Containment and Subversion
The Work and Person of Heinrich von Kleist
A Conference at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Thursday, 4 October - Friday, 5 October 2007
Co-Ordinators: Matthew Bell and Martin Swales (London)
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 4 October 2007
9.45 Welcome and Introduction
10.00 Hans Joachim Kreutzer (Munich): Paradoxe Zeitgenossenschaft: Kleist in seiner Epoche
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Matthew Bell (London): Kleist and Melancholy
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Kleist: The Creative Temperament
12.00 Laura Martin (Glasgow): Kleist, Masculinity and the Heroic Journey
Eric M. Scheufler (Washington): The Sound of Contagion: Music and Issues of Subjectivity in Kleist
12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Geoff Waite (Ithaca): Prolepsis, or Letter Bomb from Kleist to Heidegger
Christian Jäger (Berlin): Kleist and Desire
PARALLEL SESSIONS: The Literary Work ('Novellen')
15.00 Michael Perraudin (Sheffield): Gesture in Kleist's 'Novellen'
Dagmar Just (Berlin): Kleists Findling als 'novel noir'
15.45 Tea
16.15 Caroline Domenghino (Baltimore): Unerhörte Wahrheit: die Begebenheiten im Zweikampf
Michael Mandelartz (Tokyo/Berlin): Recht, Ökonomie und Mechanik in Kleists Findling
17.00 Anders Engberg-Pedersen (Cambridge, MA): Kleist's Endings: Holograms and Uncertainty (Der Zweikampf, Michael Kohlhaas)
Ellwood Wiggins (Baltimore/Berlin): Narration, Society and Causality in Das Erdbeben in Chili
17.45 Wine
18.15 Hinrich Seeba (Berkeley): Kunst im Gespräch: 'Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden'
Friday, 5 October 2007
9.30 Hilda Brown (Oxford): Denial and Delusion in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist
PARALLEL SESSIONS: The Literary Works (Themes)
10.15 Michael Gratzke (St Andrews): 'Ins Nichts mit dir zurück, Herr Prinz von Homburg, ins Nichts, ins Nichts!' On Masculinities in Kleist's Work
Diana Reese (Ithaca): With Michael Kohlhaas at the Manor Gate: Reading the Time of Judgement in Kleist
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Susanne Kaul (Bielefeld): Kleist's Radical Criticism of the Law
Peter Riedl (Regensburg): Texturen des Terrors: Politische Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists
PARALLEL SESSIONS: The Literary Work (The Dramas)
12.15 Antonia Eder (Tübingen): 'Hart zwischen Nichts und Nichts': Alte Weiber als Imago in Kleists Familie Schroffenstein und Hermannsschlacht
Pierre Kadi Sossou (Ottawa): Die Hermannsschlacht: ein Marionettentheater?
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Christine Long (Baltimore): 'Trauer spielt': Kleist's Penthesilea
Rachel MagShamhrain (Limerick): Kleist's Die Hermannsschlacht: Nationalism Traversed
15.00 Maike Oergel (Nottingham): Revolutionary Republic of Female Liberation or Anti-Individualistic Totalitarians? The Amazon State in Penthesilea
Seán Allan (Warwick): Myth, Identity and the Colonial Other in Die Hermannsschlacht
15.45 Tea
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Influences; Intertexts
16.15 Steven Howe (Exeter): Liberation or Vengeance: Kleist, Rousseau and the Validity of Violent Revolution in Die Verlobung in St. Domingo
Michael Eggers (Cologne): Kleist's 'Antipädagogik' and Other Bad Examples in Educational Theory
17.00 Aino Rinhaug (Oslo): '... den Weg der Seele des Tänzers'. Kleist and Kafka: Correspondences of Intimacy and Literary Creation
Duncan Large (Swansea): Kleist and Shakespeare
18.15 Rüdiger Görner (London): Generalbass, malerische Schrift und Dichtkunst: zum Kunstbegriff Heinrich von Kleists
19.00 Wine
19.30 Conference ends
Further Information/Registration
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (tel: 020 7862 8966).
A registration form in pdf format can be downloaded at http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_Kleistdetail.htm
Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is 26 September 2007.
Conference Fees
2 Days
£40.00 Standard Rate
£35.00 Reduced Rate (Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS and paying members of the IGRS only)
£20.00 Student Rate (With a photocopy of a current university or student identity card only)
1 Day only
£25.00 Standard Rate
£20.00 Reduced Rate (Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS and paying members of the IGRS only)
£15.00 Student Rate (With a photocopy of a current university or student identity card only)
This event is organized under the auspices of the
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and the English Goethe Society
with the support of the British Academy
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
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