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METHODS AND MOODS IN LITERARY STUDIES AFTER 1967 IN HONOR OF HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT FEBRUARY 9-10, 2018 AT THE STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER 2017 marked the fiftieth year of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s career. To commemorate his retirement from the faculty at Stanford University, his colleagues, former students, and friends will consider how literary study has developed over the past fifty years. The contributions to this conference will address discrete episodes as well as broad trends in the languages and cultures Gumbrecht’s work has addressed over these five decades. The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Stanford University PROGRAM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks Richard Saller, Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Dan Edelstein, Chair of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University David Shaw, Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football, Stanford University 9:00 a.m. Keynote Lecture Chair: John Bender, Stanford University Karen Feldman, University of California, Berkeley "Afterlives of Structure: Begriffsgeschichte, Deconstruction, Reception" 10:15 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. Literary Studies in 1967—and After Chair: Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley William Egginton, The Johns Hopkins University "The Recuperation of Presence" Marci Shore, Yale University "What Is Heroic Thinking?" Rüdiger Campe, Yale University "Questions of Evidence: Gumbrecht's Contribution to Dramatic Theory" Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University "Literary Studies and Art History: The Presence of A. Warburg" 12 noon Lunch 1:00 p.m. Literary Studies After 1967—Intersections Chair: David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University Marisa Galvez, Stanford University "The Production of Medieval Life Forms in the Work of Gumbrecht" 2 PROGRAM Lorenz Jäger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "On Writing About Heidegger's Life" Peter Gilgen, Cornell University "The Presence of Ugliness" Claus Pias, Leuphana University of Lüneburg "The Media Arcane" Noam Pines, University at Buffalo, State University of New York "Allegory and Political Theology: A Revaluation of Humanity in the Post-Secular Age" 2:30 p.m. Break 3:00 p.m. The Persistence of Presence Chair: Denise Gigante, Stanford University Ligia Diniz, University of Brasília "Saudade as Presence: On Gumbrecht's Nostalgia" Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University "Presence Effects for Posthumans" Otavio Leonidio Ribeiro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro "Presence and Presentness after 1967" 5:00 p.m. Reception Stanford Faculty Club 3 PROGRAM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 10:00 a.m. Keynote Lecture Chair: Vincent Barletta, Stanford University Miguel Tamen, University of Lisbon "Intellectuals, Public and Private" 11:15 a.m. Break 11:30 a.m. Symptoms of the Humanities Chair: Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University Jan Georg Söffner, Zeppelin University "Being Intellectual Against All the (Digital) Odds" Thomas Hare, Princeton University "Gumbrecht's Velázquez" Luiz Costa Lima, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro "Humanities Running in Parallel" Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania "In a Systems Mood: Stanford, 1989" 1:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 p.m. Theorizing Everyday Life Chair: Matthew Tiews, Stanford University Christian Benne, University of Copenhagen "Containment vs. Celebration: The Bifurcation of Contingency" Andrei Markovits, University of Michigan "Gumbrecht's Engagement with Sports and America" 4 PROGRAM Sasha Spoun, Leuphana University of Lüneberg "Risky Questions" Sanja Perovic, King's College London "Performing the Broad Present" João Cezar de Castro Rocha, State University of Rio de Janeiro "Can Body Go On Without a Thought? Gelassenheit as Gedankenexperiment" 3:30 p.m. Break 3:45 p.m. Receptions and Revisions of Gumbrecht Chair: David Marno, University of California, Berkeley Guilherme Foscolo, Federal University of Southern Bahia "Reverberations of Gumbrecht's Work" Florian Klinger, University of Chicago "The Art of Unlearning" Heather Webb, University of Cambridge "The Medieval Beginnings of Italian Poetry Today" Marcelo de Mello Rangel, Federal University of Ouro Preto "Can One Be Happy Today?" Tone Roald, University of Copenhagen "Atmosphere and Academic Climate Change" 5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks Chair: Andrea Nightingale, Stanford University Robert Harrison, Stanford University "Pondus Amoris" 5 SPEAKERS Vincent Barletta is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford. He is the author, most recently, of Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient (2010) and the organizer of Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry (1400-1700) (with Cici Malik and Mark L. Bajus, 2013). He met Sepp when he came to Stanford in 2007. John Bender is Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford and was formerly director of the Stanford Humanities Center. His most recent books are The Culture of Diagram (with Michael Marrinan, 2010) and Ends of Enlightenment (2012). He met Sepp when they became colleagues in 1989. Christian Benne is Professor of European Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Copenhagen and the Deputy Director of the Friedrich Nietzsche Foundation. He is the author of Die Erfindung des Manuskripts: Zur Theorie und Geschichte literarischer Gegenständlichkeit (2015). He has been friends with Sepp since 2005. Horst Bredekamp is Professor of Art History at the Humboldt University. He is the author, most recently, of Theorie des Bildakts (2010) and Leibniz und die Revolution der Gartenkunst: Herrenhausen, Versailles und die Philosophie der Blätter (2012). He and Sepp met through Friedrich Kittler in Berlin in the 1990s. Rüdiger Campe is the Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist (2012) and the editor of Baumgarten-Studien: Zur Genealogie der Ästhetik (2014). He was a doctoral student when he met Sepp in a colloquium in Dubrovnik. João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author, most recently, of Machado de Assis: Por uma Poética da Emulação (2013) and Culturas Shakespearianas (2017). He encountered Sepp, who had recently begun at Stanford, in a seminar taught by Luiz Costa Lima in Rio. Luiz Costa Lima is Professor Emeritus at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author, most recently, of Frestras: A Teorização em um País Periférico (2013) and Melancolia (2017). He has been friends with Sepp for over three decades. 6 SPEAKERS Ligia G. Diniz holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Brasília (2016). She is currently revising her dissertation, "Towards an Impossible Phenomenology of Affects: Imagination and Presence in Literary Experience," for publication. She spent fifteen months as a visiting researcher at Stanford under Sepp's supervision in 2014-15. Dan Edelstein, a scholar of eighteenth-century France with interests in both history and literature, is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and Chair of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford. His most recent monograph is The Enlightenment: A Genealogy (2010). His current research concerns the development of the idea of revolution from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Dan has worked with Sepp since he began teaching at Stanford in 2004. William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2017). He studied with Sepp from 1994 to 1999, when he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature here. Karen Feldman is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger (2006). She is completing a book entitled Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality. A regular member of the Philosophical Reading Group, she has known Sepp since 2001. Guilherme Foscolo is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Federal University of Southern Bahia in Brazil. His research interests include philosophy of art, art theory and criticism, and media theory. He and Sepp met for the first time in 2012. Marisa Galvez is Associate Professor of French and, by courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford. The author of Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe (2012), she is working on a book titled The Subject of Crusade: Penitential Poetics in Vernacular Lyric and Romance. She met Sepp in 2001 when she came here for doctoral study; shortly he became her dissertation adviser. Denise Gigante is Professor of English at Stanford. She is currently working on The Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America and most recently published The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George (2013). She met Sepp and Ricky in 2002 at the Village Pub in Woodside at a dinner for Lynn Hunt, and has been friends with them since then. 7 SPEAKERS Peter Gilgen is Associate Professor of German Studies and a Member of the Graduate Field of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His most recent publications include the essays "Translating