The Beinecke Library at Yale University, in collaboration with the Whitney Humanities Center and the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, is hosting a two-day international conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller’s death. Scholars from a variety of disciplines reassess Schiller’s importance as dramatist and as theorist from a largely Anglo-American perspective. Frederick Beiser, Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, and Ute Frevert, Professor of History at Yale, will give the keynote addresses.

During the month of November, the Beinecke Library will mark the Schiller anniversary with an exhibition that includes first editions of his works, musical settings of texts by Schiller, and evidence of his reception in the English speaking world, such as books, playbills, chapbooks, and ephemera.

The conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested.