International Workshop: German Poetry and Philosophy: Hölderlin, Rilke, Celan
International Workshop: German Poetry and Philosophy: Hölderlin, Rilke, Celan
Hosted by the Goethe-Institut, Sydney, and the University of Sydney
This international workshop will explore the relationship between poetry and philosophy by focusing on three German-language poets whose work spans the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Celan. Hölderlin is recognized as a major poet of the Romantic era and a key figure in the development of post-Kantian philosophy. Only belatedly recognized for his genius, Hölderlin also played a crucial role in the developments of twentieth-century poetry (including Rilke) and philosophy (Heidegger and Adorno, among others). Rilke has been one of the most influential and widely translated European poets and an important interlocutor for Continental philosophers, particularly within the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism and hermeneutics (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, among others). Celan is one of the defining figures of post-WWII German-language poetry and has been central to philosophical attempts to address the Holocaust (including interpretations by Adorno and Derrida).
Program
All times in AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
- 8:50am–9:00am – Welcome – Luke Fischer and Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney)
- 9:00am–10:00am – Tim Mehigan (University of Queensland), ‘”Wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?” Hölderlin’s Struggle with Plato’
- 10:00am–11:00am – Luke Fischer (University of Sydney), ‘Hölderlin’s Mythopoetic Thinking: Through Philosophy to Poetry’
- 11:00am–11:15am – morning break
- 11:15am–12:15pm – James Reid (Metropolitan State University, Denver), ‘Poetry and Place: A Topological Reading of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus’
- 12:15pm–1:15pm – Kathleen Komar (University of California, Los Angeles), ‘Rainer Maria Rilke’s Philosophy of Productive Deprivation and the Creation of Poetry’
- 1:15pm–2pm – lunch break
- 2pm–3pm – Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney), ‘Romano Guardini’s Interpretations of Hölderlin and Rilke’
- 3pm–4pm – Peter Banki (PhD, New York University), ‘Singable Remains: Babbling with Paul Celan’
- 4pm–4:30 pm – afternoon break
- 4:30pm–5:30 pm – Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore), ‘Ecocritical Poetics from Hölderlin to Rilke’
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Registration
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in the topics of the workshop. Please register via Eventbrite.
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Thursday September 30, 8:50am-5:30pm AEST
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