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To inaugurate the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar we are proud to present Christoph Bode<\/a><\/strong>, a leading international scholar of British and European Romanticism and a renowned literary theorist and critic. His talk, entitled ‘De L\u2019Allemagne with Love: English Bards and European Theorists’ <\/em>(details below), will be followed by a discussion and a wine reception, to which all are invited. As a special guest at the launch event, we are also delighted to welcome Marc Por\u00e9e<\/strong><\/a>, the Paris Director of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar.<\/p>\n The event will be held on Friday 21 October 2016 in Senate House, Malet Street, in the Bloomsbury Room (G35) on the ground floor, starting at 5.30 and finishing at 8. The extended reception\u00a0will be an opportunity for Romanticists to meet one another, talk to our international visitors, and find out more about the new research forum. Everyone is welcome, including postgraduates and members of the public. Admission is free.<\/p>\n Our speaker, Christoph Bode, is Chair\u00a0of Modern English Literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, a Permanent Fellow of LMU\u2019s Centre for Advanced Studies and a Member of the Academia Europaea<\/em>. Former president of the German Society for English Romanticism, he has published 24 books and some 80 articles, mostly on Romanticism, Travel Writing, Poetics, and Critical Theory. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2013 and the Walker Ames Lecture Prize of the University of Washington at Seattle in 2014. In 2015, he was admitted to the ‘High-End Foreign Experts Program’ of the People\u2019s Republic of China, lecturing at Tsinghua University Beijing and at the University of Sichuan at Chengdu.<\/p>\n Regarding the subject of his talk, Christoph Bode writes:<\/p>\n ‘The talk\u00a0<\/em>will take up and explain some key notions of German Fr\u00fchromantik<\/em>, e.g. Romantische Ironie<\/em> or Transzendentalpoesie<\/em>, explain how they relate to later phenomena like po\u00e9sie pure<\/em>, absolute literature, and sketch how these concepts fared in the twentieth century, especially in the hands of some French theorists. But it will also show, centrally, how in English Romanticism we do find the phenomena, though not the concepts. In any case, don’t panic: an earlier, discarded title of this talk was “KrautRom \u2013 So typical: Germans Claim to Have THEORY of What British Romantic Poets Just DID”. And this is still what it is, essentially, about.’<\/span><\/p>\n We hope you can join us for this exciting event.<\/p>\n