Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| 9.00 a.m. | Welcome to the participants by the Chairman of the Georg Forster Society, Horst Dippel, Kassel |
| 9.15 a.m. | Thomas Biskup, Oxford:
There, but not in: Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster as outsiders in the German-English patronage networks of the late 18th century |
| 9.50 a.m. | Christine Haug, Mainz:
Georg Forster in the network of relationships between European publishing houses around 1800 |
| 10.25 a.m. | Carmen Götz, Düsseldorf:
The stuff that networks are made of. Some tissue samples from the correspondence between Forster and Jacobi |
| 11.15 a.m. | Cornelia Ortlieb, Berlin:
The Brotherhood of Revisers. Georg Forster, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the German Mercury |
| 11.50 a.m. | Annette Meyer, Cologne:
On Forster's position in the network between British and German scholarship |
| 12.25 p.m. | Karol Sauerland, Warsaw:
Forster in Poland and his intellectual contacts |
| 14.15 hrs | Marita Gilli, Besançon:
Forster and the philosophers of his time: the Spinozism controversy |
| 14.50 hrs | Eva-Maria Siegel, Cologne:
Entangled actors. Thresholds and interconnections of man and environment in Georg Forster's work |
| 15.25 hrs | Erdmut Jost, Berlin:
Futile efforts to find the "great world traveler". Georg Forster, Sophie von La Roche, Friederike Brun and the question of a modern aesthetic in travel literature |
| 16.15 hrs | Mario Ackermann, Leipzig:
Georg Forster's contacts with Swedish naturalists |
| 16.50 hrs | Christoph Becker-Schaum, Berlin:
The relationship between Georg Forster and Arnold Heeren and its impact on Heeren's work |
| 17.25 hrs | Ruth Stummann-Bowert, Giessen:
Georg Forster. Explorations on foreign terrain. Communication and networks after his arrival in Germany until the end of 1781 |
| 20.00 hrs | Evening lecture:
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Saarbrücken:
Fascination and thirst for knowledge. On the limits and possibilities of inter-cultural (mis)understanding in the work of Georg Forster and his contemporariesLocation: Eulensaal in the Murhardsche Bibliothek, Brüder-Grimm-Platz 4a, 34117 Kassel |
Saturday, June 25, 2005 |
| 9.00 a.m. | Bernd Kölbel, Berlin:
Diary of a journey by Steven Jan van Geuns and Alexander von Humboldt through Hesse, the Palatinate, along the Rhine and Westphalia in the fall of 1789 - scientific travel and scientific networking around 1789 |
| 9.35 a.m. | Alison Martin, Kassel:
The role of Forster's translations in the intellectual networks of his time |
| 10.10 a.m. | Yomb May, Neubeuren/Bayreuth:
Exchange and friendship with reservations. Georg Forster and the Weimar intellectual network followed by a coffee break |
| 11.00 a.m. | Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam:
Forster and Goethe's "Prometheus" |
| 11.35 a.m. | Dimitri Liebsch, Bochum:
Anticipation and forgetting. Aesthetic education with Forster and Schiller |
