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
(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’
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’
