Aesthetics and Idealism in the Age of Goethe

The Annual Conference of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism Södertörn University / Stockholm / 8-10 June 2022

Program:

Wednesday, June 8

8:30 am Arrival and Coffee 

Session 1, Chair: TBA 
8:40 – 9:30
Raciel Cuevas (Temple University) “Two Senses of Genius in Staël and Kant”

10:30 to 11:30
Moran Godess-Riccitelli (University of Potsdam) “The Cipher of Natural Beauty Following Nature’s Hints in the Critique of Judgment”

11:30 to 12:30
Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University) “The Logical Significance of Judgments of Taste in Kant” 

12:30 – Lunch

Session 2, Chair: TBA 
14:00 to 15:00
Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University) “Universal Affinities”

15:00 to 16:00
Johannes Haag (University of Potsdam) “Intuition and Comprehension—Productive Imagination in Fichte & Goethe”

16:00 to 17:00
Clinton Tolley (University of California – San Diego) “TBA”

S-3 Keynote, Chair: TBA 
17:30:30 to 19:00
Allen Speight (Boston University) “Transparency, Enigma and the Relation between Art and Nature in the Age of Goethe”

19:00 – Reception

Thursday, June 9

Session 4, Chair: TBA 
8:40 – 9:30
Rebecca Haubrich (Dalhousie University) “Dead Kings and Sick Princes: On the Oedipal artworks in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”

9:30 to 10:30
Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney) “Goethe, Bildung, and the Aesthetic Education of the Scientist”

10:30 to 11:30
Anne Pollok (Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz) “Goethe’s ambivalent portrayal of the feminine”

11:30 to 12:30
Mattias Pirholt “TBA” 

12:30 – Lunch

Session 5, Chair: TBA
14:00 to 15:00
Gerad Gentry (Humboldt University of Berlin) “Purposiveness of Artworks: A Goethean and Hegelian Conception of Art”

15:00 to 16:00
Luke Fischer (University of Sydney) “Hölderlin’s Mythopoiesis: Philosophy of History as Poetry”

16:00 to 17:00
Hannah Eldridge (University of Wisconsin) “Rhythms of Memory: Hölderlin’s Mnemosyne Palimpsest”

S-6 Keynote, Chair: TBA 
17:30 to 19:00
David Wellbery (University of Chicago) “Goethe on Tragedy” 

19:30 – Dinner

Friday, June 10

Session 4, Chair: TBA 
9:00 – 9:50 Arthur Krieger (Temple University) “Germaine de Staël on Imagination”

9:50 to 10:40
Eli Lichtenstein (University of Michigan) “Schiller on (Two Kinds of) Play and Aesthetic Disinterestedness”

10:40 to 11:30
Johannes Wankhammer (Princeton University) “Conceptualizing the Non-Conceptual: Alexander Baumgarten’s Leibnizian Aesthetics”

11:30 to 12:20
Luke King-Salter (University of Edinburgh) “Schiller’s Concept of Grace” 

12:20 – Lunch

Session 5, Chair: TBA
13:30 to 14:30
Elizabeth Millán (DePaul University) “TBA”

S-6 Keynote, Chair: TBA 
14:30 to 16:00 Violetta Waibel (University of Vienna) “Philosophy of Tragedy – Schiller Goethe Hölderlin. Focussing on Don Carlos, Faust, Empedocles”

16:30 – Departure or Informal Dinner