International Conference on Romanticism

Call for Papers

Scholars working in any area of Romanticism are invited to submit proposals for the 2020 meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism to be hosted by Saint Louis University and held at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri.

While we encourage a broad interpretation of this theme, some possible approaches include the following:

Geography and Spatiality
Travel and River Studies
Romantic Hospitality
Transatlantic connections
Place and Displacement
Refugees and Migrants
Nationalism
Empire
Translation
Slavery
Sexuality and Gender Fluidity
Generic Blendings
Confluences of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Representing the Ecology of Waterways

Deadline for presentation abstracts as well as complete panels, roundtables, or other, alternative panel formats:

March 15, 2020

The International Conference on Romanticism was founded in 1991 and aims to further the study of Romanticism across linguistic, national and political disciplines. For more information, please visit http://icr.byu.edu. Conference attendees and participants must be members of ICR. Please visit http://icr.byu.edu/membership to become a member or renew your membership.

Send questions and abstracts (approx. 200 words) to , by March 15th, 2020.