Programme

All seminars in 2023-24 will be held in person in the Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor), Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.  

Seminars are free and open to everyone, including postgraduates and members of the public. Registration is not required – just show up and you will be made welcome.

 

Friday 20 October 2023

Mathelinda Nabugodi (University College London)

Wordsworth’s Tea Cup: Sugar, Slavery and Taste

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 

Friday 10 November 2023

Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Relaunching Drury Lane; or, The Byronic Amphitheatre of Poetry, Press and Provocation

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 

Friday 26 January 2024

Joanna Wharton (University of York)

Maria Edgeworth’s Telegraphic Fictions

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 

Friday 23 February 2024

Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)

Mainstreams and Margins: Libraries, Borrowing and Reading in Romantic-Period Scotland

Chair: Gregory Dart

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

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Friday 22 March 2024

Ewan Jones (University of Cambridge)

Habits of Inattention in Romantic Literature

Chair: Rowan Boyson

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 

Friday 26 April 2024

Sara Lodge (University of St Andrews)

Displaced Subjects: Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb, and the Vagrant Body

Chair: Gregory Dart

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 

Friday 17 May 2024

Brecht de Groote (Ghent University)

Pseudotranslation, Covert Translation and Mediation in British Romanticism

Respondent: Laurent Folliot (Sorbonne University, Paris)

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)

 


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2022-23 programme

 

Friday 18 November 2022

Robbie Richardson (Princeton University)

Etuaptmumk, or, Two-Eyed Seeing: Sympathy, Relationality, and Collecting the Dead in the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Rowan Boyson

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G4 (ground floor)

 

Friday 9-Saturday 10 December 2022

Paris symposium: Oaths, Odes and Orations 1789-1830

Sorbonne Université and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

 

Friday 27 January 2023

Felicity James (University of Leicester) with Crystal Biggin (Leicester)

Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and the Godwins’ Juvenile Library

Chair: Gregory Dart

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G4 (ground floor)

 

Friday 24 February 2023

Cian Duffy (Lund University)

Travelling North: British Romanticism and Denmark

Chair: Michael Simpson

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G4 (ground floor)

 

Friday 24 March 2023

Daisy Hay (University of Exeter)

Writing a Revolutionary Age in Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Chair: Rowan Boyson

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G4 (ground floor)

 

Friday 21 April 2023 (ONLINE SEMINAR)

Kate Rigby (University of Cologne)

Sympoesie: Augmentation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom

 

Friday 19 May 2023

Kimberley Page-Jones (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest)

‘Donnez les spectateurs en spectacle: rendez les acteurs eux-mêmes’: Revolutions, Fêtes and Festivals in Romantic Culture

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G4 (ground floor)

 


2021-22 programme

 

Friday 22 October 2021

Robert Morrison (Bath Spa University/ Queen’s, Ontario)

Sex and the Regency: Love, Rakery, and Respectability

Chair: Gregory Dart

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom

 

Friday 19 November 2021

Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal)

Slow Time: Romanticism, Media, and Mobility

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom

 

Friday 10 December 2021

Susan Oliver (University of Essex)

Elemental Romanticism: Scott and the Transcendentalists

Chair: Rowan Boyson

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom

 

Friday 28 January  2022

Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)

Keats at Home

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom

 

Friday 25 February 2022

International panel: Caribbean Romanticism

Emily Senior (Birkbeck, University of London)

“Nurse Flora, in Jamaica” and her Afterlives 

Nicole Aljoe (Northeastern University)

A Secret History of the Sable Venus: Digital Analysis, Narrative Authority, and the Discourses of Race in European Novels with Afro-Caribbean Female Protagonists, 1808-1827

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom

 

Friday 29 April 2022

Jon Mee (University of York)

The Transpennine Enlightenment: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in an Industrial Revolution, 1781-1832

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom

 

Friday 17 June 2022 (new date)

Deidre Lynch (Harvard University)

Charles Lamb’s Paperwork

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom

 


2020-21 programme

 

Friday 23 October 2020

Online panel event: Environmental Humanities and Romanticism

Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)

Romantic Ecocriticism and the Industrial Revolution 

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)

Mourning the Daisy’s Fate: Ruin, Recovery and Romanticism

Chair: Rowan Boyson

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1)

 

Friday 20 November 2020

Online international panel: Romantic Paper Arts

Heather Hyde Minor (University of Notre Dame)

Piranesi’s Trash

Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago)

The Violent Potency of Paper: Romantic Scherenschnitte

Chair: Luisa Calè

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) via Zoom

 

Friday 19 February 2021                                                                

Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)

‘Werry romantic…among these Mountains & Lakes’: John Keats and the Highland Tour

Chair: Gregory Dart

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) via Zoom

Click here for a recording of this talk

 

Friday 16 April 2021

Jane Stabler (University of St Andrews)

Down and Out in Paris and London: The Unseen, the Unsaid, and the Unsayable in Byron’s Manuscripts

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom

 

Friday 21 May 2021

International panel: Romantic Salons and Salonnières

Susanne Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin)

Travellers, Publishers and Lions: International Contacts and the Countess of Blessington’s Salons

Carmen Casaliggi (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

Germaine de Staël and Ugo Foscolo at Holland House

Chair: David Duff

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom

 


2019-20 programme

 

Friday 18 October 2019

Timothy Webb (University of Bristol)

Leigh Hunt and ‘Romantic’ Imprisonment

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 15 November 2019

International panel: British Responses to the 1830 Revolution in France

Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)

How to Do Revolution: Three Glorious Days in a Caricature Magazine

James Grande (King’s College London)

Cobbett, Captain Swing and the July Revolution

Respondent: Laurent Folliot (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 13 December 2019

Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales)

