2009 October 1-3: Stefan Zweig's Transatlantic Connections

2009 Zweig Symposium. State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY USA. Symposium Co-Chairs: Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Department of English SUNY Fredonia and Jeremy Linden, Head of Archives and Special Collections, SUNY Fredonia

Program

1 October 2009

1.

Welcome Reception. Japanese Garden Area, Reed Library

2.

Opening Remarks: Denniis Hefner, President, SUNY Fredonia; Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Assistant Professor of English; Jeremy Linden, Head of Archives and Special Collections

3.

Keynote Address: Oliver Matuscheck. The Three Lives of Stefan Zweig

2 October 2009: [1]. Transatlantic Zweig

4.

Nikolaus Unger [University of Warwick]. '...to compare a rather uncertain impression of the new continent with reality' - Stefan Zweig and New York

5.

Christine Berthold [University of Macerata]. Approaching the Far Away: Magellan and Amerigo

6.

Birger Vanwesenbeeck [State University of New York at Fredonia]. The Generational Autobiography: Zweig vs. Flaubert

2 October 2009: [2]. Zweig's Connections

7.

Walter Kreyszig [University of Saskatchewan/University if Vienna].'Your worlds are created from the spirit of music': Stefan Zweig's Biography on Romain Rolland and the Continuation of the 'Great Man' Theory of History in North America

8.

George Prochnik [Independent scholar]. The Netherworld of Yesterday: An Imaginary Conversation between Stefan Zweig and Hannah Arendt

9.

Sylvio Back [Director of Lost Zweig]. The Unfathomable Gesture

2 Octobe 2009: [3]. Zweig and Brazil

10.

Marlen Eckl [Independent scholar].'Das Paradies ist überall verloren': Stefan Zweig's Concept of Brazil compared to the viewpoint espoused by other German-speaking Brazilian émigrés

11.

Darién Davis [Middlebury College] and Oliver Marshall [Independent scholar]. Exile and Liminality: Charlotte and Stefan Zweig in Brazil

12.

Brenda Keiser [Bloomsburg University]. Stefan Zweig and Brazil: The Land of the Future

13.

Marlen Eckl [Representative of the Casa Stefan Zweig]. The Casa Stefan Zweig Project in Petrópolis

14.

Keynote Address: Klaus Weissenberger [Rice University]. Stefan Zweig's Non-fictional Prose in Exile - Mastery of the European Genre of "Kunstprosa"

15.

Screening of Lost Zweigat Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia, NY

3 October 2009

16.

Klemens Renoldner [Director of Stefan Zweig Centre, Salzburg, Austria]. Stefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile / New York, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro

Zweig and Politics

17.

Jeffrey B. Berlin [Holy Family University]. The Writer's Political Obligation in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig, 1922-1940

18.

Eva Kuttenberg [Pennsylvania State University, Erie]. Stefan Zweig's Transnationalism in the Making

19.

Robert Whalen [Queens University of Charlotte]. Structuring Alterity. Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma of the Other

Closing Lecture

20.

Randolph J. Klawiter [University of Notre Dame]. Zweig Bibliography in Wiki format]