Speakers:
Rainer J. Hanshe
Mark Kanak
Hans-Peter Kunisch
Sarah Corrigan
2-2:15 pm | Mary Shaw: Welcome
2:15-3:30 pm | Rainer Maria Rilke: The Testament (& Other Texts)
Rainer J. Hanshe: The Tower of Solitude: Between the Muses and the World (On Editing Rilke's 'Lost' Testament)
Mark Kanak: Remarks on the Translation
Respondent: Richard Serrano
Coffee Break
3:45-5 pm | Poetics and Politics
Hans-Peter Kunisch: "Non, cher Rilke": On Rilke's Fascination with Mussolini
Sarah Corrigan: Reforming the Elegy: Rilke's Path to the Duino Laments
Respondent: Nicola Behrmann
Reception
Generously sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Departments of German, French, Italian, and English, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Translation Studies Initiative