Workshop: Curiosity in German Literature and Culture from 1700 to the
Present
10 May 2008
Old Seminar Room, Wadham College, Oxford
9.00 Welcome
9.30 Johannes Birgfeld (Universität des Saarlandes): Just Farewell
Performances? Curiosity in Early-Eighteenth-Century German
Literature and a Specific Genre of Political Theatre
10.00 Ritchie Robertson (St John’s College, Oxford): Curiosity in the
Austrian Enlightenment
10.30 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Claude D. Conter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München): ‘Weltlust’ und Wissensdrang, ‘Augenlust’
und ‘abgebrochenes Wissen’: Zum Verhältnis
von Neugier und Wissen im 19. Jahrhundert
12.00 Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck College, London): Curiosity in the
Closet: Kuriositäten jenseits des Kuriositätenkabinetts
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham): Intellectual Obscenity: Curiosity in Der
Zauberberg
15.00 Andrew Webber (Churchill College, Cambridge): Secrets and Keys:
Psychoanalysis and Film through the Case of Pabst’s Geheimnisse
einer Seele
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Coffee
16.30 Carolin Duttlinger (Wadham College, Oxford): The Ethics of
Curiosity: Ruth Klüger, weiter leben
17.00 Discussion and concluding plenary debate (until 17.45)
Funded by the British Academy
Organised by Johannes Birgfeld and Carolin Duttlinger
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