Weimar Culture:

4/16/2010

3335 Dwinelle Hall & 282 Dwinelle Hall

Morning Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall

I. The Role of Experience (Moderator: Martin Jay)

9:30-10:15am: Michael Minden, From \'Erlebnis\' to \'Erfahrung\'

10:15-11am: David Midgley, \'Entzauberung\' - as an instrument of investigation and a bone of contention in the interpretation of Weimar Culture.

11-11:15am: Break

11:15-12pm: Niklaus Largier, \'Another state\' of experience: Musil\'s \"Moeglichkeitssinn\" in context.

12-1:30pm: Break

Afternoon Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall

II. The Body Reconstituted (Moderator: Niklaus Largier

1:30-2:15pm: Andrew Webber, Back to Balazs: body parts in Weimar film.

2:15-3pm: Annika Orich, Otto Rippert\'s Homunculus on ARTificial reproduction.

3-3:45pm: Christopher Young, Rethinking Weimar sports history: university sport and the student body.

3:45-4:15pm: Break

III. Cinematic Encounters (Moderator: Tony Kaes)

4:15-5pm: Ofer Ashkenazi, Cosmopolitan Modernism: Jewish film culture in Weimar.

5-5:45pm: Nicholas Baer, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Oswald\'s \"Anders als die Andern\".

5:45-6:30pm: Jennifer Zahrt, Magic for the masses in Murnau\'s \"Faus\".