GERMAN COSMOPOLITANS IN THE MODERN AGE
(1800-2000)
Friday 9 July 1999, 9.45-17.00
German Department
School of Languages and European Studies
Aston University
Preview programme
Papers: 25-30 minutes; discussion 15 minutes
9.45-11.00
Prof. R. Goerner - Goethes Conception of Cosmopolitanism
Prof. N.B.R. Reeves - From Pony to Pegasus, the fantastic vehicles
and voyages of Heine, world traveller
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45
Dr. G. Reershemius, Dr. S. Kirkbright - German-Jewish Culture: A
Paradigm for German Cosmopolitans? (On Moses Mendelssohn and Hannah
Arendt)
Ms. E. Szantho - Enlightenment Inspiration? On Kant and Wieland
Elystan Griffiths - Heinrich von Kleist, Nationalist Cosmopolitan in the
Modern Age?
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45
Dr. C. Schaeffner - Translators: the prototypical cosmopolitans?
Dr. Andrea Capovilla - Die Kosmopolitin hat Heimweh. Anregungen zu
einer neuen Lektuere Vicki Baums
Dr. Peter Davies - An exercise in ultra-loyalism: Alexander Abusch,
`Cosmopolitanism' and the imposition of Socialist Realism in the GDR
15.45-16.15 Tea
16.15-17.00
Dr. Uwe Schuette - Die Geburt des Kosmopolitanen aus dem Geiste der
oesterreichischen Provinz
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