Kleist und die Moderne / Kleist and Modernity

Final Program

Friday, September 24

Student Colloquium on Kleist

10:30–12:30 Lydia Findlay, Bridget Gilchrist, Kate Lees, Anya Park, Tama Westoby (all University of Otago), Amber Suggitt, Charlie Vannette (Ohio State University)
Information Technology Services, Central Library, University of Otago

Saturday, September 25

Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin

Conference Welcome

8:30 Mark Brunton (Office of the Vice-Chancellor, Maori Research Facilitation)
Traditional Welcome

Self and Gender: Chaired by Peter Morgan (U. of Sydney)

9:00-9:45 Tim Mehigan (U.of Otago), “Kleist and the Problem of Self-Consciousness“
9:45-10:30 Anette Horn (U. of Witwatersrand), “Religion nach der Aufklärung: Die heilige Cäcilie – Identität, Religion und Moderne“
10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00-11:45 Nancy Nobile (U. of Delaware), “’Sein Nahen ist ein Wehen aus der Ferne’: Ottokar’s Leap in Die Familie Schroffenstein“
11:45-12:30 Sean Allan (U. of Warwick), “So glaubst du jetzt, dass ich dir Wahrheit gab? Gender, Power and the Performance of Justice in Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug“
14:00-14:45 Ricarda Schmidt (U. of Exeter), “Weiblicher Sadismus, Geschlechtskampf, Strafphantasie – die Penthesilea-Rezeption in der Moderne“
14:45-15:30 James Philips (U. of New South Wales), “Eric Rohmer's ‘Die Marquise von O.’ and Marriage in Ambiguous Circumstances”
15:30-16:00 AFTERNOON TEA

Poetics: Chaired by Will Sweetman (U. of Otago)

16:00-16:45 Hilda Brown (Oxford U.), “Kleist’s Position as Dramatist in 19th century Debates about Modernity from Goethe to Wagner”
16:45-17:30 Jeffrey High (California State U., Long Beach), “Heinrich von Kleist and the ‘German’ Novella of Modernity“
17:30-18:15 Bernd Fischer (Ohio State U.), "Narrating Justice: Kleist and Kafka"
18:30 DINNER
20:00 AMPHITRYON
Performed by the Theatre Group of the German Programme, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago
Mary Hopewell Theatre, College of Education, Union St East

Sunday, September 26

Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin Poetics (continued)

9:00-9:45 Bernhard Greiner (U. of Tübingen), “Zu Ende schreiben: ultimative Strategien im Schaffen Kleists”
9.45:-10:30 Wolf Kittler (U. of California, Santa Barbara), “Mathematics and Poetry: Heinrich von Kleist“
10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00-11:45 Jonathan Marshall (U. of Otago), “Transcendental Mechanics and Performance after Kleist: From Geometry to Hypnosis“
11:45-12:30 David Chisholm, (U. of Arizona), “Prosodic and Dramatic Tension in Kleist’s Amphitryon and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg”
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:45 Andreas Gailus (U. of Michigan), “Breaking Skulls: Kleist and the Force of Assertion”
14:45-15:30 Catherine Dale (U of Otago): “Kleist/Artaud” Power, State, and History Chaired by Roger Hillman (ANU)
15:30-16:15 David Pan (U. of California, Irvine), “Individual Expression and Political Representation in Prinz Friedrich von Homburg”
16:15-16:45 AFTERNOON TEA
16:45-17:30 Peter Barton, (U. of Otago), “Ideology and the Problem of Knowledge in Die Marquise von O…”
17:30-18:15 Cecilia Novero (U. of Otago), “Of Animals, Silence, and Noise. The Power of Powerlessness in Kleist’s Other Language“
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER Ironic Cafe and Bar, 9 Anzac Ave, Dunedin

Monday, September 27

Venue: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin Power, State, and History (continued)

9:00-9:45 Helmut Schneider (U. of Bonn), “Herrschaftsgenealogie und Staatskörper: zu Kleists Dramaturgie der Moderne“
9:45-10:30 Dorothea von Mücke, (Columbia U.), “The Broken Pitcher and the Broken Picture: The End of Meta-Historical Fictions and What Remains”
10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00-11:45 Peter Horn (U. of Witwatersrand), “Das Gespenst der Armut: Das Bettelweib von Locarno – zwischen traditioneller, christlicher, kantisch aufgeklärter und moderner marxistischer Auffassung“
11:45-12:30 Christian Moser (U. of Bonn), “Heinrich von Kleist und die Begründungsaporien des modernen Staates“
12:30-14:00 LUNCH

Humboldt-Kolleg

14:00-15:30 Meeting of Humboldt Fellows to discuss regional and international collaboration and future conference initiatives
15:30-16:30 AFTERNOON TEA

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