Events
Current and Upcoming Events
Past Events
Winter Term 2023-24
We’re greatly looking forward to hosting Erasmus+ guest professor Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University), Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL), James Wood (UEA) and Mary Newbould (Kazimierz Wielki University). They will join us for a symposium on “Literary Afterlives and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century” on 14 December 2023. You can access the programme here. All welcome!
The online workshop "Victorian Affects" will bring Victorian notions of affect and contemporary theorisations of the affect concept into dialogue with one another. Contributors will discuss what an affect-oriented criticism can contribute to our understanding of Victorianism and its private, social, and “political emotions” (Martha Nussbaum), what methodological potential affect theory has for readings of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writing, and what the study of Victorian (con-)texts can add to the critical vocabulary of affect-based literary and cultural criticism. The workshop will take place on 8 December 2023 and is jointly organised by Tim Sommer (Passau) and Anja Hartl (Innsbruck) as part of the DACH Victorianists network's event programme. You can find the workshop programme here: "Victorian Affects".
Summer Term 2023
Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), Vicky Mills (Birkbeck) and Katharina Boehm jointly organized the conference “Books In and Out of Time: Media, History, and Print Culture, 1700-1900”, which was held in Passau from 12-15 July 2023. Speakers from the US, UK and Germany discussed the book as a key medium of historical cognition that provided writers and readers with flexible ways of measuring, (re)ordering, and conceptualizing their relationship to different pasts and anticipated futures. Many papers asked how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors harnessed new technologies of reproduction, as well the book's capacity to engage with and host multiple media, in order to think about the different temporalities manifested by the material cultures of the book. Here’s the conference Programme.
Sarah Beyvers and Paul Hamann-Rose organized this year’s Passau Midsummer Readings. Staff and students came together for an evening of music and readings that featured texts by Tricia Hersey, Fintan O’Toole, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Attwood, David Henry Wilson and others.
The conference “Soil – Dirt – Earth: Ecologies below Ground, 1750-1850” explored how a focus on (literary and non-literary) figurations of soil, earth, and dirt can help us rethink Romantic and early Victorian perceptions of natural environments and how it might enhance our conception of ecologies. The conference was jointly organized by Katharina Boehm (Passau), Paul Hamann-Rose (Passau), and Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt). It took place on 22-24 June 2023. You can find the programme here: "Programme".
The annual Passau-Regensburg Research Colloquium took place on 11-12 May 2023. We were delighted to welcome a wonderful group of guest speakers: Matthew Stratton (UC Davis), Merrick Burrow (Huddersfield), Margaret Harper (Limerick), and Johannes Voelz (GU Frankfurt) all presented new work while our postdocs and doctoral students gave talks drawn from their research projects. You can find the programme here: "Programme".
Winter Term 2022-23
Two colleagues joined us for guest lectures and shared their work in progress.
In November 2022, Susanne Scholz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) gave a talk on “Uncanny Returns: Late Victorian Mummy Fiction”.
In January 2023, Rebecca Anne Barr (Jesus College, University of Cambridge) delivered a paper entitled “Laughing up their sleeves: Women’s Subversive Laughter” that presented material from her current project on laughter in women’s fiction of the eighteenth century.
Summer Term 2022
We kicked off the new annual Passau-Regensburg Research Colloquium on 23 and 24 June! The colloquium is jointly run by Katharina Boehm (Passau), Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg) and Anne Zwierlein (Regensburg). It brings together distinguished guest speakers, postdocs, and doctoral students and provides a forum for the discussion of research projects, work in progress, and current issues in the field.
Working-class writers, Enlightenment economies, and Romantic new media were just a few of the topics which speakers explored at the first colloquium. You can find the programme here: Programme.
A roundtable entitled “Publishing in Victorian Studies”, organized by Katharina Boehm under the auspices of DACH Victorianists, looked at current trends, publishing opportunities for early career researcher, and practical matters relating to the publishing process. Marco Caracciolo(Ghent University) and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Wien) joined the roundtable and shared their expertise and publishing experiences. The roundtable took place on 1 July 2022.
Together with colleagues in American Studies, Sarah Beyvers and Paul Hamann-Rose organized the Passau Midsummer Readings – an open-air event featuring literary readings, recitals, and music performed by staff and students.
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