CFP Transnational Romanticism

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Ceramic art by Lilach Naishtat

Call for Papers

Transnational Romanticism
23-26 July 2025 | University of Göttingen, Germany

In September 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge went on his


first-ever voyage outside England, together with William and
Dorothy Wordsworth. Coleridge’s time in Göttingen, Germany, Scholars, translators, artists, teachers and students are invited
initiated him as a central agent in the dissemination of to send proposals. Contributions may focus on but are not
German literature and thought in England. However, his deep limited to:
involvement in foreign languages and cultures goes beyond
• Traveling translations and cultural transmissions
German and Anglo-centric spaces. Through his reading of
• Multidisciplinary and intercultural dialog
Greek, Latin, German, Italian, Sanskrit, and Hebrew texts,
in the Romantic era
Coleridge plumbed strata of meaning and attained original
• Romantic inter- and intra-cultural exchanges
insights, which he adopted in his own poetry, criticism, and
• World literature and national literatures
philosophy. As an obsessive translator, he produced more than
• Translations of Romantic poetry and prose into
one hundred translations and developed theoretical insights
foreign languages
and perceived the act of translation itself as an interlinguistic
• Innovative digital modes of exploring transnational
creative practice.
Romanticism
The conference will focus not only on Coleridge but also more • Illustration and visualization and their roles in Romantic
broadly on Romantic transactions with foreign languages and transmissions
cultures including but not limited to Western European and • Contemporary rewritings and alternative forms of
Anglo-centric spheres and paradigms. translation
• Pedagogical innovations
The conference will be hosted in the historic Library where • The role and use of libraries and archives
Coleridge worked at Göttingen, and will include an excursion • Print culture, manuscripts and other forms
to the beautiful Harz Mountains, following in the footsteps of cultural circulation
of Coleridge and many Romantic tourists. • Creative responses to the conference themes

Keynote speakers: James Engell (Harvard) | Ralf Haekel (Leipzig) | Diego Saglia (Parma)

Timeline Organizing committee:


Deadline: 13 October 2024 Barbara Schaff, Gregory Leadbetter
Confirmation of acceptance: Early 2025 Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Lilach Naishtat
Please submit abstracts of 300 words for contributions of 20 minutes,
together with a short biographical note of up to 100 words, to: [email protected]

KIBBUTZIM COLLEGE
Of Education Technology & Arts

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