Workshop Program

No Happy End: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural Emigration To The U.K. and U.S., 1933-1945

First Phase: Three-day Workshop
February 15–18,2001
Bard College, Annandale, New York 12504

Co-Directors
Michael Donnelly, Bard College
Lydia Goehr, Columbia
David Kettler, Bard Center

Program

Friday, February 16, 2001

9:00 a.m.– 12:00 noon
Session 1
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• David Kettler, (Political Studies, Bard): "Introduction: The Intellectual Emigration Story in 1955, according to Franz L. Neumann and Helge Pross."
• Bat-Ami Bar On, (Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton): "Arendt and the pain and privilege of exile."
• Suzanne Vromen (Sociology, Bard): "Jewishness and Exile: The Hannah Arendt Controversy Revisited."
• Peter Baehr, (Sociology, Hong Kong): "Freedom, Politics and Social Science: Hannah Arendt in America"

12:30 p.m.
Lunch
Faculty Dining Room, Kline Commons

1:30–3:30 p.m.
Session 2
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• Peter Breiner, (Political Science, SUNY Albany): "Max Weber among the Exiles"
• Hanna Papanek, (Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard): "Mirror and Shadow-Play: Reliving the Experienced"
• Claudia Honegger (Sociology, Bern): "The Disappearance of Sociology of Knowledge and Kultursoziologie after 1933."

4:00–6:00 p.m.
Session 3
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• Christian Fleck, (Sociology, Graz): "Refugees and Economic Emigrants from Germany in American Universities Compared"
• Anna Wessely, (Cultural Sociology, Budapest): "Two-Stage Emigrants: The Hungarian Exiles Flee Hitler."
• Daniel Herwitz (Art History, Natal): "Irma Stern and the Doubleness of Settler Exile."

6:00 p.m.
Drinks and sandwiches
Red Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

7:00 p.m.
Round Table "On Exile"
Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Norman Manea, Robert Kelly, Moderator.
Olin Auditorium

9:00 p.m.
Supper Reception
(with round table panelists and invited Bard faculty)
President's House

 

Saturday, February 17, 2001

8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
7:45 a.m. pickup in hotel lobby.
Faculty Dining Room, Kline Commons

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Session 4
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• Lydia Goehr, (Philosophy, Columbia): "On Adorno's Return. A Dialectical Reading of 'Was ist Deutsch'?"
• Martin Jay, (History, University of California Berkeley): "The German Migration: Is there a Figure in the Carpet"
• Claus-Dieter Krohn, (History, Lüneburg):"The Scientific Emigration to the United States—A Success Story"
• Laurent Jeanpierre, (Social History, Paris):"First elements for a sociology of intellectuals in exile. Comparing French cultural and political migration to the US (1940–1947) with the German Exile."

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Red Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

1:30-4:00 p.m.
Session 5
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• John Spalek, (Literature, SUNY Albany): "Exiles from Language"
• Ernst Osterkamp, (Literature, Humboldt): "Goethe as a Source of Identity in the German-Speaking Emigration"
• John McCormick, Political Science (Yale):"'Hunting in the Hide of Stalked Prey': Exilic Experience and Philosophical Camouflage in Adorno's and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment."
• Jonathan Bordo (Cultural Studies, Trent): "Exile and Defiguring in the reception of the thought of Gödel, Panofsky, Cassirer and Kantorowicz."

4:30-6:30 p.m.
Session 6
Meeting Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

• Jerry Zaslove, (Humanities, Simon Fraser) "Zeitgenossen without Genossen ‑ The Contemporary without Friendship ‑ History, Exile and Community at the End of the Century "
• Greg Horowitz, (Philosophy, Vanderbilt) "Whither the psychoanalytic diaspora?"
• Lawrence J. Friedman (History and Philanthropy, Indiana):  "Erik Erikson as an Emigre Public Intellectual."

9:00 p.m.
Ren Weschler (New Yorker), Slide show and talk on the "Little Emigration"in Los Angeles.
Faculty Dinning Room

 

Notes:
All panels will be moderated by Michael Donnelly (Sociology, Bard).

Thanks to:
The Bard Center
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Human Rights Project (Bard College)
Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard College)
James H. Ottaway, Jr., senior vice president, Dow Jones & Company; chairman, World Press Freedom Committee; and trustee, Bard College