Program
1 October 2009
| 4-4:30 PM | Welcome Reception Location: Japanese Garden Area, Reed Library |
| 4:30-5 PM | Opening Remarks Dennis Hefner, President, SUNY Fredonia Jeremy Linden, Head of Archives and Special Collections |
| 5-6 PM | Keynote Address: Oliver Matuschek (author of Stefan Zweig: Drei Leben) "The Three Lives of Stefan Zweig" |
| 7PM | Dinner at White Inn, Fredonia, NY |
2 October 2009
| 9-10:30 AM | Presentations: Transatlantic Zweig Location: Williams Center S-104 Nikolaus Unger (University of Warwick) "'...to compare a rather uncertain impression of the new continent with reality' - Stefan Zweig and New York" Christine Berthold (University of Macerata) "Approaching the Far Away: Magellan and Amerigo" Birger Vanwesenbeeck (State University of New York at Fredonia) "The Generational Autobiography: Zweig vs. Flaubert" |
| 10:30-11 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch on Campus |
| 1:30-3:30 PM |
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| 3:30-4:30 PM | Keynote Address: Klaus Weissenberger (Rice University) "Stefan Zweig's Non-fictional Prose in Exile - Mastery of the European Genre of 'Kunstprosa'" Location: Williams Center S-104 |
| 4:30-5:15 PM | Visit to Zweig Exhibit, Reed Library |
| 5:15-7 PM | Dinner |
| 7 PM | Screening of Lost Zweig at Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia, NY |
3 October 2009
| 9-9:30 AM | Klemens Renoldner (Director of Stefan Zweig Center, Salzburg, Austria) "Stefan Zweig: Life in Cities of Exile / New York, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro" Location: Williams Center S-104 |
| 9:30-11 AM | Presentations: Zweig and Politics Location: Williams Center S-104 Jeffrey Berlin (Holy Family University) "The Writer's Political Obligation in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig, 1933-1940" Eva Kuttenberg (Pennsylvania State University, Erie) "Stefan Zweig's Transnationalism in the Making" Robert Whalen (Queens University of Charlotte) "Structuring Alterity. Stefan Zweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Trauma of the Other" |
| 11 AM-12 PM |
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| 12 PM | Closing remarks |