Susman Conference Itinerary-February 2025

German Department 2025 Graduate Student Conference,

February 21st – 22nd, 2025

Friday, February 21st, 2025. Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building A71

9:00-9:30 am

             Breakfast and Mingling (coffee/tea, breakfast/snacks)

Introductory Remarks by Professor Barbara Nagel, Princeton German Department

9:30 am–9:45 am

             Welcome and Introduction

Panel 1:

9:45-10:10 am

Carolyn Beard, “Women and the Revolution: Margarete Susman and Edith Stein on the Political Woman, 1918-1919”

10:10-10:35 am

Lennart Bentler, “Mystical Experience Through Literature: Essayism as Epistemological and Ethical Inquiry in Susman and Musil”

10:35-11:00 am

Matteo Zupancic, “Robert Musil as a Non-Dual Thinker: A Reassessment of His Approach to Mysticism”

11:00-11:30 am

              Collective Discussion

Break

11:30 am–12:30 pm

              Lunch

Panel 2:

12:30-12:55 pm

Wei Wang, “Colossal Illusion — Problematizing the ‘Beyond’ with Kafka’s Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer and the Kantian Colossal”

12:55-1:20 pm

Daniel Gottlieb, “‘Now begins its other muteness’: Silence and the ‘Expressionless’ in the politics of Walter Benjamin”

1:20-1:45 pm

Arielle Friend, “‘Eine im Kern ethische Krankheit’: Traumatic Neurosis as ‘Zeichen und Zeugnis’ in Margarete Susman’s Gestalten und Kreise”

1:45-2:15 pm

              Collective Discussion

Break

2:15-2:30 pm

              Coffee Break

Keynote Address by Barbara Hahn, Professor Emerita, Vanderbilt University

2:30–4:00 pm

Keynote Lecture, “The Stars, Shrouded: Writing in an Empty World”

Dinner

6:00 pm

             Dinner at La Mezzaluna (25 Witherspoon St, Princeton)

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. Location: East Pyne 205

9:00-9:30 am

             Breakfast and Mingling (coffee/tea, breakfast/snacks)

Workshop with Professor Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University History Department,

9:30-11:00 am

             Lecture and Workshop, “A German-Jewish Time: Susman, Buber, Celan”

Break

11:00-11:15 am

             Coffee Break

Panel 3:

11:15-11:40 am

Mitchell Bedows, “The Legitimacy of Tradition in Susman and Arendt”

11:40 am-12:05 pm

Fabia Weisser, “Souls in Secular Times - Alfred Rosenberg’s ‘Rassenseele’”

12:05-12:30 pm

Paula Domingo Pasarin, “‘Our barbarian Slavic God:’ Ivanov’s Nietzschean Dionysianism”

12:30-1:00 pm

             Collective Discussion

Break

1:00-2:00 pm

             Lunch

Panel 4:

2:00-2:25 pm

Jeremiah Young, “Aurora to Aura: Jakob Böhme, Kabbalah, and spatial affect in Benjamin’s aesthetics”

2:25-2:50 pm

Thomas Heubeck, “Last Resort or Irrational Confusion? Margarete Susman’s and Walter Benjamin’s Perspectives on Religion of Art”

2:50-3:20 pm

             Collective Discussion

Official Farewell

3:20-3:35 pm