Programme

A pdf version of the Colloquium Programme can be downloaded here.

Wednesday 11 December 2019
09:15-09:30 Welcome: Elinor Shaffer and Maximiliaan van Woudenberg

09:30-10:45 Session 1:  London Booksellers and German Literary Communities

James Raven John Nourse, Erik Pontoppidan and the German literary community in the Strand - and in Denmark [Abstract]

Susan Reed German-Language Newspapers in 19th-century London [Abstract]

10:45-11:00 Refreshment Break

11:00-12:15 Session 2:  London's Intellectual Cultures: Translators and Travellers

Maximiliaan van Woudenberg 'Göttingen is Londres en miniature': Examining the London Zeitgeist of the Anglo-Hanoverian Communications Circuit [Abstract]

Catherine Angerson Women translators of German literature and the intellectual culture of Dissent in London around 1800 [Abstract]

12:15-14:15 Delegate Lunch at Great Court Restaurant, British Museum

14:30-15:45 Session 3:  'Gott in London': Pastors, Theologians and Anglo-German Relations

Maike Oergel Strained Relations? German Protestant Pastors as mediators of Anglo-German Relations around 1800 [Abstract]

James Vigus Wilhelm Benecke (1776-1837): Theologian and Friend of Henry Crabb Robinson [Abstract]

15:45-16:00 Refreshment Break

16:00-16:45 Session 4:  Anglo-German Biography

Elinor Shaffer New Biographical Departures? Tradition and Revolution
[Abstract]

17:30-20:30 Informal Group Dinner & Round Table at the German Gymnasium



Last Updated: 11 December 2019