Enumeration, Epistemology, Etcetera: Lists and List-Making in Literature and Culture

Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, 4–6 July 2019

SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 4

14:00–14:30h Registration and Welcome Coffee

14:30–15:00h Introduction

SESSION 1
Moderation: Anne Rüggemeier

15:00–15:45h
Martin Stöckinger (Köln)
Between Narrativity, Memory, and Administration: Lists in Roman Imperial and Early Medieval Historiography

15:45–16:30h
Daniela Wagner (Tübingen)
Enumerative Layering in the Paintings of the ‘Miracles of the True Cross’
in Venice

KEYNOTE (Freiburger Horizonte Lecture)
Moderation: Eva von Contzen

18:00–19:30h
Ottmar Ette (Potsdam)
Alexander von Humboldts Listen. Die Humboldtsche Wissenschaft und ihre Ordnungen

Friday, July 5

KEYNOTE
Moderation: Anne Rüggemeier

9:30–11:00h
Ulrike Vedder (Berlin)
„dille pur tutto“ – Wie „alles“ sagen? Zur Erzählökonomie der Liste

Coffee Break

SESSION 2
Moderation: Eva von Contzen

11:30–12:15h
Lennart Lehmhaus (Berlin)
Lore and Order? – Rabbinic List-making as an ‚Epistemic Genre‘

12:15–13:00h
Colinda Lindermann (Berlin)
In or Out? Word Lists in Early Modern Arabic Lexicography

Lunch Break

SESSION 3
Moderation: Roman Alexander Barton

14:30–15:15h
Norbert Götz (Huddinge)
Donor List Communication: The Moral Economy of Humanitarian Efforts in the Nineteenth Century

15:15–16:00h
Theresa Schön (Halle-Wittenberg)
Moral Curiosity Cabinets: Listing and the Character Sketch in Addison and Steele’s Periodicals

Coffee Break

SESSION 4
Moderation: Julia Böckling

16:30–17:15h
Agnes Blümer (Köln)
Between Order and Chaos: Lists in Children’s Literature

Saturday, July 6

SESSION 5
Moderation: Roman Alexander Barton

09:30–10:15h
Stefanie Lethbridge (Freiburg)
More than a Canon: The List of Contents in British Poetry Anthologies

10:15–11:00h
Juri Joensuu (Jyväskylä)
Literary Recipes and Menus: Experiments on Enumerative Forms

Coffee Break

SESSION 6
Moderation: Sarah Link

11:30–12:15h
Liam Cole Young (Ottawa)
Lists and Longing

12:15–13:00h
Final Discussion