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The Society offers scholarships in honor of the late Gloria Flaherty, the accomplished scholar and founding member of the Goethe Society. Beginning in 2008, the Society will award those scholarships exclusively for dissertation workshops at GSNA conferences. Our next conference will take place in 2011.

The Society also offers an annual essay prize, which carries an award of $500. The guidelines for submission appear below.

January 7, 2009

At its first international conference at Pittsburgh, Goethe and the Postclassical: Literature, Science, Art, and Philosophy 1805-1815, the Goethe Society was pleased to confer honorary memberships
on its two keynote speakers. Congratulations to both!
  

Ulrich Gaier is Emeritus Professor of German at the Universität Konstanz and President of the Hölderlin Society. He is the author of numerous books, incl. Fausts Modernität: Essays (Reclam, 2000), Goethes Faust-Dichtungen: ein Kommentar (Reclam, 2002), and Herders Sprachphilosophie und Erkenntniskritik (1988).		Robert Richards is the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (U of Chicago P, 2002).

January 7, 2009

The GSNA Essay Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding piece of scholarship on Goethe and his times which has been published during the previous year. This year's award goes to Christian Weber for his article "Goethes 'Ganymed' und der Sündenfall der Ästhetik," DVJS 81 (2007): 317- 343. Congratulations to Christian!

The Gloria Flaherty Scholarships were awarded to six graduate students who presented their work at the GSNA's 2008 international conference at Pittsburgh. The recipients were

Michael André, University of Michigan
Zsuzsa Horváth, University of Pittsburgh
Joel Lande, University of Chicago
Michael Saman, Harvard University
Catherine Sprecher, University of Chicago
Jason Wilby, University of California, Irvine

Congratulations to all of them!
  

January 7, 2009

Call for Submissions

The executive committee seeks nominations or self-nominations for its annual essay prize, which carries an award of $500. Please submit a copy of the essay (electronic version preferred) for the best essay published in the year 2008 on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures by

May 31, 2009 to:

Professor Astrida Tantillo
Dept. of Germanic Studies (MC 189)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Email: tantillo@uic.edu