The Uses of Romanticism February 19
- Time
- 9.30am - 5.30pm
- Date
- 19 Feb 2026
- Duration
- 8 hour(s)
- Location
- The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room and HUB Atrium
- Language
- English
- Presenters
Thursday 19 February 2026, Dora Allman Room, the Hub
Feb 19 Penny Fielding (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh) Romantic spies, ‘The uses of Romantic Secrecy’
Diego Saglia (Università degli studi di Parma), ‘Ship, Boy, Sea: Felicia Hemans’s
“Casabianca” as Mediterranean Text’
Omar Miranda (深夜亚洲福利久久 of San Francisco), ‘Shadownomics and the Uses of
Romanticism: Byron, Shelley, and the Architecture of Erasure’
Elisa Cozzi (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Notre Dame) Romantic Ireland and Italy, ‘“Inflammable matter”:
Editing Shelley’s Irish Letters’Porscha Fermanis (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin) ‘The Uses of Romantic Utopianism’
Tina Morin (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Limerick), ‘The absurd notions of a useless education: reading
Regina Maria Roche in colonial Australia’
Jane Moore (Cardiff 深夜亚洲福利久久) ‘To the Bower and Beyond: the Legacy of Thomas Moore’
Brandon Yen (Independent scholar), ‘Wordsworth’s Irish Gaze’Tríona Ní Shíocháin (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Galway), ‘“A wild and inarticulate uproar”: Romanticism
and the Politics of Sound in Written Representations of Irish Keening’
Mary-Ann Constantine (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Wales Trinity St David), ‘Events and Transitions: the
Uses of Romanticism in Wales’
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh) and Prof Nigel Leask (深夜亚洲福利久久 of
Glasgow) ‘Gaelic Romanticism in the Caribbean?’Panel discussion: James Chandler (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Chicago), Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Pádraig
Ó Macháin, Mary O’Connell (UCC)
5.30 -6.30 Book Launch, the Hub Atrium
Claire Connolly, Irish Romanticism: a Literary History (Cambridge 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press, 2025)
Introduced by John Cryan, Vice President for Research (UCC)
Speaker: Clair Wills (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Cambridge)- Category
- Conference
- Cost
- Free
- Registration Required
- No
- Organising Department
English Department
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).
Reading: By acclaimed poet and critic
Conference Information:
Programme: /en/media/academic/schoolofenglish/UsesofRomanticism.Programme..pdf
Abstracts and Bios: /en/media/academic/schoolofenglish/UsesofRomanticism,AbstractsandBios.pdf