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WORKSHOP Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated: >From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist Friday, 11 February 2000 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Co-Ordinators: JEREMY ADLER (King's College London) and RICHARD FARDON (SOAS) Franz Baermann Steiner grew up in the Prague of Rilke and Kafka, knowing many key figures including Franz Werfel and Max Brod. During and after the war, as an exile in England, he became a close friend of Elias Canetti, Michael Hamburger and Iris Murdoch and, as a professional anthropologist, he became a major figure in the Oxford School around Evans-Pritchard and a shaping force in modern British anthropology. His thinking is reflected in works as diverse as Canetti's Masse und Macht, Iris Murdoch's Message to the Planet and Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: RÜDIGER GÖRNER (London/Aston): '"trennungen, durchs eigne wort". Franz Baermann Steiner - Writer after Rilke and Kafka'; MARY DOUGLAS (London): 'Franz Steiner and the Sociology of Danger'; MICHAEL MACK (Chicago): 'Franz Steiner and Elias Canetti'; RICHARD FARDON (London): 'Franz Steiner's Political Anthropology'; PETER CONRADI (London): 'Franz Steiner and Iris Murdoch'; INES SCHLENKER (London): 'The Portraits of Canetti, Steiner and Iris Murdoch by Marie Louise von Motesiczky'; MICHAEL HAMBURGER (Saxmundham): 'The Poet Franz Baermann Steiner'; JEREMY ADLER (London): 'Danger, Myth, and Prayer in Franz Steiner's Poetry' and LIA WILLIAMS will read from the works of Franz Steiner and Iris Murdoch. Vin d'honneur - Dinner following the workshop open to all participants at their own expense THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE, LONDON Registration form available at: http://www.sas.ac.uk/igs/HPEVENTS.htm#EVENTSWorkshopBaer manndetail %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%