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Apologies for the rather short notice. Next week we are holding a symposium in St Andrews:

Venue: Byre Studio, Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, St Andrews, KY16 9LA

Dates: 2-3 May 2019

Anyone is welcome to attend and there is no charge for attending the symposium. 

However, as space is slightly limited we would ask that you e-mail Lorna McCarron ([log in to unmask]) by 10.00am on 1 May 2019 if you would like to attend any/all the sessions.

 

Thursday 2 May 2019

09.00-09.20     Welcome/coffee 

09.20-09.30     Introduction: Inspiration Bonaparte

Seán Allan (University of St. Andrews) and Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach) 

09.35-10.25     Pre-occupation Bonaparte—‘Repulsive through and through’: The Role of Occupation in Schiller’s Life, Thought, and Works

Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach)

10.30-11.20     Maschinengott and Genius: The image of Napoleon in the political writings of Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)*

Helmut Schneider (Universität Bonn)

 

11.20-11.45     Coffee

 

11.45-12.35     Women on the Anti-Napoleonic Stage in German-Speaking Territories

Rebecca Stewart (Harvard University)

 

12.40-13.30     Anecdotic Portrayals of Napoleon – from Kleist to Kluge*

Christian Moser (Universität Bonn)

 

13.30-14.30     Lunch

 

14.30-15.20     Friedrich Hölderlin, the French Revolution, and Napoleon: Politics, Poetry, Philosophy

                        Laura Anna Macor (University of Verona)

 

15.25-16.15     Saul Ascher’s Napoleon

Bernd Fischer (Ohio State University)

 

16.15-16.35     Tea

 

16.35-17.25     Der große Schauspieler, Napoleon Buonaparte: August von Kotzebue’s Images of Napoleon

Elystan Griffiths (University of Birmingham)

 

Friday 3 May 2019

 

09.00-09.30     Welcome/coffee

 

09.30-10.20     An Ingenious Tyrant: The Representation of Napoleon by German Women Writers

Elisabeth Krimmer (University of California, Davis)

10.25-11.15     Feminine Complicity/Femine Resistance.  Kleist, Napoleon, and  Königin Luise von Preußen

Seán Allan (University of St. Andrews)

 

11.15-11.45     Coffee

 

11.45-12.35     Napoléon’s Campaigns: Models for French Revolutionary Science Abroad and at Home?

Mary Orr (University of St. Andrews)

 

12.40-13.30     Napoleon at the Polytechnic: An Institutional Context of Reception

Andrew Cusack (University of St. Andrews)

 

13.30-14.30     Lunch

 

14.30-15.20     The Reception of the Napoleonic Wars in the Gründerzeit and Kaiserreich

Michael White (University of St. Andrews)

 

15.25-16.15     Wellington’s Victory and Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa: Arnold Schoenberg’s Setting of Byron’s Ode to Napoleon

                        Wolf Kittler (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

16.15-16.35     Tea

 

16.35-17.25     The Emperor’s Clothes: Napoleon as a Screen Icon

Susanne Kord (University College London)