Romanticism in the Atlantic World

Please join us for an exciting one-day symposium here at BU, “Romanticism in the Atlantic World,” on November 7, 2015, from 9:30am-6pm. Registration is free, and lunch will be provided. Register by November 1.

See the attached flyer for more information, and please circulate widely!

All events will be held at The Castle at Boston University, 225 Bay State Road. Schedule of papers:

9:30am Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins) “Back to the American Romance, Forward to a Transatlantic History of Secularity”

11:00 Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon) “Romantic Exploration and Atlantic Slavery: Mungo Park’s Coffle”

1 :30pm Denise Gigante (Stanford) “On Borrowing Books”

3:00 Virginia Jackson (UC-Irvine) “American Romanticism Five Ways”

4 :30 Jennifer Baker (NYU) “Hawthorne, Romantic Ruins, and the Civil War”

Brought to you by the Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium and sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Studies in Romanticism, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe, and the Departments of English, African American Studies, History, and Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.