GRP 2001
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Domination and violence in Georg Forster
Kassel, June 22 and 23, 2001
Friday, June 22, 2001
Senate Hall of the GhK
9.00 a.m. Welcome
of the participants by the Chairman of the Georg Forster Society, Prof. Dr. Horst Dippel
Greetings
by the President of the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Postlep
9.30 a.m. Gundolf Krüger, Göttingen
"Why do people have so many weapons? Given their good-hearted and agreeable character, it is not easy to see": Reflections on war and violence in the South Seas (1772-1775)
10.30 a.m.
Coffee break
10.45 a.m. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Saarbrücken
Civilizational violence. On the perception of colonial discovery and acculturation in Georg Forster's travelogues and reviews
11.45 a.m. Tanja van Hoorn, Hanover
"...in short, they look like the ugliest Negroes." Manorial gazes as anthropological sketches in Forster's journey around the world
12.45 p.m.
Lunch break
14.00 Guido Ipsen, Kassel
The power in the world: structures of domination and hierarchies in nature and culture in Georg Forster
14.50 Christian Ritter, Lübeck
Representations of violence in Georg Forster's "Journey around the World"
15.45 hrs
Coffee break
16.00 Ruth Stummann-Bowert, Giessen
Georg Forster's natural law justification of the unity of violence and cultural progress: "New Holland and the British Colony in Botany Bay" (1786) and "Cook the Explorer" (1787)
17.00 Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Lisbon
Rule and experience. Forster's debates with Kant and Meiners
Friday evening: Lecture
Kasseler Sparkasse, Wolfsschlucht 8
20.00 Jan Phillip Reemtsma, Hamburg
Murder on the beach
Saturday, June 23, 2001
Senate Hall of the GhK
9.00 a.m. Ludwig Uhlig, Athens, Ga.
The pre-revolutionary Forster in the field of tension of German politics
9.45 a.m. Helmut Reinalter, Innsbruck
Johann Georg Forster's understanding of revolution
10.15 a.m.
Coffee break
10.30 a.m. Helmut Peitsch, Cardiff
Preserving destruction: Medea and Hercules as images of revolution in Forster's writings
11.15 a.m.
Coffee break
11.30 a.m. Marita Gilli, Besançon
The Limits of Democracy: Violence in the Parisian Outlines
12.15 p.m. Thomas Grosser, Mannheim
Rule and violence as problem areas of political action. Georg Forster in the Mainz Republic
13.00 hrs
End of the colloquium
With the kind support of:
University of Kassel
Kasseler Sparkasse
Kasseler Hochschulbund