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Aeneas
 
HEROES LEAVE THEIR SHORES:
EXILE, LOSS, AND THE DYNAMICS
OF ARTISTIC CREATION

Saturday, December 8, 2001
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall

8:30-9:00

Registration & Coffee

9:00-9:05

Welcome
Thomas Crow, Director, Getty Research Institute

9:05-9:10

Opening
Nancy van Deusen, Conference Organizer
Claremont All-College Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

9:10-9:30

Introductory Statement & Speaker Introduction
Paul Holdengräber, Guest Moderator, Director, Institute for Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

   

Session III:

Intellectuals in Exile and the Production of Art

   

9:30-10:00

"Intellectuals in Exile, 1933 - 1946"
Konstanza, Prinzessin zu Loewenstein, Wissenschafts Zentrum Berlin

10:00-10:30

"Refugees from Hitler's Germany: The Creative Elite and Its Middle-Class Audience in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s-Film Noir and Orders of 'Sunny-Side Up'"
Michael Meyer, History, California State University, Northridge

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:15

"Adorno in Proximity to Hollywood: The Splinter in Your Eye Is the Best Magnifying Glass"
Richard Leppert, Humanities, University of Minnesota

11:45-12:30

Moderated Discussion

12:30-1:45

Lunch

   

Session IV:

Internal and External Exile: Salvaging Artistic Autonomy

   

1:45-2:15

"Following the Pillar of Fire: From Loss of Language to Artistic Expression"
Junko Chodos, Artist, Los Angeles

2:45-3:30

"Exiled at Home: Schoenberg as Painter"
Esther da Costa-Meyer, Art History, Princeton University

   

Session V:

Performance-Lecture
Harold M. Williams Auditorium

   

4:00-6:00

"The Uprooting of European Modernism and Its Replacement in America"
Performance and Lecture by Charles Rosen, Pianist, Scholar, and Writer, New York

6:00-7:30

Reception: Registered Conference Participants Only
Getty Center Private Dinning Room (conference badges must be presented for entry)



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Related Programming in the Los Angeles area:

Roundtable:
Arnold Schoenberg: His Music, His Time, His Legacy
Saturday, December 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades
For information and reservations call: 310-454-4231

Film Screening
Hakenkreuz und Goetterfunken: Furtwaengler's Case (in English), and films of exiles in Los Angeles 1933-1946
Tuesday, December 4, 8 p.m., Goethe Institute, Los Angeles
For information and reservations call: 323-525-3388

Symposium Opening Reception and Program
Exiles and Children of Exiles
Thursday, December 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades
For information and reservations call: 310-454-4231

Concerts
Max Raabe: Songs of Love and Exile, the Songs of Walter Jurmann
Friday, December 7, 8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
For information and reservations call: 310-825-1880

Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron
Sunday, December 9, 8 p.m., Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
For information and reservations call: 213-972-7211.

Artist Presentation
Brunch and Conversation with Artist Junko Chodos
Sunday, December 9, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Long Beach Museum of Art
For information and reservations call: Claremont Consortium 909-621-8081

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