Conference Program and Abstracts
Conference Abstracts (last updated 28 Apr. 2017)
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Program (last updated: 05 May 2017)
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| Thursday, May 18 | |
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| Venue: Campus Steintor, Hörsaal I | |
| 17:00 | ADDRESSES Wolfgang Auhagen (Prorector, MLU) Georg Maas (Dean, Faculty of Humanities II) Ulrich Busse (Managing Director, Department of English and American Studies) Daniel Fulda (Managing Director, IZEA) Organising Team |
| 18:00 | KEYNOTE John Richetti (U of Pennsylvania/USA): Poetry Heard, Not Overheard: Performance and Dialogue in 17th- and 18th-Century Verse, Religious and Secular" |
| 19:00 | Reception |
| 20:00 | Conference Warming Osteria da Salvatore (Kleine Ulrichstraße 21, 06108 Halle) |
| Friday, May 19 | |
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| Venue: Campus Steintor, E.06.0 ("Glaskasten") | |
| 09:00–10:00 | KEYNOTE William Gibson (Oxford Brookes U/UK): “Sermons as Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century” |
| 10:30–12:00 | PHILOSOPHY AND SATIRE Heinz Thoma (MLU): “Natürliche Religion und Religion der Natur im Zeitalter der Aufklärung” Clare Haynes (U of East Anglia/UK): “A Religious Satire in Song, Print and Clay: Narrating The Vicar and Moses in Late Eighteenth-Century England” |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch Brasserie Lözius (Am Steintor 9, 06108 Halle) |
| 13:30–15:00 | CONFESSION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY Penny Pritchard (U of Hertfordshire/UK): “Reforming a Careless World: The Cultural Significance of Josiah Woodward’s Fair Warnings (1707)” Angela Richter (MLU): “Autobiografisches Schreiben zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die Žitije von Gerasim Zelić” |
| 15:30–16:30 | KEYNOTE Laura Stevens (U of Tulsa/USA): “The Stories Children’s Bibles Tell in Eighteenth-Century Britain” |
| 17:30–18:30 | Guided Tour: Franckesche Stiftungen |
| 19:00–22:00 | Dinner MahnS Chateau (Oleariusstraße 4a, 06108 Halle) |
| Saturday, May 20 | |
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| Venue: Campus Steintor, E.06.0 ("Glaskasten") | |
| 09:00–10:00 | KEYNOTE Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Vassar College/USA): “Samuel Johnson and Religious Melancholy” |
| 10:30–12:00 | LITERARY (ANTI-) WORSHIP Elisabeth Décultot (MLU): “Zur Konstruktion eines ausländischen Klassikers: Die Shakespeare-Rezeption in Frankreich und Deutschland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert” Jürgen Meyer (Bielefeld U/MLU): “Lyrical Transformations of Salome in England and Germany, 1600–1890” |
| 12:00–14:00 | Lunch Brasserie Lözius (Am Steintor 9, 06108 Halle) |
| 14:00–15:30 | (POST-)MODERN PERSPECTIVES Thomas Austenfeld (U of Fribourg/Switzerland): “Gestures of Faith in Contemporary American Poetry” Dorothee Birke (Aarhus U/Denmark): “Alien Religion: Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things” |
| 15:30 | CONCLUSION |