Myth and forgery

Myth and forgery
 

'People' and 'nation' in the Central European cultural and state space of the 18th and 19th centuries

International conference
Dresden (Brücke/Most Center)

September 12 to 14, 2005

Organized by

Prof. Dr. Ludger Udolph
(Institute of Slavic Studies at the TU Dresden)

and

Prof. Dr. Walter Schmitz
(Central European Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies at TU Dresden)
in cooperation with the
Herder Research Council

Program

12. 09. 2005 Monday

16:00 Ludger Udolph and Walter Schmitz (Dresden): Welcome and
opening

I.
16:30 Walter Schmitz (Dresden): The "Song of the Nibelungs"
18:00 Steffen Hoehne (Weimar): Constructions of people and nation using the example of German-Bohemian literature


13.09. Tuesday

II.
09:00 Elisabeth v. Erdmann (Erlangen): Andrija Kacic-Miošics
"Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga" (1756)
10:00 Karl Gutschmidt (Berlin): Stefan Verkovic's "Veda Slovena" (1874/1881)
11:30 Gun-Britt Kohler (Oldenburg): Prosper Merimée's "La Guzla"

III.
13:30 Dalibor Turecek (Budweis): Václav Hanka's "Königinhofer"
and "Grünberg Manuscript"
14:30 Susanne Hose (Bautzen): The value of authentic history(ies)
or Why Sorbian folk songs must be ancient
15:30 Discussion and coffee break
16:00 Ulrike Jekutsch (Greifswald): Fiction on display.
On Slowacki's invention of early Polish history in "Balladyna"
and "Lilla Weneda"


14. 09. Wednesday

IV.
9:00 Ludger Udolph (Dresden): The "Slovo o polku Igoreve"
10:00 Pál S. Varga (Debrecen): Mihály Vörösmarty's epic
"Zalán futása" (1825) and its reception in the 19th century
11:30 Pertti Karkama (Helsinki): Elias Lönnrot's "Kalevala"
12:30 Final discussion




Event information


Venue:
Brücke/Most-Zentrum Dresden
Reinhold-Becker-Strasse 5
D-01277 Dresden
Phone: +49-(0)351 - 433 140
Fax: +49-(0)351 - 433 141 33
web: http://www.bruecke-most-stiftung.de

Organization:

Institute of Slavic Studies
TUD Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
Phone: +49-(0)351-4633-2415
Fax: +49-(0)351-4633-7071
eMail:

Central European Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies
TUD Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
Phone: +49-(0)351-4633-7865
Fax: +49-(0)351-4633-7769
eMail: mez@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
web: http: //www.tu-dresden.de/mez/

We gratefully acknowledge the kind support of the Herder Research Council, the Brücke/Most Foundation and the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies at TU Dresden.