Enlightenment: Program Schedule
April 13-15, 2019
Free and open to the public,
no tickets or reservations required.
Saturday, April 13
Kenan Rehearsal Hall
5:00-7:15p
Welcome:
Terry Rhodes, UNC Chapel Hill
Eric Downing, UNC Chapel Hill
Ruth von Bernuth, UNC Chapel Hill
Introduction:
Laura Lieber, Duke University
Keynote Lecture:
Maurice Sendak’s Dear Mili: A Contrapuntal Elegy
Martha B. Helfer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sunday, April 14
FedEx Global Education Center
9:00-9:15a
Welcome:
Eric Downing, UNC Chapel Hill
Ruth von Bernuth, UNC Chapel Hill
9:15-11:15
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
Optimism in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship: Bildungsroman, Affect, and Enlightenment
Chunjie Zhang, University of California, Davis
Schiller and the Reconstitution of Body Politics
Gabriel Trop, UNC Chapel Hill
11:15-11:45
Break
11:45-1:00
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
1:00-2:00p
Lunch Break for all attendees, in atrium
2:00-4:00
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
4:00-4:30
Break
4:30-5:30
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
5:30-6:45
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
Dey Hall, Toy Lounge
8:45-10:45
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
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-1:00
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
Final Remarks
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