Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: Uses and Abuses of Aesthetics Today
Graduate Student Conference
Cornell University
Department of German Studies
Lynch Conference Room, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Friday, February 18
11.30-12.00 Registration
12.00-12.15 Opening Remarks
12.15-1.45 Panel I – The Sensible and the Intelligible
Moderator: Claudia Schmidt
Aesthetics and Memory: Sense, Corporeality, and the Limits of the Subject
Greg Sevik (Binghamton University)
Signs and Bodies: Toward a Theory of Sensuous Experience through Literary Texts
Felicitas Ferder (Universität Osnabrück)
Conceptuality and Materiality in the Aesthetic
Aaron Hodges (Cornell University)
1.45-2.00 Coffee Break
2.00-3.15 Keynote Address
Moderator: Johannes Wankhammer
Stimmung — Introduction to an Aesthetic and Historical Dimension of Presence
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
3.15-3.30 Coffee Break
3.30-5.00 Panel II – Heidegger and the Aesthetic Tradition
Moderator: Nathan Taylor
“Die Form soll alles tun”: Heidegger Reads Schiller’s Letters
Klas Molde (Cornell University)
Beyond Aesthetics? – Heidegger’s Ontology of Art
Nikola Mirkovic (Boston College)
“Heimat des Geistes”: Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger on the Earth
Tobias Keiling (Universität Freiburg/Boston College)
5.15 Reception (Art History Gallery, GSH)
Saturday, February 19
9.00-10.00 Light Breakfast (Art History Gallery, GSH)
10.00-11.30 Panel III – Modernist Reconfigurations
Moderator: Alexander Phillips
Freedom in Things: The Rhetoric of Rilke’s Kunst-Ding and Hegel’s Symbolic Art
Tanvi Solanki (Princeton University)
Beauty as a Practice in Fin-de-siècle Literature
Gijsbert Pols (Freie Universität Berlin)
Frames of Meaning: Robert Musil’s Aesthetics
Johannes Schade (Johns Hopkins University)
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-1.15 Panel IV – Critical Aesthetics
Moderator: Anna Horakova
On Perspectives and Uses of the Sublime as a Concept of Aesthetic Alterity
Reinhard M. Möller (Universität Gießen)
Aesthetics Performed in Genderland
Basia Sliwinska (Loughborough University)
Abyss of Thought: Schelling, Deleuze, and the Aesthetics of Transgression
Branka Vujanovic (Universität Gießen)
1.15-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Panel V – German Philosophical Aesthetics
Moderator: Alexis Briley
Kantian Aesthetics and the Problem of Sensory Communicability
Colin McLear (Cornell University)
Kant’s Jokes
Will Cordeiro (Cornell University)
Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Metaphors: Abused, Misused, and Used U
Ruth Zisman (New York University)
4.00-4.15 Coffee Break
4.15-5.30 Plenary Address
Moderator: Ana-Maria Andrei
What is a Reflective Aesthetic Judgment (and Why Does it Matter)?
Peter Gilgen (Cornell University)
5.30-5.45 Closing Remarks
6.00 Reception (Art History Gallery, GSH)
Generous Funding Provided by:
Department of German Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Pandaemonium Germanicum, GPSAFC, Society for the Humanities, Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature, Institute for European Studies, Department of History, Department of Art, Department of Music, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Department of Art History