The Graduate Center, CUNY (USA) and the University of Oldenburg (Germany) present:
An International Webinar on March 11th & 12th, 2021
Erich Auerbach: Scholarship & Cultural Identity in Times of Crisis
Join us to explore varying views on Erich Auerbach’s relation to German, Jewish and Christian thought. As Auerbach’s influence as a scholar of medieval and modern literature has spread, his reputation has grown as a cultural-historical figure known for writing his most important literary and cultural history in exile during the National Socialist era. He now shares this focus of attention with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt. This conference will feature new research by German and American scholars who will discuss Auerbach’s debt to secular, Christian and Jewish intellectual traditions in Germany.
For information, program, abstracts, and registration:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19bCB-Zp1IuraeDTSk3h4EJC2FeVTWU_F/view?usp=sharing [drive.google.com]
register: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z_rEFCwYRhGiWeCunko0kw
March 11, 2021
4:00-6:00p.m. EST
Greetings: Martin Elsky (Brooklyn College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
James I. Porter (University of California-Berkeley), “What is Jewish Philology? Auerbach in Context”
Malachi Haim Hacohen (Duke University), “Erich Auerbach: German, Jewish and Christian”
March 12, 2021
2:30-4:30p.m. EST
Greetings: Martin Elsky (Brooklyn College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Jane O. Newman (University of California-Irvine), “Auerbach and a Lutheran Akedah”
Matthias Bormuth (University of Oldenburg, Germany), “Religious Origins of Secular Thinking: Erich Auerbach and his Figures of Passion”
Roundtable
Questions? contact: Martin Elsky, [email protected].
