the arts, society, politics, and philosophy that fostered thinking about both nationalism and cosmopolitanism. But the idea of "Europe," which one could say lies between those two poles, also became a focus. Paul Michael Lützeler explored the topic of "Goethe and Europe" in his South Atlantic Quarterly essay (2000), which we can take as a point of departure for this session. We will explore the way Europe was conceived in relation to questions of both national identity and universalism for thinkers of the late Enlightenment, Classicism, Idealism, and Romanticism.Please send 250-word proposals to John H. Smith by September 5, 2014.

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2014 GSA Panels

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Special GSNA Sessions at theAnnual Convention of the German Studies AssociationSeptember 18-21, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri

Organizer: John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh

The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit I: Political Spaces

Moderator: Tove Holmes, McGill UniversityCommentator: John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh

  1. Christian Weber, Florida State University:"An Explosive Compression of Space: Kleist’s Anecdotal 'Tagesbegebenheiten' in the Berliner Abendblätter”
  2. Hamid Tafazoli, University of Luxembourg:"Poetologische Funktion des Raumes in Goethes West-östlichem Divan”
  3. Joseph O’Neil, University of Kentucky:"Goethe and the Spatial Trope in Political Theology”
The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit II: Spatial Configurations in the Wilhelm Meister Novels

Moderator: Hamid Tafazoli, University of LuxembourgCommentator: Christian Weber, Florida State University

  1. Colin Benert, DePaul University/ University of Chicago:"The Space of Memory in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”
  2. Jason Groves, Yale University:"The Shock of the Earth: Geoaesthetics in the Goethezeit”
  3. Christina Hinz, Johns Hopkins University:"Spatial Movements and Astronomical Formations in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder Die Entsagenden”
The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit III: Literary Landscapes, Soundscapes, and Mindscapes

Moderator: Joseph O’Neil, University of KentuckyCommentator: Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College

  1. Tove Holmes, McGill University:"Viewing Spaces: Literary Landscapes around 1800”
  2. Alexander Sorenson, University of Chicago:"Hearing das Unerhörte: Sense and the Space of Haunting in Gottfried August Bürger’s Lenore and Heinrich von Kleist’s Das Bettelweib von Locarno”
  3. Stephanie Großman and Stefan Halft, University of Passau:"Entering the Romantic Mindscape: Changing Concepts of Space in Eichendorff’s Marmorbild and Hoffmann’s Die Bergwerke zu Falun”