Program
(confirmed as of October 17, 2001)
Tuesday, August 13, 2002. Contested Classics.
1. Max Weber
Peter Breiner. SUNY Albany: Weber and Political Writers
Rheinhard Blomert, Graz: Norbert Elias
John Gunnell, SUNY Albany: Leo Strauss Reads Max Weber
Lawrence Scaff, Wayne State University: Max Weber and the Social Sciences in America
2. Sigmund Freud
Neil McLaughlin, Hamilton: Erich Fromm/Herbert Marcuse
Lawrence J. Friedman, Indiana: Erik Erikson
Paul Roazen, Toronto
Eli Zaretsky, New School
3. Karl Marx
James Schmidt, Boston University.
Michel Loewy, Paris.
Russell Jacoby, UCLA: Marx and the Intellectuals.
4. Goethe
Irene Bonnaud, Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris: Brecht in America
Ernst Osterkamp, Berlin: Goethe as a Figure of Identification for German-Speaking Emigrés
Alfons Söllner, TU Chemnitz, Arnold Bergstaesser's Goethe: Bildung, Political Science, and a Suspect Exile.
Jack Zipes, Minnesota: Ernst Bloch
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002. Contested Concepts.
1. Scientists and Intellectuals
David Kettler, Bard: Political Science and the Emigrants: Franz L. Neumann and Ernst Fraenkel in Parallel
Christian Fleck, Graz: The Needy and the Dignified: Contemporary, Sociological, and Voguish Evaluations of Refugee Scholars
Klaus-Dieter Krohn, Lueneburg: Emigrants into Immigrants.
Hauke Brunkhorst, Flensburg. "Why not America? - Hermann Heller and Walter Benjamin."
2. Jewishness
Mihaly Vajda, Debrecen
Jack Jacobs, John Jay College, CUNY
Judy Gerson, Rutgers University
Joerg Hackeschmidt, Independant Scholar
3. Socialism
Hubertus Buchstein, Greifswald
Catherine Epstein, Amherst: Two Eisler Brothers and a Sister.
Mario Kessler, University of Potsdsam: Emigre Historians Returned to the DDR.
Berndt Nikolai, Trier: Bauhaus
4. Artistic Modernism: Adorno on Mahler
Lydia Goehr, Columbia, Convenor: Theodor Adorno on Gustav Mahler
Michael P. Steinberg, Cornell
Daniel Herwitz, Durban
Richard Leppert, University of Minnesota
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Thursday, August 15, 2002. Contested Legacies.
1. The Resonances of Hannah Arendt
Peter Baehr, Hong Kong: Arendt/Gerth
Suzanne Vromen, Sociology: Arendt
Wolfgang Heuer, Berlin: Arendt/Bluecher
Joanna Scott, Eastern Michigan: Arendt and America
2. Art [Kunst]
Gregory Moynahan, History, Bard: Cassirer/Panofsky
Anna Wesselly, Budapest: Moholy-Nagy
Martha Langford, Montreal: Photography and Memory
Jeff Wall, Vancouver: Problems of Photography
3. A New Cultural Politics
Jonathan Bordo, Trent: Benjamin/ Kantorowicz/ George Kreis
Reinhard Laube, Goettingen: Kahler/George Kreis
Ernst Osterkamp, Literature, Berlin: Benjamin/Kantorowicz/George Kreis
Gerhard Lauer, Munich: Kahler
4. Exile and the perception of the present
John McCormick, Yale: Dialectics of Enlightenment
Jerry Zaslove, Simon Fraser: Kracauer
Laurent Jeanpierre, Paris: Surrealists in New York