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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

2010 MLA, 15 November 2009
2010 GSA, 1 December 2009
2011 ASECS, 15 March 2010
  

May 11, 2009

Call for Papers
Special GSNA Session at ASECS 2010

Organized by Markus Wilczek, Harvard University

Goethe's Voices

Though the end of Faust I prominently features the call of two voices from off-stage, little critical attention has been paid to the status of the ‘voice’ in Goethe’s work. This is all the more striking if one considers the amount of attention that critics have devoted to the significance of voice in nineteenth century German literature and philosophy—cf., for instance, Bettine Menke’s investigation of voice in Hoffmann and Brentano, or Derrida’s critique of ‘phonocentrism’ in Hegel. In an attempt to explore the neglected pre-history, or perhaps even the alternate history of voice in the eighteenth century, this panel is interested in papers that examine the status of ‘voice’ in Goethe’s work and/or time.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between writing and orality (cf. Wellbery’s notion of ‘primordial orality’), the legacy of the rhetorical tradition, close readings of particular texts or passages that explicitly or implicitly reflect on or (re)present the human voice, the ambiguous status of voice as a medium between materiality and immateriality, or the narrative techniques employed for the description of voices.

Please send proposals (400-600 words) by September 15, 2009 to Markus Wilczek at wilczek@fas.harvard.edu.
  

May 11, 2009

2009 GSA Annual Convention
Washington, DC, 8-11 October

The Emergence of Modern German Literary Studies out of Goethe Philology (1)
(Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America)

Moderator: Bernd Hamacher, Goethe-Wörterbuch
Commentator: Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan

1. Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen / Bergische Universität Wuppertal, "Goethe und Goethe-Philologie als Muster der neugermanistischen Editionswissenschaft"

2. Michael Saman, Harvard University, "Constructions of Goethe vs. Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual Culture, 1915-1925"

3. Gerhard Kaiser, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, "Zwischen 'Lebens'- und 'Dichtungs'wissenschaft. Günther Müllers 'morphologische Poetik' im Kontext der 1940er Jahre"

The Emergence of Modern German Literary Studies out of Goethe Philology (2)
(Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America)

Moderator: Stefan Börnchen, Université du Luxembourg
Commentator: Bernd Hamacher, Goethe-Wörterbuch

1. Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan, "The Birth of Germanistik out of the Spirit of Wagnerism"

2. Lavinia Meier-Ewert, Universität Zürich, "'Man sucht den Mittelpunkt, und das ist schwer und nicht einmal gut' -- Figurationen der Verdopplung in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren"

3. Robert Walter, Freie Universität Berlin, "'…aus dieser fingierten Welt in eine ähnliche wirkliche versetzt'? Die Theorie der Autobiografie und ein postmoderner Goethe"
  

May 11, 2009

2009 MLA Annual Convention

"Die Memoiren Gottes": Goethe, Heine, and the Bible
(Jointly Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America and the Heine Society)

Organzier and Moderator: Richard Block, University of Washington

1. Rochelle Tobias, John Hopkins University, "The Happy Misfortune of the Poet: Heine's Schlemiel"

2. Ruth Kluger, University of California, Irvine, "Enlightenment and the Bible in Heine's and Goethe's Poetry"

3. Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma, "Goethe's Modernity and the Hebrew Bible"

4. Frederick Amrine, University of Michigan, "Dark Revelations"