Standing at the southern end of the rue des Orfèvres looking north, you can see the venue at the other end. |
Standing at the same spot at the southern end of the rue des Orfèvres looking south-east, you can see Maison Kammerzell where we will have our final conference dinner. Behind it is Strasbourg Cathedral, Opposite it is the Hôtel de la Cathédrale, where some of us are staying, and the brasserie Au Dauphin, where we will have the first nights' conference dinner.
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From the same spot on a country road in northern Alsace. Look east you can see a tree covered in mistletoe, and in the far distance, the faint blue which is already the black forest on the other side of the Rhine....
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.... Look west and you see "La ligne bleue des Vosges". The grey smudge directly above the lone tree is the ruin of Wasenbourg castle, which even incorporates some Roman ruins, and which Goethe visited in 1770 ...
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The Espace Tauler set up and ready to go the night before the conference. |
Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300 – 15 June 1361), was one of the Rhineland mystics and a student of Meister Eckhart. This gravestone is all that is left of the original church, which was destroyed during the German bombardment of the city during the 1870-71 war and conquest of Alsace.
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Kirsten Mills (Macquarie) delivering her paper: “Journeying through the Landscapes of the Mind: Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing, the Supernatural, and the Psychological Sciences.”
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Martina Bartlett (Winchester) delivering her paper: “ ‘The Offspring of his Fancy’: Monsters of the Imagination in John William Polidori’s The Vampyre”
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