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“Tackling the Future”
DAAD Alumni Conference
26-28 March, University of Sydney
The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD) is holding a big Alumni Meeting at Sydney Uni in March, hosted by Vice Chancellor Michael Spence, with keynotes, panels, performances, workshops and excursions on the topic of “Tackling the Future – Environmental Challenges and their Impact on Academic Cooperation, Economy and Culture”.
International experts will be speaking on and discussing issues such as foreign language policy, urbanism and climate change, and the German-Australian cultural dialogue. Paul Uhlmann’s exhibition “Becoming Imperceptible” at the Goethe-Institut Sydney will be part of this event, as well as a Shpoorenzoohe, a guided tour to places of common Australian-German interest conducted by German Studies students.
For more information, please contact Dr Andreas Jaeger, the DAAD’s representative in Australia:
or
http://ic.daad.de/sydney/events.htm
German Research Seminar/Germanistisches Forschungsseminar
Friday 12 March
Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Room 524
Prof. Dr. Sabine Doering (Oldenburg)
"Schiffbruch vor der Ewigen Mauer. Sinnlichkeit und Erkenntnis in Adelbert von Chamissos 'Faust. Ein Fragment'".
Prof. Dr. Matías Martínez (Wuppertal)
"Zeit und Erzählung in den Romanen Daniel Kehlmanns"
Friday 19 March
Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Room 524
3:00-4:30
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann
Institut für Medizinische Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
”Fragen der modernen Fortpflanzungsmedizin sprechen: Künstliche Befruchtung aus der Perspektive der Betroffenen. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu ethische Fragen der modernen Fortpflanzungsmedizin aus Deutschland.”
Friday 26 March
location to be announced
DAAD and/und Department of Germanic Studies
Prof. Dr. Horst Dippel and/und Prof. Dr Klaus Vieweg
Draft program / Vorläufiges Programm:
1:30-1:45 Einführung
1:45-2:45 Prof. Horst Dippel (Kassel) - “Georg Forster”
2:45-3:00 Kaffeepause
3:00-4:00 Prof. Klaus Vieweg (Jena) - “Die 'sanfte Macht der Bilder' - Hegels Konzeption der Einbildungskraft”
4:00-4:30 Drinks und Diskussion
ab 4.30 Registrierung der Konferenzgäste für die Gr. DAAD-Alumni-Konferenz
Prof. Horst Dippel (University of Kassel), is a specialist on Georg Forster. Forster (1754-1794), a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany, was a naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report from that journey, A Voyage Round the World remains a respected work among both scientists and ordinary readers. Forster also translated Cook's diaries into German.
Prof. Klaus Vieweg (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) will be talking about Hegel’s concept of imagination (Konzept der Einbildungskraft)