Conference: Adorno: Exile and Ethics

12/5/2003

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, Townsend Center for the Humanities

The German Department plans to honor Theodor W. Adorno's 100th birthday this year with a one-day symposium.

Adorno: Exile and Ethics

9:30 a.m.     Opening Remarks - Christina Gerhardt, Department of German, UC-Berkeley

Exile

10:00-11:00     Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, UC-Berkeley
"Taking on the Stigma of the Inauthentic: Adorno's Critique of Genuineness"

Moderator: Anton Kaes, Chair and Professor of German, UC-Berkeley

11:00-12:00     Detlev Claussen, Institut für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Universität Hannover
"Frankfurter Transfer: Adorno between America and Germany"

Moderator: Robert Holub, Professor of German, UC-Berkeley

12:00 - 1:30     Lunch

Ethics

2:00-3:00     Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in Departments of Rhetoric
and Comparative Literature, UC-Berkeley
"Leading a Good Life in a Bad Life"

Moderator: Anthony Cascardi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric,
Spanish and Portuguese, UC-Berkeley

3:00-4:00     Jay Bernstein, Department of Philosophy, New School
"Bare Life, Bearing Witness: The Ethics of Response"

Moderator: Hans Sluga, Professor of Philosophy, UC-Berkeley

4:00-4:30     Break

4:30 - 5:30     Roundtable Discussion with all conference participants

Moderator: Christina Gerhardt, Department of German, UC-Berkeley

Sponsored by the Goethe Institute and UC-Berkeley: Departments of German, History and Rhetoric as well as the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Symposium Organizer:

Tina Gerhardt
Department of German
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

gerhardt@socrates.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 643-2380

Thanks to the Goethe Institute San Francisco for co-sponsoring the event.