Oratoire du Temple-Neuf -- The conference will be held at the Église du Temple-Neuf de Strasbourg, in the Espace Tauler. The entrance is from la rue du Temple Neuf at the Oratoire, around the corner from the main entrance.
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The venue room in the Espace Tauler. Not yet set up. |
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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La petite France -- part of Strasbourg filled with traditional architecture, bars and eateries.
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The Strasbourg Canal, seen from petit France
The River Ill viewed from la petite France.
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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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Richard Berkeley introducing Frederick Burwick's keynote address |
Richard Berkeley giving his thank-you speech at the final dinner at the Maison Kammerzell.
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Frederick Burwick (UCLA) delivering his keynote address titled: “Conjuring the Supernatural on the Romantic Stage”
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Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore), delivering his keynote address titled: “Herzog, Nature, and Romanticism”
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Susan Wolfson (Princeton) delivering her keynote address titled: “Apparitional Romanticism: Ghost Story, Ghost history, Ghost Historiography”
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Kiran Toor (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) chairing the panel on "Frankenstein and Friends..."
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Frederick Burwick and Richard Berkeley at the second conference dinner at L'ancienne Douane.
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Coffee Break...
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We took a guided walking tour of Strasbourg and...
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... our tour guide was very engaging. |
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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Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd Mercy University, PA) delivering her paper: “The Haunting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Despair, Insanity, and the Soul”
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Jane Kim (Biola University) deliverying her paper: “Percy Shelley’s Dantean Poetic Theology”
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Olivia Loksing Moy (City University of New York) speaking on “The ‘Realist Supernatural’: Reconsidering the Traditions of ‘Female’ and ‘Male Gothic’”
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Matthew Rowney (UNC Charlotte) delivering his paper: “More Invisible than Visible: The Albatross, the Anthropocene, and Plastic”
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Yun Pei (Beijing Foreign Studies University) delivery her paper: “The Uncanny Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads”
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Clayton Tarr (Michigan State University) deliverying his paper: “ ‘Beneath that hill of moss so fair’: Wordsworth’s Supernatural Bog”
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Christopher Flynn (St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas) delivering his paper: “Natural and Supernatural Coexistence in The Eve of St. Agnes”
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Adam Walker (Bucknell University) delivering his paper: “The Problem of Expression: Apophaticisms in the Writings of Novalis”
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The view from the Pont Saint-Martin |
Looking across the Ill towards la petite France.
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