Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen 14:00 Martin van Gelderen (Göttingen)

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
King’s College London
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
University College London
RETHINKING LESSING’S ‘LIMITS’:
APPROACHES TO THE L AOKOON ON ITS 250TH ANNIVERSARY
(1766-2016)
Programme
Wednesday, 8 April 2015: Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen
14:00 Martin van Gelderen (Göttingen), Michael Squire (London/Cologne), and
Avi Lifschitz (London/Göttingen): welcome and introduction
14:30 Friedrich Vollhardt (Munich): Lessings Laokoon: Aktualität − Historizität –
Kontiguität
Chair: Hans Erich Bödeker (Göttingen)
15:30 Refreshments
16:00 Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg): Lessing’s Laokoon and the ‘as-if’ of aesthetic
experiences
Jürgen Trabant (Berlin): Symbolic articulation in the Laokoon
Chair: Avi Lifschitz (London/Göttingen)
18:00 Reception
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, 9 April 2015: Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
9:00
Organised transport from Göttingen to Wolfenbüttel
11:00 Guided tour of the ducal library and the Lessinghaus
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Elisabeth Décultot (Halle): Über die Grenzen der Kritik: Zur
epistemologischen Verortung von Lessings Laokoon
Daniel Fulda (Halle): Verzeitlichung? Lessings Laokoon und die
Modernisierungsprobleme der seinerzeitigen Geschichtsschreibung
Chair: Alexander Schmidt (Jena)
15:45 Refreshments
16:30 Jason Gaiger (Oxford): ‘Yielding stone’: the material as medium in
Lessing’s Laokoon and recent sculptural practice
Susan Gustafson (Rochester, NY): Gender, sexuality, and family
entanglements: fathers, mothers, and snakes in Lessing’s Laokoon
Chair: Michael Squire (London)
18:30 Dinner
Friday, 10 April: Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen
9:00
Frederick Beiser (Syracuse, NY): Mendelssohn’s critique of Lessing’s
Laokoon
Ritchie Robertson (Oxford): Goethe, Laokoon, and the artistic depiction of
pain
Chair: Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina/Göttingen)
10:45 Refreshments
11:15 Katherine Harloe (Reading): Sympathy, tragedy, and the morality of
sentiment in the Laokoon
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt): Pregnant moments and comfortable
relations
Chair: Steven Tester (Göttingen)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Round-up discussion: Laokoon after 250 years
Chairs: Michael Squire and Avi Lifschitz
15:00 [Optional:] Walk to the Archaeological Institute and a visit of the Göttingen
Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures (guided tour in German)
Attendance is free, but registration is required with Ms Turan Lackschewitz:
[email protected]
Directions:
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/how-to-find-us/134174.html
Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel:
http://www.hab.de/en/home/about-us/travelling-and-accommodation.html