Event overview
A conference of the Walter Benjamin London Research Network in collaboration with The Warburg Institute of London.
The Walter Benjamin London Research Network and the Warburg Institute London cordially invite you to:
Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare
A Conference
28 November 2018, 4.00pm - 29 November 2018, 5.00pm
The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
One of the key figures in Walter Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play is Hamlet; for Benjamin as for Schmitt and Agamben, Shakespeare's tragedy is emblematic of a political theology as distinctive for the 17th century as for its latter day reception in the 20th century. There are, however, repeated references to Shakespeare throughout Benjamin’s writings. While a central part of the workshop will focus on Hamlet, the Baroque and Benjamin’s theory of the mourning play, the workshop will also seek to offer analyses of the constancy of reference to Shakespeare, both tragic and comic, in translation and in stagecraft. The workshop will open with a discussion of the new Italian translation of Benjamin’s Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, presented by the translators Alice Barale and Fabrizio Desideri.
Speakers include: Alice Barale, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Freddie Rokem, Howard Caygill, Julia Ng, Andrew Benjamin, Björn Quiring and Fabrizio Desideri.
This conference is organised by Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia and Julia Ng, Lecturer in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Schedule:
Wednesday 28 November
4:00-5:15 Translating Walter Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels: Alice Barale, Fabrizio Desideri
5:30-7:00 Julia Reinhard Lupton — Creature Caliban Revisited: Shakespeare, Benjamin, and Post-Tragic Form
Thursday 29 November
9:30-10:45 Freddie Rokem — “But a storm is blowing from Paradise”/”Aber ein Sturm weht vom Paradiese her”: Walter Benjamin and The Tempest
10:45-11:00 Refreshments
11:00-11:45 Howard Caygill — Benjamin, Kraus and the Sonnet Form
11:45-12:30 Julia Ng — As You Like It: Benjamin’s Comic Infinite
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Björn Quiring — Hamlet’s Pregnant Silence
2:15-3:00 Fabrizio Desideri — Out of Joint. Hamlet and the End of the Trauerspiel
3:00-3:15 Refreshments
3:15-4:00 Concluding Roundtable: Chaired by Andrew Benjamin
Event page at the Warburg Institute website.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Nov 2018 | 4:00pm - 7:00pm | |
| 29 Nov 2018 | 9:00am - 4:00pm |
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