European Memories: The Migrant Images of Peter Weiss's Modernist Imagination
November 19-21, 1998
Duke University
Durham, NC

Schedule of Events

(All events will be held in the North Gallery of the Duke University Museum of Art unless otherwise noted)

Thursday, November 19, 1998

6:00 pm

Opening of Conference
Prof. Fredric Jameson (Duke University)

Keynote Address
Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

Friday, November 20, 1998

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote Address I
Prof. Julia Hell (University of Michigan)

10:45am - 12:15pm

Conference Panel I

'Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Peter Weiss's Work'

Moderator: Sara Danius

-Olaf Berwald (UNC-Chapel Hill): "The Real as Resistance: Die Ästhetik des Widerstands and Lacan"

-Dr. Volker Langbehn (University of Minnesota): "The Subject that never was; the role of the imagination in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern"

-Prof. Larson Powell (Fordham University): "Peter Weiss and the Modernity of the Hörspiel"

12:15 – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 pm

Keynote Address II
Birgit Munkhammar

2:45 – 4:15 pm

Conference Panel II

'Imagining Identity: Weiss's Revolutionary Subject'

Moderator: Stefan Jonsson

-Scott Windham (UNC-Chapel Hill): "Peter Weiss and the Problem of German Identity"

-Robert Gibson (Duke University): "Kafka/Weiss: Constructing Power, Constructing Identity"

-Paul Malone, Asst. Prof. (University of Waterloo): "The People vs. Kafka: Peter Weiss as Witness for the Prosecution"

4:30 – 6:00 pm

Lecture by Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

8:00 pm

Premiere of Peter Weiss's The New Trial

Shaefer Lab Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus


Saturday, November 21, 1998

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote Address III
Magnus Bergh

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Conference Panel III

'Weiss and the Left today'

Moderator: Prof. Siegfried Mews, UNC-Chapel Hill

-Carl Niekerk, Asst. Prof. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Remembering the Left: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Peter Weiss's Report on Spain in The Aesthetics of Resistance"

-Ole Rehberg Gram (University of Minnisota) "Disciplinary Absolution: Ästhetik des Widerstands and the German Left"

-Ulrich Bach (UCLA) "Peter Weiss's Hölderlin (1971/1972): A sublimation of a 'political illness'?"

12:15 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 pm

Keynote Address IV
Prof. Alfons Söllner (TU Chemnitz)

2:45 - 4:15 pm

Conference Panel IV

'Missing Bodies: Aesthetics and Absence in Weiss's Work'

Moderator: Prof. Julia Hell

-Christian Gundermann (Cornell University): "Peter Weiss and the Latin American novela de testimonio"

-Maura Dillon (Duke University): "Sexual Abstinence and the Critique of Reason in The Aesthetics of Resistance"

-Christine Ivanovic (Universität Erlangen): "Aesthetic Resistance to Cultural Suppression: Dialogical Responses to Dante in the writings of Osip Mandelstam, Witold Gombrowicz and Peter Weiss"

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Keynote Address V
PD Dr. Yvonne Spielmann (Universität Siegen): "Theory and Practice of the Avantgarde: Weiss's Approach to Film"

5:45 - 7:45 pm

Presentation of films by Peter Weiss