Most of our seminars in 2021-22 will be held online, but we are hoping to have two in-person seminars in Senate House with video link via Zoom.
All seminars are free and open to the public. Prior booking is required. Click here to register via the Institute of English Studies website.
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
Click here for further details
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)
Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35) and 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)
Anecdotal Evidence: Scientific Stories on the Global Plantation
Nicole Aljoe (Northwestern University)
Representations of 18th-century Caribbean Creole Women in Colonial Archives
Chair: Luisa Calè
17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom
Friday 25 – Saturday 26 March 2022
Paris Symposium: Oaths, Odes and Orations 1789-1830
Paris-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure
Friday 29 April 2022
Jon Mee (University of York)
The TransPennine Enlightenment: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in an Industrial Revolution, 1781-1832
Chair: Gregory Dart
17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1)
Venue tbc and on Zoom
Friday 27 May 2022
Deidre Lynch (Harvard University)
Title tbc
Chair: Luisa Calè
17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom
PREVIOUS SEMINAR SERIES
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
CANCELLED
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)
CANCELLED
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)