German Studies Association Meeting 2005, Early Modern Panels

German Studies Association Meeting 2005, Early Modern Panels

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German Studies Association, David Sabean (coordinator)
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Milwaukee
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United States
Vom - Bis
29.09.2005 - 02.10.2005
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Sabean, David

During the past several years, the German Historical Association has seen a decline in the number of panels devoted to the Early Modern period. We are aiming to bring back a critical perspective to German history and its literary tradition, beginning with the 2005 meeting in Milwaukee (Sept. 29-Oct. 2). In the past, we have found that vigorous discussion and the advancement of new ideas seem to happen most often when there are a series of connected sessions. Yet there should, of course, be room for new and innovative work beyond themes that the coordinators propose. For the 2005 meeting, we have been given sixteen sessions for the Early Modern period, defined broadly from ca. 1600 to the mid nineteenth century: eight will be devoted to sessions on “Modernity and the Baroque,” four to “Court Society and the Political World,” and four will be left open for other topics.

1) “Modernity and the Baroque”: Eight sessions, this time with a particular approach, but with the hope that discussions will continue on in new forms over the coming years.

Each of the eight sessions will take the following form: there will be one paper on the confrontation of a “modern” thinker with a Baroque subject, the kind of collision that determined the very nature of modernist enterprise. Part of what we are after here is the pattern of going behind the Aufklärung to question various projects of “modernity.” The two other papers will explore further aspects of the Baroque subject itself, taking the questions posed by the modern thinker as the starting point for further investigation. Each panel, therefore, will bring together scholars who work on modern and early modern culture with the intent of starting a new dialogue and opening up a long-term critical perspective on German culture.

Suggested subjects:

Nietzsche and baroque aristocratic culture/ La Rochfoucauld, Gratian, Pascal

Carl Schmitt and Natural Law

Curtius and Rhetorik.

Emmanuel Hirsch and Orthodox Lutheranism

Benjamin on Märtyrertum

Ernst Jünger: Silesius. Abenteuerliches Hertz.

Günther Grass.

Brecht and Grimmelshausen

Benjamin. Old debate. Confrontation with political Geist of the Baroque.
The failure to see Klugheitslehre.

Simmel and Rembrandt

Hindemith and Kepler. Pfizner and Palestrina. Hofmannsthal and Lully:
Ariadne. Busoni: Dr. Faust

Heidegger and Baroque Catholicism

Warburg and Mannerism

Scholem and the Jewish mystical tradition

2) “Court Society and the Political World”: four sessions, which will include papers from the early seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century

Suggested topics:

Communication

Political insult

Female and male Networks

Representations and propaganda

Gratian reception in Germany

3) Four open sessions

The coordinator for the 2005 meeting is David Sabean and for the 2006 meeting is Mary Lindeman. Putting together this program will take considerable coordination, and we want to plan well ahead. Whoever is interested in participating should send a suggestion for a paper, together with a short abstract, to David Sabean at UCLA (dsabean@history.ucla.edu).

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David Warren Sabean
Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History Dept. of History University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: 310 825 3173
Fax: 310 206 9630
Home phone: 310 474 7994
email: dsabean@history.ucla.edu

Until Sept. 27, my address is:

Mommsenstr. 6
D-10629 Berlin
Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Cell phone: +49-(0)173 1718 109
Home phone: +49-(0)30 886 76 821


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