Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| 9.00 a.m. | Welcome of the participants by the chairman of the Georg Forster Society, Horst Dippel, Kassel |
| 9.15 a.m. | Thomas Biskup, Oxford:
In it, but not in it: 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 relations between European publishing houses around 1800 |
| 10.25 a.m. | Carmen Götz, Düsseldorf:
The Fabric of Networks. Some Fabric 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 location in the network between British and German scholarship |
| 12.25 pm | Karol Sauerland, Warsaw:
Forster in Poland and his intellectual contacts |
| 2.15 p.m. | Marita Gilli, Besançon:
Forster and the philosophers of his time: the Spinozism controversy |
| 2.50 p.m. | Eva-Maria Siegel, Cologne:
Entangled Actors. Thresholds and interconnections of man and environment in the work of Georg Forster |
| 3.25 p.m. | 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 |
| 4.15 p.m. | Mario Ackermann, Leipzig:
Georg Forster's Contacts with Swedish Naturalists |
| 4.50 p.m. | Christoph Becker-Schaum, Berlin:
The relations between Georg Forster and Arnold Heeren and their impact on Heeren's work. |
| 5.25 p.m. | Ruth Stummann-Bowert, Gießen:
Georg Forster. Explorations on Foreign Terrain. Communication and Networks after his Arrival in Germany until the End of 1781 |
| 8:00 p.m. | 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 contemporaries Location: Eulensaal in the Murhard Library, Brüder-Grimm-Platz 4a, 34117 Kassel, Germany |
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 network 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 Under Reservation. Georg Forster and the Weimar Intellectual NetworkFollowed by 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 in Forster and Schiller |
