Symposium
"The Intellectual and the Popular: Reading Rainald Goetz"

A symposium to be held September 17, 2005

10:30am - 5:30pm

Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York

Adresse:
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
212.998.8660
www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus

Rainald Goetz's text explore the scope and potential of an intellectual
engagement with the sphere of the popular: To what extent does the
Anglo-American phenomenon 'pop' translate in contemporary German discourses
and practices? What kind of texts emerge at the interface of literature and
the multimedia world of popular culture? This one day symposium brings
together scholars from Germany and the US to discuss Goetz's work.

Symposium Program

9.45am Breakfast

10.30am: Welcome

10.45am: Ulrich Baer (NYU)­ Introductory Remarks

11.15am: Literary and Media Figures
Moderator: Thomas Weitin (Münster/JHU)

Jörg Kreienbrock (Emory University)­ Giving Attention: Reading Rainald
Goetz Reading

Eckhard Schumacher (LMU Munich)­ "Rainald Goetz." Author, Authority,
Authenticity

Martin Jörg Schäfer (NYU/Paderborn)­ Goetz's 'Ethics' of Pop:
Approaching "Jeff Koons"

1.30pm: Lunch

3.00pm: Temporality and Performance
Moderator: Elisabeth Strowick (Basel/JHU)

Ulrich Plass (Wesleyan University)­ Journalism and Poetry (Rainald
Goetz)

Elke Siegel (Yale University)­ An 'Aesthetics of Unresistance': "Abfall
für alle"

Sibylle Peters (FU Berlin)­ Rainald Goetz's Frankfurter
Poetikvorlesungen as Performance Lecture

5.00pm: Round Table

5.45pm: Deutsches Haus Reception

Dr. Kathrin DiPaola
Director
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
212-998-8661
kdp2nyu.edu
www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus