Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. A Centenary Conference
Thursday, 27 - Friday, 28 November 2008, Stewart House/Senate House, London

Co-Ordinators:Duncan Large (Swansea) and Nicholas Martin (Birmingham)

PROGRAMME
Thursday, 27 September 2008
Room ST 273/274/275
9.15
Registration
9.45
Welcome and Introduction
10.00
Plenary Lecture
Keith Ansell Pearson (Warwick): Pure Nietzsche: On a Thoughtful Word in Ecce Homo
10.45
Coffee
11.15
Parallel Sessions
 
Frank Chouraqui (Warwick): Culture, Knowledge and Politics from Schopenhauer as Educator to Ecce Homo
 
Rainer J. Hanshe and Alan Rosenberg (New York): From Metaphysics to Grains of Sand: On the Value of Small Things
 
Nicholas Martin (Birmingham): Ecce Homo: How One Reviews One’s Self
12.00
Plenary Lecture
Lesley Chamberlain (London): Did Nietzsche want Success?
12.45
Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15
Parallel Sessions
James Griffith (Chicago): Nietzsche’s Perfect Day: On the Exergue to Ecce Homo
 
Kathleen Merrow (Portland): 'How One Becomes What One Is': Intertextuality and Autobiography in Ecce Homo
 
Herman Siemens (Leiden): Nietzsche’s 'Umwertung': On the Relation between ‘War-Praxis’ and ‘Great Politics’ in Ecce Homo
15.00
Plenary Lecture
Paul Bishop (Glasgow): Nietzsche’s Concept of Character in Ecce Homo
15.45
Tea
16.15
Parallel Sessions
Rebecca Bamford (New York): Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography and/as Metaphilosophy
 
Andrew Inkpin (London): Ecce Homo: A ‘Cheerful and Profound’ Work?
 
Henna Seinälä (Jyväskylä): Ariadne's Mystery
17.00
Plenary Lecture
Rüdiger Görner (London): ‘Nitimur in vetitum' oder: ‘Hat man mich verstanden?’ Zu einer Argumentationsfigur in Nietzsches Ecce Homo
17.45
Reception
 
Friday, 28 November 2008
Room ST 273/274/275
9.30
Parallel Sessions
Anthony Jensen (Cincinnati): Historiography in Ecce Homo
 
C. Heike Schotten (Boston): ‘Ecrasez l‘infâme!’: A Revolution for All and None
 
André van der Braak (Amsterdam): 'How One Becomes What One Is'
10.15
Plenary Lecture
Daniel Conway (Texas): ‘And so I tell my life to myself’: Ecce Homo as an Exercise in Autobiography
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Parallel Sessions
Maria Branco (Lisbon): Nietzsche’s Inspiration: Philosophical and Artistic Creative Freedom in Ecce Homo and Other Writings
 
Duncan Large (Swansea): ‘The Magic of the Extreme’: Hyperbolic Rhetoric in Ecce Homo
 
Aaron Parrett (Great Falls): Ecce Homo and Confessiones Augustini: Autobiography and the End(s) of Faith
12.15
Plenary Lecture
Carol Diethe (Fortrose): Lost in Translation
13.00
Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15
Parallel Sessions
Martine Prange (Amsterdam): Ecce Homo: Autobiography, Preface, or Model of Philosophical Life?
 
Yannick Souladié (Toulouse): A ‘Foretaste’ of Inversion
 
John Whitmire (Cullowhee): Apocalyptic ‘Madness’: Reading Ecce Homo
15.00
Plenary Lecture
Steven Aschheim (Jerusalem): Ecce Homo: Reactions to a Dionysian Autobiography
15.45
Tea
16.15
Parallel Sessions
Julia Happ (Oxford): ‘[K]ein Nordwind bin ich reifen Feigen’: Nietzsche’s Ambivalent Concepts of (Literary) Decadence
 
Vanessa Lemm (Santiago): Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo as an Ethics (and a Politics) of the ‘Care of the Self’
 
Martin Liebscher (London): Podachs zusammengebrochenes Werk: Erneutes Abschreiten der Grenzen psychologischer Nietzsche-Deutung
17.00
Plenary Lecture
Werner Stegmaier (Greifswald): Schicksal Nietzsche? Zu Nietzsches Selbsteinschätzung als Schicksal der Philosophie und der Mensch-heit (Ecce Homo, 'Warum ich ein Schicksal bin', 1)
17.45
Concluding Discussion
18.00
End of Conference

This conference is held under the auspices of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, the University of Birmingham, and Swansea University, and is sponsored by the Modern Humanities Research Association.

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