Programme 2023-2024


23 November 2023

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.

25 January 2024

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.

22 February 2024

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.


Programme 2022-2023


27 October 2022

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.

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.
27 April 2023

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.
8 June 2023

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
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


3 February 2022
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


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


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
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)


26 November 2020
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


21 January 2021
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'



Programme 2019-2020



10-11 October 2019

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



5 December 2019 

(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
21 March 2019 

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’
9 May 2019

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’
6 June 2019

Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford)

‘Rescue in the Face of Danger: Goethe and Walter Benjamin’