The myth of the Secret Germanies
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Diffusion conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, the laboratory Pays Germaniques of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the European Commission.
Programme
South Campus, room 4A-1-46
14:15 | Conference opening / Greetings | |
Chair: Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) | ||
14:30 | Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen) | The myth of the Secret Germanies/Der Mythos des Geheimen Deutschland |
15:20 | Paul Fleming (Cornell University) | The Latent and the Manifest: ‘Secret Germany’ in German (Mytho) Poetics |
16:10 | Coffee break | |
Chair: Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle) | ||
16:30 | George S. Williamson (Florida State University) | Early Romanticism and the Idea of Secret Germany |
17:20 | Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) | Lessings 'Geheimnis' |
South Campus, room 4A-1-46
Chair: Glenn W. Most (Chicago University/Max Planck Institute, Berlin) | ||
09:00 | Alexander Knopf (University of Copenhagen) | Work on The picture of Frederick II from Romanticism to the Third Reich |
09:50 | Enno Rudolph (Luzern) | Das Geheimnis und die Nation. Zur Aktualität von Ernst Kantorowicz |
10:40 | Coffee break | |
Chair: Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen) | ||
11:00 | Daniel Weidner (Halle) | Underground, Ark, and Hidden Tradition. The Poetics of a Secret German Judaism |
11:50 | Bruno Karsenti (EHESS, Paris) | German denationalization and Jewish tradition. A reading of Scholem |
12:40 | Lunch break | |
Chair: Alexander Knopf (University of Copenhagen) | ||
14:30 | Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen) | Emigrating toward inwardness: reflections on Amery, Celan, Adler |
15:20 | Gianluca Solla (Verona) | „Denn Bleiben ist nirgends“: wie kann man seine Epoche herausfordern? |
16:10 | Coffee break | |
Chair: Glenn W. Most (Chicago University / Max Planck Institute, Berlin) | ||
16:30 | Barbara Picht (Viadrina, Frankfurt) | Bildungsutopien im Vergleich: Das Geheime Deutschland, ‚Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter‘ und das ‚Nachleben der Antike' |
17:20 | Antje Wessels (Leiden) | Aufgabe des Vergleichs. Uroffenbarung und mystisches Schweigen bei Walter F. Otto |
Nørregade 10, Udvalgsværelse 3
Chair: Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen) | ||
09:00 | Esther Oluffa Pedersen (Roskilde) | Are Artificial Myths a Modern Invention? An Examination into Ernst Cassirer’s Ideas in The Myth of the State |
09:50 | Luca Crescenzi (Università di Trento/Istituto italiano di Studi Germanici) | Thomas Manns „höheres Deutschtum“ |
10:40 | Coffee break | |
Chair: Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) | ||
11:00 | Gerard Raulet (Sorbonne) | Kleine Geheimnisse und heimliche Strategien. Philologische Kämpfe um Hölderlins 'geheimes Deutschland' |
11:50 | Robert Norton (Notre Dame) | Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle: Twenty Years Later |
Sponsors
The conference is sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, the laboratory Pays Germaniques of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the European Commission.
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