1981 March 30 - April 2: The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today. Stefan Zweig's Time, Life and Works in the Modern World

The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today. Stefan Zweig's Time, Life and Works in the Modern World [30 March-2 April 1981]. A Symposium at the State University College at Fredonia, New York. Co-Coordinators Marion Sonnenfeld and Yvonne Wilensky. Banquet: Robert Rie, Professor Emeritus, Master of Ceremonies. Welcome to Fredonia: J. Carter Rowland, Vice President for Academic Affairs. Welcome on behalf of the Republic of Austria: Symposium Co-Sponsor, Fritz Cocron, Director, Austrian Institute, New York.

Keynote

[1].

Georg Iggers [State University of New York, Buffalo, NY]: "Some Introductory Observations on Stefan Zweig’s World of Yesterday"

[2].

Wilma Iggers [Canisius College, Buffalo, NY]: "The World of Yesterday in the View of an Intellectual Historian"

Zweig the European [Andrée Pénot, Coordinator]

[3].

Helene M. Kastinger Riley [Yale University, New Haven, CT]: "The Quest for Reason - Stefan Zweig’s and Romain Rolland’s Struggle for Pan-European Unity"

[4].

Brenda Keiser [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA]: "Stefan Zweig, the Man of the Hour and the Consistent Humanist"

Zweig and Judaism [George Browder, Coordinator]

[5].

Leo Spitzer [Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH]: "Into the Bourgeoisie - A Study of the Family of Stefan Zweig and Jewish Social Mobility during the Time of the Emancipation"

[6].

Leon Botstein [Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY]: "Stefan Zweig, Jewish Assimilation and the Popularization of European Culture"

[7].

Klara Carmely [California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA]: "The Ideal of Eternal Homelessness - Stefan Zweig and Judaism"

Zweig and the Social Sciences [Julius Paul, Coordinator]

[8].

Stephen Howard Garrin [University of Texas, Austin, TX]: "History as Literature - Stefan Zweig’s Sternstunden der Menschheit"

[9].

Lionel B. Steiman [University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada]: "The Worm in the Rose - Historical Destiny and Individual Action in Stefan Zweig’s Vision of History"

'Zweig the Humanizer in Literature [Marion Sonnenfeld, Coordinator]

[10].

David Turner [University of Hull, Hull, England]: "The Humane Ideal in Stefan Zweig’s Novellen - Some Complications and Limitations"

[11].

Ann Clark Fehn and Ulrike S. Rettig [Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]: "Narrative Perspective and Psychological Analysis in Stefan Zweig’s ‘Angst’"

[12].

Gerd Schneider [University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY]: "Portrayal of the Elderly in Three Novellas of Stefan Zweig"

[13].

Peter J. Macris [State University of New York, Oneonta, NY]: "Zweig as Dramatist"

[14].

Donald Daviau [University of California, Riverside, CA]: "The Spirit of Humanism as Reflected in Stefan Zweig’s Dramatic Works"

[15].

Joseph P. Strelka [State University of New York, Albany, NY]: "Zweig’s Balzac Novel"

Zweig in Concert [Harry John Brown, Coordinator]

Zweig and Strauss A. Cutler-Silliman, Coordinator]

[16].

Steven Cerf [Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME]: "Stefan Zweig as Librettist"

[17].

Bryan Gilliam [Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]: "The Influence of Stefan Zweig on the Late Operatic Work of Richard Strauss"

[18].

Michael P. Steinberg [Chicago, IL]: "Tragic Sensibility and Comic Opera: Zweig’s ‘Schweigsame Frau’"

Zweig the Correspondent [John Saulitis, Coordinator]

[19].

Jeffrey B. Berlin [Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA]: "Stefan Zweig and His American Publisher"

[20].

Johanna Roden [California State University, Long Beach, CA]: "Stefan Zweig and Emil Ludwig"

RESEARCH

[21].

Randolph J. Klawiter [University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN]: "The State of Stefan Zweig Research. An Update"

Zweig the Emigrant [Robert Rie, Coordinator]

[22].

Editha S. Neumann [University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS]: "Zweig, the Wanderer between Two Worlds"

[23].

Rosi Cohen [University of California, Los Angeles, CA]: "Emigration, a Contributing Factor to Zweig’s Suicide"

Zweig in Brazil [Osvaldo Chinchon, Coordinator]

[24].

Sonja Karsen [Skidmore College, Sioux Falls, SD]: "Brazil as Seen by Stefan Zweig"

[25].

Erdmute Wenzel White [Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN]: "Rio - The Exile of a Literary Establishment"

[26].

Frances Hernandez [University of Texas, El Paso, TX]: "The Zweigs and Gabriela Mistral in Petropolis"

[27].

Jean-Jacques Lafaye [Paris, France]: "Stefan Zweig and Georges Bernanos in Brazil - An Encounter"

[28].

Alberto Dines [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]: "Death in Paradise"

Stefan Zweig's ‘Thersites’ [Translated by Marion Sonnenfeld. Reader’s Theatre Version by Jack Cogdill]

Zweig in Film

[29].

Mimi Grossberg [New York City, NY]: "Zweig in Film and Television"

[30].

Screening of Letter from an Unknown Woman

[31].

Panel discussion of the film [Henry Salerno, Coordinator]. Panelists: Carol Brownson, Robert Deming, David Meerse, James Shokoff

Closing Address

[32].

Harry Zohn [Brandeis University, Waltham, MA]: "The Burning Secret of Stephen Branch or A Cautionary Tale about a Physician Who Could Not Heal Himself"