Andree Michaelis-König, Axel Springer-Stiftungsprofessur für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration, Europa-Universität Viadrina
June 1, 2022
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Andree Michaelis-König (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Philipp Lenhard (LMU München): Practices of Friendship in History and Literature
9:45 Panel I: Philosophies of Friendship
Chair: Andree Michaelis-König
Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia): Nietzsche and the Philosophical Value of Friendship
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University): On Friendship and Gender: Modernity, Secularization, and Philosophy
Klaus Dieter Eichler (JGU Mainz): My Friend the Slave. Friendship in the oikos and in the polis of Aristotle
12:00 Lunch and Coffee Break
13:30 Panel II: Religious Traditions of Friendship
Chair: Yossef Schwartz
Saul M. Olyan (Brown University): Friendship and the Emotions in the Hebrew Bible
Roland Kany (LMU München): Some Aspects of Friendship in the History of Christianity
Nuha Alshaar (American University of Sharjah, Dubai): The Theory and Practice of Ṣadāqa (Friendship) as the Ideal of Politics and Moral Society in Islamic Traditions
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Panel III: Friendships in the 18th and 19th Century
Chair: Tobias Heinrich
Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College, London): Sociability and the Politics of Jewish/Christian Friendships in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin
Andreas Kraß (HU Berlin): „My prince, I shall die with a thousand joys for you!“ The Tragic Friendship of Frederick the Great and Hans Hermann von Katte as Told by Theodor Fontane
18:00 Break
19:00 Keynote
Chair: Philipp Lenhard
Heinz Bude (Universität Kassel): Die Nachträglichkeit von Freundschaft / The Posterity of Friendship
20:30 Reception
June 2, 2022
9:30 Keynote
Chair: Andree Michaelis-König
Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania): Two Emigrants in Paris: Hannah Arendt Meets Walter Benjamin
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Panel IV: Literary Practices of Friendship
Chair: N.N.
Tobias Heinrich (University of Kent): Aesthetics of love and friendship in Ingeborg Bachmann’s correspondence with Ilse Aichinger, Paul Celan and Hans Werner Henze
Andree Michaelis-König (Europa-Universität Viadrina): Writing Literary History as a History of Friendships
12:45 Lunch and Coffee Break
14:30 Conclusion and Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Philipp Lenhard
Roundtable with Panelists: Heinz Bude, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Liliane Weissberg
16:00 End of Conference