Program

International Rilke Society /

Internationale Rilke Gesellschaft

Conference Program

Boston University and Harvard

22–25 September 2011

Rilke’s Uncollected Poems 1906–1911

Rilkes ‚Verstreute Gedichte‘ 1906–1911

Thu 22 September 2011

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Registration

Place: Harvard University, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Welcome from Harvard University: Diana Sorensen, Dean of Arts and Humanities and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Welcome from International Rilke Society: August Stahl, President

Place: Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Lecture 1: Judith Ryan (Harvard Univ.): „Du, der ichs nicht sage“: Lyrisches und sachliches Sagen in Rilkes Gedichten 1906-1911

Place: Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Reception, Rilke Exhibition in Harvard’s Houghton Library

Welcome und Introduction: Dr. Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts

Place: Houghton Library in Harvard Yard

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Free for dinner (See list of Recommended Restaurants)

Place: Harvard Square

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Short introduction to program; Formation of Workshop Groups

Reading of Rilke works in German und English

Participants: Michael Hofmann; N.N.

Place: Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, Harvard Yard

Fri, 23 September 2011

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Late Registration

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Welcome from Boston University:
Susan Jackson, Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Associate
   Professor, Romance Studies;
James Winn, Director, Boston University Humanities Center, Professor of English and
   William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University

Place: Boston University, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Second Floor

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Lecture 2: Erich Unglaub (Braunschweig): Rilkes Gedichte 1906–1911: Eine Typologie

Place: Boston University, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Second Floor

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Coffee

Place: Boston University, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Second Floor

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Workshop A

Place: Boston University, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Second Floor

Group A1:

Leitung : Kathleen Komar (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)

Topic: Rilke and Wallace Stevens (English-language workshop)

Group A2:

Leitung : Arne Grafe (Bielefeld)

Topic: „Ein Mund bedeutet sonst Stimme, hier bedeutet er Lautlosigkeit“ – Stimme und Stummheit in R. M. Rilkes Prosagedicht ‚Die Auslage des Fischhändlers‘ (1907)

Group A3 :

 Rochelle Tobias (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Topic: Das Ungebildete im Bild. Rilkes Gedicht ‚Auf den Tod der Gräfin Luise Schwerin‘

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

free for lunch (See list of recommended restaurants in the area of Boston University)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Workshop B

Place: Boston University, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Second Floor

Group B1:

 Theodore Fiedler (Univ. of Kentucky)

Topic: Lous Rückkehr im Gedicht: „Ich hielt mich überoffen, ich vergaß“

Group B2:

Leitung : Ivo Theele (Paderborn)

Topic: „Judith’s Rückkehr“ (1911)  – Die ‚Liebende‘ als Männer mordende Figur?

Group B3:

 Michael Hofmann (Univ. of Florida)

Topic:  Rilke in English (English-language workshop)

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

free time for short excursions/sightseeing/resting/dinner (see list of recommended restaurants in the area of Boston Univ.)

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Rilke Foyer / Rilke Open Mike

Place: Boston University, The Castle, 225 Bay State Road

Tina Simon (Leipzig)

If you would like to present something at the Rilke-Foyer (our "open mike" evening) please contact Tina Simon at tinasimon@ts-works.de ; advance notice required.

Sat, 24 September 2011

9:30-11:00 AM

Lecture 3: Torsten Hoffmann (Frankfurt am Main):

Topic: Die Funktion der Widmungen in den Gedichten 1906-1911

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Coffee

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

11:30 AM  – 1:00 PM

Workshop C

Place: Boston University Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

Group C1:

 Charlie Louth (Oxford Univ.)

Topic: Die Gedichte an Marthe Hennebert

Group C2:

Leitung : Magdolna Orosz (Budapest):

Topic: Rilkes Capreser Gedichte

Group C3:

 Joseph Metz (Univ. of Utah)

Topic: Vom Erhabenen zum Lächerlichen (und zurück): Körperbilder in Rilkes Gedichtkreis für Madeleine Broglie

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

free for lunch (See list of recommended restaurants in the area of Boston University)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Poster Session (Lightning Lectures by Young Scholars)

Judith Ryan (Harvard Univ.)

Alessandra Basile: ‚Die Liebenden‘

Irina Breitenstein: ‚Städtische Sommernacht‘

Berend ter Borg: ‚Der Ursprung der Chimäre‘

Sylvène Guery: ‚Die Karyatiden‘

Erika Otto: ‚Vor Zeiten, einst, ein Herz gewesen sein‘

David Österle, Überlegungen zum ‚spatial turn‘ in den Kulturwissenschaften mit Blick auf Rilke-Gedichte aus den Jahren 1906-1911

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Coffee

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Lecture 4: Ulrich Baer (New York University)

Topic: Rilke in Amerika

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

8:00 PM – 10:30 PM

Conference Banquet

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor (Catered)

Sun, 25 September 2011

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Lecture 5: George C. Schoolfield (Yale Univ.): Rilke’s Emigrants

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Lecture 6: Anthony Phelan (Oxford Univ.): „O wie fallen auch noch die geköpften / Blumen mehrend in den Überfluß“: Gedichtentwürfe und Lyrik-Entwurf

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

1:00 PM

Closing Remarks by President of Rilke Society and William Waters

Place: Boston University Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 8 St. Mary’s St., 9th floor

Departure