{"id":50,"date":"2016-08-13T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:38:01","slug":"programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

All seminars in 2025-26 will be held in Room 349 (third floor) in Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Please ask at the foyer for directions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday 17 October 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Timothy Milnes (University of Edinburgh)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vomit from the Abysm: Shelley, Waste, and the Sublime<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 14 November 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Fairclough (University of York)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 30 January 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Luisa Cal\u00e8\u00a0(Birkbeck, University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Detached Pieces, Loose Leaves and the Poetics of the Unbound Book<\/em><\/p>\n

Respondent: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 6 March 2026 [***POSTPONED TILL NEXT YEAR***]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Julia Carlson (University of Cincinatti)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfolding Thomas Clarkson\u2019s Map of Abolition: Romantic Movements, Media History, and the Book<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 10 April 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

International panel: Love and the Posthumous in P. B. Shelley<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pauline Hortolland (Universit\u00e9 de Franche-Comt\u00e9) and Merrilees Roberts (University of Cambridge)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 8 May 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

International panel:\u00a0Romantic Wales and Empire: Inside and Out<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rhys Kaminski-Jones (University of Wales Trinity St David) and Timothy Heimlich (Duke University)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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PREVIOUS SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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2024-25 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 18 October 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Book that Nobody Reads: Leigh Hunt\u2019s <\/em>Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (1828)<\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 243 (second floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 15 November 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shelley\u2019s Plastic Greek<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Isobel Hurst<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 243 (second floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 13 December 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Katharina Boehm (University of Passau)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPregnant materials for future times\u201d: Antiquarian Conjecturing, Material Culture, and the Historical Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 24 January 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romantic Engines<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 21 February 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goethe\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Winckelmann: Puzzling Through a Consequential Classic<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 21 March 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Roberts (Queen’s University Belfast)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagining China in Romantic-Period Magazines<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 2 May 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Denlinger (New York Public Library)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What Trade Shall I Be?” Career Choices and Children’s Culture in the Romantic Age<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PARIS SYMPOSIUM: Romantic Shock and Surprise<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sorbonne Universit\u00e9<\/p>\n

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2023-24 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 20 October 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mathelinda Nabugodi (University College London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wordsworth’s Tea Cup: Sugar, Slavery and Taste<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 10 November 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relaunching Drury Lane; or, The Byronic Amphitheatre of Poetry, Press and Provocation<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 26 January 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Joanna Wharton (University of York)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Edgeworth’s Telegraphic Fictions<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 23 February 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mainstreams and Margins: Libraries, Borrowing and Reading in Romantic-Period Scotland<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 22 March 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ewan Jones (University of Cambridge)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Habits of Inattention in Romantic Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 26 April 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sara Lodge (University of St Andrews)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Displaced Subjects: Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb, and the Vagrant Body<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 17 May 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Brecht de Groote (Ghent University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat Which is Unseen, Shines the Brighter\u201d: Pseudotranslation and Mediation in British Romanticism.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Respondent: Laurent Folliot (Sorbonne University, Paris)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor)<\/p>\n

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2022-23 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 18 November 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Robbie Richardson<\/strong> (Princeton University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Etuaptmumk, or, Two-Eyed Seeing: Sympathy, Relationality, and Collecting the Dead in the Eighteenth Century<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G4\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 9-Saturday 10 December 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

PARIS SYMPOSIUM: Oaths, Odes and Orations 1789-1830<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 and Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure<\/p>\n

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Friday 27 January 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Felicity James (University of Leicester) <\/strong>with Crystal Biggin<\/strong> (Leicester)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles and Mary Lamb\u2019s<\/em> Tales from Shakespeare and the Godwins\u2019 Juvenile Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G4\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 24 February 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Cian Duffy<\/strong> (Lund University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travelling North: British Romanticism and Denmark<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Michael Simpson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G4\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 24 March 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Daisy Hay<\/strong> (University of Exeter)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing a Revolutionary Age in <\/em>Dinner with Joseph Johnson<\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G4\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 21 April 2023 (ONLINE)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kate Rigby (University of Cologne)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sympoesie: Augmentation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 19 May 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kimberley Page-Jones (Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest)<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Donnez les spectateurs en spectacle: rendez les acteurs eux-m\u00eames’: Revolutions,<\/em> F\u00eates and Festivals in Romantic Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G4\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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2021-22 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 22 October 2021 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Morrison (Bath Spa University\/ Queen’s, Ontario)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sex and the Regency: Love, Rakery, and Respectability<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 19 November 2021 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow Time: Romanticism, Media, and Mobility<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 10 December 2021 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Susan Oliver (University of Essex)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elemental Romanticism: Scott and the Transcendentalists<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 28 January\u00a0 2022 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keats at Home<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 25 February 2022 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

