Organizer: Yu-Hung Tien (University of Edinburgh, UK)
In 2023, BARS ran a Digital Event titled “The Pandemic and Romantic Pedagogy in Asia.” Featuring speakers based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia, this event explored how Romanticism, and British Romanticism more specifically, was taught and received in certain parts of the world during the pandemic. But how can we approach Romanticism and its legacy more globally? Exploring how British Romanticism is transmitted and received interculturally, as the 2023 event discussed, is one way, but there are many others. To better understand Romanticism’s transcultural potency, it is essential for us to elucidate further how the idea of Romanticism and Romantic writing is produced/shaped (inter)culturally through different lenses. In this spirit, this digital symposium “Global Romanticism,” which will be held on 23rd July, welcomes participants from all over the world to broaden our understanding of Romantic writing as a product of intercultural comingling. In light of the urgency of decolonization, this event expects to bring to our attention Romantic writers and concepts that remain underrepresented in the predominant Western context. It also encourages students from different parts of the world to share how they approach Romanticism in their cultural context. Overall, this symposium aims to diversify our understanding of what Global Romanticism can be.
We invite proposals for ten-minute presentations on the symposium theme. If you are interested, please submit a 150-word abstract by 16th May, through this form: https://forms.gle/J1n29edT1ZT16tBF6
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- How to (re)define/(re)conceptualize Global Romanticism?
- The role of Romantic study in decolonization
- Transcultural components/elements enmeshed in Romantic writing
- Romanticism’s transnational/transcultural legacies
- Intercultural allusions/echoes/engagement in Romantic writing
- The transcultural formulation of Romanticism
- Representative yet underrepresented Romantic concepts/writers in any culture
- Romantic Pedagogy in any part of the world
- Comparative approach to Romantic Pedagogy (Lecturers who have taught, or students who have studied, in different countries are particularly all welcome)
- The perception of Romanticism in different disciplines (A transdisciplinary approach to this topic is especially welcome)
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