The London-Paris Romanticism Seminar

Founded in 2016, the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar is an international research forum devoted to British Romantic literature, its European connections, and the broader culture of the Romantic period, 1760-1830. Birkbeck is one of five London colleges who collaborate with 6 French institutions on a monthly research seminar, based in London, and a biennial two-day symposium in Paris.

2019-20 Programme

London seminars are held in Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU. Seminars are free and open to the public.

Friday 18 October 2019

Timothy Webb (University of Bristol)

Leigh Hunt and ‘Romantic’ Imprisonment

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 15 November 2019

International panel: British Responses to the 1830 Revolution in France

Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)

How to Do Revolution: Three Glorious Days in a Caricature Magazine

James Grande (King’s College London)

Cobbett, Captain Swing and the July Revolution

Respondent: Laurent Folliot (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 13 December 2019

Mary-Anne Constantine (University of Wales)

A Welsh Bard Walking: Pedestrianism, Place and Politics in 1802

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 24 January 2020

Claire Connolly (University College Cork)

The Impending Era: Irish Romanticism Before and After the Famine

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 21 February 2020

Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford)

Subjectivity and Historicity in the Romantic Epic: Wordsworth and Byron

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 20 March 2020

Tilar Mazzeo (University of Montreal)

William Blake, Batty Langley, and the Builder’s Jewel

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

Friday 15 May 2020

International panel: Romantic Salons and Salonnières

Susanne Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin)

Travellers, Publishers and Lions: International Contacts and the Countess of Blessington’s Salons

Carmen Casaliggi (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

Germaine de Staël and Ugo Foscolo at Holland House

17.30-19.30  Senate House, Bloomsbury Room/ G35 (ground floor)

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