BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260510T052952Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250718T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250718T130000 SUMMARY:Goethe and the Challenge of Representing Metamorphosis UID:20260517T181934Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Westspitze 1\, Tuebingen\, Germany\, 72074 DESCRIPTION:

While laying \;the foundations of his new science of morphology\, Goethe highlighted the unique metamorphoses of organismal forms\, observing that &ldquo\;we will discover that nothing in them is permanent\, nothing is at rest or defined&mdash\;everything is in a flux of continual motion.&rdquo\; In Goethe&rsquo\;s experience\, the only way to gain an understanding of these dynamic beings&rsquo\; formation is to accompany organisms through their transformations\; to understand temporal beings\, one must spend time with them. Patience\, discipline\, and tenderness&ndash\;Goethe contended&ndash\;are necessary habits one must cultivate in order to combat a &ldquo\;hastiness&rdquo\; that often leads us to equate organisms with their reproductive adult forms\, or with their place or function within a divine\, natural\, or organizational system. Goethe also lamented how rare and difficult it is for language or art to capture or &ldquo\;write&rdquo\; the motion of life. In this paper\, I will explore how Goethe&rsquo\;s works about organisms\, and his works about studying organisms \;might be considered early experimental works of &ldquo\;cinematography.&rdquo\; From his methodological treatises to his scientific essays to his poetry\, Goethe creatively assembled new expressive devices to depict and describe the fundamental dynamics of organisms&ndash\;that is\, he laboured to write (grá\;phein) their motion (kí\;nēma). In the course of the paper\, I will demonstrate how expressing organisms&rsquo\; fundamental temporality remains a challenge today\, and will also demonstrate some surprising links between Goethe&rsquo\;s cinematography and the birth of modern cinema.

ORGANIZER;CN=Christoph J. Hueck;CN=Dalia Nassar: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR