
Thursday, April 7, 2011
University Club, Hermitage Room
8:30 a.m.–Noon Registration
9:00–10:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks, Dieter Sevin,
Vanderbilt University
Welcome, Richard C. McCarty,
Provost of Vanderbilt University
Welcome, Carolyn Dever,
Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
Welcome, Lutz Goergens,
German Consul General
10:00–10:30 a.m.
Coffee break
Section 1
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Introductory Addresses
Moderator: Thomas Wild, Vanderbilt University
Bernhard Greiner, Eberhard Karls University,
Tübingen, Proben des Tragischen: Kleists literarische Politik
Marianne Schuller, The University of Hamburg,
Kleists Komödie
Günter Blamberger, The University of Köln, Kleists Projektemacherei. Fragmente aus der Zukunft
Noon
Lunch, Wedgewood Room
Section 2
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Violence and Kleist’s Biography
Moderator: Guy Stern, Wayne State University
Hinrich C. Seeba, University of California, Berkeley, Geschichte einer Seele: Zum biographischen Ansatz des Sprachproblems bei Kleist
Sören Steding, Luther College, Iowa,“Ach! Wie gebrechlich ist der Mensch!„—Krieg ein Trauma für Kleist?
Rolf-Peter Janz, Free University, Berlin, Kleists Experimente mit Ausnahmezuständen
3:00–3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
Section 3
3:30–5:30 p.m.
Form and Meaning
Moderator: Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University
Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University, Form and Meaning, or: Kant and Kleist
Scott Abbott, Utah Valley University, Andere Umstände: Erection as Self-Assertion in the Marquise von O...
Toshiyuki Yui, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Eine Betrachtung zur Bauform von Kleists Penthesilea
Thomas Nehrlich, Free University, Berlin, Der Gedankenstrich in der Marquise von O.... und sein Einfluss auf die Deutung
7:00–10:00 p.m.
Reception at the home of Dieter and Ingrid Sevin
Friday, April 8, 2011
University Club, Hermitage Room
Section 4
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Aspects of Kleist’s Reception
Moderator: Claudia Schlee, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Dennis F. Mahoney, The University of Vermont, Goethe’s Iphigenie and Kleist’s Penthesilea: Amazonian Cousins?
Gabrielle Bersier, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Goethes intertextueller Nachruf auf Kleist: Der Ludwigsritter der Straßburger Tischgesellschaft in Dichtung und Wahrheit
Amy Emm, The Citadel, Charleston, Beyond the Agon: Kleist’s Legacy in Music
10:00–10:30 a.m.
Coffee break
Section 5
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Kleist and His Time I
Moderator: Beatrix Brockman, Vanderbilt University
Christian Kohlross, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Die Gegenwärtigkeit Heinrich von Kleists
Jeffrey L. High, California State University, Long Beach, “Einigkeit” and “Zwietracht”: Kleist, Schiller, and War of Liberation Art
Peter Höyng, Emory University, Elective Affinities: Kleist and Beethoven as Zeitgeist of “Generation Napoleon„
Noon
Lunch, Wedgewood Room
Section 6
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Kleist and His Time II
Moderator: Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University
Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara, Bombenpost. Von der optischen zur elektrischen Telegraphie
Mike Hiegemann, Vanderbilt University, Robert Guiskard. Das Fragment als Krise: Leichenfeier des bürgerlichen Theaters
Christine Kanz, The University of Ghent, Affekt und Wissen in der Prosa Kleists
3:00–3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
Section 7
3:30–5:30 p.m.
