Preliminary Program and Speaker List
Thursday 11-15-2018
Roundtable Discussion
8-9:30 p.m. German and US Scholars on Questions of Interdisciplinarity, History, Theory, and Method in Literature, Philosophy, and Science
Friday 11-16-2018
09:15 a.m. Welcome: Oliver Simons (Chair German Dept.), Niklas Straetker, Kevin Liggieri
PANEL 1: The Classic Doublet: Empirico-Transcendental
9:30 Livia Kleinwächter (Cologne): “Friedrich Schlegel’s Epistemology of the Fragment”
10:00 Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Columbia): “On Foucauldian Metacritique: The Anthropological Turn in the History of Philosophy”
10:30 Response: Laura Martin (Columbia)
10:40 Public Discussion
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11 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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PANEL 2: The Narrative and Metaphorical Turn? Counting and Recounting
11:30 Christina Brandt (Bochum): “Metaphors in 19th-Cent. Biology: Ernst Haeckel”
12:00 Neil Ziolkowski (Columbia): “Ernst Cassirer: Textual Strategies of Orientation”
12:30 Response: Manuel Gebhardt (Harvard)
12:40 Public Discussion
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1:00 - 2:30 Lunch Break
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PANEL 3: Vicissitudes of Idealism: System and Aggregate
2:30 Oliver Müller (Freiburg): “(Post-)Idealisms, Medicine, and Technology”
3:00 Niklas Straetker (Columbia): “The Art of the Secular Natural Purpose? How (some of) Theory Masterfully Misreads Kant”
3:30 Response: Bryson Tedford (Columbia)
3:40 Public Discussion
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4 - 4:30 Coffee Break
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PANEL 4: Life and Experiment – Education and Breeding
4:30 Kevin Liggieri (Zurich): “Human Breeding in 19th-Century Lit. and Philosophy”
5:00 Mike Lipkin (Columbia): “Versittlichung: Realism and Ethics in Keller's Green Henry”
5:30 Response: Sebastian Brass (Harvard)
5:40 Public Discussion
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7:00 Dinner
Saturday 11-17-18
9:15 a.m. Welcome
PANEL 5: Organism and Fragment
9:30 Georg Toepfer (Berlin): “Holistic Causality, Reciprocal Determination and System Properties, or How Organisms Were Described as Wholes at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century”
10:00 Chloe Vaughn (Columbia): “Aggregating Athens and Jerusalem: Heinrich Heine's Ludwig Börne as an Index for his Reception in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
10:30 Response: Diana Rose Newby (Columbia)
10:40 Public Discussion
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11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break
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PANEL 6: Hermeneutics and Discourse
11:30 Julia Gruevska (Bochum): “Helmholtz and Dilthey – Against Misunderstanding the Understanding/Explaining Distinction”
12:00 Evan Parks (Columbia): Gadamer/Derrida
12:30 Response: Xan Holt (Columbia)
12:40 Public Discussion
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1:00 Closing Remarks and Lunch at DH
