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The Legacy of Leo Lowenthal: A Conference Commemorating His Life and Works on the Tenth
Anniversary of His Death Friday & Saturday, April 11th-12th
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor,
Wheeler Auditorium
Leo Lowenthal (1900-1993), a founding member of the Frankfurt Institut
für Sozialforschung
and Professor of Sociology at Berkeley from 1956
until his retirement in 1968, was a pioneer in the critical sociology
of literature and culture. His collected works have been published
both in English and German editions with Transaction Press and
Fischer Verlag, and his
autobiographical reflections, An Unmastered Past,
came out with the University of California Press in 1987. Bringing
together an international roster of scholars, many of whom were
his
personal friends, this conference will assay Lowenthal's
intellectual legacy a decade after his death. Among the participants
are Jan Philipp Reemtsma (Hamburg), who will deliver the
keynote address, Michael Bernstein (UCB), Howard
Bloch (Yale), Helmut Dubiel (NYU and Giessen), Stephen Greenblatt
(Harvard), Peter-Erwin Jansen (Frankfurt), Anton Kaes (UCB), Thomas
Laqueur
(UCB), Olli-Pekka Moisio (Jyvaskyla), Lars Rensmann
(Berlin), James Stockinger (UCB), Ann Swidler (UCB), and Richard
Wolin (CUNY)
Friday, April 11th
- 9:30 Introduction - Martin Jay
- 10:00 Keynote Address - Jan Philipp Reemtsma (Hamburg): "Prospero and the Demons"
- 11:00 Helmut Dubiel (NYU and Giessen): "The Mirror Image of the Good Life: The Globalization
of the Holocaust"
- 12:00-2:00 Lunch
- 2:00 Howard Bloch (Yale): "Animal Literature and the Image of Man: Social Mobility
and State Formation in the Anglo-Norman World."
- 3:00 Richard Wolin (CUNY): "The Lion in Winter: Leo Lowenthal and the Integrity of
the Intellectual"
- 4:00 Reminiscences Panel: Michael Andre Bernstein, Thomas Laqueur, Ann Swidler, and James
Stockinger (All UCB)
- 5:30 Reception: Morrison Room, Doe Library
Saturday, April 12th
- 10:00 Lars Rensmann (Berlin): "Deconstructing the Politics of Resentment: Leo Lowenthal and the Origins of
Critical Social Research on Authoritarianism, Right-wing Extremism and Populism."
- 11:00 Peter-Erwin Jansen (Frankfurt): "Leo Lowenthal, a Pessimistic Optimist: Materials from the Lowenthal
Archive"
- 12:00 Lunch
- 2:00 Olli-Pekka Moisio (Jyvaskyla): "There is Something Hiding in the Light: Max Horkheimer and Leo
Lowenthal on Fascism and Anti-Semitism"
- 3:00 Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard): "The Dream of Restoration"
- 4:00 Concluding Panel Discussion: The Conference Participants
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