ENGLISH GOETHE SOCIETY, PROGRAMME 2015–2016
All Welcome!
5 November 2015
5.15 for 5.45 p.m.
Room 243 (second floor)
(preceded by a Council Meeting at 4.00 p.m. in Room 246, second floor)
LAURA MACOR (Oxford): ‘The Bankrupt of Love: Schiller’s Early Ethics’
3 December 2015
5.15 for 5.45 p.m.
Room 243 (second floor)
IAN COOPER (Kent): ‘“Winterabende”: A Motif in German Art, Literature and Thought’
28 January 2016
5.15 for 6.00 p.m.
(preceded by the Annual General Meeting at 5.45 p.m.)
Room 243 (second floor)
BARRY MURNANE (Oxford): ‘Goethe, Hoffmann, Scott: Reciprocal Cultural Transfer between Britain and Germany’
17 March 2016
5.15 for 5.45 p.m.
Room 243 (second floor)
JAMES BOWMAN (London): ‘Goethe, Pückler-Muskau and England’
21 April 2016
5.15 for 5.45 p.m.
Room 243 (second floor)
ANDREA POLASCHEGG (Berlin): ‘Perser gegen Inder. Das Ringen um den kulturellen Ursprung bei Goethe und Friedrich Schlegel’
9 June 2016
5.15 for 5.45 p.m.
Room 243 (second floor)
Ida Herz Lecture
ECKHART GOEBEL (Tübingen): ‘“Das Entremets war eine Himbeercrème”: Zur Bedeutung der Farbe Rosa in Lotte in Weimar’
Members should note that all meetings will take place in Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Kevin Hilliard
Angus Nicholls
W. Daniel Wilson
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The English Goethe Society (EGS)
The Society was founded in 1886 for the purpose of promoting the study of Goethe’s work and thought. It is the oldest learned society devoted to German studies in the UK, and the third of all Goethe societies. In 1891 the Society’s scope was extended, so that, while always keeping Goethe as its main focus, the attention of its members might also be directed to other fields of German culture. The Society meets five or six times a year in London. Apart from the main event of the evening — a paper delivered by a guest speaker — there is also an opportunity for members to meet over a glass of sherry before the paper and to engage in discussion with the speaker afterwards. In addition to its learned aims, members value the Society’s sociable atmosphere. The Society welcomes as members all those who support its aims, academics and non-academics alike. Meetings take place in Senate House, Malet Street, London, but the Society’s membership is drawn from all parts of the UK and Ireland, and members from outside London are among the most active participants; the Society also has members in Germany, the USA, and Australia. As part of their entitlement members receive the thrice-yearly Publications of the English Goethe Society (PEGS) which publishes the lectures and prize-winning essays that are first presented to its members as well as unsolicited papers and conference proceedings on subjects of interest to members.
Membership enquiries should be directed to:
Dr Ernest Schonfield
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Hetherington Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8RS
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