Announcement: 30.09./01.10.2020 GSA Virtual Meeting 2020: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism
2 September 2020
The program for the conference »The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism«, organized by Frederike Middelhoff and Adrian Renner within the framework of the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, can now be accessed. The conference will be held virtually as a live format and can be attended by guests.
The program for the conference on Romantic forces of nature organized by Frederike Middelhoff and Adrian Renner as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association can now be consulted. The meeting will be held virtually as a live format and can also be attended by guests.
9/30: 11 - 12:30pm: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism: Concepts, Theories, Practices (I) |
Moderator: Elisa Ronzheimer (Bielefeld University) Commentator: Adrian Renner (University of Hamburg) Siarhei Biareishyk (University of Pennsylvania): Kraft, Conatus, Force, Power: Novalis Reading Schelling’s Von der Weltseele Joanna Raisbeck (University of Oxford): Spinozist Pantheism in Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806) Marius Reisener (Humboldt University Berlin): “Ruhepunct am Hebel.” The Lever as Meta-Metaphora of Romantic Praxeology |
9/30: 12:45 - 2:15pm: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism: Bodies, Conflicts, Symptoms (II) |
Moderator: Joanna Raisbeck (University of Oxford) Commentator: Susan Morrow (Yale University) Alice A. Kuzniar (University of Waterloo): Homeopathy’s Dynamic Forces Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Romanticizing vis medicatrix naturae Adrian Renner (University of Hamburg): Opposite Forces: Nature, Dualism and Gender in Romantic “Lebenskraft” |
10/1: 11:00 - 12:30pm: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism: Poiesis, Powers, Impacts (III) |
Moderator: Marius Reisener (Humboldt University Berlin) Commentator: Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe University Frankfurt) Margaret Strair (University of Pennsylvania): The Materiality of the Sensorium and the Dark Side of Nature in Justinus Kerner’s and E.T.A Hoffmann’s Literary Media Daniel Carranza (Harvard University): “die Kraft der Liebe:” On Symbolic Exchange in Goethe’s Märchen Justus Fetscher (University of Mannheim): Fürchterliche Fortwirkung. Die poetische Kraft von Kleists Natur |
10/1: 12:45 - 2:15pm: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism: Forms, Sounds, Patterns (IV) |
Moderator: Daniel Carranza (Harvard University) Commentator: Marius Reisener (Humboldt University Berlin) Elisa Ronzheimer (Bielefeld University): Forces of Rhythm ca. 1800 Steven Lydon (University of Tokyo): Helmholtz and Schiller: Kraft and Ruhe Closing Discussion |
More information: thegsa.org. Please direct questions to: adrian.renner@uni-hamburg.de( adrian.renner"AT"uni-hamburg.de)