ERNST BLOCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN THOUGHT
at the
INSTITUTE FOR MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Friday, 17 May 2019, 09:00 – 19:30
Venue: Room 234, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
>>> Registration now open: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19256
This one-day workshop brings together established and emerging scholars to investigate how the life sciences impacted the social and political thought and action of the German left in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Keynote speaker: Professor Nicholas Saul (Durham)
Programme
09.00-09.20 Registration
09.20-09.30 Welcome
09.30-11.00 Panel 1: Philosophical Roots
Steven Lydon (Durham): Restoring Nature: Kielmeyer on Extinction and Transcendental Philosophy
Henry Holland (Hamburg): Biological Thought in Ernst Bloch
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 2: Marxian Genealogies
Lydia Azadpour (Royal Holloway, London): Progressive Differentiation in Engel’s Philosophy of Nature
Jack Coopey (Leicester): Totality and the Biology of the Whole: the Biology of the Ape to Man in Marx and Hegel
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel 3: Literary Science
Gesa Jessen (Oxford): ‘Der Mensch im Spiegel der Natur: Roßmäßler’s Popular Writing between Political Engagement and Biological Thought
Cyril de Beun (Leiden): ‘The Rhetorical Potential of Biological Discourses in the Works of Young Germany
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.30 Panel 4: Education and Life
Sam Dolbear (Birkbeck, London): Anxiety since the Ice Age
Cat Moir (Sydney/IMLR): Life Science for the Masses. Julius Schaxel and the Urania Project
17.30-18.00 Break
18.00-19.30 Keynote Lecture
Nicholas Saul (Durham): Bölsche, Biopolitics, Superorganisms and the Origins of Fascism around 1900
Organisers: Cat Moir (Sydney/IMLR) and Johan Siebers (IMLR)
Registration £10 (standard rate) | £7 (students) includes refreshments and lunch
Advance online registration required https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19256
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