Aesthetic Theory and Dramatic Production
1805 Friedrich Schiller
2005
Anglo-American Perspectives after 200 Years
The conference is free and open to the public, but registration
is required for planning purposes. Please use the online form to
register for the conference.
For further information about the program, you may call Christa
Sammons at 203.432.2964.
Friday, November 4 - Beinecke Library, 121 Wall
Street
3:00 p.m. Coffee, tea, pastries
4:00-6:00 p.m. - Session I. Keynote Addresses
Cyrus Hamlin (Yale University), moderator
Frederick C. Beiser (Syracuse University). “Schiller as Philosopher
Today”
Ute Frevert (Yale University) “Schiller: The German Nation’s
Favorite Poet”
6:00-7:30 p.m. Reception and viewing of the exhibition “Friedrich
Schiller: Selections from the Yale Collection of German Literature”
8:00 p.m. , Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness
Hall, 100 Wall Street
Wallenstein’s Camp. Dramatic
reading in English. Directed by David Muse, ’96, Associate
Director of the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C. Sponsored
by Jonathan Edwards College.
Saturday, November 5 - Whitney Humanities Center,
53 Wall Street
9:30–11:00 a.m. - Session II
David Pugh (Queen’s University, Canada). “Schiller,
Liberalism and the Aesthetic State”
Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow, UK). “Re-Reading Schiller:
Aesthetic Theory and Education”
11:00-11:30 a.m. - Coffee break
11:30-12:15 - Session III
Ian Balfour (York University, Canada). “The Fate of Freedom: Schiller's
Thinking on the Sublime”
2:30-4:00 p.m. - Session IV
Lesley Sharpe (University of Exeter, UK). “A German Shakespeare?:
Schiller and the Traditions of the German Theater”
Jane Brown (University of Washington). “Falling Silent: Schiller
and Opera”
4:00-4:30 p.m. - Coffee break
4:30-6:00 p.m. - Session V
George S. Williamson (University of Alabama). "Friedrich Schiller
and August von Kotzebue: Heroism, Villainy, and the Making of German
Culture"
Roger Stephenson (University of Glasgow, UK). “Ernst Cassirer’s
Reading of Schiller”
7:00 p.m. - Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall,
100 Wall Street
Wallenstein’s Camp
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