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