Venue: London Notre Dame – The London Global Gateway
University of Notre Dame, 1-4 Suffolk Street,
London SW1Y 4HG
02074847850
and the Goethe Institut, London
50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
020 75964000
Time: 14-16 June 2017
in collaboration with
QMUL, Centre of Anglo-German Cultural Relations
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Wien
The Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Goethe Institut, London
(host institution) University of Notre Dame – The London Global Gateway
Wednesday, 14th June 2017 (Notre Dame, Trafalgar Hall)
15.00 Welcome
15.15 Rüdiger Görner (QMUL), Introductory Remarks
Chair: Rüdiger Görner
15.30 – 16.15 Keynote I: Wilhelm Hemecker (LBI, Wien), Biographie - den neuen Wein in alte Schläuche?
16.15 - 17.15 Keynote II: Günter Blamberger (Morphomata/Köln), Kleist biographieren
19.00 Goethe Institute, London
Rüdiger Safranski (Badenweiler/Berlin), Über Biographien
Reception
Thursday, 15th June 2017
The Theory of Biography (Notre Dame, R. 106)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner
10.00 – 10.45 Helmuth Kiesel (Heidelberg), Biografische Erfahrungen mit Ernst Jünger
10.45 – 11.30 Irene Heidelberger-Leonard (QMUL), Über Zwang und Unmöglichkeit, eine Biographie über Jean Améry zu schreiben
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-12.45 Marie Kolkenbrock (Wien/Cambridge), Life in Postures - A Field-Theoretical Approach to Arthur Schnitzler's Intellectual Biography
12.45-14.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
Biographical Practices (Notre Dame, Trafalgar Hall)
Chair: Günter Blamberger
14.30 – 15.15 Robert Leucht (Zürich): Alexander Pope's 'biographical legend' among German authors, 1750-1790
15.15 – 16.00 Peter Sprengel (Berlin): Rudolf Borchardt als Biograph, Autobiograph und Gegenstand einer Biographie
16.00 - 16.30 Tea
16.00 – 16.45 Keynote III: Robert Norton (Notre Dame), The Emperor and I. Wilhelm II, Biography and Cultural History
19.00 Goethe Institut
Frances Spalding (Cambridge), The Perils of Biography
Friday, 16th June 2017
Circle versus Individual (Notre Dame, R. 106)
Chair: Rüdiger Görner
10.00 – 10.45 James Vigus (QMUL): A Self-Effacing Autobiography: The Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson
10.45 – 11.30 Rosemary Ashton (UCL): Single, double, and group biography: the challenges
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee
Chair: Wilhelm Hemecker
12.00 – 12.45 David Österle (Vienna) Räume als Konstituenten des Jungen Wien
12.45 -14.30 Lunch (own arrangements) (Notre Dame, Trafalgar Hall)
14.30 - 15.15 Cornelius Mitterer (Vienna) Im Netzwerk von Richard Schaukal [Anchor]
15.15 – 16.00 Karl Müller (Salzburg) Stefan Zweigs Zyklus Die Baumeister der Welt
16.00 - 16.30 Tea
16.30 - 17.15 Rüdiger Görner (QMUL) Richard Friedenthal’s Notion of Biography
17.15 – 18.00 Concluding Panel: Anglo-German Biographical Approaches
There is no admission charge but attendees need to register by emailing: lonconf@nd.edu
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