2017
THE REMARQUE INSTITUTE’S KANDERSTEG SEMINAR
MODERN EUROPE AND ITS ANCIENT WORLDS: LEGACIES, CULTURE, CONFLICT
Wednesday, April 19th – Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, April 19th
Arrival of participants by train in Kandersteg
Check in: Waldhotel Doldenhorn
CG-3718 Kandersteg
Tel. +41.33.675.81.81
Fax +41.33.675.81.85
19:00 Welcome reception and dinner at hotel
Thursday, April 20th
10:00 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University)
Session I
10:30 – 12:30
LEGACIES AND FANTASIES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame), The Afterlife of Roman Pompei
Moshe Sluhovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Anthropotechniques”: Ancient and Modern Technologies of the Self
Katherine Harloe (University of Reading), Winckelmann's Love Letters: Antiquity, and Sexuality
Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago), Greek Political Theory and Contemporary European Politics
Mathura Umachandran (Princeton University), Antiquity in the Philosophy of Erich Auerbach
12:45 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
Session II
17:30 – 19:30
COLLECTING ANTIQUITIES AND ANCIENT TEXTS
Holly Edwards (Williams College), Modern American Orientalism and Islamic Art
Stefanie Gänger (University of Cologne), Collecting Incan Antiquities in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Gregory Heyworth (University of Rochester), Spectral Imaging and the Recovery of Ancient Texts
Joanna Curtis (New York University), The Most Ancient Instruments of Mankind: Orff’s Musical Pedagogy
19:30 Drinks followed by dinner at hotel
Friday, April 21st
Session III
10:00 – 12:00
ANTIQUITY AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Adam Mestyan (Duke University), European Egyptology and Islamic Time
Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University), Ancient and Modern Time in German-Jewish History
Ofri Ilany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Hebrew Bible and Modern European Nationhood
David Marno (University of California, Berkeley), Early Modern Prayer and the Ancient Church Fathers
12:15 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon
19:00 Drinks at hotel
19:30 Dinner at the Landgasthof Ruedihaus
Saturday, April 22nd
Session IV
10.00 – 12:00
EASTERN AND SLAVIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANCIENT WORLD
Marysia Jonsson (New York University), Scythian points of reference in early modern Europe
Ievgeniia Sakal (Yale University), Early Modern Moscow, medieval Kiev, ancient Byzantium
Michael Tworek (Harvard University), Polish humanists contemplate ancient barbarism
Jeremy Lin (New York University), Debates about remote philological origins in Eastern Europe
12:15 Lunch at hotel
Free afternoon until:
17:30 WRAP-UP SESSION
Larry Wolff (New York University), Chair
19:00 Drinks and Gala dinner at hotel
Sunday, April 23rd
Departure of participants
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