GRP 2002
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Georg Forster as a cultural mediator
Kassel, June 21 and 22, 2002
Friday, June 21, 2002
Senate Hall of the University of Kassel
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. Gerhart Pickerodt, Marburg
Georg Forster as a mediator between antiquity and modernity
10.30 a.m.
Coffee break
10.45 a.m. Michael Ewert, Munich
On the hermeneutics of the foreign using the example of Georg Forster's reception of ancient Indian poetry
11.45 a.m. Joerg Esleben, Calgary
Translation as intercultural communication in Forster's work
12.45 p.m.
Lunch break
14.15 Rotraut Fischer, Darmstadt
Georg Forster's "Views" of Italy
15.15 Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam
Georg Forster as a mediator of English travelogues
16.15 hrs
Coffee break
16.30 Marita Gilli, Besançon
The political in Forster's reviews
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Senate Hall of the GhK
9.00 a.m. Ludwig Uhlig, Athens, Ga.
Georg Forster, Captain Cook and the Taboo
10.00 a.m. Thomas Köhler, Münster
Forster's mediation of the experience of foreignness between European standardization, criticism of civilization and the Enlightenment ideal
11.00 a.m.
Coffee break
11.15 a.m. Ruth Stummann-Bowert, Giessen
Georg Forster as translator, editor and reviewer: "Preface" and notes on his translation of George Keate, News from the Pelew Islands
with the kind support of:
University of Kassel
Kasseler Sparkasse
Kasseler Hochschulbund