List members might be interested in the symposium below. Many thanks,
Seán Williams.
LITERATURE AND INSTITUTIONS
8th International Summer Symposium, University of Oxford
Friday, 6th May and Saturday, 7th May 2011
Taylor Institution
Organisers: Birgit Mikus (Exeter), Seán Williams (Jesus), Michael Wood (Wadham).
*** Please register in advance by emailing [log in to unmask] in the first instance.
Conference fee: £5.50 (includes lunch and light refreshments). ***
Programme
Friday, 6th May
13.30 Registration
14.00 Welcome
14.15: Panel 1: Institutions of Reception
14.15 Writing Walhalla, Casting Fame? Goethe and Jean Paul
Seán Williams (Jesus)
15.00 Creating the Habsburgs: Grillparzer, History, and Censorship
Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz (Exeter)
15.45 Tea Break
16.15 Keynote lecture: Goethe, Sex, and Weimar Institutions
Prof. W. Daniel Wilson (Royal Holloway)
17.15-17.20 Break
17.20: Panel 2: Institutionalized Interpretations
17.20 Fiction instituted as historical authority: the impact of Pöllnitz’s La Saxe galante (1735) on the depiction of August the Strong
Madeleine Brook (Merton)
18.05 ‘Jetzt war ich der Stärkere, da ich auf die Unterseele dieses Menschen wirkte’: Psychoanalysis and Power in Ernst Weiss’s Der Augenzeuge
Rachel Harland (Exeter)
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, 7th May
09.15: Panel 3: Institutional Spaces
09.15 Heiner Müller. Towards a Democratic Theatre
Michael Wood (Wadham)
10.00 Institutional Stories: History and Memory in the Museum
Alexandra Lloyd (Wadham)
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 Keynote lecture: Why is Friederike Kempner Funny? On Germany’s Worst Poet, Laughter Communities, and the Rules of Fiction
Prof. Susanne Kord (UCL)
12.15 The Meaning and Importance of 'maybe' – Thoughts on the Legitimisation of Literary Studies
Florian Strob (Queen's)
13.00 Lunch
14.00: Panel 4: The Individual as Political Institution
14.00 The Institution of the Self: Remarks about Kant from a Communitarian Perspective
Niklas Gaupp (St John’s)
14.45 'Die Zeit hat sie eingeholt, ihre Rhetorik ist oll': re-'pop'-ulating feminism for the 'neue deutsche Mädchen'
Emily Spiers (New)
15.30-16.00 Concluding Roundtable Discussion
16.00- Wine reception.
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