Materiality and Visuality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde

Materiality and Visuality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde
30. March – 1. April 2007
at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FRIDAY, 30. March 2007
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dey Hall, Toy Lounge

10:00 Welcome:
Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University)

10:15-10:45 Introduction to the Conference:
Jutta Eming (Free University of Berlin) and Kathryn Starkey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Envisioning Emotion in Tristan and Isolde”

Short Break

11:00-12:30 First Session
Moderator: Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University)
James Rushing (Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey)
“The Lovers’ Gaze in Visualizations of Tristan and the Aeneid”
James A. Schultz (University of California at Los Angeles)
“Michel and Isolde: Materiality, Visuality, and Sexuality”

12:30-2:00 Box Lunch

2:00-3:30 Second Session
Moderator: Peter Strohschneider (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
Haiko Wandhoff (Humboldt University, Berlin)
“Revisiting the House of Love: The Architecture of Love, Desire and Remembrance in
the Stories of Tristan and Isolde”
Ludger Lieb (Technical University, Dresden)
“Symptom - Allegory - Imagination. Gottfried's Tristan and the Fascination of Seeing
Love in the Late Middle Ages”

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 Third Session
Moderator: Horst Wenzel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Norbert Ott (Bayerische Staatsakademie der Wissenschaften)
“Tristan in Images: The Intentions of Patrons and Recipients”
M. Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh)
“Illustration and the Reception of Tristan in France”

6:00-9:00 Reception and Dinner Buffet (Kathryn Starkey’s home)


SATURDAY, 31. March 2007
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Perkins Library, Rare Book Room

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-10:30 Fourth Session
Moderator: Ingrid Kasten (Free University, Berlin)
Susanne Köbele (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen)
“Art and Artistry. On the Aesthetic Attraction of Sound in the Works of Gottfried and
Konrad”
Jan-Dirk Müller (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
“Love in View of the Court: Blancheflur and Riwalin”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Fifth Session
Moderator: Ingrid Bennewitz (Otto Friedrich University Bamberg)
Amanda Luyster (College of The Holy Cross)
“Time, Space, and Mind: Tristan in Three Dimensions in Fourteenth-Century France”
Klaus Krüger (Free University, Berlin)
“Tristan-Love: Elite Self-Fashioning in Italian Frescoes of the 13th and 14th Centuries”

12:30-2:30 BOX LUNCH

2:30-4:00 Sixth Session
Moderator: C. Stephen Jaeger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Elke Koch (Free University, Berlin)
“Framing Tristan - Taming Tristan? Dramatic Visualisation and Strategies of Emotional
Pedagogy in Hans Sachs’ 'Tragedy'”
Michael J. Curschmann (Princeton University)
“From Myth to Emblem to Panorama”

6:30-9:00 Reception and Dinner Buffet at NASHER MUSEUM OF ART,
Duke University

SUNDAY, 1. April 2007
PLACE: DUKE UNIVERSITY, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-10:30 Seventh Session
Moderator: Niklaus Largier (University of California at Berkeley)
Martin Baisch (Free University, Berlin)
“Excurses of Curiousity. The Materiality of Meaning in Editions and Cultural Studies”
Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden (University of Minnesota)
“Getting It All Together: Verse Tristan Illustrations”

11:00-2:00 Lunch (Washington Duke Inn) 


We are indebted to the following sponsors:

Transcoop Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office of the Vice-Provost of International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Max Kade Foundation
Josiah Charles Trent Foundation
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Rare Book, Special Collection, and Manuscript Library, Perkins Library, Duke University
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke University
Department of Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill