Conferences and lectures

Conferences and lectures

Conferences and lectures

Own international conferences and workshops

  • Erich Auerbach: Philology of World Literature. Perspectives and Problems (co-organised with Matthias Bormuth, Olaf Müller and David Weinstein). International conference 07-09 June 2018, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Senatssitzungssaal, Biegenstr. 12).

A. Erich Auerbach's Vico studies and the history of their impact on Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, 7 June 2018.

B. Book presentation and reading (together with Matthias Bormuth): Erich Auerbach: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur romanischen Philologie, Universitätsbuchhandlung Elwert, 8 June 2018.

 

  • Erich Auerbach Archive at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Oldenburg. Jointly organised with Matthias Bormuth. University of Oldenburg: 08/05/2014.
  • Erich Auerbach as a writer of letters - problems and perspectives. Karl Jaspers House, Oldenburg: 09 May 2014.
  • Reality, Figura and Aesthetic Expression in Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" (Part II.). Jointly organised with the Goethe- and Orient-Institut Istanbul. Büyük Ada (Great Princes' Island), Hotel Splendid: 03-06 October 2013.
  • A. Ambivalences of modern criticism: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's novel "Huzur" (1949) and Zülfi Livanelli's novella "Serenad" (2011) - responses to Auerbach's Mimesis (1946)?
  • B. Moderation of the panel discussion: Reality, Figura and Aesthetic Expression in Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" (Part II.).
  • DFG Research Training Group "Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivisation". University of Oldenburg: 24.10.2012.
  • Workshop: Conceptualisation of "critique" in the social sciences and in philosophy by I. Kant, K. Marx, H. Marcuse, Th. W. Adorno, P. Bourdieu and L. Boltanski.
  • Reality, Figura and aesthetic expression in Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" (Part I.). Jointly organised with the Goethe- and Orient-Institute Istanbul. Orient-Institut, Istanbul: 27-28 April 2012.
  • A. Opening lecture: Marginalia on Erich Auerbach's humanist thought.
  • B. Moderation of the symposium discussion "Reality, Figura and Aesthetic Expression".
  • International Symposium: Exile - Literature - Cultural Present. Jointly organised with the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Goethe-Institut Istanbul. Goethe-Institut Istanbul: 13 May 2010.
  • A. Erich Auerbach's Turkish Exile Letters.
  • B. Moderation of the panel discussion Exile - Literature - Cultural Present.
  • The journal "Die Wandlung" as an early testimony to Karl Jaspers' political thinking. International Karl Jaspers Workshop. Jointly organised with Antonia Grunenberg (Hannah Arendt Centre). University of Oldenburg: 24-25 May 2008.
  • A. Opening lecture: Karl Jaspers and the founding of the journal "Die Wandlung". University of Oldenburg: 24 May 2008
  • B. On the cancelled discussion of Marxism between Karl Jaspers, Werner Krauss and Dolf Sternberger. University of Oldenburg: 25 May 2008.
  • Erich Auerbach in Istanbul: Philology - History - Understanding. International conference. Jointly organised with the Goethe Institute Istanbul and the German Consulate General Istanbul. Istanbul, German Consulate General: 14-15 December 2007.
  • A. Opening Lecture: Erich Auerbach in Istanbul, Istanbul, German Consulate General: 14 Dec. 2007.
  • B. Reading from Erich Auerbach's letters to Karl Vossler. Istanbul, German Consulate General Istanbul, 14.12.2007.
  • C. Hidden and open Judaism in Erich Auerbach. Istanbul, German Consulate General: 15.12.2007.
  • "How poetry has sunk into time". Literary Studies - Memory - Criticism. On the 100th birthday of Werner Krauss. International conference, jointly organised with E. Theodor Voss and Hermann Hofer. Philipps University Marburg: 09-11 June 2000.
  • A. Opening lecture: W. K. - ein Intellektueller zwischen Rotenberg 28a und universitätem "Neandertal". Marburg: 09.06.2000.
  • B. The Vico hinge in Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, Erich Auerbach and Werner Krauss Marburg: 10 June 2000.

Presentations and conference papers

  • Erich Auerbach's Vico translation (1924). Historical-philosophical legacy of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. The "body of time". On the topicality of Erich Auerbach. University of Cologne/Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies: 17 May 2022.
  • "Perfect to whom the entire world is a foreign land": Erich Auerbach and Traugott Fuchs as Activists of Modernisation and Creators of an Aesthetic Neighbourhood. September 22sd, 2021: Mahalle "Murmuration", Istanbul/Kadiköy (Online Web Presentation: Webinar).
  • Karl Vossler and Erich Auerbach: Controversial Positions on the Interpretation of Arabic Influences in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Conference: Karl Vossler - Fachgeschichte at the LMU, Munich: 30 January 2020.
  • Theory of Violence in the Present and Tradition: Antonio Labriola. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Institute for Italian Philology: 29.01.2020.
  • Response to: Sabine Föllinger: Historical Introduction on the Idea and Fate of Man in Poetry. Dante - poet of the earthly world? On the topicality of Erich Auerbach's Marburg Dante writing, 1929-1930. Philipps University Marburg, 16 November 2019: Lecture theatre building Biegenstraße 14.
  • Wolfgang Fritz Haug/Martin Vialon: Philosophy of Practice after Marx, Labriola and Gramsci. A study day: Democracies on the brink: Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg. Oldenburg, 18 October 2019: Lambertus Hall, St. Lambert Church, 11.00 am - 6.00 pm.
  • Political poetology and philosophical aesthetics in Peter-Paul Zahl and Nazim Hikmet. "a new, almost unheard-of little book". symposium to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of peter-paul zahl's "die glücklichen". 28 June 2019: Literaturhaus Dortmund.
  • The intellectual - origin, dual role and task. 16.01.2019, University of Oldenburg: Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies
  • Response to: Michael Heinrich: Marx's life and work. 200 years of Karl Marx. 150 years of "Das Kapital". The sting remains! 02 November 2018, University of Oldenburg.
  • Erich Auerbach as a cultural philosopher between hermeneutics and critical theory. Series of lectures Philosophy: Intellectuals in Exile - Frankfurt School and Marburg Hermeneutics, University of Oldenburg: 30 October 2017.
  • Interjections, related to "Heribert Prantl: Why there is always reformation". Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Oldenburg, Oldenburg: WE-Druck paper warehouse: 23/09/2017.
  • Polysophic reading: Utopia & Dystopia. Recitations: Nazim Hikmet: Die Pupillen der Hungernden (1922); Bertolt Brecht: Lob des Kommunismus (1931); Bertolt Brecht: Was nützt die Güte (1934); Bertolt Brecht: Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Taoteking auf dem Weg des Laotse in die Emigration (1938); Cevat Capan: Haydar Haydar (2013); Nazim Hikmet: Das schönste Meer (1945), Oldenburg (Polyester): 22 Jun. 2017.
  • "and forgive us our debts". Film colloquium in the kreativ:Labor: A Blast (2014) and Zeit der Kannibalen (2014), Akademie der Ev.-Luth. Kirche Oldenburg/cine k, Oldenburg: 20 May 2017.
  • Erich Auerbach: History and narrative art in his letters. Reading of Auerbach letters (Michael Krüger) with commentary (Martin Vialon). Karl Jaspers House: 02.05.2017.
  • Erich Auerbach's Hidden Judaism - Figurative Interpretation and European Cultural History in Exile. University of Oldenburg/Jewish Studies, Karl Jaspers House, 6 March 2017.
  • The Concept of Education and Marxism in Karl Jaspers and Werner Krauss. Karl Jaspers House Oldenburg: 01.12.2016.
  • Karl Jaspers and Rudolf Bultmann: Historical interpretation and doctrine of understanding. Lecture series "Protestant Profiles" (Evangelical Lutheran Church Oldenburg, Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg, Karl Jaspers Society Oldenburg). Karl Jaspers House Oldenburg: 05.07.2016.
  • Erich Auerbach's hidden Judaism. Karl Jaspers House Oldenburg: 07/03/2016.
  • "Human dignity is inviolable." Amnesty International panel discussion. University of Oldenburg: 26 October 2015.
  • Philosophical foundations of the doctor/patient relationship in Karl Jaspers. Karl Jaspers Symposium: The Physician in the Technical Age. Karl Jaspers Clinic Bad Zwischenahn (Wehnen): 02 October 2015.
  • Reasons of the Development of Culture: Volney, Vico and Auerbach. Heading South? Routes beyond the Impasse of Postcolonial Studies - Symposium of the Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair. University of Tübingen: 26 June 2015.
  • Criticism of Religion in Kant. Religion and Philosophy in Germany. Portraits from Luther to Heine. Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg. Oldenburg: Karl Jaspers House, 16 June 2015.
  • Ambiguities of modernity: "One wants to build a thoroughly organised state in the European way - in an extreme Turkish-nationalist way." Four letters from the Romanist Erich Auerbach to Walter Benjamin, Karl Vossler, Carl Emil Lang and Alexander v. Rüstow. Munich: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, 20/04/2015.
  • Erich Auerbach as a Letter Writer: Three Letters to Carl Emil Lang and Alexander v. Rüstow (1946-1948). Oldenburg: Karl Jaspers-Haus, 27 January 2015.
  • A. Karl Jaspers and the question of guilt. Criticism and reconciliation. Conference of the student body Philosophy, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg: Karl Jaspers House, 17 January 2015.
  • B. Literary reading - "Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance". Criticism and reconciliation. Conference of the student body Philosophy, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg: Polyester, 16 January 2015.
  • Blaise Pascal: The Wager with God - Image of Man, Faith and Knowledge. Philosophical series of lectures in WS 2014/15 "Faith and Knowledge". University of Oldenburg: 08.12.2014.
  • Method and Rationality in Max Weber and Herbert Marcuse: "Everyone sees what he carries in his heart". Modernity as a breach of taboo. Max Weber and the Day of Antioch. International conference: University of Oldenburg, Karl Jaspers House: 05.12.2014.
  • Erich Auerbach in Tübingen - An Inaugural Address to the Audience. Opening Ceremony of the "Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies". University of Tübingen, Old Auditorium: 27 October 2014.
  • Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgement" (1790) - Philosophical insights into the concept of genius and the idea of purposeless beauty. Interdisciplinary research colloquium "Psychiatric Judgement" - Reflections on Karl Jaspers and Immanuel Kant. Oldenburg, Karl Jaspers House: 10 July 2014.
  • A. Erich Auerbach: Theorist of the passio as an ethical principle - The example of Blaise Pascal; Research colloquium "Marburg Hermeneutics" - Person and work of Erich Auerbach; Oldenburg, Karl Jaspers-Haus: 31 January 2014
  • B. Between Exile and Departure - Erich Auerbach as a Letter Writer; Oldenburg, Karl Jaspers House: 31 January 2014
  • Erich Auerbach and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Two Marburg hermeneutics in dialogue on ancient atomic theory (Oldenburg: Karl Jaspers-Haus, University of Oldenburg: 28 June 2013).
  • Colloquium Marburg Hermeneutics. Leo Strauss in Context: Oldenburg: 27-28 June 2013.
  • Auerbach-Desiderata: For what purpose should Erich Auerbach's work be studied? (Freiburg: 15 February 2013).
  • FRIAS - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies: History of science and/or disciplinary history? Tasks, methods and desiderata of disciplinary history: 13-15 February 2013.
  • The Lineage of Schiller, Hegel and Marx: Three Stages of Constructing the Metaphor of the "Law of the Heart" (Istanbul: 4 October 2012).
  • XXIX. International Hegel Congress of the International Hegel Society: Hegel gegen Hegel: Istanbul: 03-06 October 2012 [including: Moderation and discussion chair of the section "Hegel and Heidegger", 05 October 2012].
  • Theodor W. Adorno as a reader of Giambattista Vico's philosophy of history (Oldenburg: 16 July 2012). DFG Research Training Group "Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivation", University of Oldenburg.
  • Philosophical theology and theological philosophy in Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History" (1940) as a dialectical concept (Mustafapaşa: 11 June 2012).
  • Capadokya felsefe çaliştayi (=Philosophical Working Days), Gül Konaklarι (Sinasos/Mustafapaşa): 11-14 June 2012.
  • Why philosophy today? (Istanbul: 30November 2011). Felsefe ile Yeditepe'de 15 Yil (=15 years of philosophy at Yeditepe University), Yeditepe University Istanbul.
  • Erich Auerbach's Vicodeutung (Weimar: 12/09/2011). Friedrich Nietzsche Centre of the Klassikstiftung Weimar.
  • Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx about the religious Question (Mustafapaşa: 22.06.201).
  • Kapadokya Felese Çaliştayi, Gül Konakları, Sinasos/Mustafapaşa: 21-27 June 2011.
  • Book presentation: The savoury bread of foreigners. Erich Auerbach's Istanbul Humanism (Istanbul: 11 November 2010). Goethe Institute, Istanbul.
  • Modernity in Literature and Film: Kafka, Benjamin and Tarkowski (Istanbul: 20 May 2010). Nazim Hikmet Culture House, Kadiköy/Istanbul.
  • The Concept of Religion and History by Vico, Marx and Lukács (Izmit: 06.12.2009). Kocaeli University, Department of Philosophy.
  • The View of History in Jaspers and Vico (Heidelberg: 19 May 2008).
  • Vico in Europe between 1800 and 1950, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg: 19-20 May 2008.
  • Teaching and Living as Art (Marburg: 06/02/2008). Farewell lecture as part of the graduation ceremony in the Department of German and Art Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, Alte Aula.
  • Traugott Fuchs: Teacher, Artist and Philologist in Istanbul (Istanbul: 18 December 2007). International Workshop: "Bonded by Exile: Traugott Fuchs and the German Emigré Scholars and Artists of the Second World War."
  • Bosphorus University, 18.-19.12.2007.
  • A. Introduction to Erich Auerbach's lecture "The three traits of Dante's poetry" (New York: 08.11.2007).
  • International conference: "Rediscovering Erich Auerbach - A Dialogue between German and American Scholars on the 50th Anniversary of his Death". The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York: 08-09.11.2007.
  • B. Mimesis, Film and Mechanical Reproducibility: What Walter Benjamin learned from Erich Auerbach (New York: 09November 2007).
  • What is lost: Reading as subversion. Philosophical Educational Experience on the Bosporus (Marburg: 29 May 2007). Philipps University Marburg: Institute of Philosophy.
  • Understanding, History and Eschatology in Rudolf Bultmann and Erich Auerbach (Marbach: 29 September 2006).
  • International conference: Crisis and Critique of Hermeneutics, German Literature Archive Marbach: 29-30 September 2006.
  • Modernisation during Exile: Erich Auerbach's letters to Walter Benjamin and Traugott Fuchs between 1937 and 1938. The formation of a critical concept of history and philology (Budapest: 13September 2006).
  • International Conference: Writers in Exile, Colloquium Budapest: 11-13September 2006.
  • Typological history as figural interpretation of events. New Insights into Peter Weiss' Novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance" (Istanbul: 06 May 2006).
  • International Peter Weiss Symposium, Goethe-Institut Istanbul: 06-07 May 2006.
  • A. Erich Auerbach in Istanbul (Berlin: 10 December 2004). International Erich Auerbach Symposium: History and Topicality of a European Philologist.
  • Centre for Literary Research, Berlin: 09-11.12.2004.
  • B. Auerbach's legacy. Panel discussion with Geoffrey Hartmann, Carlo Ginzburg, Martin Vialon and Karlheinz Barck (Berlin: 10 December 2004)
  • Centre for Literary Research, Berlin: 09-11.12.2004.
  • Hegel's "Law of the Heart" in the context of the French Revolution (Istanbul: 07/05/2004). Galatasaray University Istanbul, Department of Philosophy.
  • Adorno on Politics (06.05.2004). Bosphorus University Istanbul, Department of Political Science.
  • A. Modernisation and Exile in Turkey from 1923 to the Present (Karlsruhe: 22.04.2004).
  • European Culture Days - Istanbul 2004, University of Karlsruhe/Rheinisches Literaturmuseum.
