The Atkins Goethe Conference Metamorphoses: Goethe and Change
| Place: | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Start date: | Thursday 03, November 2011 |
| End date: | Sunday 06, November 2011 |
| Times: | see programme at http://www.goethesociety.org/conference2011 |
| Price: | see registration at http://www.goethesociety.org/conference2011/registration.html |
The Goethezeit was a time of momentous innovations, radical paradigm shifts, and revolutionary changes. Throughout his life, Goethe adopted many different attitudes toward change. He experienced it actively and passively, contributed to it, but at times he also sought to stem the tide and remain at a distance from contemporary events.
This conference explores how Goethe’s works respond to contemporary changes and to change in general. Papers might address changes in the economic, political, military,social, literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and scientific arenas. They might also ask how our present experience of change impacts our understanding of change around 1800.
Organized by the Goethe Society of North America, the conference will feature two full days of panels, a reading by Martin Walser, and keynote lectures by Dieter Borchmeyer and David Wellbery. We are extremely grateful to Mr. Stuart Atkins for his generous support of this conference in honor of the memory of his parents, Lillian and Stuart P. Atkins. We are also grateful to the Max Kade Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIC for its support of this conference.
Dieter Borchmeyer Martin Walser David Wellbery
To participate in the conference you must be a current member of the GSNA. As a reminder, our membership rates are among the lowest of all scholarly societies and include the annual Goethe Yearbook.
See: http://www.goethesociety.org/conference2011/index.html
