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)