Programme
Romantic Ecologies 2022
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Thursday, September 29
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14.00 – 16.00? ? ?Registration
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17.00? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference Opening
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dorothee Velten (Augsburb, vocals) and Christoph Teichner (Augsburg, grand piano)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Felix Menelssohn Bartholdy: "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" (Words: Heinrich Heine)
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Welcome Adresses by
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Klaus Maiwald (Dean of the Faculty of Philology and History)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Jens Gurr (President of the German Society for English Literature)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Martin Middeke and David Kerler (Chair of English Literature)
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures, op. 37, no. 2: "In Haven (Capri)" (Words: C. Alice Elgar)
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17.45?– 18.45?? ? Keynote Address by Kate Rigby (Cologne) -
?“‘A?Dark Unmeaning Blank’: Romantic Ecologies at the End of the World“
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?Chair: Jens Gurr (Duisburg-Essen)
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19.00? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dinner
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20.30? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Reception
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Friday, September 30
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09.00 –?10.30? ? ??PANEL 1: Eco-Politics: (Post)colonial and / or (Trans)atlantic Perspectives
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Chair: Katrin R?der (Berlin/Bamberg)
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?Angela?Esterhammer?(Toronto): Nature, Settlement, and History in John Galt’s Transatlantic? ?Tales
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?Marie Hologa?(Dortmund): The Planter Picturesque: Jamaican/Caribbean Plantocracy and the? ?Absence of Slavery in Texts of the late 18th Century
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?Sophia Moellers (Dortmund): Infinite Nature, Infinite Ambition: William Godwin’s Socio-? ? ?political?Criticism as Romantic Ecopoetics
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10.30 – 11.00? ? ??Coffee Break
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11.00– 12.00? ? ? ?Keynote Address by?Jeremy Davies (Leeds): “Ecology and Industry in the 'Period of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Manufactories'”
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Chair: Ralf Haekel (Leipzig)
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12.00 –?14.00? ? ? Lunch Break
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14.00 – 15.30?? ? PANEL 2: Romantic Ecologies, (Post)capitalism and (Post)industrialism
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Gerold Sedlmayr (Dortmund)
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Hélène Ibata (Strasbourg): Revisiting the Romantic Sublime in Landscapes of the Anthropocene
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Johannes?Schlegel (Würzburg): Romantic Electrific(a)tion: Re-reading Electric Energy in the Shelleys
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Ute Berns (Hamburg): Ecologies of Steam-Power: Joanna Baillie’s “Address to a Steam-Vessel”
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15.35?– 17.05? ? ?PANEL 3: Romantic Biosystems and Their (Inter)dependencies, I
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Christoph Bode (Munich)
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Marvin Reimann (Bonn): “Thy function was to heal and to restore”: The River as Ecosystem in William Wordsworth’s The River Duddon Sonnets
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Yuko Otagaki?(Hyogo): Diverse Environmental Aesthetics in European Romantic Pastorals: Cowherd and Milkmaid Songs from the Wave of the Genius Craze
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Duncan, Ian?(Berkeley): Experimental Tourism: Environmental Aesthetics in the Highlands of Scotland
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17.00 – 17:30? ? ?Coffee Break
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17:30 – 18:30? ? ?Keynote Address by?Timothy Morton (Houston): Proverbs of Hell
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Martin Middeke (Augsburg)
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19:00? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dinner?at Zeughaus, Augsburg
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Saturday, October 1
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09.00 –?10.00? ? ?PANEL 4: Romantic Biosystems and their (Inter)dependencies II
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Shinya Matsuzaki?(Gunma): Animism Has Always Mattered—Even among English Romantics
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Theresa M. Kelley?(Madison): Romantic Epigenesis and Ecology
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Alexandra B?hm (Erlangen-Nürnberg): Concepts of Organism and Nature’s Interdependency in British and German Proto-Ecological Children’s Literature of the Romantic Period
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10.30 – 11.00? ??Coffee Break
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11.00 – 12.00? ? ?Keynote Address by?Dewey W. Hall: "The Ecology of the Goslar Verses: Weather, Pico Viejo,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?and Material Objects"
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Frank Erik Pointner (Duisburg-Essen)
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12.00 –?14.00? ?? ?Lunch Break
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14.00 – 15.30? ? ? PANEL?5:?Ecology and Materiality
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Silvia Riccardi (Uppsala): Blake’s ‘Fibres of life’: Anatomy, Botany, and Human Form
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Rebekka Rohleder (Flensburg): Mediated Nature in Mary Shelley’s Keepsake Stories
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Joanna E. Taylor (UManchester): Dorothy Wordsworth’s Wildness
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15.35?– 17.05? ? ?PANEL 6:?Romantic Ecologies and Ethics
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Jonathan Culler (Cornell): Addressing Nature
Stefanie John (Braunschweig): The Romantic Child as Environmental Educator: Dara McAnulty’s Diary of a Young Naturalist
Jennifer Wawrzinek (Berlin): Dorothy Wordsworth’s Exscriptions: Worlding as Compearance
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17:30? ? ? ? ? ? ??? ? City Tour
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19:45? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dinner at Ratskeller, Augsburg
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Sunday, October 2
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9.00 –?10:30? ? ? ?PANEL 7: Beyond (Ecocritical) Theory
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Michael Meyer (Koblenz-Landau)
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Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen): Ecological Romanticism for the 21st Century? Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree
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Catherine Jones (Aberdeen): ‘Translations’ from Poetry to Music: Concepts of Nature in Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-18) and Liszt’s Album d’un voyageur (1842)
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Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario): The Textual Ecology of Schelling’s First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (1799)
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10.30 – 11.00? ??Coffee Break
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10.30 – 12.30? ? ?PANEL 8: Sustainability and Regeneration in Romantic Aesthetics and Art
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Chair: Sophia M?llers (Dortmund)
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Cynthia Chase (Cornell): Departure and Arrival in the Scottish Highlands
Sebastian ?rtoft Rasmussen (Aarhus): Material Team Spirit: Literary Form and Ecological Sentiment in Charlotte Smith’s Geological Poetry
Philipp Erchinger (Düsseldorf): Poetry as Rural Work: Wordsworth’s Georgic Ecology
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12.30 – 13.30? ???Lunch Break
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13.30 – 14.30? ???General Meeting