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