  • B. On the Dialectics of Painting in Traugott Fuchs (Karlsruhe: 20 April 2004).
  • European Cultural Days - Istanbul 2004, University of Karlsruhe/Rheinisches Literaturmuseum.
  • Theodor W. Adorno's "Hornberg Letter" to Walter Benjamin: A Controversial Discussion of Historical Materialism (Tel Aviv: 17 November 2003). International Conference: Theodor W. Adorno - A Philosopher of Damaged Life.
  • Tel Aviv University: 16-18 November 2003.
  • Hannah Arendt's Question of "Organised Guilt" (1945): A Perspective from the unpublished Correspondence between Leo Spitzer and Freya Hobohm (1937-1951)Manhattan: 09.09.2003. German Department, Kansas State University
  • The "promesse du bonheur" - Art and Classical Humanism in the Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse (Kansas City: 08.09.2003). Department of Education, Kansas City, Community College.
  • "Philology as Critical Art": An Unknown Vico Typescript by Erich Auerbach (1948) in the Context of "Mimesis" (1946)Lawrence: 05.09.2003.
  • International Conference: The Alchemy of Exile - Creative Responses to Expulsion from Nazi-Dominated Europe.
  • Max Kade Centre for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence: 04.-06.09.2003.
  • Hannah Arendt's Question of "Organised Guilt" (1945): A Perspective from the unpublished Correspondence between Leo Spitzer and Freya Hobohm (1937-1951), New York: 03.09.2003 Department of Political Science, Bard College.
  • The unknown German poet Traugott Fuchs in exile on the Bosporus: "Die Sehnsucht ist dein Bogen/ Die Wehmut deine Spur" (Trier: 04/02/2003). University of Trier/Society for Fine Arts Trier.
  • The Sociological Methodology of Literature by Leo Löwenthal (Kirov: 15.09.2002). Social Economic Institute, Kirov (Russia).
  • Anti-Semitic Implications in Martin Walser's Paulskirchenrede and his new novel "Der Tod eines Kritikers" (Kirov: 14 September 2002). Institute of Foreign Languages, Kirov.
  • Literary Studies under National Socialism: The Example of Max Kommerell and Werner Krauss (Kirov: 12September 2002.) German Department, Humanitarian University of Vyatka.
  • The Relation and Difference of Myth, Language, Poetry and Thinking by Vico, Herder, Jochmann, W. v. Humboldt, and Benjamin (Kirov: 11 September 2002). Department of Philosophy, Humanitarian University of Vyatka.
  • Max Kommerell from the perspective of Theodor. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the painter Rudolf G. Bunk (Marburg: 23 February 2002). Max Kommerell (1902-1944) on his centenary, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg in conjunction with the Cultural Office of the City of Marburg.
  • Philological exile on the Bosporus (Istanbul: 05/05/2001).
  • International symposium on the occasion of Nedim Hazar's documentary film "Zuflucht am Bosporus", Europa-Kolleg Istanbul.
  • Erich Auerbach and his Istanbul Circle (Brighton: 11 September 2000).
  • International Congress "Intellectual Migration and Transformation: The Movement of Ideas from German-speaking Europe to the Anglo-Saxon World": Brighton, University of Sussex: 10-12September 2000.
  • Erich Auerbachs induktive Methode unter Berücksichtigung von Francis Bacons "Neuem Organon" (1620) und Giambattista Vicos "Neuer Wissenschaft" (1744), Osnabrück: 05.06.1997. Romanisches Seminar der Universität Osnabrück.
  • "Greeting from the indeterminate". Commentary on Werner Krauss' poem "December 1945. After the death sentence" (Marburg: 08 May 1995). Commemorative event at the Philipps University of Marburg on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 8 May 1945, Institute for Romance Philology.
  • Erich Auerbach: On the Life and Work of the Marburg Romance Philologist in the Time of Fascism (Marburg: 19 January 1994). Series of lectures at the Philipps-Universität Marburg "Marburg-Bilder. Testimonies from five centuries".
  • Classicism as a social utopia: Winckelmann, Goethe and Thomas Mann (Frankfurt/Main: 16 June 1988). Goethe Museum in Frankfurt/Main.
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