Conference Programme

Thursday, 5 October 2023

15:00-18:00Registration
15:30-16:00Welcome Address

Tinka Reichmann (Vice Dean of the Philological Faculty)
Christoph Bode (Vice President of GER)
Ralf Haekel (President of GER and Chair of English Studies)
16:00-17:00Panel 1: Authorship and Remediation I (Chair: Miriam Nandi)

Tim Sommer (Passau & Oxford): Mediated Presence. Romantic Manuscripts and Modern Authorship (Ireland, Shelley, Keats)
Paul Hamann-Rose (Passau): Lord Byron’s Pirates. Mediations of Don Juan
17:00-17:15Short Break
17:15-18:15Panel 2: Authorship and Remediation II (Chair: Ian Duncan)

Shellie Audsley (Cambridge):
Byron’s Fictive Commonplacing. Medial Referentiality in Don Juan
Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (SIT & Clare Hall): Coleridge and Hans Sachs. A Study of Foreign Mediascape or Romantic Remediation?
18:15-18:30Short Break
18:30-19:301st Plenary: Andrew Burkett (Union College): Romanticism’s Geological Media (Chair: Ralf Haekel)
19:30Music: Linus Haagen Trio (Linus Haagen, Aline Patschke, Leo Zwiebel)
20:00Conference Warming: Café Alibi

Friday, 6 October 2023

08:30-10:00Panel 3: Music and Poetry (Chair: Ute Berns)

Miroslawa Modrzewska (Gdansk):
The Politics of Lyrical Expression in Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore
Helga Schwalm (HU Berlin) & Kerstin Pahl (MPIB Berlin): The Forms and Formats of Musical Knowledge in the Romantic Period. The Case of The Harmonicon (1823-33)
Ian Duncan (Berkeley): Remediations of Lyric in the Romantic Novel
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:30Panel 4: Genre, Form, Politics (Chair: Frank Erik Pointner, Secretary of GER)

Sarah Burdett (UCL): Women, Explosions, and British Melodrama; or, Theatrical Responses to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Mark Canuel (Chicago): Jacobin Mediations 
11:30-12:302nd Plenary: Sharon Ruston (Lancaster): Humphry Davy’s Notebooks (Chair: Julia Heinemann)
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30Panel 5: Periodicals  (Chair: Tilottama Rajan)

Angela Esterhammer (Toronto):
Steamboats, Periodicals, and Short Fictional Forms in Late Romanticism
Dominic Bentley-Hussey (Gent): Periodical Translation and the Impossibility of Romantic Mediation in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Carmen Reisinger (Leuven): Remediating Between Languages: Wilhelm Meister’s Hamlet Criticism in British Periodicals (1798-1823)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:00Panel 6: Remediations to Stage and Screen (Chair: Max Oehmichen)

Maria Elena Capitani (Parma): Jane Austen and Remediating the Regency on the Contemporary British Stage
Serena Baiesi & Carlotta Farese (Bologna): From Mansfield Park to Bridgerton. Jane Austen, Diversity and Inclusion
18:00-19:00Walking Tour through central Leipzig
19:30Conference Dinner: Auerbachs Keller

Saturday, 7 October 2023

08:30-10:00Panel 7: Mediating Science (Chair: Christoph Reinfandt)

Marvin Reimann (Bonn): Romantic Conceptions of the Electric and Galvanic Fluid as Both Medium and Message
Carolin Böttcher (Jena): Fossils Uncovered and Speculative Nature. Natural History Remediated in Romantic Writing
Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario): The Archival Text: Mediating Science and Philosophy in Schelling
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:30Panel 8: Print, Materiality, Knowledge (Chair: David Nisters)

David Kerler (Augsburg): “Piper sit thee down and write / In a book that all may read”. Orality, Writing, Print and Archive Fever in William Blake’s “Introduction” to the Songs of Innocence
Asko Nivala (Turku): Romantic Database. The Zettelkasten and Commonplace Book as Literary Media
11:30-12:303rd Plenary: Tom Mole (Durham): Romanticism and the Media Imagination (Chair: Christoph Bode)
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30Panel 9: Visual Media  (Chair: David Kerler)

Diego Saglia (Parma): Mediating Material Excess. Verbal and Visual Figurations of Luxury in the Regency Era
Ilaria Natali (Florence): Caricatures and Visual Satire During the Reigns of George III and George IV
Anthony John Harding (Saskatchewan): The Gallery Revisited. Classical Sculpture as a Paideia for the Romantic Age
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:00Panel 10: Mediation and Immediacy (Chair: Miroslava Modrzewska)

Pauline Hortolland (Paris Cité): “As I lay asleep in Italy”. The Fantasy of Immediate Communication in The Mask of Anarchy
Sean Dempsey (Arkansas): Keats the Magician: Mediation and Soul-Craft

Sunday, 8 October 2023

10:00-11:00Panel 11: Place and Space (Chair: Anthony John Harding)

Max Oehmichen (Leipzig): “Chisel’d Within The Rock”. The Mediation of Romantic Place in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head
Sebastian Domsch (Greifswald): Through a Mirror Darkly. Romantic Remediations of Landscape
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:30Panel 12: Contemporary Remediations (Chair: Ralf Haekel)

John Öwre (Lund): ‘Contemplative Cinema’ and the Remediation of Romantic Nature
Jorunn Joiner (Lund): Immersive Landscapes. Romantic Nature in Open World Video Games
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00General Meeting