{"id":4058,"date":"2023-04-11T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:12:23","slug":"london-paris-romanticism-seminar-kate-rigby-online-seminar-friday-21-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"London-Paris Romanticism Seminar: Kate Rigby, online seminar, Friday 21 April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The next meeting of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will take place via Zoom on Friday 21 April 2023 at 17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1). As our distinguished guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome\u00a0Professor Kate Rigby<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the University of Cologne, who will present a paper entitled Sympoesie<\/em>: Augmentation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics<\/strong>. This will be followed by a discussion in which questions from the audience are invited. The seminar will be chaired by\u00a0David Duff<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seminar is free and open to everyone. Prior registration is necessary. To book a place via the Institute of English Studies website, click here<\/strong><\/a>. When you register, you will be provided with a Zoom link and details of how to join the online forum. Whether you wish to contribute or simply to listen in, we invite you to join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Kate Rigby<\/strong><\/a> is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne, where she leads a research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental literary, philosophical, historical and religious studies, with a specialist interest in European Romanticism, ecopoetics, and multispecies studies, and her books include Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism <\/em>(2004), Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times<\/em> (2015) and Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization<\/em> (2020). A key researcher with the Humanities for the Environment Mellon Australia-Pacific Observatory, she was the inaugural President of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Australia-New Zealand), and the founding Director of the Australia-Pacific Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the topic of her paper, Kate writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Sympoiesis<\/em>, literally meaning “making-with”, has become a key term in contemporary endeavours to reconfigure human inter-relationships with our Earth others in the face of deepening ecological and climate crisis. This paper examines the pre-history of this concept within German and British Romantic thought and literature, disclosing three distinct variants of sympoiesis<\/em> within Romantic ecopoetics: namely, potentiation, whereby human creative agency is understood as the realisation of possibilities that would otherwise lie dormant within natural becoming; conviviality, entailing creative practices that affirm collective flourishing; and collaboration, enabling forms of multispecies co-creation. This consideration of Romantic precursors to the current enthusiasm for sympoiesis<\/em> reveals ambiguities and complexities of meaning that can help to clarify the promise, but also the potential pitfalls, of sympoetic praxis in the present.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next meeting of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will take place via Zoom on Friday 21 April 2023 at 17.30-19.30 London time (GMT+1). As our distinguished guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome\u00a0Professor Kate Rigby\u00a0of the University of Cologne, who will present a paper entitled Sympoesie: Augmentation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics. This will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}