{"id":5967,"date":"2025-04-24T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:25:04","slug":"registration-open-online-conference-romanticism-and-its-afterlives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5967","title":{"rendered":"Registration Open – Online Conference: ROMANTICISM AND ITS AFTERLIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

22 \u2013 25 May, 2pm-6pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free registration on Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference builds on the recognition that, for a movement that resists easy definitions, Romanticism and its aesthetics have enjoyed a remarkably long life. Indeed, speaking of afterlives may raise the question whether Romanticism has in fact passed away. As Matthew Sangster has recently pointed out, the period retrospectively and hazily called Romanticism is not \u201cover, done with, and transcended.\u201d Cross-temporality seems to be inscribed in the history of the word, when translator and reviewer William Taylor, possibly the first to add \u201cism\u201d to romantic, wrote in the Annual Review<\/em> (1803) of the \u201cromanticisms of speculative philosophy\u201d, thus ushering into English a new concept marked from its birth by plurality and imaginative verve. The novelty was not lost on Lady Sidney Morgan who, in her 1821 study on Italy and contemporaneous aesthetics, embedded it in an animated European debate, by assuring readers that \u201cThe vehemence with which the question of Romanticism has been debated, will have a favourable influence upon the Italians\u201d (Italy<\/em> 2: 140). Writing of romanticisms in 1803 is echoed by twentieth-century scholars\u2019 advancing of plural Romanticisms. As a modifier, \u201cism\u201d endows Romanticism with a movement from the past, through the present and into the future via echoes, influences, revisions, and innovations in contemporary (counter-)cultures. In P. B. Shelley\u2019s words, this conference wishes to explore \u201cthe many-voiced echoes\u201d of Romanticisms and the multitudinous reanimations that highlight their continued relevance in contemporary (counter-)cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong>
Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon):<\/strong>
\u201cWitnessing Distant Suffering: Joe Sacco\u2019s Footnotes in Gaza and Romantic Afterlife\u201d

Eric Eisner (George Mason University):<\/strong>
\u201cRomanticism in Contemporary American Literature\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free registration on Eventbrite<\/a>. A detailed schedule of the conference can be found here<\/a>. For further questions please contact: enit.steiner@unil.ch<\/a>. We look forward to meeting you virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisers: Enit K Steiner, Rachel Falconer, Philip Lindholm, Patrick Vincent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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