Anachronic Shakespeare

A Poetics and Theory conference featuring Samuel Weber, Julia Lupton, Rebecca Comay, Vike Plock, Stuart Elden, Anselm Haverkamp, and John Archer.

Sponsored by the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen (Graduate Research Colloquium in Forms of Life and the Know-How of Living), the NYU Certificate in Poetics and Theory, and the NYU Comparative Literature Department. http://poeticsandtheory.wordpress.com

Conference organized by Elizabeth Bonapfel, Martin Harries, Anselm Haverkamp, and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz

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Friday, February 24th

10:00                    Welcome

10:15                    John Archer, Shakespeare's Poor Beast (English, NYU)

11:45                    Stuart Elden, The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth (Geography, Durham University)

2:30                       Vike Plock, Made in Germany: Joyce Reading Goethe Reading Hamlet (English, University of Exeter)

3:45                       Rebecca Comay, Hamletizations (Benjamin, Schmitt.....) (Philosophy, University of Toronto)

5:30                       Keynote: Samuel Weber, Forgetting the Hobby-Horse: Hamlet Between Schmitt and Benjamin (Comparative Literature, Northwestern University)

 6:30                      Response by Julia Lupton (English, UC Irvine)

Saturday, February 25th

10:00                    Anselm Haverkamp, Life in the Sonnets: On Life’s Anachronic Nature (English, NYU)

11:15                    Julia Lupton, Softscapes: Shakespeare by Design (English, UC Irvine)

2:00                       Closing Roundtable

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