43 Wisconsin Workshop: The Temptation of Hope: Utopian Thinking and Imagination

The 43^rd Wisconsin Workshop

in Honor of Jost Hermand’s  80^th Birthday 

The Temptation of Hope.

Utopian Thinking and Imagination

from Thomas More to Ernst Bloch—

and Beyond.  

September 9 – 11, 2010

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Pyle Center

702 Langdon Street

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Auditorium of the Pyle Center, 7:00 p.m.

 Words of Welcome:  Sabine Gross, Chair, UW German Department

Opening remarks:  Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Keynote Address:  Jost Hermand, The Necessity of Utopian Thinking

Reception

Friday, September 10, 2010

Pyle Center Room 309, 9:30 a.m.  – 12:00 p.m.

 Moderator:  Hans Adler, (UW-Madison)

Wilhelm Vosskamp (University of Cologne):  Rational Ordering and Human Existence.  The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image by Thomas Morus.

 Jürgen Fohrmann (University of Bonn):  On Kant’s ‘as if’.  Utopia and How to Tell a (His)tory to its End.

Pyle Center, Room 309, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 Moderator:  B. Venkat Mani (UW-Madison)

Russell Jacoby (UCLA):  The End of Utopia Revisited.

Klaus L. Berghahn (UW-Madison):  Utopian Thinking and Imagination in Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope

German Department Alumni Event: 5:30–7:30 p.m. by invitation only

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Pyle Center, Room 309, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

 Moderator:  Sabine Mödersheim (UW-Madison)

Angelika Bammer (Emory University):  “The unfinished–the unbegun– the possible”:  Feminism and the Utopian Imagination.

Peter Morris-Keitel (Bucknell University):  Imagining a ‘Green’ Future:  Principles of Ecological Sustainability in Works by William Morris, Robert Havemann, Gioconda Belli, and Tschingis Aitmatow. 

Pyle Center, Room 309, 2:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Moderator:  Marc Silberman (UW-Madison)

 Erik Olin Wright (UW-Madison):  Envisioning Real Utopias

 Robert C. Holub (University of Massachusetts-Amherst): Academia as Heterotopia.

Reception and Banquet at the University Club, 6:00 p.m.

Laudatio:  Robert C. Holub

Sponsored by

College of Letters and Science

Department of German

Center for European Studies

Center for German and European Studies 

Organized for the German Department by Klaus L. Berghahn

For information, contact

Department of German

818 Van Hise Hall

608/262-2192

http://german.lss.wisc.edu/new_web/