A16: Metamorphosis: Cultural Imaginations of the Hybrid

Seminar Leader: Bianca Theisen, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Michel Chaouli, Indiana University: �Becoming Human: Anthropomorphis as Metamorphosis�

Jocelyn Holland, University of California � Santa Barbara: �Bildung und Bildungstriebe: Metamorphosis in Scientific Theory and Anthropology around 1800�

Klaus Peter Muller, Gutenberg University, Mainz: � History as Metamorphosis in Historical Novels�

Paolo Bartoloni, University of Sydney: �Translating as the Metamorphosis of Language: A Reflection Via Benjamin�s The Task of the Translator and Agamben�s Infancy and History�

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Dorothea von Mücke, Columbia University: �Metamorphosis in Goethe�s Morphology�

Stefani Engelstein, University of Missouri: �Echoes of Narcissus: The Natural Human and Goethe�s Elective Affinities�

Stephan Schindler, Washington University: �The Hybrid as Libertin and Analyst: Goethe�s Mephistopheles�

Andreas Gailus, University of Michigan: �Metamorphosis of Desire: Symbolic Transmission and Sibling Incest in Goethe, Melville, and Musil�

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Karsten Gogolin, John Hopkins University: �Becoming-Animal: Mystic Unions in Robert Musil�s Early Prose�

Rochelle Tobias, John Hopkins University: �A Life That Was Not: The Metamorphosis of the Autobiographical Genre in Robert Walser�s Work�

Justus Fetscher, Zentrum fur Literaturforschung, Berlin: �Othering the Power of Language: Versions of Medea in Ovid and Jahnn�

Bianca Theisen, Johns Hopkins University: ��The Last World�: Christoph Ransmayr�s Transformation of Ovid