The Renaissance in Exile:
Thursday 16 and Friday 17 May 2019
Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte
Geismar Landstraße 11
Programme
Thursday 16 May
10:00-10:30 Martin van Gelderen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg) Welcome and Introduction
10:30-12:00 Lucas Burkart (Basel) “Did Ernst H. Kantorowicz read Jacob Burckhardt?”
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 John Monfasani (Albany) “From the Liner Saturnia to the Martin Memorial Lectures: Paul Oskar Kristeller's First Fifteen Years in America, 1939–1954”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Iryna Mykhailova (Lichtenberg-Kolleg) „…weil ich als Repräsentantin Deutschlands in die Welt geschickt wurde“: Elisabeth Feist Hirsch’s Journey to the New World
Friday 17 May
9:30-11:00 Andrea Robiglio (Leuven) “Ulrich Leo (1890-1964) and Weltliteratur: from Göttingen to Toronto”
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Kate Lowe (QM London) “The Tie that binds: Nicolai Rubinstein's contacts and connections across five countries”
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Thomas Meyer (München) "From Bernkastel-Kues via Hamburg to London/Gothenburg and New York: Ernst Cassirer and Renaissance Philosophy"
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 John McCormick (Chicago) “Felix Gilbert’s Florentine Republic”