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On Selling One\u2019s Soul: A WLL Symposium on the Faust Tradition<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saturday, April 13, 2019
\nBU School of Theology B23-24
\n745 Commonwealth Avenue
\nBoston MA 02215<\/p>\n

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The story of Doctor Faust \u2013 a legendary crystallization of medieval motifs of a man selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge, power and sex \u2013 has been many things to many people, from the playwrights Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Mikhail Bulgakov, Thomas Mann and Vacl\u00e1v Havel. Alongside Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Robinson Crusoe, the Faust story has been called one of the major \u201cmyths of modern individualism\u201d (Ian Watt). It has functioned as a way of figuring cultural anxiety about technologies including nuclear weaponry, gene cloning, physics, paper currency, the printing press, and cinema. It has also been used to assess the spiritual toll of various kinds of ethical and political compromise; its central motif of selling one\u2019s soul to the Devil resonates powerfully with contemporary cultural and political concerns.<\/p>\n

ON SELLING ONE\u2019S SOUL<\/strong>, a day of cross-disciplinary conversation on the vicissitudes of the Faust legend and the third in the Department of World Languages & Literatures\u2019 BIG FAT BOOKS series on major works of world literature.<\/p>\n

8:30 – Coffee<\/p>\n

8:50 – Welcome \u2013 Peter Schwartz<\/p>\n

9:00-9:55 – Panel I, <\/strong>Moderator: Margaret Litvin
\nC. Allen Speight, The ‘Absolute Philosophical Tragedy’: Goethe’s\u00a0Faust\u00a0and its Idealist Readers
\nKyna Hamill, Dance and the\u00a0Burlesquing\u00a0of Hell\u00a0in two\u00a0Temptation of St. <\/em>Anthony<\/em>\u00a0Prints by Jacques Callot (1592-1635)<\/p>\n

9:55-10:10 – Short Break<\/p>\n

10:10-11:15 – Keynote Address: Jane K. Brown, University of Washington
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Irrlichtelieren: Knowledge in Faust<\/em> and in Goethe’s Theory of Color<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

11:15-11:30 – Short Break<\/p>\n

11:30-12:45 – Panel II, <\/strong>Moderator: Catherine Yeh
\nChristopher Ricks, Mephisto and Faustulus: \u201csomewhat rashly\u201d
\nMaria Gapotchenko, Faustian Bargains and Literature under\u00a0Late Socialism: A Case Study
\nJames Schmidt, Four Fausts in Hollywood, 1941-1948<\/p>\n

12:45-1:45 – Lunch<\/p>\n

1:45-3:00 – Panel III, <\/strong>Moderator: J. Keith Vincent
\nCatherine Yeh, Goethe\u2019s Faust in China: Mephistopheles Worshiped
\nMargaret Litvin, Why Mephistopheles Never Became Egyptian
\nRoberta Micallef, A Tale of Two Cities: Turkish Fausts in Cologne and Istanbul<\/p>\n

3:00-3:30 – Coffee Break<\/p>\n

3:30-4:45 – Panel IV <\/strong>Moderator: Ines Garcia de la Puente
\nJames Uden, Gothic Faust
\nYuri Corrigan, Dostoevsky\u2019s\u00a0Faust<\/em>; or, Selling Your Soul in Practice
\nPeter J. Schwartz, Faust as Cyborg; or, Living in Truth<\/p>\n

4:45-5:00 – Short Break<\/p>\n

5:00-6:15 – Panel V, <\/strong>Student Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

6:15-7:15 – Reception to follow at \u00a0745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 625<\/p>\n

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The symposium was preceded, on Friday, April 12, by two performances at the Boston Playwrights’ Theater of the traditional Czech\u00a0Faust<\/span>\u00a0puppet play by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater of New York:<\/p>\n

JOHANNES DOKCHTOR FAUST, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye<\/p>\n

With Multiple Interventions of Otherworld Apparitions and an even more Un-believable finale in which Wretched Faust is carryed to his untymelye End through a substantial Perforation in the Seeling amydst Terripific Firewerk and Dread-full Thunder.<\/p>\n

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Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Boston University Arts Initiative, Boston University Center for the Study of Europe, Core Curriculum, NEH Humanities Professorship, and the Departments of World Languages and Literatures, Romance Studies, English, Classics, Religion, and Philosophy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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