Research Projects & Conferences

The Changing Role of the Intellectual
Criticism as Oppositional Practice

A Conference in Honor of Günter H. Lenz

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February 3 - 5, 2000
Senatssaal der Humboldt-Universität
Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6

hosted by the

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

in collaboration with

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bremen

Institut für Amerikanistik
Universität Leipzig

Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main

Registration

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: +49-30-2093 2313/2488
Fax: +49-30-2093 2309/2405
email: Klaus.Milich@rz.hu-berlin.de

Registered guests and participants receive a special rate at "Allegra - Hotel am Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse", which is in walking distance to the university.

Thursday, February 3, 2000, 18.00 c.t.

Klaus J. Milich
Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

Helmut Pfeiffer
Dean, Faculty of Philosophy II
Welcome Address

Peter Lucko
Deputy Director, Institute for English and American Studies
Welcome Address

Heinz Ickstadt
Laudatio

John Carlos Rowe
The Resistance to Cultural Studies
Keynote Address

Reception

Friday, February 4, 2000, 9.30 s.t.

Gisela Welz
Welcome Address

1. Cosmopolitanism and the Intellectual

Alfred Hornung
Moderator

Martin Christadler
Discovering the American as Intellectual: A Personal Memoir

Alan Trachtenberg
The Intellectual as American: Richard Rorty on Achieving Our Country

Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.15

Lothar Bredella
Richard Rorty on the New Left

Giles Gunn
Pragmatism and the Public Intellectual

Lunch Break: 12.45 - 14.15

2. Function and Ethos of the Intellectual

Ulla Haselstein
Moderator

Bettina Friedl
The Self-Presentation of the Woman Intellectual in 18th and 19th Century American Portraiture

Winfried Fluck
Stuart Hall: From Class to Race

Coffee Break: 15.45 - 16.00

Donald Pease
Towards the Transnational: The Example of C.L.R. James

Werner Sollors
African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars

17.30 - 17.45

Jürgen Schlaeger
Response

Saturday, February 5, 2000, 9.30 s.t.

Sabine Bröck
Welcome Address

3. New Modes of the Production of Knowledge: The Homeless Intellectual

Utz Riese
Moderator

Berndt Ostendorf
American Exceptionalism one more time? Or why is American Popular Culture so popular: A view from Europe

Mark Poster
Digital Culture and its Intellectuals

Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.15

Karsten Garscha
"Life is not the most Precious Good": Jorge Semprun's Adieu, vivre clarti

Renate Hof
Performative Contradictions

Lunch Break: 12.45 - 14.15

4. The decline of the public sphere and attempts to revitalize public culture

Peter Lucko
Moderator

Jules Chametzky
Whose Public Intellectual: When, Why, and Ever

Alice Kessler-Harris
Achieving a Political Voice: Intellectuals and the Shape of Public Policy

Coffee Break: 15.45 - 16.00

Maurizio Vaudagna
American Radical Historians between specialization and public commitment.

Hans-Jürgen Puhle
Citizens, Politics and Cultural Production after the End of "bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit"

17.30 - 17.45

Klaus Hofmann
Response

Anne Koenen
Closing of the Conference

This conference has been made possible by the generous support of

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German Marshall Fund
United States Information Service
German Association for American Studies
Forschungsabteilung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Akademisches Auslandsamt der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Organizers

Sabine Bröck
Anne Koenen
Gisela Welz
Klaus J. Milich

The organizers would like to express their gratitude to the colleagues of the American Studies Department at Humboldt-Universität for their support.