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Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
420 W. 116th St. (between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.)
A conference organized by Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and New German Critique, co-presented with the Goethe Institute New York. Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Conference Program
FRIDAY INTRODUCTORY SESSION
6:00-8:00 pm
Welcome
Andreas Huyssen, Director of Deutsches Haus
Anna Kinder, Deutsches Literatur Archiv Marbach
Narratives of Theory Transfer
Philipp Felsch, Professor für die Geschichte der Humanwissenschaften, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Theory: A Transatlantic Genre
RECEPTION
SATURDAY
Morning Session I
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach (Princeton)
9:00-9:45
Joe Paul Kroll, Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz
(Mis)Reading the Market? Publishing and Theory Transfer
9:45-10:30
Robert Zwarg, Simon Dubnow Institut Leipzig
Journals and Theory Transfer
“Half a Heart and Double Zeal” – The Transformation of Critical Theory in the U.S.
15 minute Coffee break
Morning Session II
Moderator: Marcel Lepper (Marbach)
10:45-11:30
Scholem
Yaacob Dweck, Professor of History, Princeton University
The Reception of Gershom Scholem in America
11:30-12:15
Kracauer
Johannes von Moltke, Professor of German, University of Michigan
The Anonymity of Siegfried Kracauer
12:15-1:15 BREAK
Afternoon Session III
Moderator: Eva Geulen (Frankfurt, currently Columbia)
1:15-2:00
Blumenberg
Paul Fleming, Professor of German, Cornell University
Missed Metaphors: Blumenberg and America
2:00-2:45
Koselleck
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Professor of History, UC-Berkeley
Koselleck in America
2:45-3:30
Luhmann
William Rasch, Professor of German, Indiana University, Bloomington
Lack of Resonance? Let Me Count the Ways
30 minute Coffee break
Afternoon Session IV
Moderator: Reinhold Martin (Columbia)
4:00-4:45
MitscherlichDagmar Herzog, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
“All Our Theories Are Going to be Carried Away by History”: Alexander Mitscherlich and American Psychoanalysis
4:45-5:30
Kittler
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Professor of European Studies, University of British Columbia
American Kittler
5:30-6:15
Kluge
Devin Fore, Professor of German, Princeton University
What Survives? A Working Report on Kluge
Participant notes:
Devin Fore is associate professor of German at Princeton University. He published Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (2012) and edited the translation of Negt/Kluge’s History and Obstinacy (2014).
Yaacob Dweck is an assistant professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. His first book, The Scandal of Kabbalah, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
Philipp Felsch, historian and historian of science and ideas. Since 2011 assistant Professor for the History of the Human Sciences at Humboldt-University in Berlin. Books on experimental physiology, Alpinism and fatigue in the 19th Century and on cartography and polar exploration. In March 2015 appeared “The Long Summer of Theory”, a history of theory in West-Germany between the 1960s and the 1990s.
Paul Fleming is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University. His monographs are Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism and The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor. He is the translator of Hans Blumenberg’s Care Crosses the River and Peter Szondi’s An Essay on the Tragic.
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She writes on the histories of religion, the Holocaust and its aftermath, and gender and sexuality. She is currently at work on Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes. [add titles]
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Associate Professor Department of History, University of California Berkeley. MA Johns Hopkins University, 1993, Dr. phil. Universität Bielefeld, 1999. Books on civil society and human rights. Recent publications include „Koselleck, Arendt, and the Anthropology of Historical Experiences,“ History and Theory 49 (2010), and „Gazing at Ruins: German Defeat as Visual Experience,“ Journal of Modern European History, 9 (2011).
Anna Kinder, Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) and coordinator of the research network Suhrkamp-Forschungskolleg at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Germany; lecturer at Stuttgart University. She published Geldströme. Literatur und Ökonomie im Romanwerk Thomas Manns (2013) and edited Peter Handke. Stationen, Orte, Positionen (2014).
Joe Paul Kroll received his PhD from Princeton University in 2010 for a study of Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith, and Carl Schmitt. After working for a publishing house in Frankfurt, he is now an editor at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz.
Johannes von Moltke teaches German and Film Studies at Michigan, where he is currently chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. He has published widely on German film, Critical Theory, and the work of Siegfried Kracauer in particular, including a recently completed manuscript entitled Manhattan Transfer: The Curious Humanism of Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings.
William Rasch, Professor of German Studies at Indiana University, writes and teaches on the German intellectual tradition with special emphasis on Niklas Luhmann and Carl Schmitt. His concern is with the description of and responses to European modernity in philosophical, social-theoretical, and political-theoretical discourse from the eighteenth century to the present.
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young teaches in the German and Scandinavian programs of the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia/Vancouver. Among his most recent publications are Kittler and the Media (Polity), several papers on German media theory and cultural techniques, and the translation of Bernhard Siegert’s Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham).
Robert Zwarg studied translation (English/Spanish), philosophy and cultural studies at the universities of Leipzig, Mexico D. F., Davis, California and the New School in New York. He has just defended his dissertation “The Transformation of a Tradition – The Reception of Critical Theory in America” at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture of the University of Leipzig where he works as an assistant. He is also a member of the editorial team of the Encyclopedia for Jewish History and Culture edited by Dan Diner.