A Welsh Bard Walking: Pedestrianism, Place and Politics in 1802

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 24 January 2020

Claire Connolly (University College Cork)

The Impending Era: Irish Romanticism Before and After the Famine

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 28 February 2020 (please note change of date)

Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford)

Self-Reflexive Revolutions

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 20 March 2020

Tilar Mazzeo (University of Montreal)

William Blake, Batty Langley, and the Builder’s Jewel

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

CANCELLED

 

Friday 3-Saturday 4 April 2020

Paris symposium: Oaths, Odes and Orations 1789-1830

Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris

POSTPONED

 

Friday 15 May 2020

International panel: Romantic Salons and Salonnières

Susanne Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin)

Travellers, Publishers and Lions: International Contacts and the Countess of Blessington’s Salons

Carmen Casaliggi (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

Germaine de Staël and Ugo Foscolo at Holland House

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

POSTPONED

 


2018-19 programme

 

Friday 19 October 2018

Marc Porée (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

A Grammar of Surprise

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 16 November 2018

Mina Gorji (University of Cambridge)

Romantic Listening: John Clare’s Sympathetic Ear

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 30 November 2018 

Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto)

Performance and Print Culture in the 1820s: Speculation, Improvisation, Identity

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)

 

Friday 18 January 2019

Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley)

The Romantic Novel and the Natural History of Man: Goethe, Staël, Scott

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 8 February 2019

Tom Mole (University of Edinburgh)

Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning

17.30-19.30  Senate House, G37 (ground floor)

 

Friday 1 March 2019

David Duff and others

New Directions in Romantic Scholarship: An international book launch

17.30-20.30  Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)

 

Friday 15 March 2019

International panel: Keats and France

Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble-Alpes)

Keats’s Frenchness

Emily Rohrbach (University of Manchester)

Reading Keats with Rancière

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 26 April 2019

Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago)

Anna Letitia Barbauld, the Book, and the World

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 17 May 2019

Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph)

Whither Shakespeare?: Reynolds, Siddons, and the Post-American Repertoire

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 7 June 2019

Romanticism at the Royal Institution

Speakers: David Duff, Frank James, Hattie Lloyd, Seamus Perry, Sharon Ruston, Sarah Zimmerman

14.00-20.00  The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London  W1S 2BS

Symposium in partnership with the Fordham Romanticism Group, New York, Queen Mary University of London, and the Royal Institution, London

 


2017-18 programme

 

Friday 20 October 2017

Diego Saglia (University of Parma)

The Cross-Channel Stage: Transnational Theatre in the Age of Romanticism

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Court Room (first floor)

 

Friday 17 November 2017

Laurent Folliot (University of Paris-Sorbonne)

Coleridge and Myriad-Mindedness

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)

 

Friday 8 December 2017

International panel: Byron and Romantic Realism

Richard Lansdown (University of Groningen)

Novelistic Realism in the English Cantos of Don Juan

Rosa Mucignat (King’s College London)

Byron and Realist Time-Space: Metonymy and the Chronotope in Childe Harold Canto IV

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Room G3 (ground floor)

 

Friday 19 January 2018 

Sarah Haggarty (University of Cambridge)

Blake’s Newton and Romantic Geometry

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 16 February 2018

International panel: Henry Crabb Robinson and his European Romantic Circle

James Vigus (Queen Mary University of London)

Crabb Robinson, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Staël’s Corinne, Or Italy

Philipp Hunnekuhl (University of Hamburg)

Critical Dissemination: Kant, Hazlitt, and Crabb Robinson

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 16 March 2018

Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto)

Theatrical Improvisation and Periodical Culture: London and Paris, 1824

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

 

Thursday 12 – Friday 13 April 2018

PARIS SYMPOSIUM – Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London

Friday 18 May 2018  

International Panel: The Romantic Lecture and Its Institutions

Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham University, New York)

The Romantic Literary Lecture: A Short History

Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)

John Thelwall and the Uses of Oratory

17.30-19.30   Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)

 


2016-17 programme

 

Friday 21 October 2016           Launch event

Christoph Bode (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)

De L’Allemagne with Love: English Bards and European Theorists

Opening reception with special guest Marc Porée (Paris)

17.30-20.30     Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 11 November 2016 

Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania)

Re-collection’s Intranquility: Romanticism, Self-Canonization and the Business of Poetry

17.30-19.30     Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 9 December 2016      

International panel: The Poetics of the Letter

Pamela Clemit (Queen Mary University of London / Wolfson College, Oxford)

Difficult to Make and Difficult to Fake: Signalling in Romantic-Period Letters

Jeremy Elprin (Université de Caen)

‘Qui me néglige me désole’: The Neglected Countenance of Keats’s Letters

17.30-20.30     Senate House, Woburn Room/G22 (ground floor)

 

Friday 13 January 2017

Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague)

The Phantasmal Imagination: Biographia Literaria and Continental Philosophy

17.30-19.30     Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 10 February 2017

Lynda Pratt (University of Nottingham)

Romanticism and the Culture of Non-Publication

17.30-19.30     Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 10 March 2017

International panel: Literature and the Senses

Rowan Boyson (King’s College London)

Common Airs: Sensuality, Smell and Freedom in Romantic Writing c.1798-1805

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli (Université de Lille / Institut Universitaire de France)

Sentient Matter: Sight and Sound in Shelley’s Last Poems

17.30-19.30     Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Thursday 20-Friday 21 April 2017 

PARIS SYMPOSIUM      Wordsworth: The French Connection

École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm  – click here for cfp 

 

Friday 12 May 2017

Gregory Dart (University College London)

The Lamb Circle and the Birth of Romantic Practical Criticism

17.30-19.30   Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)

 

Friday 16 June 2017

Heidi Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington)

Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: Private Woes and Public Media

17.30-19.30       Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/G35 (ground floor)