Romantic Ecology Symposium

Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Time

Event
9:00am - 9:30am Light Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:30am - 10:45am

Session I

Morgan Tunzelmann (English, University of Waterloo): Vital Taxonomy: Eramus Darwin's Ecological Framework

Christine Lehleiter (German, University of Toronto): 'Innate Repulsion': Jean Paul Richter and Evolution

Shalon Noble (English, University of Western Ontario): Queen Mab and Shelly's Atomic Energy

11:00am - 12:00pm

David Clark (Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University): 'Thanks for Nothing:' Kant's Sustainable World

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Ian Balfour (Professor of English, York University): From Abyss to Abyss: Kant and the Nature of the Imagination

2:15pm - 3:15pm

Joan Steigerwald (Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, York University) : Ritter's Experimental Self

3:15pm - 3:45pm Refreshments
3:45pm - 5:00pm

Session II

Paola Mayer (German, University of Guelph): Bettina von Arnim's "Der Königssohn" - an Anti-poetic Tale of the Golden Age

David John (German, University of Waterloo): Goethe on Science, Nature, and Ecology

Belinda Kleinhans (German, University of Waterloo): Romantic Environment and the Animal in Günter Eich's poetry cycles Abgelegene Geh

For further information about the symposium, please read the article in our newsletter Wat's In-Sight issue 4 (PDF).