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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