Jonathan M. Hess Moments of Enlightenment Symposium: German Jewish Interactions from the 18th Century to the Present
Dear Colleagues:
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, together with the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is pleased to announce the Jonathan M. Hess Symposium, Moments of Enlightenment, held in honor of the life and work of professor and scholar Jonathan Hess, and scheduled to take place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from April 13-15, 2019.
This conference will bring together major scholars in German and Jewish Studies to consider German Jewish interactions from 18th Century to the Present. Highlights are to include a keynote from Martha Helfer entitled, "Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili: A Contrapuntal Elegy."
All events are free and open to the public. For a full schedule, please consult the CCJS website at https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/events/moments-of-enlightenment-conference/.
Saturday, April 13
5:00-7:15p
Keynote Lecture:
Maurice Sendak’s Dear Mili: A Contrapuntal Elegy
Martha B. Helfer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sunday, April 14
Panel 1: Encounters and Friendships
Moderator: Richard Langston, UNC Chapel Hill
Act of Faith: Reflections on Germans, Jews, and Friendship
Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Task of the Jewish Translator Revisited
Abigail Gillman, Boston University
Mentoring, Bildungsroman, and Enlightenment
Chunjie Zhang, University of California, Davis
Schiller and the Reconstitution of Body Politics
Gabriel Trop, UNC Chapel Hill
Round Table 1: Teaching Enlightenments and Jewish Studies
Chairs: Yaakov Ariel, UNC Chapel Hill and Stefani Engelstein, Duke University
Richard Benson, Independent Scholar
Susanne Gomoluch, UNC Charlotte
Jeffrey Hertel, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University
Tayler Kent, University of Alabama
Samuel Kessler, Gustavus Adolphus College
Annegret Oehme, University of Washington
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Goethe-Institut, Washington
Panel 2: Encounters Between Yiddish and German
Moderator: Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University
Becoming a Jewish Pope: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations Between the Early Modern and Modern
Lea Greenberg, Joshua Shelly, Ruth von Bernuth, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University
A Dialectic of Enlightenment? Unexpected Aspects of Yiddish-German Translation in the Early Twentieth Century
Jeffrey Grossman, University of Virginia
Gevorn a maymin? Nathan Birnbaum—and Others—between Vienna/Prague and Galicia
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
A Poetics of Genocide: The Jewish Dead Confront the Germans in Itzhak Katzenelson’s Warsaw Ghetto Poem ‘Vey dir’
Sven-Erik Rose, University of California, Davis
Panel 3: Students of Enlightenment
Moderator: Ann Marie Rasmussen, University of Waterloo
Such Great Heights: Elevated Perspectives in Alexander von Humboldt and Karl Philipp Moritz
Rory Bradley, Colby College
Bildung and Poesie: Berthold Auerbach’s Theory of Literature
Erik Grell, Furman University
Jewish Theater and the Enlightened East
Emma Woelk, St. Edwards’s University
Round Table 2: Mentoring in the Humanities
Chair: Konrad H. Jarausch, UNC Chapel Hill
Richard Apgar, Sewanee: University of the South
Flora Cassen, UNC Chapel Hill
Carrie Duncan, Independent Scholar
Michael Figueroa, UNC Chapel Hill
Sally Hatch Gray, Mississippi State University
Priscilla Layne, UNC Chapel Hill
Monday, April 15
Panel 4: Enlightenment, Modernity, and Bildung
Moderators: Nicholas Miller, Loyola University Maryland and Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography and the Task of the Retranslator
Paul Reitter, The Ohio State University
Jesus and Moses as Figures of Modernity
Karin L. Schutjer, University of Oklahoma
Negotiating Modernist Style in the German-Jewish Galicia Novel (1930-1945)
Kata Gellen, Duke University
The Turn to Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters in Jewish Studies
Klaus Hödl, Universität Graz
Panel 5: Keeping the Lights On
Moderator: Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
Antisemitism and Wagner’s Legacy in Avner Dorman’s Opera Wahnfried (2017)
Kerry Wallach, Gettysburg College
Auschwitz Enlightenment, or: What Farocki Taught
William Collins Donahue, University of Notre Dame
German Jewish lengevitch: Experiments in Writing
Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota
Middlebrow Literatures and the Remaking of German Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century
Katja Garloff, Reed College
Joshua Shelly, Graduate Student, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies (UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University)