Programme 2024-2025
17 October 2024
JOHANNES SALTZWEDEL
(Hamburg)
Werther’s World – Events and Characters of the Year 1774.
JOHANNES SALTZWEDEL
(Hamburg)
Werther’s World – Events and Characters of the Year 1774.
10 April 2025
POLLY DICKSON (Durham)
Adelbert von Chamisso’s Bounding Lines.
POLLY DICKSON (Durham)
Adelbert von Chamisso’s Bounding Lines.
16 January 2025
KATRIN KOHL (Oxford)
Dialogue beyond Death: Epic Endings in Klopstock’s Der Messias, Goethe’s Faust and Rilke’s Duineser Elegien.
KATRIN KOHL (Oxford)
Dialogue beyond Death: Epic Endings in Klopstock’s Der Messias, Goethe’s Faust and Rilke’s Duineser Elegien.
8 May 2025
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
STEFAN MATUSCHEK (Jena)
Um Goethe betrogen. Über die anhaltende Wirkung des kulturpatriotischen Klassik-Begriffs.
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
STEFAN MATUSCHEK (Jena)
Um Goethe betrogen. Über die anhaltende Wirkung des kulturpatriotischen Klassik-Begriffs.
6 March 2025
Prawer Lecture
MARTIN LINDNER (Oxford)
Aesthetics of Sameness and the Ethics of Narrative Representation: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) in the Context of the German-Czech National Conflict in Late Austria-Hungary.
Prawer Lecture
MARTIN LINDNER (Oxford)
Aesthetics of Sameness and the Ethics of Narrative Representation: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) in the Context of the German-Czech National Conflict in Late Austria-Hungary.
22 May 2025
PAUL KERRY (University of Texas at Austin / Brigham Young University)
George Bancroft’s Goethe.
PAUL KERRY (University of Texas at Austin / Brigham Young University)
George Bancroft’s Goethe.
Programme 2023-2024
23 November 2023
MATTHEW BELL (London)
The Beginnings of Goethe’s Science: A Reassessment.
MATTHEW BELL (London)
The Beginnings of Goethe’s Science: A Reassessment.
14 March 2024
Ida Herz Lecture
KAI SINA (Muenster):
„Im Grunde Pragmatist“
Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist.
Ida Herz Lecture
KAI SINA (Muenster):
„Im Grunde Pragmatist“
Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist.
25 January 2024
JEROME CARROLL (Nottingham)
Crusius’ hybrid philosophy: between abstraction and actuality.
JEROME CARROLL (Nottingham)
Crusius’ hybrid philosophy: between abstraction and actuality.
25 April 2024
Prawer Lecture
RACHEL WONG (Chicago)
Oceanic Resonances in Schiller’s Ring des Polykrates.
Prawer Lecture
RACHEL WONG (Chicago)
Oceanic Resonances in Schiller’s Ring des Polykrates.
22 February 2024
JENNIFER GOSETTI-FERENCEI
(Baltimore/Oxford)
Goethe, Imagination, and Literary Ecology.
JENNIFER GOSETTI-FERENCEI
(Baltimore/Oxford)
Goethe, Imagination, and Literary Ecology.
6 June 2024
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER (Berlin)
Ein gespenstisches Welttheater? Der alte Goethe, der junge Hegel und das Ende des Römisch-deutschen Reiches.
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER (Berlin)
Ein gespenstisches Welttheater? Der alte Goethe, der junge Hegel und das Ende des Römisch-deutschen Reiches.
Programme 2022-2023
27 October 2022
HOWARD GASKILL (Edinburgh)
Young Slapsauces and Old Trout: Translating Die Leiden des jungen Werthers.
HOWARD GASKILL (Edinburgh)
Young Slapsauces and Old Trout: Translating Die Leiden des jungen Werthers.
16 March 2023
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
ANNE BOHNENKAMP-RENKEN (Frankfurt/Main)
Genesis. Beobachtungen zur Interdisziplinarität bei Goethe.
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
ANNE BOHNENKAMP-RENKEN (Frankfurt/Main)
Genesis. Beobachtungen zur Interdisziplinarität bei Goethe.
8 December 2022
MAIKE OERGEL ( Nottingham)
Randfiguren. Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on old topics.
MAIKE OERGEL ( Nottingham)
Randfiguren. Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on old topics.
27 April 2023
JOANNA RAISBECK (Oxford)
Female Quixotes, or: Symptomatic Readers and the Sentimental Novel.
JOANNA RAISBECK (Oxford)
Female Quixotes, or: Symptomatic Readers and the Sentimental Novel.
26 January 2023
Prawer Lecture
SARAH FENGLER (Oxford)
Gessner’s Voegel, Klopstock’s Frühlingswürmchen, and Lavater’s Schmetterling. Metaphors of Mortality and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century Religious Literature.
Prawer Lecture
SARAH FENGLER (Oxford)
Gessner’s Voegel, Klopstock’s Frühlingswürmchen, and Lavater’s Schmetterling. Metaphors of Mortality and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century Religious Literature.
8 June 2023
CAROL TULLY (Bangor)
Meister meets Quijote: Singing from the same Hymn Sheet?
