ENCLS-Newslettermay2016
N ewsletter No. 2, May 2016 Editor: Olga Springer 1 . C A L L S F O R P A P E R S A N D S E M I N A R P ARTICIPATION I N S I D E T H I S I SSUE ( BY DEADLINE ) 1 Calls for Papers and Romantic Legacies (National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan) Seminar Participation / 18-19 November 2016 Appels à Deadline: 15 May 2016 Communication et Keynote Speakers: Rachel Bowlby, FBA (Comparative Literature, Princeton Séminaires University/English, University College London): “Romantic Walking and Railway 2 Calls for Contributions / Realism”; Arthur Versluis (Religious Studies, Michigan State University): “Platonism, Its Appels à Contribution Heirs, and the Last Romantic”. In his seminal book The Roots of Romanticism (1999), Isaiah Berlin regards 3 Publications and Romanticism as “the largest recent movement to transform the lives and the thoughts Doctoral Theses of the Western world.” Indeed, Romantic ideas and attitudes—embraced by Goethe, Hegel, Sade, de Staël, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, 4 Funding Alerts / Shelley, Beethoven, Schubert, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Turner, and Annonces de Finance- Delacroix, to name but a few—not merely changed the course of history in the West in ment de Recherche the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but helped to fashion twentieth-century 5 Positions democracy, environmentalism, Surrealism, fascist nationalism, communist Announcements universalism, spiritualism, social liberalism, and so forth in the West as well as in the (Teaching, Research, East. This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together academics from etc.) / Annonces de across the humanities and social sciences to explore the full spectrum of possible Postes (Enseignement, Romanticisms, the germination, maturation, and development of this heritage on both Recherche, etc.) sides of the Atlantic and its afterlife in our global capitalist culture today.
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