The new London-Paris Romanticism Seminar, jointly directed by Professor David Duff (Queen Mary) and Professor Marc Porée (École Normale Superieure/ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), now has a website detailing the programme for the upcoming year and featuring a blog about the seminar’s activities. The upcoming seminars are as follows:
Friday 11 November 2016
Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania)
Re-collection’s Intranquility: Romanticism, Self-Canonization and the Business of Poetry
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)
Friday 9 December 2016 International panel: The Poetics of the Letter
Pamela Clemit (Queen Mary University of London / Wolfson College, Oxford)
Difficult to Make and Difficult to Fake: Signalling in Romantic-Period Letters
Jeremy Elprin (Université de Caen)
‘Qui me néglige me désole’: The Neglected Countenance of Keats’s Letters
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 243 (second floor)
Friday 13 January 2017
Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague)
The Phantasmal Imagination: Biographia Literaria and Continental Philosophy
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Bedford Room/G37 (ground floor)
Friday 10 February 2017
Lynda Pratt (University of Nottingham)
Romanticism and the Culture of Non-Publication
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Bedford Room/G37 (ground floor)
Friday 10 March 2017 International panel: Literature and the Senses
Rowan Boyson (King’s College London)
A Literary History of Sensuousness: Smell, Touch and Romantic Poetry
Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Romantic Strains and Symptoms
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Bedford Room/G37 (ground floor)
Thursday 20-Friday 21 April 2017
PARIS SYMPOSIUM Wordsworth: The French Connection
École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm – details to follow
Friday 12 May 2017
Gregory Dart (University College London)
The Lamb Circle and the Birth of Romantic Practical Criticism
17.30-19.30 Senate House, Bedford Room/G37 (ground floor)