WORKSHOP
Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated:
>From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist
Friday, 11 February 2000
10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Co-Ordinators:
JEREMY ADLER (King's College London) and
RICHARD FARDON (SOAS)
Franz Baermann Steiner grew up in the Prague of Rilke and Kafka,
knowing many key figures including Franz Werfel and Max Brod.
During and after the war, as an exile in England, he became a close
friend of Elias Canetti, Michael Hamburger and Iris Murdoch and, as
a professional anthropologist, he became a major figure in the
Oxford School around Evans-Pritchard and a shaping force in
modern British anthropology. His thinking is reflected in works as
diverse as Canetti's Masse und Macht, Iris Murdoch's Message to
the Planet and Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
RÜDIGER GÖRNER (London/Aston): '"trennungen, durchs eigne
wort". Franz Baermann Steiner - Writer after Rilke and Kafka';
MARY DOUGLAS (London): 'Franz Steiner and the Sociology of
Danger'; MICHAEL MACK (Chicago): 'Franz Steiner and Elias
Canetti'; RICHARD FARDON (London): 'Franz Steiner's Political
Anthropology'; PETER CONRADI (London): 'Franz Steiner and Iris
Murdoch'; INES SCHLENKER (London): 'The Portraits of Canetti,
Steiner and Iris Murdoch by Marie Louise von Motesiczky';
MICHAEL HAMBURGER (Saxmundham): 'The Poet Franz
Baermann Steiner'; JEREMY ADLER (London): 'Danger, Myth, and
Prayer in Franz Steiner's Poetry' and LIA WILLIAMS will read from
the works of Franz Steiner and Iris Murdoch.
Vin d'honneur - Dinner following the workshop open to all
participants at their own expense
THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL
INSTITUTE, LONDON
Registration form available at:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/igs/HPEVENTS.htm#EVENTSWorkshopBaer
manndetail
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|