The Department of Modern Languages, the Department of English and the 
Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex are co-hosting
the 
following conference during 27-29 June 2003:
Otto Weininger's  Sex and Character:
A Centenary Re-evaluation

University of Sussex

27-29 June 2003

This international conference celebrates the centenary of Otto
Weininger's Sex and Character and marks the forthcoming publication of
Ladislaus Löb's complete English translation by Indiana University
Press. The conference will provide a full re-evaluation of the book and
assess both its cultural and intellectual legacies and Weininger's
continuing relevance today.

Themes include:

Weininger and Time
Weininger and Masculinity
Weininger and Wittgenstein
Weininger, Androgyny and Genius
Weininger's Influence and Reception
Weininger, Literature and the First Republic
Weininger, Psychoanalysis, Sexology and Love
Weininger, Anti-Semitism and 'The Woman Question'

Website: www.sussex.ac.uk/modernist/activities/index.html

Enquiries: Nick Hubble ([log in to unmask]), Arts B, University of 
Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QN.

FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

Friday, 27 June, Meeting House

9.30-10.00: Registration (Tea/Coffee), followed by Opening Welcome 
(10.00-10.15)

Keynote Address: 10.15-11.15
Marilyn Reizbaum (Brunswick):   	
Weininger and the Genealogy of Jewish Degeneration

11.15-11.45: Tea/Coffee

Session 1: Weininger and Psychology
Béla Szabados (Saskatchewan):         	
Soul Men: Weininger's and Wittgenstein's        Reconceptions of Psychology

Flavia Monceri (Pisa)           	
The Quest for Identity in Weininger's Sex and Character

Discussion (12.45-13.00)

13.00-14.00: LUNCH

Session 2: Weininger and Time
Gilbert Carr (Dublin):          	
Time and Character

David Stern (Iowa)              	
Weininger and Wittgenstein on Time and Logic

Joachim Schulte (Bielefeld)     	
Wittgenstein and Weininger. Time, Life, World

Discussion (15.30-16.00)

16.00-16.30: Tea/Coffee

Session 3: Weininger, Androgyny and Genius
Natalia Blokhina (Moscow):      	
Weininger's Influence and Reception in Russia

Barbara Allen (Providence):     	
Modernism: Suffrage, Homosexuality and Masculinity

Discussion (17.30-17.45)

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Saturday 28 June, IDS Room 221

Session 4: Weininger, Psychoanalysis, Sexology, and Love
T. Fiehrer (New Orleans):       	
Sade, Weininger and Kinsey: Three Phases in the Anthropology of Gender

Matthew Bennett (Norwich)       	
Weininger and Freud on Sexual Biology

Discussion (11.00-11.15)

11.15-11.45: Tea/Coffee

Martin Liebscher (London):      	
Love and Distance in the Work of Weininger and Nietzsche

Rudolf Haller (Graz)            	
Love and Memory

Discussion (12.45-13.00)

13.00-14.00: LUNCH

Session 5: Weininger and Masculinity
Christine Achinger (Nottingham):	
The Bourgeois Subject and Its Enemies: 'Female' Nature and 'Jewish'
Society 
in Geschlecht und Charakter

Ulrike Peters (Michigan):       	
Feared Desire. The Crisis of Masculinity in Otto Weininger's Geschlecht
und 
Charakter

Steven Burns (Halifax)          	
Fathers and Daughters--Fathers and Sons: a Theme in Weininger

Discussion (15.30-16.00)

16.00-16.30: Tea/Coffee

Keynote Address: 16.30-17.30
Allan Janik (Innsbruck)         	
The Dionysian Element in Kant, or How Nietzsche Influenced Weininger

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Sunday 29 June, IDS Room 221

Session 6: Weininger, Literature and the First Republic
Ritchie Robertson (Oxford):     	
Weininger's Reception of Scandinavian Literature

Laura A. McLary (Portland):     	
Egon's Gerti and Georg's Grete: Weininger and the Representation of the 
Sister in the Works of Egon Schiele and Georg Trakl

David Luft (San Diego):         	
Weininger and Doderer

Discussion (11.00-11.30)

11.30-11.45: Tea/Coffee

Session 7: Weininger, Culture and Society
Friedhelm Bertulies (Taegu)
Otto Weininger's Semiotics of Culture

Marina Allal (Freiburg/Paris):	
Following the Traces of Sex and Character under the First Austrian 
Republic: Between Fascination and Recuperation

Discussion (12.45-13.00)

13.00-14.00: LUNCH

Keynote Address: 14.00-15.00

Louis Sass (New Jersey):                Title t.b.a


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Organised by the Department of Modern Languages, the Department of
English and the Centre for Modernist Studies
Programme Details: www.sussex.ac.uk/modernist/activities/index.html
Enquiries: Nick Hubble ([log in to unmask])

To register, please return the form below with payment (cheques payable
to the University of Sussex) by 31 May to: Dr N. Hubble, Arts B,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QN.
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Full fee (3 days):      £60.00 (waged) ____           £40.00 (unwaged/student) ____
Fri. 27 June only:      £22.00 (waged) ____           £15.00 (unwaged/student) ____
Sat. 28 June only:      £22.00 (waged).____           £15.00 (unwaged/student) ____
Sun. 29 June only:      £20.00 (waged) ____           £12.00 (unwaged/student) ____

                                        TOTAL PAYMENT ENCLOSED:        ____

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Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex Library
Brighton
BN1 9QL
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