“The Life of Letters” – SSHRC & Ziegler Symposium and Celebrate Research Event
Friday, March 27, 2015
St. John’s College, Fairmont Social Lounge, Lower Mall 2111
13:00 – 14:00 Welcome and Pre-Conference Socializing – Light Lunch will be served
14:00 – 17:30 – SSHRC & Ziegler Symposium
“The Life of Letters in the Age of Goethe and Schiller”
14:00-14:45 Bernd Hamacher (University of Hamburg): “Women Writing to Goethe: The Correspondence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charlotte Schiller.”
14:45-15:30 Linda Dietrick (University of Winnipeg): “The Correspondence of Charlotte von Stein and Charlotte Schiller: Documents of a Literary Friendship.”
16:00-16:45 Florian Gassner (CENES): “Dominik Graf’s Beloved Sisters and the Challenges of Representing the World of Schiller.”
16:45-17:30 Gaby Pailer (CENES and FHIS): “Secret Messaging: Voltaire’s Zaïre and Schiller’s Don Carlos as Plays-within-the-play in Christa Winsloe/Leontine Sagan’s Girls in Uniform.”
18:00 – 20:00: Celebrate Research Reception
Showcasing research projects – past, present, and future – in the Departments of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) and French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) at UBC.
