14th International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism
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Thursday, October 6
14.00 - 14.30 Opening/Welcome Addresses
14.30 - 15.30 Keynote: Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University): "Otherwise in London": Modernity and Estrangement in the Romantic Cityscape
Chair: Jens Martin Gurr
15.30 - 15.45 COFFEE
15.45 - 17.00 Panel I: "Walking London"
Chair: Fred Burwick
Rolf Lessenich (University of Bonn): Charles Lamb's London Wanderlust
Markus Poetzsch (Wilfried Laurier University, Waterloo): Leigh Hunt's Pedestrian "Townosophy": Reading London on Two Feet
17.15 - 18.30 Panel II: "Print Culture"
Chair: Angela Esterhammer
Anthony John Harding (University of Saskatchewan): The London Magazine and the Metropolitan Reader in the 1820s
Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest): 'No chimney half so foul appears, as doth the human heart": (S)weeping the City Clean from Blake to Popular Culture
18.30 - 19.30 DINNER
Friday, October 7
9.15 - 11.15 Panel III: "London in Performance"
Chair: Katharina Rennhak
Frederick Burwick (University of California, Los Angeles): Tom and Jerry: or, Life in London: Urban Representations and Mirror Reflections
Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich): Representing Character in Late-Romantic Urban Performance and Print Culture
Christina Lai (University College London): Romanticism and the Eclectic City
11.30 - 12.30 Keynote: Kevin Gilmartin (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena): Country and City in Romanticism's Evangelical Revival
Chair: Jens Martin Gurr
12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 15.15 Panel IV: "Wordsworth I"
Chair: Pascal Fischer
Mark Bruhn (Regis University, Denver):"The Suburbs of the Mind": Wordsworth's Cambridge and the City Within
Martina Domines Veliki (University of Zagreb): Wordsworthian London - (Re)Configurations of the Metropolis
15.15 - 15.45 COFFEE
15.45 - 17.00 Panel V: "Wordsworth II"
Chair: Sebastian Domsch
Norbert Lennartz: (University of Vechta): "Thou monstrous ant-hill" - Images of London and Romantic Concepts of Liminality
Heike Grundmann (University of Heidelberg): From London to Brooklyn - Representing the City in Wordsworth and Whitman
17.15 - 18.15 Keynote: Kiyoshi Nishiyama (Waseda University, Tokyo): A Cityscape to One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
Chair: Christoph Bode
18.15 - 19.30 DINNER
20.00 Concert: Nadja Wuchinger, Soprano; Hye-Jin Kwon, Piano
Saturday, October 8
9.00 - 10.15 Panel VI: "The Continental City I"
Chair: Gerold Sedlmayr
Hans Werner Breunig (University of Magdeburg): English Tourism in 19th-Century Literature: Hamburg, Cologne and the Oddity of German Cities
Miroslawa Modrzewska (University of Gdańsk): "Cauldron's bubble": A Theatrical Image of Venice in G. G. Byron's 'Beppo'
10.30 - 11.45 Panel VII: "The Continental City II"
Chair: Jens Martin Gurr
Patricia Plummer (University of Duisburg-Essen): "More than I could dream": Romantic Representations of Constantinople
Cian Duffy (Saint Mary's University College, London): "Nothing in the world can equal such a scene": Istanbul and the Romantic Sublime
11.45 - 12.45 Keynote: Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley) Human Habitats: The City and the Form of Man
Chair: Christoph Bode
12.45 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 16.00 Panel VIII: "(Sub-)Urban Politics in Romantic Writing"
Chair: Michael Meyer
Pascal Fischer (University of Würzburg): The City in the Anti-Jacobin Novel: A Place of Taste and Terror
Kate Scarth (University of Warwick): Emergent Suburban Spaces in Jane Austen's Emma
Katharina Rennhak (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Romantic Dublin and the Politics of an Irish Cityscape
16.00 - 16.30 COFFEE
16.30 Departure for "Zeche Zollverein"
Sunday, October 9
9.00 - 10.15 Panel IX: "Urban and Mental Spaces I"
Chair: Frank Erik Pointner
Torsten Caeners (University of Duisburg-Essen): "Ruddy Morn" and "Ruddy Housemaids" - Urban Space as a Place of Romantic Imagination in Mary Robinson's 'London's Summer Morning'
Gerold Sedlmayr (University of Würzburg): The City as "Hot-bed for the Passions": Romantic Urbanity and the Discourse of Hygiene
10.30 - 11.45 Panel X: "Urban and Mental Spaces II"
Chair: Christoph Reinfandt Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario): "one ample cemetery": De Quincey and the Urban Space of Moral Management
Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario): "The Two Slopes of Literature": Poetry After Urbanization in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats
11.45 - 12.45 Keynote: Drummond Bone (Balliol College, Oxford): Art and Nature: The City in Byron's Prose
Chair: Frank Erik Pointner
12.45 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 General Meeting of the Society