Wagner and Nietzsche - Dublin Conference

Organizers

• Brian O’Connor, Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
• Josh Torabi, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, School of English, Trinity College Dublin

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Wagner / Nietzsche – Dublin Conference
28-29 May, 2024 – NUI Merrion Square
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DAY ONE

WELCOME – 09:25– 09:30

09:30 – 10:15
Ben Craik (University of Cambridge) The Wrong Reich: Federalism and Artistic Rebirth in Wagner and Nietzsche before 1871

10:15 – 11:00
Nour Hariri (Independent Scholar, Berlin) Towards a Wagnerian Future

BREAK (15 minutes)

11:15 – 12:00
Martine Prange (Tilburg University) The Public Case of Wagner: Nietzsche and the Bayreuther Blätter

12:00 – 12:45
Hugh Ridley (University College Dublin) “Do be my enemy for friendship’s sake” – affinity and aversion in the Wagner circles

LUNCH (45 minutes)

13:30 – 14:15
Brian O’Connor (University College Dublin) Wagner contra Nietzsche

14:15 – 15:00
Thomas Sukopp (Universität Siegen) Nietzsche on Wagner’s misunderstanding of Schopenhauer in Aphorism 99 of The Gay Science

BREAK (15 minutes)

15:15 – 16:00
Tom Stern (University College London) Nietzsche, Wagner and Decadence: Another Look

16:00 – 16:45
Jonathan R. Cohen (Bates College) Why Does Nietzsche Like Bizet?

Drinks / Dinner
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DAY TWO

09:30 – 10:15
Jozef Majerník (Slovak Academy of Sciences) The Ethical Potential of Wagner's Art in “Richard Wagner in Bayreuth”

10:15 – 11:00
Rebecca Bamford (Queen’s University Belfast) Visions of the future through music: Nietzsche, Wagner, and Mendelssohn

BREAK (15 minutes)

11:15 – 12:00
Mark Berry (Royal Holloway, University of London) Bounds and Nature of Authority: Critical Staging of Lohengrin and the Ring

12:00 – 12:45
Josh Torabi (Trinity College Dublin) Philosophy of Universal Music: Aesthetic Intersections Between Wagner, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer

LUNCH (45 minutes)

13:30 – 14:15
Tilman Williams (Universität der Künste Berlin) “All great things perish through themselves”: The concept of ‘self-dissolution’ in the thinking of Nietzsche, Schoenberg (and Wagner)

14:15 – 15:00
Pier Alberto Porceddu Cilione (Università degli Studi di Verona) Nietzsche, Wagner, and the Dynamic Dimension in Music

BREAK (15 minutes)

15:15 – 16:00
James Leigh (The Open University) “Zarathustra’s last solitude – overcoming the magician” – Nietzsche and the lyric. How do the Dithyrambs of Dionysus demonstrate the outworking of Nietzsche’s break with Wagner?

16:00 – 16:45
Ryan Corneille (Trinity College Dublin) Symphony and Sympathy: Music as a Metaphysical Paradigm in Nietzsche's Nachlass

CONFERENCE ENDS

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