Dear all,
We are delighted to announce that the international conference ‘Romanticism across Borders’ will take place on Monday 24–Tuesday 25 March in Paris, at the Hôtel de Lauzun, home of the Institut d’études avancées de Paris.
The programme can be accessed on the conference website as well as below: https://romanticismacrossborders.com/conference-programme-2/
The conference is free to attend, but it is necessary to register for both in-person and online attendance. In order to register, please fill in the form using the following link: https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/romanticism-across-borders
We hope you can join us for this exciting event!
Felix Duperrier, Pauline Hortolland, and Camille Adnot
Université Paris Cité
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‘Romanticism across Borders’ Conference, 24-25 March 2025
PROGRAMME
Monday 24 March
9h-9h30: Registration / Welcome address
9h30-10h30: Panel 1: Liminal Figures
- 9h30-10h: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck University): Exodus in Pictures: From Single Image to Serial thinking
- 10h-10h30: Elisabeth Ansel (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): Crossing Borders: The Geological and Mythological Imagination of Staffa in British and European Romanticism
10h30-11h00 : coffee break
11h00-13h00 : Panel 2 : Otherness
- 11h00-11h30: Rebekah Musk (Lancaster University): Porous Boundaries: Space, Shorelines and Sexuality in Byron’s Turkish Tales
- 11h30-12h00: Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill University): Romantic Derivativeness, Oriental Tales, and Poetic Attachments
- 12h00-12h30: Fabien Desset (Université de Limoges): “An equal amidst equals”: the Boundary between Human Beings and Animals in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry and Prose
- 12h30-13h00: Andrin Albrecht (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): ‘Full Fathom Five: Breaching the Vertical Border in Romantic Ocean Narratives’
13h00-14h30: lunch break
14h30-16h00: Keynote: Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford): ‘Porous Borders/Border Controls’
16h00-16h30: coffee break
16h30-18h00: Panel 3: Radicalism and its Legacies
- 16h30-17h00: Patrick Vincent (Université de Neuchâtel): Henry Brougham, French Romantic?
- 17h00-17h30: Piper Winkler (Princeton University): “Marriage had bastilled me”: The International Contexts of Wollstonecraft’s Prison Metaphors
- 17h30-18h00: Cal Sutherland (University of Edinburgh): The Girondin of Rydal: Enclosure, Form, and Cross-Border Exchanges in the Later Wordsworth
Conference Dinner at Bouillon Racine, 3 rue Racine, 75006
(end of the first day of the conference)
Tuesday 25 March
9h00-10h30: Panel 4: Blakean Borders
- 9h00-9h30: Michael Demson (Sam Houston State University, Texas): Nationalistic Epics Across International Borders
- 9h30-10h00: Jake Elliott (University of Roehampton): Metropolitan Borders: Blake, London, and the Development of Regent Street
- 10h00-10h30: Silvia Riccardi (Umeå University): Material Borders in Blake’s Manuscripts
10h30-11h00: coffee break
11h00-13h00: Panel 5: Textual Boundaries
- 11h00-11h30: Young-ok An, Adam Bezdicek, Beth Marrinan (University of St. Thomas): Mary Shelley across Borders: Digital Mapping of Shelley’s Novels
- 11h30-12h00: Lewis Roberts (University of Cambridge): “With wild surmise”’: Borders and cognition in Romantic Manuscripts
- 12h00-12h30: Jeremy Elprin (Université de Caen): “I have nothing but my dull self”: Joseph Severn’s Significantly Borderline Correspondence
13h00-14h30: lunch break
14h30-16h00: Panel 6: The Borders of the Novel
- 14h30-15h00: Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto): Scottish Travellers, National Characters, and Cross-Border Storytelling
- 15h00-15h30: James Chandler (University of Chicago): Scott’s “Border Characters”
- 15h30-16h00: Jack Murphy (University of Texas): Novels without Ends: Belinda and the Subjectivity of Compression
16h: Concluding remarks
(end of the second day of the conference)