Our digital symposium on ‘Global Romanticism’ will be held on 23rd July. This event will showcase current research on Romanticism by bringing together speakers from different parts of the world, each addressing different areas of Romantic writing, its production and intercultural connections. We welcome participants worldwide to share how they conceptualize, build up, approach, or delineate Romanticism in their culture.
Panel 1 (09:30-10:30) – Romanticism Across Cultures
Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, “Dark Romanticism and its Indian Afterlives: A Case Study of Two Contemporary Indian Horror Films”
Bhawana Sharma, “P.B. Shelley: A Poet of Crisis, Pandemic, and Psychological Miswant”
Hsiang-Yun Rae Yang, “Localising Jane Austen’s Irony: Pride and Prejudice in Taiyu”
Panel 2 (11:00-12:00) – British Romanticism Abroad
Dilara Kalkan, “Byron’s Ottoman Impressions: Cultural and Religious Encounters in The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos”
Tanja Bakic, “The Reception of the British Romantic Poetry in the Serbo-Croatian-Speaking Region”
Aishah Al-Shatti, “Teaching Joanna Baillie’s ‘Lines to a Teapot’”
BREAK (12:00-16:30)
Panel 3 (16:30-17:30) – Digital and Media Perspectives
Alexander Huber, “Exploring Global Romantic-Period Poetry Digitally: The Romantic-Period Poetry Archive (RPPA)”
Miranda Burgess, “Media History at Yuquot, 1778 to the Present”
Roundtable (18:00-19:30) – Romantic Studies in South America
Jerónimo Ledesma, “Dupuis and Cotonet For Ever! On the Impact of Translation and Editing on Definitions of Romanticism”
Daniela Paolini, “Tracing Romantic Connections between Britain and Argentina: A Case of Transatlantic Cultural Study”
Gabriel Pascansky, “On the Concept of Dilettantism in Literary Historiography. The German Romantics and the Argentine Generation of 1880”
Mario Rucavado Rojas, “On the Illusion of a Timeless Romanticism in Midcentury Argentina”
Pablo San Martín Varela, “Hume and Herder on Ossian: Literature and Nationhood”