[Milton-L] CUNY Conf, Nov8-9:"Rediscovering Erich Auerbach: A Dialogue between German and American Scholars on the 50th Anniversary of his Death"

[Elsky, Martin]

"Rediscovering Erich Auerbach: A Dialogue between German and American Scholars on the 50th Anniversary of his Death"

 

A Collaborative Conference Organized by the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of California-Irvine, and the Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung  Berlin

 

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Friday, November 9, 2007

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue (34 Street)

New York City

 

This conference is free and open to the public. 

No registration required.

 

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 8

Martin E. Segal Theatre 

(Ground Floor)

 

 5:30-7:00pm: Representation and Its Influences

Moderator: Joshua Wilner (The Graduate Center and City College, CUNY)

Karlheinz Barck  (Berlin), "Dante Meets Surrealism / Surrealism Meets Dante: The Dialogue between Auerbach and Benjamin"

Alexander Gelley (UC-I), "Auerbach and Hans Blumenberg: Which Mimesis?"

 

7:15-8:00pm:  The Voice of Erich Auerbach

Introduction: Martin Vialon (Istanbul, Berlin)

Erich Auerbach, "On Dante": A Sound Recording of a Lecture Delivered at Penn State University, 1949

 

Friday, November 9

Skylight Conference Room

(9th floor)

 

11:00am-12:30pm: Life, History, Politics

Moderator: Monica Calabritto (Hunter College, CUNY)

Jane O. Newman (UC-I), "Figuration and Politics: Auerbach/Krauss, Pascal/Corneille"

Matthias Bormuth (Tuebingen), "Between St. Augustine and Goethe: Erich Auerbach's Idea of History and Life Conduct"

 

12:30-1:45pm:  Lunch

 

Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium 

(C level)

 

1:45-3:15pm: Modernity and Post-modernity

Moderator: Richard Wolin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Martin Vialon (Istanbul, Berlin), "Mimesis, Film, and Mechanical Reproducibility: What Benjamin Learned from Auerbach"

Ackbar Abbas (UC-I),"Auerbach's 'Delicate Empiricism': The Secular, the Empirical, and the Post-Colonial"

 

3:30-5:00pm: The Jewish Context

Moderator: David Richter (The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY)

James Porter (Michigan), "Erich Auerbach and the Judaizing of Philology"

Martin Treml (Berlin), "Auerbach's Readings and the Warburg Institute: Jewish Legacies in the Fields of Kulturwissenschaft"

 

5:15-6:30: Keynote address

Moderator: Glenn Burger (The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY)

Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins), "Fortuna, Fabula, Figura: Auerbach as Philosopher of the Secular World"

 

6:30-7:30: Reception 

English Program Lounge (4406)  

 

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