April 24th-25th 2025
Programme (all times are UK time)
Thursday 24th April
13:00-13:15 — Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation), Introduction
13:15 – 14:00 — Kathrin Rosenfield (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), Antigone’s Claim – Viewed from a Legal Perspective of 5th Century Greece
14:00-14:45 — Laurence Hemming (Knapp Foundation / Lancaster University), Hölderlin and the Flucht der Götter
14:45-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:00 — Sepid Birashk (Freie Universität Berlin), Aorgic Nature and Tautegoric Language: Hölderlin, Schelling, and the Dialectics of Identity and Difference in Greek-Oriental Mythologies
16:00-16:45 — Thomas Schirren (University of Salzburg), „Im Tode finde ich den Lebendigen“
16:45-17:15 — Break
17:15-18:00 — Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation), The Historicity of Hölderlin’s Hellenism
18:00-18:45 — Frank H.W. Edler (Metropolitan Community College), Wilhelm Michel, “der freie Gebrauch des Eigenen”, and the Early Hölderlin Renaissance in Germany
Friday 25th April
12:30-13:15 — Michael Fagenblat (Open University of Israel), Hölderlin’s Hellenism and Herder’s Hebraism: from the Geist of Another Antiquity to the Poetics of Dwelling
13:15-14:00 — Nikolaos Anapliotis (University of Manchester), The fate of tragic politics in modernity: Kant and Hölderlin on the French Revolution
14:00-14:45 — Marco Fiorletta (University of Vienna), The Oscillation of the Image: Hölderlin’s Patmos Between Antiquity and Modernity
14:45-15:15 — Break
15:15-16:00 — David F. Krell (DePaul University), For What Does Hölderlin Need the Greeks? For What Do I Need Hölderlin?
16:00-16:45 — Tobias Joho (University of Bern), Hölderlin on the absence of the Greek gods and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt
16:45-17:15 — Break
17:15-18:00 — Valentin Wey (University of Toronto), Intellectual Intuition and Tragedy in Hölderlin’s Philhellenism
18:00-18:45 — Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount University), Hellingrath’s Dissertation and Heidegger’s Secret Germany