Sonja Asal, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The Enlightenment between Europe and the United States: Twentieth-Century Tensions
International Workshop, 27 and 28 May 2011
Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Seestraße 13, 80802 Munich
Registration: info@cas.lmu.de, Tel. +49-89-2180 72080
Friday, May 27
9:15 Opening Remarks
Christof Mauch (LMU) and Michael Kimmage (Catholic University)
9:30 - 13:00 Panel 1: Continuities
Chair: Michael Hochgeschwender (LMU)
Jennifer Burns (University of Virginia)
The Death and Rebirth of the Autonomous Self
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
Lisa Szefel (Pacific University)
Reconstructing Reason: Values, Virtues, and the Moral Imagination in Postwar America
Darrin McMahon (Florida State University)
The First Philosophy of the Enlightenment: The Case of John Grier Hibben
14:00 - 17:30 Panel 2: The Émigré Enlightenment
Chair: Jason Stevens (Harvard University)
Kristina Hinneburg (Jena University)
“Shall We Be Tolerant of Intolerance?” The Reception of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise in American Exile
John C. Laursen (University of California, Riverside)
Thomas Mann on Enlightenment, Irony, and Politics in Europe, America, and Russia
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
Robert Thomas (Columbia University)
Jacques Maritain’s American Project
17:30 - 19:00 Reception
19:00 Keynote Address
Mark Lilla (Columbia University)
The Age of Ignorance: Enlightenment Echoes
Saturday, May 28
9:30 - 15:00 Panel 3: Critiques and Dialectics
Chair: Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
Volker Depkat (Regensburg University)
Europe, America and the Dialectic of the Enlightenment
Borislava Marinova (Regensburg University)
The Dialectic of the American Enlightenment at Work: The Women’s Suffrage Debate in the Early Twentieth Century
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
David Greenberg (Rutgers University)
The Press Agents’ War: World War I, Transatlantic Propaganda, and the Crisis of Enlightenment Values
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
James Schmidt (Boston University)
“The New Failure of Nerve,” the Eclipse of Reason, and the Critique of Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1943-1949
15:00 - 16:00 Panel 4: Drawing conclusions
Christof Mauch (LMU)
Sonja Asal (LMU)
Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
Michael Hochgeschwender (LMU)
Jason Stevens (Harvard University)
Michael Kimmage (Catholic University)
16:00 End of conference