Romantic Ecology Symposium

March 19th, 2011

Programme

When: Saturday, March 19th - 9:00am to 5pm

Where: Centre for Environmental and Information Technology - EIT 1015

9:00am - 9:30am	Light Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:30am - 10:45am	Session I Morgan Tunzelmann (English, U of Waterloo): Vital Taxonomy: Eramus Darwin's Ecological Framework Christine Lehleiter (German, U of Toronto): 'Innate Repulsion': Jean Paul Richter and Evolution Shalon Noble (English, U of Western Ontario): Queen Mab and Shelly's Atomic Ecology
11:00am - 12:00pm	David Clark (Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster U):'Thanks for Nothing:' Kant's Sustainable World
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Ian Balfour (Professor of English, York U): From Abyss to Abyss: Kant and the Nature of the Imagination
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Joan Steigerwald (Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, York U): Ritter's Experimental Self
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Refreshments
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Session II Paola Mayer (German, U of Guelph): Bettina von Arnim's "Der Königssohn" - an Anti-poetic Tale of the Golden Age? David John (German, U of Waterloo): Goethe on Science, Nature, and Ecology Belinda Kleinhans (German, U of Waterloo): Romantic Environment and the Animal in Günter Eich's poetry cycles Abgelegene Gehöfte (1948) and Botschaften des Regens (1955)

A light breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be served.

For campus directions and to find locations to park, see the campus map

If you would like to attend this symposium, please register by March 11th here.

Special Feature: A computer-based "poster" session with visual essays drawn from two 2011 winter term graduate classes, "Criticism and the Environment" taught by Andrew McMurray (English, University of Waterloo) and "Romantic Ecology" taught by Alice Kuzniar (German and English, University of Waterloo). Professor McMurray's own essay is on Emerson and the romance of farming.

Inquiries should be directed to: akuzniar@uwaterloo.ca.

Sponsored by:

Waterloo Centre for German Studies

Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University