Student Workshop: Program

9:30 - 11:00: Universität Paderborn
Anja Bliege, Annika Girbig, Johannes Muckel, Matthias Worring
The Will to Believe — James and the Morals

Serap Cig, Julia Hunecke, Markus Wierschem
Truth and Illusion: The Jamesian Concept of Truth in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

Sarah Kroll, Johannes Roloff, Fabian Wortmann
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." Big Brother is Truth? — Truth in 1984

11:30 - 13:00: Universität Erlangen
Diana Dorn, Michael Eder, Jürgen Utess
"The World does not speak. Only we do": The Contingency of Language According to Rorty — Implications and Problems

Katrin Drebinger, Uta Schießl
Interpretation... and No End in Sight: Stanley Fish's Pragmatist Concept of Literary Criticism

Stephen Kötzing, Judith Wilbers
Normativity — Community — Utopianism: A Pragmatist-Feminst Dialog with Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road

14:00 - 15:30: Universität Hamburg
Katrin Diether, Kirsten Hinzpeter, Annette Nowak, Julia Lange
"The Opaque Vague": A Discussion of Richard Poirier's "The Reinstatement of the Vague"

Iryna Hilitukha, Iness Essió, Negar Solhjoo, Birgit Fedke
"The Dream and (S)Cream Group": A Pragmatist Reading of Gertrude Stein's only Detective Novel Blood on the Dining-Room Floor