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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 Karin Schutjer, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, 202 Kaufman Hall, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, (405) 325-1907, kschutjer@ou.edu.

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

  
Deadlines for Submission of Panel Proposals

2013 ASECS, 15 March 2012
2013 GSA, 15 November 2012
2014 MLA, 1 December 2012
  

January 8, 2012

Special GSNA Sessions at the MLA Annual Convention
in Seattle, 5-8 January 2012

Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

Goethe and Islam: Beyond the Orientalism Aporia?

Presiding: Max Reinhart, University of Georgia

1. “Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan: Negotiating the West-East Hyphen”
Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto

2. “‘Himmelslehr in Erdesprachen’: Knowledge, Belief, and the Poetry of Islam in Goethe’s Divan”
Hamid Tafazoli, University of Washington, Seattle

3. “Goethe, Islam, and Cosmopolitanism”
Kamaal Haque, Dickinson College



Saturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

Money, Money, Money: Debt and Speculation in the Literature of the Goethezeit
(Sponsored jointly with the G. E. Lessing Society)

Presiding: Elisabeth Krimmer, University of California, Davis

1. “‘Dem Mann kann geholfen werden’: The Discharge of Debts in Schiller’s Early Plays” 
Gail K. Hart, University of California, Irvine

2. “Love’s Surplus”
Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University

3. “‘Uralte und nie gehobne Beschwerde’: Goethe, Faust, and Taxes”
William H. Carter, Iowa State University
 

January 8, 2012

Special GSNA Session at the ASECS Annual Convention
in San Antonio, 22-25 March 2012

Goethe and Ecocriticism

Chair and Moderator: Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
  
1.“Shaping the Land in Goethe’s Faust II”
Loisa Nygaard, University of California, Santa Cruz
 
2.“Connecting Science and Nature – Goethe and the Supernatural”
Johannes Schmidt, Clemson University
 
3.“Goethe and Ecocriticism: Translation Theory”
Kevin Boyd, University of Virginia
 
4.“The Puzzle at Pozzuoli”
Karl Fink, St. Olaf College