International panel: Caribbean Romanticism<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Senior (Birkbeck, University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Nurse Flora, in Jamaica\u201d and her Afterlives\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Aljoe (Northeastern University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Secret History of the Sable Venus: Digital Analysis, Narrative Authority, and the Discourses of Race<\/em>\u00a0in European Novels with Afro-Caribbean Female Protagonists, 1808-1827<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 29 April 2022 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Mee (University of York)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Transpennine Enlightenment: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in an Industrial Revolution, 1781-1832<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 17 June 2022 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deidre Lynch (Harvard University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Lamb’s Paperwork<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) on Zoom<\/p>\n

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2020-21 programme<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday 23 October 2020 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel event: Environmental Humanities and Romanticism<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romantic Ecocriticism and the Industrial Revolution\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mourning the Daisy’s Fate: Ruin, Recovery and Romanticism <\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Rowan Boyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1)<\/p>\n

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Friday 20 November 2020 (ONLINE)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

International panel: Romantic Paper Arts<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heather Hyde Minor (University of Notre Dame)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piranesi\u2019s Trash<\/em><\/p>\n

Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Violent Potency of Paper: Romantic <\/em>Scherenschnitte<\/p>\n

Chair: Luisa Cal\u00e8<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) via Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 19 February 2021<\/strong> <\/span>(ONLINE)<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Werry romantic…among these Mountains & Lakes\u2019: John Keats and the Highland Tour<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Gregory Dart<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT) via Zoom<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> for a recording of this talk<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 16 April 2021 (ONLINE)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jane Stabler (University of St Andrews)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down and Out in Paris and London: The Unseen, the Unsaid, and the Unsayable in Byron\u2019s Manuscripts<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom<\/p>\n

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Friday 21 May 2021 (ONLINE)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

International panel: Romantic <\/em>Salons and Salonni\u00e8res<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Susanne Schmid (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travellers, Publishers and Lions: International Contacts and the Countess of Blessington\u2019s Salons<\/em><\/p>\n

Carmen Casaliggi (Cardiff Metropolitan University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germaine de Sta\u00ebl and Ugo Foscolo at Holland House<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: David Duff<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1) via Zoom<\/p>\n

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2019-20 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 18 October 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Timothy Webb (University of Bristol)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leigh Hunt and \u2018Romantic\u2019 Imprisonment<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 15 November 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

International panel:<\/strong> British Responses to the 1830 Revolution in France<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to Do Revolution: Three Glorious Days in a Caricature Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

James Grande (King\u2019s College London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cobbett, Captain Swing and the July Revolution<\/em><\/p>\n

Respondent: Laurent Folliot (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sorbonne)<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 13 December 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Welsh Bard Walking: Pedestrianism, Place and Politics in 1802<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 24 January 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Claire Connolly (University College Cork)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Impending Era: Irish Romanticism Before and After the Famine<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 28 February 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Self-Reflexive Revolutions<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 20 March 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tilar Mazzeo (University of Montreal)<\/strong><\/p>\n

William Blake, Batty Langley, and the Builder’s Jewel<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

CANCELLED<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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2018-19 programme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday 19 October 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Marc Por\u00e9e (Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Grammar of Surprise<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 16 November 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mina Gorji (University of Cambridge)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romantic Listening: <\/em>John Clare’s Sympathetic Ear<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 30 November 2018<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance and Print Culture in the 1820s: Speculation, Improvisation, Identity<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 18 January 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Romantic Novel and the Natural History of Man: Goethe, Sta\u00ebl, Scott<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 8 February 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Mole (University of Edinburgh)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, G37 (ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 1 March 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

David Duff and others<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Directions in Romantic Scholarship: An international book launch<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-20.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 15 March 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

International panel: Keats and France<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Caroline Berton<\/strong>\u00e8<\/em><\/strong>che (Universit\u00e9 Grenoble-Alpes) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Keats\u2019s Frenchness<\/em><\/p>\n

Emily Rohrbach (University of Manchester)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading Keats with Ranci\u00e8re<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 26 April 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Frances Ferguson (University of Chicago)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Letitia Barbauld, the Book, and the World<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 17 May 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel O\u2019Quinn (University of Guelph)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whither Shakespeare?: Reynolds, Siddons, and the Post-American Repertoire<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 7 June 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

LONDON SYMPOSIUM: Romanticism at the Royal Institution<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/em> David Duff, Frank James, Hattie Lloyd, Seamus Perry, Sharon Ruston, Sarah Zimmerman<\/p>\n

