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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.

We would like to encourage all presenters to become members of the GSNA.

  
Deadlines for Submission of Panel Proposals

2012 MLA, 15 November 2010
2011 GSA, 1 December 2010
2012 ASECS, 15 March 2011
  

August 20, 2010

GSNA-Sponsored Panels at the
Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
Oakland, CA, 7-10 October 2010


162. German Classicism and Religion (1)
Sat 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Oakland Convention Center 212
Moderator: Elisabeth M. Krimmer, University of California, Davis
Commentator: Catriona Macleod, University of Pennsylvania

"Transubstantiation of the Stage: Ritual and Theatricality in Friedrich Schiller’s Jungfrau von Orleans and Maria Stuart" (Joshua Bonilla, University of Chicago)

"Crime and Punishment: Secular and Transcendental Justice in Schiller’s Works" (Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo, University of Puget Sound)

"Schiller, Moses, Monotheism, and the Aesthetic Liberation of the Secular Individual" (Jeffrey L. High, California State University Long Beach)

189. German Classicism and Religion (2)
Sat 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Oakland Convention Center 212
Moderator: Clifford Bernd
Commentator: Horst J. Lange, University of Nevada, Reno

"Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin’s Madonna As Muse" (Patricia A. Simpson, Montana State University—Bozeman)

"Divine Determinism: Herder’s Scientific Case for the Immortal Soul" (Tom Spencer, Brigham Young University)

"Die heilige Cäcilie as Allegory of the French Revolution" (Colin Benert, University of Iowa)
  

August 20, 2010

Call for Papers
Special GSNA Sessions at ASECS
17-20 March 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Organized by Christian Weber, Florida State University

Goethe’s Figures and the Poetics of Configuration

Goethe’s work displays a plethora of interesting and mysterious figures such as Mignon, Ottilie, or Faust. However, they are not quite as palpable and realistic as, for example, Shakespeare’s heroes or Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Goethe’s figures, it seems, represent types rather than personalities. They either tend towards allegorical figuration at the one end of the spectrum or towards symbolic configuration at the other. This panel invites papers that investigate the meaning of specific figures in Goethe’s poetry and/or how meaning is configured in his writings. For example: How do female figures in Faust such as Gretchen, Helena, die Mütter, the Sirens represent "das Ewig-Weibliche"? How is love configured in poetry and what is the figurative status of the lyric speaker or the beloved? What are the origins of figures, how and why do they develop, how do they interact with other figures within Goethe’s oeuvre and communicate inter-textually with other literary or real figures?

Send proposals by 15 September 2010 to:

Christian Weber, Dept. of Modern Languages & Linguistics
Florida State U., 316C
Diffenbaugh Building,
P.O. Box 3061540, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1540;
Tel: (850) 645.7842
Fax: (850) 644.0524
cweber@fsu.edu
 

August 20, 2010

Call for Papers
Special GSNA Sessions at the MLA
6-9 January 2011, Los Angeles


Session I
Organized by Ellis Dye, Macalester College

Self and Self-consciousness [Selbstbewußtsein] in Goethe and Romanticism

"Self-consciousness [Selbstbewußtsein] is not only a theme but the theme of modern philosophy" (Manfred Frank, in Selbstbewußtseinstheorien von Fichte bis Sartre). Participants in this panel may address what it means to be a self, whether and how first-person self-awareness is different from well informed second- or third-person awareness of another self, and which conceptual structures are employed by Goethe and his heirs to explore, explain, and communicate self-consciousness. Topics might include attempts by Romantic writers either to express loneliness and frustration with imprisonment in the self or to provide an escape from self-imprisonment through poetry or philosophy.

Deadline for 1-page abstracts: March 10, 2010
Contact: Professor R. Ellis Dye, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 55105, dye@macalester.edu.



Session II, co-sponsored by the Lessing, Goethe, and Heine Societies
Organized by Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College

The Portable Stage: Lessing, Goethe, and Heine

This panel will examine national and transnational models in German-language theater as popular and portable culture from perspectives of both production and consumption of theater and theatrical performance; also theatrical models as stages of linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical construction. Papers welcome on all aspects of dramaturgical theory, practice, and performance.

Deadline for 1-page abstracts: March 5, 2010
Contact: Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College, elschreiber@vassar.edu.
 

August 20, 2010

Call for Papers
Special GSNA Session at GSA 2010

Organized by Elisabeth Krimmer, University of California at Davis

German Classicism and Religion

The Goethe Society will sponsor a panel on German Classicism and Religion at the upcoming GSA conference in Oakland, October 7-10, 2010. We are interested in papers on the representation of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in German Classicism. How do authors such as Schiller, Goethe, Kleist, and Hölderlin conceptualize the divine? How do they represent religious institutions? Are there instances of blasphemy in these works? Contributions on women authors who wrote in the context of German Classicism such as Charlotte von Stein and Caroline von Wolzogen are welcome.

Please email proposals to Elisabeth Krimmer by February 1, 2010.
 

August 20, 2010

ASECS Annual Convention
March 17-20, 2010 (Albuquerque, NM)

Organized by Markus Wilczek, Harvard University

"Goethe’s Voices" - l (The Goethe Society of North America)
Chair: Markus Wilczek, Harvard University

1. Christian Weber, Florida State University, "Goethe’s Lyric Voice(s)"
2. Anne Holzmueller, University of Freiburg, "‘Schweigen im Walde.’ Goethe’s Voice in Musical Settings"
3. Martin Baeumel, University of Chicago, "The Voice of Transcendence in Brockes’ and Goethe’s Poetry"

"Goethe’s Voices" - lI (The Goethe Society of North America)
Chair: Christian Weber, Florida State University

1. Ansgar Mohnkern, Yale University, "Morphology, Conversation, Metaphor. On Goethe’s Origin"
2. Michael Auer, University of Bonn, "Hear Telling. ‘Das Unerhörte’ in Goethe’s Novella"
3. Markus Wilczek, Harvard University, "Be/Stimmung. Determined Voices Around 1800"