Some seats still available – advance online registration required by 7 October
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Thursday, 10 and Friday, 11 October 2019
Goethe’s ‘West-oestlicher Divan’ and its Uses
>> Booking: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20330
Marking the 200th anniversary of the publication of Goethe’s engagement with Persian and Muslim culture in his poetic cycle West-oestlicher Divan, this conference focuses on the reception of the work in both Eastern (predominantly Iranian) and Western cultures, considering in particular issues of rapprochement, misunderstandings, and ideological distortion.
Programme (revised)
Venue: University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
Thursday, 10 October 2019
13.30 W. Daniel Wilson (Royal Holloway, London) and T.J. Reed (Oxford): Welcome
14.00 Keynote Address
Hendrik Birus (Munich/Bremen): Goethes Divan-Jahre
15.00 Tea/Coffee
15.30 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mediations - Moderator: Charlotte Lee (Cambridge)
Thomas O. Beebee (Pennsylvania State): What is an Identical Translation? On Goethe's Discussion in the West-östlicher Divan
Julia Hartley (Warwick): To Persia via Weimar: Goethe as Intermediary in Théophile Gautier’s Emaux et Camées
Amir Irani-Tehrani (West Point): Public and Poetic Wars of Liberation: August von Platen’s Ghazals, Nationalism and Homoeroticism
Friday, 11 October 2019
10.00 Visual Cultures - Moderator: Astrid Köhler (Queen Mary, London)
Waltraud Maierhofer (Iowa): Illustrations for the Divan in Editions of Goethe's Works in His Lifetime
James Hodkinson (Warwick): Goethe’s Divan in the Contemporary Fine Arts. ‘Close Reading’ or Trading in Cultural Capital?'
12.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.30 Contemporary Debates - Moderator: Steffan Davies (Bristol)
Franziska Bergmann (Trier/Oxford): Goethe/Morgenröte. Reimspiele und Ähnlichkeitsrelationen im West-östlichen Divan
Andrea Polaschegg (Siegen): ‘Hat man aber eines dieser Gedichte betreten, so ist eine magische Grenze überschritten’. Neuentdeckungen des West-östlichen Divans um die Jahrhundertwenden
Claudia Nitschke (Durham): Michael Kleebergs Divan: Politisch-poetische Entwürfe für das 21. Jahrhundert
17.00 Concluding Discussion – Tea/Coffee
Organised by the English Goethe Society
Attendance free. Advance online booking essential: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20330
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School of Advanced Study | University of London
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