Sun 22 June
16.00 Museum tour and informal get-together (University Museum, Ledeganckstraat 35)
Mon 23 June
9.20 Opening remarks (A104)
9.30 Lecture: David Duff, Preludial Romanticism (A104)
11 Coffee
11.30 Lecture: Luisa Calè, Sibylline Leaves and the Unbound Book (A104)
1 Lunch break
2.30 Seminars 1
Seminar A: Luisa Calè, Blake’s Europe (A004)
Seminar B: Brecht de Groote, Letters and Empire (A104)
5 Drinks Reception (ends at 6) (A104)
Tue 24 June
9.30 Lecture: Mirka Horová, Ecocriticism and the Romantic Wilderness (A104)
11 Coffee
11.30 Lecture: Christoph Bode, Frankenstein: How German is it? (A104)
1 Lunch break
2.30 Seminars 2
Seminar A: David Duff, Cognitive Poetics and the Romantic Ode (A004)
Seminar B: Laurent Folliot, Quaint Romanticism (A104)
Wed 25 June
9.30 Lecture: Martin Procházka, Romantic Temporality and Apocalypticism (A104)
11 Coffee
11.30 Reading Group: The Legacies of Paul de Man (A104)
Led by Brecht de Groote
1 Lunch break
2.30 Roundtable (Optional): Literary Afterlives from the Eighteenth Century
to the Present (Faculteitszaal, Campus Blandijn)
Chaired by Andrew Bricker; with Manushag Powell, Ros Ballaster, David Alvarez, Helen Deutsch
4 Drinks Reception (ends at 5.30) (Faculteitszaal)
Thu 26 June
Note: the main room on this day is different.
9.30 Lecture: Laurent Folliot, Quaint Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Obscurity (A404)
11 Coffee
11.30 Roundtable: Hazlitt’s The Spirit of the Age (A404)
Chaired by David Duff
1.30 Lunch break
3 Seminars 3
Seminar A: Christoph Bode, The Romantic Sonnet (A004)
Seminar B: Mirka Horová, Romantic Italy (A404)
Fri 27 June
9.30 Presentations (A104)
11 Coffee
11.30 Presentations
1 Lunch break
2.30 Presentations
6 Valedictory Dinner (details tbc)
