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Inventions of the Imagination


KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

David CLARK (English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)
"Imagining Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy"
Friday, May 18 • 7:00 pm • Kane 110

Robert PIPPIN (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
"On the Nature of Hegel's Appeal to Literature in the Phenomenology of Spirit"
Saturday, May 19 • 11:30 am • McMahon Hall

SPEAKERS

Hazard ADAMS (Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
"William Blake: Imagination, Vision, Inspiration, Intellect"
Session 8: Romantic Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 230

Nora ALTER (Germanic Studies, University of Florida)
"Strains of the Imagination: Sound as Fiction"
Session 5: Film and the Documentary Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 226

Eric AMES (Germanics, University of Washington)
"The Herzog Touch"
Session 5: Film and the Documentary Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 226

Hellmut AMMERLAHN (Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
"The Mephistotelean, the Therapeutic, and the Playfully Creative Imagination in Goethe's Later Oeuvre"
Session 8: Romantic Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 230

Richard BLOCK (Germanics, University of Washington)
"The History of the Imagination in Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism"
Session 1: Theorizing the Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 226

Christoph BODE (English and American Studies, University of Munich)
"Modernist Poetry and the Dichotomy of Romantic Imagination"
Session 6: Post-Romantic Imaginaries • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 230

Georg BRAUNGART (German Studies, University of Tübingen)
"The Poetics of Nature: Literature and Constructive Imagination in the History of Geology"
Session 2: Imagination and Scientific Modeling • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 230

Marshall BROWN (Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
"Music and Imagination"
Session 3: Image, Non-Image, and Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 226

Jeffrey BUB (Philosophy, University of Maryland)
"Quantum Models"
Session 2: Imagination and Scientific Modeling • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 230

Michael FORSTER (Philosophy, University of Chicago)
"Herder, Hermeneutics, and Imagination in the Work of Interpretation"
Session 4: Imaginative Interpretation • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 230

Beth LORD (Philosophy, University of Dundee)
"Between Imagination and Reason: Kant and Spinoza on Fictions"
Session 7: Reason and Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 226

John LYONS (French, University of Virginia)
"Rousseau's Reveries and the End of Imagination"
Session 1: Theorizing the Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 226

Ron MOORE (Philosophy, University of Washington)
"Imagination in Aesthetic Judgments Regarding Natural Objects"
Session 4: Imaginative Interpretation • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 230

Tommaso PIERINI (Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)
"Skeptical Imagination"
Session 8: Romantic Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 230

Forest PYLE (English, University of Oregon)
"The Romantic Image of the Intentional"
Session 3: Image, Non-Image, and Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 226

Tilottama RAJAN (English and Theory & Criticism, University of Western Ontario)
"The Ends of Art: Hegel's Symbolic Art and Schelling's Historiography in The Ages of the World"
Session 6: Post-Romantic Imaginaries • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 230

Michael ROSENTHAL (Philosophy, University of Washington)
"Spinoza on History and Narrative"
Session 7: Reason and Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 226

Alexander SCHLUTZ (English, City University of New York)
"Fingo ergo sum: Descartes and the Problem of Imagination"
Session 4: Imaginative Interpretation • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 230

John TOEWS (History, University of Washington)
"Imagination, Masculinity, and Autonomy in Early Freud"
Session 6: Post-Romantic Imaginaries • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 230

Klaus VIEWEG (Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)
"The Determinacy of Images: Hegel's Theory of Imagination"
Session 1: Theorizing the Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 226

Wilhelm VOSSKAMP (German Studies, University of Cologne)
"Aesthetics of Freedom: On the Concept of Imagination in Schiller"
Session 7: Reason and Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 226

Wolfgang WELSCH (Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)
"Imagination on the Move"
Session 3: Image, Non-Image, and Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 226

Andrea WOODY (Philosopy, University of Washington)
"Imagining the Real: Models, Molecules, and Making Sense"
Session 2: Imagination and Scientific Modeling • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 230

SESSION CHAIRS

Jennifer BEAN (Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
Session 5: Film and the Documentary Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 226

Jane BROWN (Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
Session 7: Reason and Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 226

Arthur FINE (Philosophy, University of Washington)
Session 2: Imagination and Scientific Modeling • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 230

Nicholas HALMI (English and Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
Session 1: Theorizing the Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 9:00 am • CMU 226

Gary HANDWERK (English and Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
Session 8: Romantic Imagination • Sunday, May 20 • 9:30 am • CMU 230

Michael ROSENTHAL (Philosophy, University of Washington)
Session 4: Imaginative Interpretation • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 230

Klaus VIEWEG (Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)
Session 3: Image, Non-Image, and Imagination • Saturday, May 19 • 2:00 pm • CMU 226

Sabine WILKE (Germanics, University of Washington)
Session 6: Post-Romantic Imaginaries • Saturday, May 19 • 4:30 pm • CMU 230

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