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Friday, April 11

Location: Penn Humanities Forum

12.00 - 12.45

Registration

12.45 Opening Remarks

INTRODUCTION

1.00 - 2.00 Nicholas Mathew (University of California, Berkeley), Emily Dolan (Penn, Music), “Herderian Musical Dialogs”

Panel 1: HERDER AND SENSATION


Chair: Liliane Weissberg (Penn, German/Cultural Studies)

2.00 - 2.40

Thomas Patteson (Penn: Music), "Wirkungen, nicht Werke: The Musical Aesthetics and Influence of Herder's Kalligone"

2.40 - 3.20

Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College/CUNY), “’… After all, can anyone say what tones mean to express?’ – Herder’s ‘Aesthetics of Hearing’”

coffee break



3.40 - 4.20

Adelheid Voskuhl (Harvard University), “Music and Mechanics in Herder's Response to the German Enlightenment”

4.20 - 5.00

Chase Richards (Penn, History), “Feeling in the distance”: Herder’s phantasmatic public, 1758-69”

Location: Rare Books Library

Chair: Gary Tomlinson (Penn, Music)

KEYNOTE LECTURE

5.30

Lydia Goehr (Columbia University), “’Must my skin be made the prize? This for a silly pipe?’: Wind and strings in the education of humanity"

7.00

Dinner Reception


Herderian Texts: An Exhibit of Books in the Lea Library

CONCERT

7.30 - 8.30

"A Herderian Salon: Keyboard and Vocal Music of the Late 18th Century"

Emily Green and Sezi Seskir, fortepiano
Roger Grant, CJ Jones, Ian MacMillen, Peter Mondelli, and Emily Zazulia, voice




Saturday, April 12


Location: Penn Humanities Forum

Panel 2: HERDER AND THE IDEA OF VOLKSLIEDER

Chair: Catriona MacLeod (Penn, German)

9.00 - 9.40

Matthew Head (King’s College London), “Die Fischerinn (1782) by Goethe, Herder and Corona Schröter: Death, Authorship and Volkslieder in Weimar”

9.40 - 10.20

Amanda Glauert, (Royal Academy of Music), “Realizing the Lyric Chain: Musical Responses to Herder's Views on Song”

coffee break



10.40 - 11.20

Matthew Gelbart (Harvard University), “What Herder Didn’t Do For Folk Music”

11.20 - 12.00

Peter Mondelli (Penn, Music), "Singing Print, Reading Song: Navigating Voice and Writing in Herder's Volkslieder"

12.00 - 1:00

Lunch

Location: Penn Humanities Forum

Chair: Tim Rommen (Penn, Music)

KEYNOTE LECTURE

1.00

Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago): "Herder Contra Herder, or the Polymath in Spite of Himself"


Location: Penn Humanities Forum


Panel 3: HERDERiAN CROSSINGS


Chair: John Tresch (Penn, History and Sociology of Science)


3.00 - 3.40
Annette Richards (Cornell University), "Pictures and Dreams: The Visual and the Virtual in Herder's Musical Circle"

3.40 - 4.20
Gavin Steingo (Penn, Music), “Border Crossings: Music, Sound, and Jews in Kant and Herder.”

coffee break



4.40 - 5.20
Mary Beth Wetli (Case Western Reserve), “Creating ‘Historical Illusion’: Schiller’s Reception of Herder’s Dramatized History”

5.20 - 6.00
Stephen Rumph (University of Washington), “Herder Reading Kant Reading Music”


CONCERT

6.30
"Keyboard Music of Beethoven"

Emily Green, Sezi Seskir, fortepiano


8.30
Dinner for Conference Participants




Sunday, April 13


Location: Penn Humanities Forum

Panel 4: HERDER AND POETICS

Chair: Dan Ben-Amos (Penn, Folklore)

9.00 - 9.40
Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University), “Individuality and Genius: A Herderian Reconstruction”

9.40 - 10.20
Simon Richter (Penn, German), “Thrown by Poetry: Herder's Essay on Ossian and the Volkslied (1773)”

coffee break



10.40 - 11.20
Katrin Kohl (Oxford University), “The Role of Music in Herder's Poetics”

11.20 - 12.00
Paul Guyer (Penn, Philosophy), “Herder, Lessing, and the Energy of Poetry”