In the literature and culture of our scientifically and technologically orientated society magic has not vanished – on the contrary. Novels using a repertoire of images derived from traditions of magic are more popular than ever. This at first seemingly odd constellation, its various forms and its history from the Renaissance onwards, are at the centre of our international symposium with participants from the following disciplines: anthropology, art history, ethnology, history, literary studies and philosophy.
Donnerstag/Thursday, 27.01.2005
18:00-18:30 (Senatssaal, Keplerstr. 7)
Eröffnung/Opening addresses :
Georg Maag, Wolfram Pyta, Hans Ulrich Seeber
18:30-19:15
Andreas Höfele (München):
Raising Tempests: Magic, Art and Science, c. 1600
19:15 Conference Warming
Freitag/Friday, 28.01.2005
9:00-11:00
Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal):
Physik und Magie: Zur Entzauberung der modernen Naturwissenschaft
Tobias Döring (Berlin):
Magic, Necromancy, and Performance: Uses of Renaissance Knowledge in Christopher Marlowe's Plays
Martin Windisch (Stuttgart):
Pictorial Magic and the Staging of the Body Politic
11:20-12:45
Stephan Laqué (München):
Magia Allegra and Magia Penserosa: Two Strands of Hermetism in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brean Hammond (Nottingham):
Pope and the City
12:45-14:30 Mittagessen/Lunch
14:30-16:30 Alison Winter (Chicago):
Sciences of Mind and the Phenomena of Consensus in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Robert Stockhammer (Berlin):
The Techno-Magician: A Fascination Around 1900
Roger Luckhurst (London):
The Egyptian Gothic in 1890s British Fiction
16:50-18:20
Elmar Schenkel (Leipzig):
Ghostly Geometry: The Fourth Dimension in Literature
Thomas Hauschild (Tübingen):
Shamanistic Trance Experience and Modern Technologies of Air Travel
Samstag/Saturday, 29.01.2005
9:00-11:00
Dirk Vanderbeke (Greifswald):
Science Is Magic That Works: The Return of Magic in the Literature on Science
Walter Göbel (Stuttgart):
Black Magic and Cultural Identity: The Afro-American Novel
Jarmila Mildorf (Stuttgart):
Disenchanting the World, Enchanting the Reader: The Negotiation of Biochemistry in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith
11:20-12:45
Johann Schmidt (Hamburg):
The Magic of the Moving Pictures: Enchantments of a Modern Medium
Hans Ulrich Seeber (Stuttgart):
Magic and Literary Fascination
12:45 Schlusswort/Concluding remarks