Programme 2019-2020
10-11 October 2019
English Goethe Society Symposium:
Goethe’s ‘West-oestlicher Divan’ and its Uses
English Goethe Society Symposium:
Goethe’s ‘West-oestlicher Divan’ and its Uses
26 March 2020
(preceded by Annual General Meeting at 5.45 p.m.)
Ida Herz Lecture
Karolina Watroba (Oxford): ‘Der Zauberberg and the Pleasures of Immersive Reading’
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19
(preceded by Annual General Meeting at 5.45 p.m.)
Ida Herz Lecture
Karolina Watroba (Oxford): ‘Der Zauberberg and the Pleasures of Immersive Reading’
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19
7-8 November 2019
Conference co-sponsored by the EGS:
Literature in the World: Material Networks of Books to and from Goethe’s Weimar
St John’s College, Oxford
Conference co-sponsored by the EGS:
Literature in the World: Material Networks of Books to and from Goethe’s Weimar
St John’s College, Oxford
20-22 April 2020
Sessions at the Modern Languages conference, University of Durham, co-sponsored by EGS:
Writing ‘Europe’ in the Age of Goethe
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19
Sessions at the Modern Languages conference, University of Durham, co-sponsored by EGS:
Writing ‘Europe’ in the Age of Goethe
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19
5 December 2019
(preceded by a Council Meeting)
Roger Paulin (Cambridge): ‘Goethe and Klopstock: A Last Word’
(preceded by a Council Meeting)
Roger Paulin (Cambridge): ‘Goethe and Klopstock: A Last Word’
18 June 2020
Clark Muenzer (Pittsburgh): ‘“Babelgedanke”: Goethe’s Architectural Idea and the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead’
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19
Clark Muenzer (Pittsburgh): ‘“Babelgedanke”: Goethe’s Architectural Idea and the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead’
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19
Programme 2018-2019
1 November 2018
(preceded by a Council Meeting at 4.00 p.m. in the same room)
Ray Ockenden (Oxford): ‘Classical and neo-classical eddies in Mörike's Idylle vom Bodensee’
(preceded by a Council Meeting at 4.00 p.m. in the same room)
Ray Ockenden (Oxford): ‘Classical and neo-classical eddies in Mörike's Idylle vom Bodensee’
21 March 2019
Gabriel Trop (Chapel Hill, North Carolina): ‘Agonistic Reading: Kleist’s Aesthetics of Temptation’
Gabriel Trop (Chapel Hill, North Carolina): ‘Agonistic Reading: Kleist’s Aesthetics of Temptation’
6 December 2018
Jeremy Adler (London): ‘Goethe’s Concept of Human Dignity and its Importance for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany’
Jeremy Adler (London): ‘Goethe’s Concept of Human Dignity and its Importance for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany’
9 May 2019
Martin Mulsow (Erfurt): ‘Die Illuminaten, Schiller und die Anfänge des Kantianismus’
Martin Mulsow (Erfurt): ‘Die Illuminaten, Schiller und die Anfänge des Kantianismus’
31 January 2019
(preceded by Annual General Meeting at 5.45 p.m.)
Daniele Vecchiato (London): ‘“Richter, die ihr richtet im Verborgenen...”: Literary Representations of the Vehmic Court in the Age of Goethe’
(preceded by Annual General Meeting at 5.45 p.m.)
Daniele Vecchiato (London): ‘“Richter, die ihr richtet im Verborgenen...”: Literary Representations of the Vehmic Court in the Age of Goethe’
6 June 2019
Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford): ‘Rescue in the Face of Danger: Goethe and Walter Benjamin’
Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford): ‘Rescue in the Face of Danger: Goethe and Walter Benjamin’
