Literature in the World: Material Networks of Books to and from Goethe’s Weimar
Literature in the World: Material Networks of Books to and from Goethe’s Weimar
A symposium organised by The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, and the English Goethe Society
New Seminar Room, St. John’s College Oxford, 7th-8th November 2019
Thursday, 7th November
14.00 Barry Murnane (Oxford) / Stefan Höppner (Weimar/Freiburg)
Opening Remarks
Moderator: Stefan Höppner
14.15 Tim Sommer (Heidelberg)
Material Exchange, Symbolic Recognition: Weltliteratur as Discourse and Practice in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson
15.00 Graham Jefcoate (Nijmegen)
John Henry Bohte’s “Faust Project”, 1820–1824
16.15 Mathelinda Nabugodi (Newcastle)
Goethe’s Faust in the last days of Shelley and Byron
17.00Elisabeth Herrmann (Warwick)
Effective Implementations: The Practical Side of Goethe’s Idea of World Literature
17.45 Caroline Jessen (Frankfurt/Oder)
Alienation as an Aesthetic Force: World Literature & German-Jewish Readers in Mandate Palestine/Israel
Friday, 8th November
Moderator: Barry Murnane
9.00 Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus)
Goethe's Greek Gold Standard
9.45 Mohamed-Salah Omri (Oxford)
Disentangling the ‘Arab’ Goethe
11.00 Stefan Höppner (Weimar / Freiburg)
World on a Shelf: The Material Shape of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s Library
11.45 Berenike Herrmann (Basel)
Computationally Revisiting World Literature in German – The Kafka Case
12.30 Closing Remarks