{"id":5426,"date":"2024-08-01T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2024-08-01T21:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:29:33","slug":"call-for-papers-romanticism-across-borders-international-conference-universite-paris-cite-hotel-de-lauzun-march-24-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5426","title":{"rendered":"CALL FOR PAPERS: Romanticism across Borders International Conference, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9, H\u00f4tel de Lauzun, March 24-25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Rationale:<\/u><\/strong>The concept of \u2018borders\u2019 is integral both to British Romanticism and to Romantic studies. Its centrality is primarily related to the considerable instability which, at the end of the eighteenth century, affected and displaced boundaries on simultaneously geopolitical, scientific, and cultural levels at once. On the one hand, the French and American Revolutions, followed by the Napoleonic wars, disrupted borders in Europe, as well as in the rest of the world, at the same time as the borders between private and public spheres became increasingly porous. These events overlapped with an accelerating imperial expansion, which reshaped the relationship between the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. In parallel, the scientific discoveries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to a profound reorganisation of scientific knowledge. Romantic writers and artists internalised these political and epistemological crises by redefining the disciplinary boundaries. This conference \u2013 which stems from the \u00ab Romanticism Across Borders \u00bb international seminar \u2013 encourages a contextual approach to these media, hence the need to adopt an interdisciplinary perspective on British Romanticism, as well as other Romanticisms.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transdisciplinary focus of the conference aims to strengthen academic ties both within and beyond the community of British Romantic studies. It will therefore encourage participants to adopt transnational, ecocritical, and intermedial perspectives on the concept of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the conference further intends to broaden the periodization of Romanticism, in keeping with recent findings on \u2018Late Romanticism\u2019 and \u2018Romantic Legacies\u2019. This orientation will enable to redefine the temporal boundaries of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts. The conference seeks to involve not only scholars working in Romantic studies, but also specialists in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and it thus welcomes research on the Enlightenment, the Gothic, Victorian studies, and Modernism. This flexible approach to periodisation will render the conference more inclusive from both geographical and historical points of view, especially considering that Romanticisms and their respective boundaries vary according to national literary canons, whose formation reaches back to the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By meshing these approaches to Romanticism, the conference hopes to emphasise and examine anew the profound epistemological transformations, and the ramifications thereof, that originated in the eighteenth century in Europe, and that affected literature, the arts, and the sciences at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Conference :<\/u><\/strong>The conference aims to bring together researchers specializing in Romantic studies, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries more generally.  An extension of an international virtual seminar that has been running since 2022, this conference aims to reinforce ties between academics beyond national borders. Funded by the ‘Paris Oxford Partnership’ and involving scholars from both Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9 and the University of Oxford, it particularly hopes to extend already existing ties between these institutions. The conference will be followed by a collection of essays, achieving a long-term impact by fostering further collaborative partnerships. The theme of borders in the Romantic period, moreover, was originally designed to correspond to the activities of the research group \u2018Fronti\u00e8res du Litt\u00e9raire\u2019 which is part of the LARCA Research Lab at Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9, and of the Paris-Oxford Partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposals should be in the form of 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers<\/strong>. Please include a 100-word biography in your proposal.
Please submit proposals by November 1<\/strong>, 2024 to romanticismacrossborders@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>Topics may include, but are not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n