Schedule

Friday, November 10

9:00                   Welcome and Introduction

9:15-10:00         Volker Leppin: “History and Revelation: Reflections from Lessing to Pannenberg”

10:00-10:45       Sam Stoner: “Lessing and the Search for Truth”

Coffee Break

11:15-12:00       Joseph Haydt: “Ethnological Themes in Nathan der Weise”

Lunch break

2:00-2:45          Peter Gilgen: “Reading Lessons: On Lessing’s Rettungen”

2:45-3:30          Dorothea von Mücke: “Fortuna vs. Providence in Lessing’s Philotas”

5:30           Staged reading of G.E. Lessing’s Philotas

Saturday, November 11

10:00-10:45       Liliane Weissberg: “Jean Améry Receives the Lessing Prize”

Coffee Break

11:15-12:00       Catriona MacLeod: “Frozen Moments and Running Hares: Philostratus, Lessing, Goethe”

12:00-12:45       Heidi Schlipphacke: “Lessing and the Epistemology of the Tableau”

Lunch break

3:00-3:45          Hannes Kerber: “Nathan at War: Erwin Piscator’s 1944 Production of Nathan the Wise”

3:45-4:30          Jonathan Fine: “Lessing in Academe”

4:30           Concluding Remarks

Made possible with generous support from the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and UChicago Arts and sponsored by the Lessing Society, the Lessing-Akademie, the Lessing Workshop and the University of Chicago Divinity School and Department of Germanic Studies.