Georg Brandes and the Modern Breakthrough

Programme

09:00: Welcome and opening remarks

Morning session

09:15-10:00:
Bridget Alsdorf (Princeton University): Georg Brandes and the Art of the Modern Breakthrough - Some Questions

10:00-10:45:
Elizabeth Li (University of Copenhagen): Between Kierkegaard and Brandes: Women on Religion, Existence and Reading

10:45-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-12:00:
Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen): How and why Brandes 'discovered' Nietzsche. A new interpretation

12:00-12:45:
Hans Halvorson (Princeton University): Brandes against Dualism 

12:45-14:00: Lunch

Afternoon session

14:00-14:45:
Irina Hron (University of Copenhagen): Brandes beyond Denmark

14:45-15:30:
Lene Bøgh Rønberg (Frederiksborg Museum of National History): Gloves of Modernity: Gloves and Glove-Morality in Portraits of the New Women

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-16:45:
Søren Blak Hjortshøj (University of Southern Denmark): Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism

16:45-17:30:
Signe Havsteen (Nivaagaard Museum): Emil Hannover, the Brandes of Art Historians

17:30-: Closing discussion