Ankündigung: 30.09./01.10.2020 GSA Virtual Meeting 2020: The Forces of Nature in German Romanticism 30.09./01.10.2020

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

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”

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

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