Contextualizing Irony: Change and Continuity from the 18th Century to the Present
December 3 - 4, 2015
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Chicago, IL 60612
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December 3-4, 2015 at the UIC Institute for the Humanities, LL SH and the Goethe Institut Chicago, 150 N Michigan Ave #200
Thursday, December 3
UIC Institute for the Humanities, LL Stevenson Hall
10:30-11 :00 Registration
11:00-12:15 Keynote by Christoph Rauen
Max Kade Visiting Professor (UIC Germanic Studies)
Concessions to Critique. Irony’s Preemptive Strategies in Romanticism and Postmodernism
1: 30-3: 00 Panel 1
Nina Dubin, Art History, UIC
Patrick Fortmann, Germanic Studies, UIC
Laurie R. Johnson, Germanic Languages and Literatures, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30-5:00 Panel 2
Erica Weitzmann, German, Northwestern U
Jan Behrs, German, Northwestern U/DA AD
Heidi Schlipphacke, Germanic Studies, UIC
6:00-7:30 Leif Randt reading from Planet Magnon
Literary Reading and Discussion at the Goethe Institut
Leif Randt (Frankfurt a.M., Germany) has been considered one of the most influential writers of his generation since the publication of his highly acclaimed second novel Schimmernder Dunst über Coby County (2011; “Shimmering Mist Over Coby County”). He will read from his latest novel Planet Magnon (2015).
Friday, December 4
UIC Institute for the Humanities, LL Stevenson Hall
9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:30 Panel 3
Margaret McCarthy, German Studies, Davidson College, NC
Nasser Mufti, English, UIC
Colleen McQuillen, Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, UIC
11:45-1:30 Graduate student research briefs
Seth Bargo
Adrian Chubb
Zachary Fitzpatrick
Elisabeth Granzow
Julia Koxholt
Maryann Piel
Lucas Riddle
Organized by:
the UIC Department of Germanic Studies
Special thanks to:
The Max Kade Foundation
The Goethe Institut Chicago
Date posted
Jun 11, 2020
Date updated
Jun 11, 2020