14.00-20.00\u00a0 The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London\u00a0 W1S 2BS<\/p>\n

In partnership with the Fordham Romanticism Group, New York, Queen Mary University of London, and The Royal Institution, London<\/p>\n

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2017-18 programme<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday 20 October 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Diego Saglia (University of Parma)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cross-Channel Stage: Transnational Theatre in the Age of Romanticism<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Court Room (first floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 17 November 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Laurent Folliot (University of Paris-Sorbonne)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coleridge and Myriad-Mindedness<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 8 December 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

International panel: Byron and Romantic Realism<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Lansdown (University of Groningen)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novelistic Realism in the English Cantos of<\/em> Don Juan<\/p>\n

Rosa Mucignat (King\u2019s College London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Byron and Realist Time-Space: Metonymy and the Chronotope in <\/em>Childe Harold Canto IV<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Room G3 (ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 19 January 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Haggarty (University of Cambridge)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blake\u2019s Newton and Romantic Geometry<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 16 February 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Internati<\/strong><\/span>onal<\/strong><\/span> panel:<\/strong><\/span> Henry Crabb Robinson and his European Romantic Circle<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

James Vigus (Queen Mary University of London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crabb Robinson, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Sta\u00ebl\u2019s <\/em>Corinne, Or Italy<\/p>\n

Philipp Hunnekuhl (University of Hamburg)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Critical Dissemination: Kant, Hazlitt, and Crabb Robinson<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/ G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Thursday 12 – Friday 13 April 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PARIS SYMPOSIUM: <\/strong>Exiles,\u00a0\u00c9migr\u00e9s and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 18 May 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Interna<\/span><\/strong>tional<\/span><\/strong> Panel:<\/span><\/strong> The Romantic Lecture and Its Institutions<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham University, New York<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

The Romantic Literary Lecture: A Short History<\/em><\/p>\n

Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Thelwall and the Uses of Oratory<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 Senate House, Room 349 (third floor)<\/p>\n

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2016-17 programme<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 21 October 2016<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Launch event<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Christoph Bode<\/strong> (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)<\/p>\n

De L\u2019Allemagne with Love: English Bards and European Theorists<\/em><\/p>\n

Opening reception\u00a0with special guest\u00a0Marc Por\u00e9e<\/strong> (Paris)<\/p>\n

17.30-20.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 11 November\u00a02016\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Gamer<\/strong> (University of Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n

Re-collection\u2019s Intranquility: Romanticism, Self-Canonization and the Business of Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35\u00a0(ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 9 December\u00a02016 \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

International panel:\u00a0The <\/em>Poetics of the Letter<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pamela Clemit<\/strong> (Queen Mary University of London \/ Wolfson College, Oxford)<\/p>\n

Difficult to Make and Difficult to Fake: Signalling in Romantic-Period Letters<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeremy Elprin<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 de Caen)<\/p>\n

\u2018Qui me n\u00e9glige me d\u00e9sole\u2019: The Neglected Countenance of Keats\u2019s Letters<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-20.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senate House, Woburn Room\/G22 (ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 13 January 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Proch\u00e1zka\u00a0<\/strong>(Charles University, Prague)<\/p>\n

The Phantasmal Imagination: <\/em>Biographia Literaria and Continental Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 \u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 10 February 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lynda Pratt\u00a0<\/strong>(University of Nottingham)<\/p>\n

Romanticism and the Culture of Non-Publication<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 \u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 10 March\u00a02017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

International panel:\u00a0Literature and the Senses<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rowan Boyson\u00a0<\/strong>(King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\n

Common Airs: Sensuality, Smell and Freedom in Romantic Writing c.1798-1805<\/em><\/p>\n

Sophie Laniel-Musitelli\u00a0<\/strong>(Universit\u00e9 de Lille \/ Institut Universitaire de France)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sentient Matter: Sight and Sound in Shelley\u2019s Last Poems<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 \u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thursday 20-Friday 21 April 2017<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PARIS SYMPOSIUM:<\/span><\/strong> Wordsworth: The French Connection<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friday 12 May 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gregory Dart\u00a0<\/strong>(University College London)<\/p>\n

The Lamb Circle and the Birth of Romantic Practical Criticism<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/p>\n

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Friday 16 June 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heidi Thomson<\/strong> (Victoria University of Wellington)<\/p>\n

Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: Private Woes and Public Media<\/em><\/p>\n

17.30-19.30 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Senate House, Bloomsbury Room\/G35 (ground floor)<\/p>\n\n\n

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