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Conferences 2026
Both the staff and the graduate students of the Department of English are committed to sharing and furthering their research through activities such as conferences, symposia and workshops. Staff regularly organise conferences which reflect their ongoing research interests, and the Department's graduate students are also active in organising events, including the Annual Bookends Postgraduate Conference.
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USES OF ROMANTICISM
School of English and Digital Humanities | Future Humanities Institute
18-19 February 2026
As a convenient way to organise knowledge 鈥� to describe a historical period, to address questions of cultural style, to open up comparative debates 鈥� romanticism remains a useful term. But what does it mean to think about romanticism as useful? What kinds of knowledge, in which languages and from what places, does the term collect and organise?
What work does romanticism do in the present and can its critical utility outlast our growing understanding of its alliance with historical injustices? The symposium will consider the relevance of romanticism for a discussion of literature created in a range of British, Irish and imperial locations and consider the extent to which use itself is a concept that is imprinted by colonialism.
Among the topics to be discussed will be:
- Geographies of romanticism
- Comparative romanticisms
- Romanticism across media
- Decolonising romanticism: colonial and imperial histories
- Use, usefulness and utility as critical categories
- The present uses of literary history
- Romanticism and its relation to political activism: sedative or spur?
Contributions from: Prof Mary-Ann Constantine (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Wales Trinity St David), Dr Elisa Cozzi (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Notre Dame), Prof Porscha Fermanis (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin), Prof Penny Fielding (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh), Prof Nigel Leask (Glasgow 深夜亚洲福利久久), Prof Omar Miranda (深夜亚洲福利久久 of San Francisco), Dr Jane Moore (Cardiff 深夜亚洲福利久久), Prof Tina Morin (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Limerick), Prof Tr铆ona N铆 Sh铆och谩in (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Galway), Dr Peadar 脫 Muircheartaigh (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh), Prof Diego Saglia (Universit脿 degli studi di Parma), Dr Brandon Yen (Independent Scholar).
Responses from: James Chandler (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Chicago), Cl铆ona 脫 Gallchoir, P谩draig 脫 Mach谩in, Mary O鈥機onnell (UCC).
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Conference Information:
Programme: Event Description and Programme - Uses of Romanticism
Abstracts and Bios: Uses of Romanticism. Abstracts and Bios.
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