Schedule
Friday 23 April 2010
Senatssaal University Main Building (Fürstengraben 1)13.30-14.00 Registration in front of the Senatssaal (speakers may collect their name-badges)
14.00-14.30 Opening Ceremony; address by the dean
14.30-15.15 Guglielmo Spirito & Emanuele Rimoli, Outer and Inner Landscapes in Tolkien: between Wordsworth, Coleridge and Dostoevsky (e) [Abstract/CV]
15.15-16.00 Annie Birks, Romanticism, Symbolism and Onomastics in Tolkien's Legendarium (e) [Abstract/CV]
Break
16.30-17.15 Fabian Geier, Falsche Harmonie? Oder: Darf man nach Auschwitz noch vom Auenland träumen? (d) (Fabian Geier will provide a short English summary of his lecture at the end of his presentation.) [Abstract/CV]
17.15-18.00 Jodi Storer, Tom Bombadil – a romantic hero for our times (e) [Abstract/CV]
18.00-18.45 Anke Eissmann, The aesthetics of Middle-earth: Art of the Romantic period and its influence on JRR Tolkien (e) [Abstract/CV]
18.45-19.15 Presentation of new publications on Tolkien (Hither Shore, WTP volumes etc.), Dwarvish University of the Blue Mountains Honorary Degree Awarding Ceremony
19.30 Dinner at the Gasthaus zur Noll (close to the University Main Building)
Saturday 24 April 2010
Senatssaal University Main Building (Fürstengraben 1)09.00-09.45 Thomas Honegger, 'The Past is another Country' – Romanticism, Tolkien & the Middle Ages (e) [Abstract/CV]
09.45-10.30 Marie-Noëlle Biemer, Disenchanted with their Age: Keats', Morris' and Tolkien's Great Escape (e) [Abstract/CV]
11.00-11.45 Doreen Triebel, Looking Backwards: Celtic Influences and the Quest of National Identity (e) [Abstract/CV]
11.45-12.30 Julian Eilmann, Tolkien und der Topos der romantischen Nostalgie (d) [Abstract/CV]
12.30-13.15 Thomas Scholz, The Hobbit – Eine Fortsetzung der Romantik mit anderen Mitteln? (d) [Abstract/CV]
Lunchbreak
14.15-16.15 Guided Tour (in English) to 'Jena and Romanticism' (limited to 25 persons)
16.30-17.15 Stefanie Schult, Beauty, Perfection, Sublime Terror: Some Thoughts on the Influence of Edmund Burke's A Philolsophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful on Tolkien's Creation of Middle-earth (e) [Abstract/CV]
17.15-18.00 Marguerite Mouton, Reading Tolkien's Work in the Light of Hugo's Notions of the Sublime and the Grotesque (e) [Abstract/CV]
18.00-18.30 Presentation of new publications on Tolkien (Hither Shore, WTP volumes etc.)
19.00 Dinner at the Noll for all speakers and interested conference attendants. Pre-booking required!
Sunday 25 April 2010
Senatssaal University Main Building (Fürstengraben 1)09.00-09.45 Thomas Fornet-Ponse, Tolkien, Newman und das Oxford Movement (d) [Abstract/CV]
09.45-10.30 Martin Sternberg, Tolkien, der Philister und die Politik der Kreativität (d) [Abstract/CV]
Break
11.00-11.45 Dirk Vanderbeke, Romantic or Romanticizing? (e) [Abstract/CV]
11.45-12.30 Oliver Bidlo, Mittelerde als Ausdruck romantischer Kreativitär und Sehnsucht (d) [Abstract/CV]
12.30-13.00 Final discussion, conclusion & goodbyes