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Event: Hölderlin’s Hellenism International Conference (Online, 24-25 April)

We are glad to give notice that the registration for the Hölderlin’s Hellenism International Conference is now open. The Conference will take place online on Thursday 24th – Friday 25th April. To register, please write an e-mail at aaron.turner@knappfoundation.ac.uk . This conference is supported by the Knapp Foundation.

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Please find below the full program.

 

Thursday 24th April

13:00-13:15 — Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation / RHUL), Introduction

13:15-14:00 Oliver Grütter (University of Zurich), Becoming Hellenist: From Horace to Hölderlin

14:00-14:45Laurence Hemming (Knapp Foundation / Lancaster University), Hölderlin and the Flucht der Götter

15:15-16:00 Sepid Birashk (Freie Universität Berlin), Aorgic Nature and Tautegoric Language: Hölderlin, Schelling, and the Dialectics of Identity and Difference in Greek-Oriental Mythologies

16:00-16:45 Thomas Schirren (University of Salzburg), „Im Tode finde ich den Lebendigen“

16:45-17:30 Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation  / RHUL), The Historicity of Hölderlin’s Hellenism

18:00-18:45Kathrin Rosenfield (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), Antigone’s Claim – Viewed from a Legal Perspective of 5th Century Greece

18:45-19:30 Frank H.W. Edler (Metropolitan Community College), Wilhelm Michel, “der freie Gebrauch des Eigenen”, and the Early Hölderlin Renaissance in Germany

 

Friday 25th April

12:30-13:15 Michael Fagenblat (Open University of Israel), Hölderlin’s Hellenism and Herder’s Hebraism: from the Geist of Another Antiquity to the Poetics of Dwelling

13:15-14:00 Nikolaos Anapliotis (University of Manchester), The fate of tragic politics in modernity: Kant and Hölderlin on the French Revolution

14:00-14:45 Marco Fiorletta (University of Vienna), The Oscillation of the Image: Hölderlin’s Patmos Between Antiquity and Modernity

15:15-16:00David F. Krell (DePaul University), For What Does Hölderlin Need the Greeks? For What Do I Need Hölderlin?

16:00-16:45Tobias Joho (University of Bern), Hölderlin on the absence of the Greek gods and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt

16:45-17:30Armin Schneider (Brown University), encounter (counter-rhythm, counter-thrust)

18:00-18:45Valentin Wey (University of Toronto), Intellectual Intuition and Tragedy in Hölderlin’s Philhellenism

18:45-19:30Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount University), Hellingrath’s Dissertation and Heidegger’s Secret Germany

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