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Complete Listing of Panels and Symposia
sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America
1979-2007 (pdf)

If you are interested in organizing a panel sponsored by the Goethe Society at any of the annual (incl. regional) meetings of ASECS, GSA, or MLA, please contact our Executive Director, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172980, Bozeman, Montana 59717-2980, phone (406) 994-6443, psimpson@montana.edu.

  
Deadlines for Submission of Panel Proposals


2009 MLA, 15 November 2008
2009 GSA, 1 December 2008
2010 ASECS, 15 March 2009
  

July 14, 2008

Special GSNA Session
at GSA 2008

Organized and chaired by Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri

Structure and Meaning in the Age of Goethe (I)
 
Moderator: Daniel Purdy Penn State University
Commentator: Stefani Engelstein University of Missouri

1. “From Structure to Process,” Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan

2. “Goethe’s Object Thinking, or the Overgrowth of Nomenclature,” Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia

3. “A Foundation for Thought in a Fragment: Reconsidering Goethe on Nature,” Angela Borchert, University of Western Ontario

4. “The Structure of the Self: Goethe’s Literary Challenge to Schiller’s Philosophical Model of Identity Formation,” Jason Wilby, University of California at Irvine
  

Structure and Meaning in the Age of Goethe (II) 

Moderator: Angela Borchert University of Western Ontario
Commentator: Chad Wellmon University of Virginia

1. “The Family Curse: Structure and Fate,” Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri
 
2. “Hegel’s Architectural Transcendence,” Daniel Purdy, Penn State University

3. “The Dome of the Mind,” Susan Bernstein, Brown University

July 14, 2008

ASECS Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, March 27-30, 2009
Panel sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America

Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften at 200

In view of the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Wahlverwandtschaften, papers are sought that address any aspect of Goethe's novel and its long afterlife. Potential topics might include: translations of the Wahlverwandtschaften; its status in 19th- and 20th-century literary histories and genealogies in Germany and abroad; its impact on aesthetics and the visual arts; theatrical performances; film adaptations; 'affinity' as a model of intertextuality; the novel's relationship to the sciences; and its uses as a rhetorical tool in debates about marriage and adultery.

Please send 1-page abstracts to Mary Helen Dupree (Rice University) at maryhelend@gmail.com. Deadline is September 1, 2008.