Romanticism and Rocks

Université de Neuchâtel
Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Organisation
Patrick Vincent
Pauline Hortolland
Philip Lindholm

International ECR Workshop
Keynote speaker : Sophie Laniel-Musitelli

Programme

8:30-9:00am: Registration / Coffee

9:00-10:30am: Panel 1: Rocks and Romantic Literature
Chair: Pauline Hortolland

  Aditi Jain (Université de Neuchâtel): ‘weep to have what he may lose:’ A close look at rocks and Books, in The Prelude
  Jerome Chemin (Université de Dijon): ‘This grand laboratory of Nature’: Where Davy’s chemistry met the eternal rocks
  Tiberio Inguscio (University of Zurich): Romantic Headlands: Erosion and the Sublime in the Anti-Alps

Coffee break: 10:30-10:45am

Programme

10:45-12:00: Keynote Lecture by Sophie Musitelli (Université Paris Cité): Title TBA
Chairs: Patrick Vincent, Philip Lindholm, Pauline Hortolland

Lunch Break: 12pm-1:30pm

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Panel 2: Rocks and post-Romantic literature
Chair: Philip Lindholm

Judith Trouilleux-Leca (Université Clermont-Auvergne): Entering the rock: George Sand’s perception of the inside of minerals
Meg Duell (Université de Lausanne): ‘The eternal rocks beneath’: Metaphysical Materiality in Wuthering Heights

Coffee break: 2:30-2:45pm

2:45pm – 3:45pm: Panel 3: Rocks and Romantic / post-Romantic visual culture
Chair: Patrick Vincent

Violaine Gourbet (UPHF Valenciennes): ‘Cut through the rocks’: Alpine rocks and human intervention in William Brockedon’s Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps (1828-1829)

Harriet McKinley-Smith (Trier University): Elizabeth Le Blond and the Afterlives of Romantic Alpine Aesthetics

3:45pm – 4:15pm: Roundtable:
Chairs: Patrick Vincent, Philip Lindholm, Pauline Hortolland

Peter Schnyder (Université de Neuchâtel)
Sophie Musitelli (Université Paris Cité)
Maia Whomsley-Walker (University of Bern)

End of the workshop