Thursday, 5 October 2023
15:00-18:00 | Registration |
15:30-16:00 | Welcome 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) |
16:00-17:00 | Panel 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 |
17:00-17:15 | Short Break |
17:15-18:15 | Panel 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? |
18:15-18:30 | Short Break |
18:30-19:30 | 1st Plenary: Andrew Burkett (Union College): Romanticism’s Geological Media (Chair: Ralf Haekel) |
19:30 | Music: Linus Haagen Trio (Linus Haagen, Aline Patschke, Leo Zwiebel) |
20:00 | Conference Warming: Café Alibi |
Friday, 6 October 2023
08:30-10:00 | Panel 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 |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-11:30 | Panel 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 |
11:30-12:30 | 2nd Plenary: Sharon Ruston (Lancaster): Humphry Davy’s Notebooks (Chair: Julia Heinemann) |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00-15:30 | Panel 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) |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | Panel 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 |
18:00-19:00 | Walking Tour through central Leipzig |
19:30 | Conference Dinner: Auerbachs Keller |
Saturday, 7 October 2023
08:30-10:00 | Panel 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 |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-11:30 | Panel 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 |
11:30-12:30 | 3rd Plenary: Tom Mole (Durham): Romanticism and the Media Imagination (Chair: Christoph Bode) |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00-15:30 | Panel 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 |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | Panel 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
10:00-11:00 | Panel 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 |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30-12:30 | Panel 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 |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 | General Meeting |