Theoretical Approaches
Moderator: James McFarland, Vanderbilt University
Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University, Improvisation in Kleist: Agency, Autonomy, and the Modern Predicament
Thomas Lornsen, University of New Brunswick, Adaptation and Transgression in Kleist
Helmut Grugger, University of Innsbruck, Kleists dramatische Konzeption und die Frage nach dem Subjekt
Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois, Champaign/ Urbana, Natural History, Anthropology, and the Construction of the Primitive Other in Kleist’s Die
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Reception hosted by the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Nicholas Zeppos, Kirkland Hall
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Buttrick Hall, Room 102
Section 8
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Recent Reception
Moderator: Holly Liu, Alma College
Jean Wilson, McMaster University/Canada Pedagogical Provocations: Teaching Kleist
Elke Gilson, The University of Ghent, Bewusstsein, Gespenster und Gewalt: Heinrich von Kleist und Judith Hermann
Laurie Johnson, University of Illinois, Champaign/ Urbana, Recovered Voices: Listening to Viktor Ullmann’s, Der zerbrochene Krug (1942)
10:00–10:30 a.m.
Coffee break
Section 9
10:30 a.m.–Noon
Productive Reception
Moderator: Margaret Setje-Eilers, Vanderbilt University
Johann Holzner, University of Innsbruck, Höchste Kunstfertigkeit, nicht ohne Anteilnahme: Kleist und Erich Hackl
John Pizer, Louisiana State University, Thomas Bernhard’s Play Die Jagdgesellschaft: A Comprehensive Enactment of Kleist’s Thought
Katrin Pahl, Johns Hopkins University, Teichoscopies of Feeling in Kleist’s Theater
Noon
Lunch, Sarratt Dining,
Room 216/220
Section 10
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Comparative Studies
Moderator: Barbara Wahlster, Vanderbilt University; Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin
Garrido Minambres, University Complutense of Madrid, Die Marquise von O. und das Motiv der Parthenogenese in der deutschsprachigen Novelle
Helena Elshout, University of Ghent, Kleists Marquise aufs Neue vergewaltigt ... Ein rhetorisch- narratorischer Vergleich von Kleist und Kluges “unbefleckte Empfängnis”-Geschichten
Waltraud Maierhofer and Ambika S. Athreya, University of Iowa, “Ich will nichts wissen”: Wissen und Bewusstein in Die Marquise von O. und Christoph Starks Julietta
3:00–3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
Section 11
3:30—5:00 p.m.
Judicial Dimensions
Moderator: Christoph Zeller, Vanderbilt University
Tomislav Zelic, The University of Zadar/ Croatia, Das Souveränitätsparadox in Kleists Homburg-Drama
Pascale LaFountain, Harvard University, “Das Gefühl des Rechts”: Gesture, Evidence, and Law in Die Familie Schroffenstein
Bernd Fischer, Ohio State University, Columbus, Gerechtes Erzählen, oder: Kleist vor Gericht
5:30 p.m.
Reception hosted by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Buttrick Hall Atrium
8:00 p.m.
Opportunity to hear a concert at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center (downtown)
Rachmaninoff, Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Bruckner, Symphony No. 3 in D minor “Wagner Symphony”
Saturday, April 10, 2011
Holiday Inn, Centennial Room A
Section 12
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Dramatic and Narrative Strategies
Moderator: John McCarthy, Vanderbilt University
Helmut Schneider, Rheinische Friedrich– Wilhelms–University, Bonn, Herrschaftskörper und Volkskörper: Zum Problem der Generalogie am Beispiel des Zerbrochenen Krugs
John Lyon, University of Pittsburgh, “Ach!”: Kleist’s Unsettled Endings and Benjaminian Allegory
Henrik Sponsel, University of California, Irvine, Der Ring, das Wiedersehen und die Reise um die Welt: Das Unendlichkeitsmotiv in Kleists Novellenschlüssen
11:00–11:30 a.m.
Coffee break in the hotel lounge
11:30 a.m.–12:30
Concluding Panel Discussion: Why Kleist Today?
Moderator: Dieter Sevin, Vanderbilt University
Panelists: Günter Blamberger, Bernd Fischer, Bernhard Greiner, Marianne Schuller
Funding for the symposium is gratefully acknowledged:
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), New York
The Max Kade Foundation, New York
The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
The Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
The Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt International Office
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
The Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, Vanderbilt University
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University
Cover art: Das Eismeer, 1824, Caspar David Friedrich