CAROL TULLY (Bangor)
Meister meets Quijote: Singing from the same Hymn Sheet?
Programme 2021-2022
18 November 2021
MARK AUSTIN, Conductor and Independent Scholar
Isolation Reading in 1944: Richard Strauss, the complete works of Goethe and Metamorphosen.
MARK AUSTIN, Conductor and Independent Scholar
Isolation Reading in 1944: Richard Strauss, the complete works of Goethe and Metamorphosen.
12 May 2022
RICARDA SCHMIDT (Exeter)
Himmelstraum, Alptraum, und “träumerische Verwechslung des geistigen und leiblichen Genusses“: Schattierungen und strukturelle Funktionen des Traummotivs in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Kater Murr.
RICARDA SCHMIDT (Exeter)
Himmelstraum, Alptraum, und “träumerische Verwechslung des geistigen und leiblichen Genusses“: Schattierungen und strukturelle Funktionen des Traummotivs in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Kater Murr.
3 February 2022
Prawer Lecture
ANHAD ARORA (OXFORD)
Fanny Mendelssohn’s ‘Divan’.
Prawer Lecture
ANHAD ARORA (OXFORD)
Fanny Mendelssohn’s ‘Divan’.
30 June 2022
Ida Herz Lecture
FRIEDHELM KRÖLL (Nürnberg)
‘Erkundung des Dunkels’ – Thomas Mann liest Freud.
Ida Herz Lecture
FRIEDHELM KRÖLL (Nürnberg)
‘Erkundung des Dunkels’ – Thomas Mann liest Freud.
10 March 2022
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
WOLF LEPENIES (BERLIN)
“Incredible, that’s Literature!” Attempts at Re-moralizing Politics, Academic Disciplines, and the Profession with the Help of ‘Belles-Lettres.
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
WOLF LEPENIES (BERLIN)
“Incredible, that’s Literature!” Attempts at Re-moralizing Politics, Academic Disciplines, and the Profession with the Help of ‘Belles-Lettres.
Programme 2020-2021
29 October 2020
KEVIN HILLIARD (Oxford)
Neology vs. radical Enlightenment: Gotthilf Samuel Steinbart, Jakob Mauvillon, and Frederick the Great's Essai sur l'Amour-propre envisagé comme Principe de Morale (1770)
Preceded by a Council Meeting.
KEVIN HILLIARD (Oxford)
Neology vs. radical Enlightenment: Gotthilf Samuel Steinbart, Jakob Mauvillon, and Frederick the Great's Essai sur l'Amour-propre envisagé comme Principe de Morale (1770)
Preceded by a Council Meeting.
26 February 2021
The First Sixty Years of the EGS: A 135th-Anniversary Symposium
ANGUS NICHOLLS (London), FABIENNE SCHOPF (Stuttgart)
Diplomacy, Competition and Crisis: The English Goethe Society 1886-1914
W. DANIEL WILSON (London)
Challenges for the English Goethe Society, 1923-1945 (H. G. Fiedler, L. A. Willoughby, W. Rose).
The First Sixty Years of the EGS: A 135th-Anniversary Symposium
ANGUS NICHOLLS (London), FABIENNE SCHOPF (Stuttgart)
Diplomacy, Competition and Crisis: The English Goethe Society 1886-1914
W. DANIEL WILSON (London)
Challenges for the English Goethe Society, 1923-1945 (H. G. Fiedler, L. A. Willoughby, W. Rose).
26 November 2020
Ida Herz Lecture
KAROLINA WATROBA (Oxford)
Reluctant Readers: Marxists on Mann's Magic Mountain.
Ida Herz Lecture
KAROLINA WATROBA (Oxford)
Reluctant Readers: Marxists on Mann's Magic Mountain.
18 March 2021
STEFANIE STOCKHORST (Potsdam)
Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art.
STEFANIE STOCKHORST (Potsdam)
Goethe and the Aesthetics of Equestrian Art.
21 January 2021
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
ALFRED BRENDEL (London)
Naivety and Irony: Goethe's Musical Needs.
Wilkinson-Willoughby Lecture
ALFRED BRENDEL (London)
Naivety and Irony: Goethe's Musical Needs.
6 May 2021
CLARK MUENZER (Pittsburgh)
"Daß ich Dich fassen möcht'": Tracking the Philosophical Concept in Goethe's 'Prometheus' and 'Ganymed'.
CLARK MUENZER (Pittsburgh)
"Daß ich Dich fassen möcht'": Tracking the Philosophical Concept in Goethe's 'Prometheus' and 'Ganymed'.
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
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
5 December 2019
Roger Paulin (Cambridge)
Goethe and Klopstock: A Last Word.
Roger Paulin (Cambridge)
Goethe and Klopstock: A Last Word.
Programme 2018-2019
1 November 2018
Ray Ockenden (Oxford)
Classical and neo-classical eddies in Mörike's Idylle vom Bodensee.
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
Daniele Vecchiato (London)
“Richter, die ihr richtet im Verborgenen...”: Literary Representations of the Vehmic Court in the Age of Goethe.
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.
