events

 

International Conference at Vanderbilt University

 March 23-25, 2006
 
at

The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center

Organized by:

Barbara Hahn and Meike Werner, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages

March 23

"Sleeping, I am more awake": A Montage

Barbara Hahn, Robert Kelz, Wesley Lim, Cemile Schulze-Brueninghoff, Brett Sterling, Elizabeth Weber

 

 

 
     
 
March 24
 
Section I: Dreams and Literature
 
Moderator: John McCarthy (Vanderbilt University)

Therese Augst (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"And I had to write it to you": Franziska zu Reventlow and Else Lasker-Schueler  “Dreaming in Public”

Theresia Birkenhauer (Universität
Hamburg)
Representation of Dreams, Representation of Theater

 Section II: Dreams and Media

Moderator Sara Eigen (Vanderbilt University)
Davide Stimilli (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Dream Bodies

Lutz Koepnick (Washington University, St. Louis) Dreamtime: The Specter of Cinema

Lucia Ruprecht (University of Cambridge)
Dance-Work and the Art of Walking in Valéry, Rilke, Freud, and Nijinsky

 
 Reception
Sponsored by:

The Max Kade Foundation (New York), and by Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Graduate School, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, and University Lectures Committee

   
March 25
 
Section III: Psychoanalysis and Medicine

Moderator Christoph Zeller (Vanderbilt University)

 

Marianne Schuller (Universität Hamburg)
Logic of Writing, Logic of Dreams: Reading Gottfried Keller's Novel The Green Henry

Volney Gay (Vanderbilt University)
Dreams as Personal Myths: Dreaming and Bricolage

Pascal Grosse (Charité Berlin)
Dreaming against Reason? The Philosophy of Irrationality in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

 
Section IV: Dreams and Philosophy

Moderator Angela Lin (Vanderbilt University)
 
Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University)
Dreams as an Archive
Eduardo Cadava (Princeton University)
To Die, to Sleep, Perchance to Read
Gregg Horowitz (Vanderbilt University)
The Authority of Dreams