“Who is this Schiller [now]?”
Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805-2009
California State University Long Beach
The Karl Anatol Center for Faculty Development
9:00am-6:00pm, Thursday September 10 -- Saturday September 12, 2009
Papers in English Thursday and Friday, in German Friday evening through Saturday
www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/news_and_events
The life and works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- one of Germany’s
first historians, an important aesthetic theorist, and an international
dramatist and poet for the ages -- are among the best known of German and
world literature. From his first major drama, Die Räuber (The Robbers,
1781), to his last, Wilhelm Tell (1804), Schiller’s explosive original
artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in
timeless socio-historical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic
debate on the occasion of his 250th birthday in 2009. The 2009 Long Beach
Schiller Colloquium seeks to promote debate on the many flash-points and
canonical shifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his
works. Specifically, papers will address reception problems from Schiller’s
time to the present in pursuit of historical and contemporary answers to
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s prophetic expression of frightened admiration in
1794: “Who is this Schiller?” -- Who has he been? -- and Who is this
Schiller now?
The event is open to the public at no cost.
SPEAKERS
Erhard Bahr (University of California Los Angeles), Jeffrey Barnouw
(University of Texas, Austin), Matthew Bell (King’s College, London),
Frederick Burwick (University of California Los Angeles), María del Rosario
Acosta (Universidad de los Andes), Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo (University of
Puget Sound), Bernd Fischer (Ohio State University), Gail Hart (University
of California Irvine), Fritz Heuer (Universität Heidelberg), Hans H. Hiebel
(Universität Graz), Jeffrey L. High (California State University Long
Beach), Walter Hinderer (Princeton University), Paul Kerry (Brigham Young
University), Erik Knoedler (California State University Long Beach,
Elisabeth Krimmer (University of California Davis), Laura Anna Macor
(University of Padua, Italy), Dennis Mahoney (University of Vermont),
Nicholas Martin (University of Birmingham), John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt
University), Yvonne Nilges (Oxford University), Norbert Oellers (Universität
Bonn), Peter Pabisch (University of New Mexico), David Pugh (Queen’s
University), T. J. Reed (University of Oxford), Wolfgang Riedel (Universität
Würzburg), Jörg Robert (Universität Würzburg), Ritchie Robertson (University
of Oxford), Jeffrey L. Sammons (Yale University), Henrik Sponsel (California
State University Long Beach)
The event is sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service New York, the
Goethe Institute San Francisco, the German Consulate in Los Angeles, the
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Department of Romance, German, and
Russian Languages and Literatures, The CSULB Bookstore, the Deans of the
College of Liberal Arts, the Library, and the Graduate School; and the
Office of the President at California State University Long Beach.
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