11.00-1.00:

• Brief welcome (Conference Organiser)
• Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick): 'Nietzsche's Inhuman Futures: Of Monstrous Thoughts'
• Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University): 'Nietzsche and the Future of Morality'

Chair: R.J. Hollingdale (London)

1.00-2.00: Buffet lunch

2.00-3.00:

• Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University): 'Socrates and Nietzsche: The Art of Living and Life as Literature'

Chair: David E. Cooper (University of Durham)

3.00-3.30: Tea

3.30-5.15: Parallel Sessions:

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• Jim Urpeth (University of Greenwich): 'A "Pessimism of Strength": Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime'
• Thomas H. Brobjer (Uppsala Universitet): 'Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future - A Return to Past Ideals?'

Chair: Daniel W. Conway (Penn State University)

• David Midgley (St John's College, Cambridge): 'Speculating in Human Futures: Reflections of Nietzsche's Thought in German Modernist Literature'
• Nicholas Martin (Marbach): 'Nihil obstat: Zarathustra as Prophet of the Future Human'

Chair: Carol Diethe (Middlesex University)

6.15-7.45: Conference Dinner

7.45-9.30:

• Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas, Austin): 'Waves of Uncountable Laughter'
• Laurence Lampert (Indiana University): 'Nietzsche's Best Jokes'

Chair: John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire)

9.45-11.30: Parallel Sessions:

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• Gary Banham (Manchester Metropolitan University): 'Dissonance and the Humanity of the Future'
• Brian Domino (Miami University): 'Nietzsche, Wagner and Stendhal: The Holy Trinity of Decadence'

Chair: Duncan Large (University of Wales, Swansea)

• Peter Poellner (University of Warwick): 'Early Nietzsche and the Transfiguration of Nature'
• Aviezer Tucker (Univerzita Palackeho): 'Nietzsche as the Philosopher of the Twentieth Century: His Reception in the Czech Lands'

Chair: David Owen (University of Southampton)

11.45-1.30:

• Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University): 'The Ethics of the Abyss'
• David Owen (University of Southampton): 'Inhuman, Human and Overhuman: Nietzsche and the Problem of Noble Ethics'

Chair: Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas, Austin)

2.30-4.15:

• Daniel W. Conway (Penn State University): 'Nietzsche's Dangerous Game'
• Richard Beardsworth (American University of Paris): 'Nietzsche and the Contemporary Fate of the Democratic State'

Chair: Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick)

4.30-5.00: Round-table discussion

5.00: Depart

All sessions to be held in P6 (Professional Block); parallel sessions in rooms P100 and P101.