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S e p t e m b e r 6 - 8 , 2 01 8 University of Colorado Boulder

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome and Thanks

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9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Opener: “Resistance Then and Now”

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10:30 AM -11:45 AM Flash Panel: “Romanticizing Whiteness”

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12:00 PM Lunch Provided

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1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Workshops How We Resist: Activist Methods for the Study of Romanticism Arts of Resistance Resisting (With) Print Resistance and Gender Religion and Resistance Resistance around the Atlantic

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3:45 PM - 4:30 PM Break

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4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Keynote: Saree Makdisi, Cox Family Visiting Scholar, “Romanticism, Empire and Resistance”

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6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Reception

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8:00 PM - 4:00 PM Registration Table

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Opening Words

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9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Opener: “Things Fall Apart”

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10:30 AM-11:45 AM Flash Panel: “Resisting Medicine/Resisting Disability”

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12:00 PM Lunch Provided

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1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Concurrent Workshops Resisting Colonialism/Resisting Gentrification Resisting Women Resisting Canon

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2:30 PM -3:45 PM Concurrent Panels Teaching the Resistance Resisting Aesthetics Keats’s Humor as a Tactic of Resistance

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CONTENTS 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM Break

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4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Keynote: Marjorie Levinson, Cox Family Visiting Scholar, “Bare Particulars”

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9:15 AM - 8:00 PM A Denver Experience: Historic Fortitude – Present Day Resistance and Continued Growth

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9:15 AM Depart for Denver

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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Historic Five Points Tour: Bev’s Mo Betta

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10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Historic Five Points Tour: Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

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11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Historic Five Points Tour: Black American West Museum & Heritage Center

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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch Provided at Comal Heritage Food Incubator

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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Whittier Café: Coffe+Beer+Wine Conversation with Rare Byrds

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM The Sister Gardens: Mix and Mingle

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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM The Sister Gardens: Farm Tour

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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Sister Gardens: Farmset Dinner

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6:30 PM The Sister Gardens: Keynote: Deanna Koretsky, “On Learning to Resist Romanticism in the Audre Lorde Archive”

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sessions and workshops. We will spend Saturday in Denver, hearing one of our keynoters and learning from community activists who will share their history and their current work.

Participant Profiles

he Colorado Romantics Collective, the CU Romantics Laboratory, and the Romantics Bicentennial Project welcome you to “Resistance in the Spirit of Romanticism.” We look forward to working with you, exploring the ways the art, culture, and history of our period inform the period in which we live. We hope that this conference highlights the ways in which resisters of the romantic period can inform and inspire resistance now, whether we think about Wollstonecraft or Shelley as laying the foundations of feminism today or we talk about how romantic ecology connects with the food justice movement of our time; whether we discuss colonialism and gentrification as linked practices or explore how art then and now can itself resist dominant ideologies and practices.

Special Thanks We alsoto want to welcome you to the Boulder-Denver area, a place of picturesque and sublime beauty, an area with its own history of resistance, from those who stood against the Klan to the Beats who found this a second home, from those who struggled against the mining companies to those who have helped support LGBTQ communities. We hope you will find much to enjoy here.

Thursdsay , September 6th Friday , September 7th

Most importantly, we thank you for coming your ideas, your energy. We see this conference both as a key moment in the celebrations of romantic bicentennials and as a prelude to future work and action.

Sunday , September 9th

To that end, we—while honoring the traditional ways in which we present our work to one another—have sought to open up this conference to different kinds of dialogue. We will have keynote addresses and panels of papers, and we will have flash

In the spirit of resistance, Thora Brylowe Jeffrey N. Cox Jillian Heydt-Stevenson Paul Youngquist Conny Cassity

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share your work, Saturday , toSeptember 8th

Participant Profiles Special Thanks to Thursdsay , September 6th 6th Registration Table

Friday , September 7th

Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

Welcome and Thanks

Saturday , September 8th

Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Neil Fraistat (Romantic Bicentennials) Thora Brylowe (Conference Committee)

Sunday , September 9th Opener: “Resistance Then and Now” Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Moderator: Conny Cassity Molly Desjardins, “Re-Reading John Thelwall’s Abolitionist Rhetoric in the Context of the Black Lives Matter Movement” Chris Washington, “#OccupyRomanticism” Nicole M. Wright, “Resisting ‘Resistance’: Presentism and its Discontents”

Flash Panel: “Romanticizing Whiteness” Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

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Moderator: Manu Samriti Chander Manu Samriti Chander, “Uses for a Dead White Supremacist” Donna Beth Ellard, “Professional Ontologies and Colonial Being” Nikki Hessell, “Romanticizing Whiteness on Arapahoe St.” Jared Hickman, “Romanticism and the Settling of Whiteness” Tina M. Iemma, “Re-narrating Romanticism: Examining Ethics of Collaboration” Tricia Matthew, “British Women Writers and the Cold Winds of Scrutiny; or, Thoughts on Writing the Right Book at the Right Time”

12:00 PM Lunch Provided

Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Opposite “John Thelwall BLM #” 2018 Image Courtesy of Wadada Arts Foundation

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Concurrent Workshops How We Resist: Activist Methods for the Study of Romanticism Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Facilitated by the CU Boulder 18/19 Graduate Students. Moderated by Grace Rexroth.

Panelists include Nikki Hessell (“Resistance and Settler Methodologies”), Rachel Feder (“Romanticism and Reproductive Justice”), Deanna Koretsky (“Romanticism and Feminism 2.0: Anti-Racist Feminisms and Romantic Literature”), Travis Chi Wing Lau (“Resisting Academic Speed: Disability and Slow Scholarship”), and Rebecca Schneider (“Colonial Archives and Living Memory”).

In the last few years, we have seen a rise in provocative efforts to expand and challenge the ways that scholars study and engage with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Movements such as the V21 Collective and #Bigger6, and the founding of the first NASSR Race and Empire Caucus, have been animated by a desire to make our scholarly work more public facing, activist focused, and diverse. In Dr. Manu Samriti Chander’s words, it is a call to “address the collective rather than just a coterie of our friends”—to resist urbane canonical comfort. In light of these recent efforts to expand and challenge the way we study romantic literature, this panel interrogates what kinds of methodological choices contribute to this work. What do “resistant” methodologies look like? What critical choices can and should we make when thinking about how we practice scholarship? How might such choices change the way we study, publish, organize, and teach? In advance of the seminar, organizers will circulate a “syllabus” that describes the seminar’s topics, objectives, and suggested readings.

Participants should be prepared to reflect on how they might adopt radical, publicfacing methodologies in their own research and teaching.

Arts of Resistance Media Archaeology Lab: 1320 Grandview Ave. Facilitated by the Ventre à Terre Collective.

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Participants will discuss methods, means, tactics, and expressive modes of activist intervention against climate change that take the field of Romanticism as a means of inspiration but seek to push its political thresholds into the present. Our primary purpose will be to engage with global warming relative to a range of intersectional politics (race, gender, class, and colonialism). Readings include a contemporary pamphlet and zine produced by the Ventre à Terre Collective this summer, alongside two theoretical readings which served as factors of our artistic production. The workshop will culminate in a group writing exercise. Participants will compose texts together for a pamphlet and zine to be released at a future conference.

Opposite Top Massacre at St. Peter’s, Or “Britons Strike Home”!!!, 1819

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Opposite Bottom London Riots “Britons Stike Again” 2011 Image Courtesy Wadada Arts Foudation

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Liberty Leading the People

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Workshops (cont.)

Religion and Resistance Norlin Conference Room: Norlin Libraries M350B

Resisting (With) Print Norlin Conference Room: Norlin Libraries N410

Moderator: Kurtis Hessel Richard Johnston, “Unsurprised by Sin: Byron, Cain, Resistance, and Rebellion” Julie Kipp, “Republicanism, Religion, and Resistance Writing in Romantic Ireland” Daniel Larson, “Prophetic Resistance, or, ‘the just man rages in the wilds’”

Facilitated by Jon Klancher and Jonathan Sachs.

This seminar takes up the paradox of romantic print culture as a force both of resistance and complicity. We encourage participants to think not only about resistance as an object of study, but also about resistance as a component of methodology and the work of writing. We aim to think collectively about how print works even at a distance to facilitate resistance and interaction, while it can also fall prey to the very forces that it aims to resist. How does the fear of print-media saturation in the romantic period sit in tension with an almost magical faith in the powers of print to produce a more democratic, participatory society? Questions like this have obvious resonance in our current media and political environment, though not always in the ways that we imagine. Participants are asked to read from The Multigraph Collective's Interacting with Print, Jon Mee's Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s, and Jonathan Sachs's The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism in preparation for our discussion. We will also use these texts to help us focus upon re-reading William Hone’s The Political House that Jack Built (1819)—one of the most provocative efforts to resituate print and visual media in relation to new acts of resistance emerging after Peterloo.

Resistance around the Atlantic Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Moderator: Kieran Murphy Marlene Perez, “Cuba, Britain, the Americas: Slave Uprising and Colonial Resistance in Getrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab” Christopher Scott Satterwhite, “Phillis Wheatley and the Atlantic as a Site of Resistance” Rebecca Schneider, “Runaway Slave Advertisements as Romantic Fragments” Dana Van Kooy, “Island(s) of Resistance: Configuring the Geographical Spaces of Atlantic History”

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Concurrent Panels Resistance and Gender Norlin Conference Room: Norlin Libraries N410 Moderator: Josette Lorig Nowell Marshall, “Resisting Gender: Ghosting the Transman in Charlotte Dacre’s The Libertine” Wendy C. Nielsen, “Female Resistance Fighters: from the Romantics to Wonder Woman” David Sigler, “Barbauld’s ‘Love and Time: To Mrs. Mulso’: Allegories of Erotic and Military Resistance” Emily Zarka, “The Female Vampire as Resistance: Confrontation of Patriarchal Control in Wake Not the Dead”

Cox Family Visiting Scholar, “Romanticism, Empire and Resistance” Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

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Reception Café Aion Please join us at Café Aion for a reception.

Light fare provided. There will be a cash bar.

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Keynote: Saree Makdisi

Special Thanks to Thursdsay , September 6th Friday , September 7th 7th Registration Table

Saturday , September 8th

Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

Welcome and Thanks Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

Sunday , September 9th

Sue Zemka (CU Boulder English Department Chair) Neil Fraistat, Steven Jones, and Paul Youngquist (Romantic Circles)

Opener: “Things Fall Apart” Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Moderator: Katrina O’Loughlin Colin Carman, “Resisting Marriage: The Queer Case of Mary Diana Dods” Michael Demson, “Assembly, Resistance, Violence: The Legacy of Radical Rhetoric of the 1790s” Jacob Henry Leveton, “Machine Breaking and the Making of the State Apparatus: Romantic England/Contemporary Nigeria” Deven Parker, “Reading Romantic Infrastructure” Grace Rexroth, “Print Prisons: Imagining the Carceral Effects and Limitations of the Printed Page” Denys Van Renen, “The Embodied Spaces of Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa”

Flash Panel: “Resisting Medicine/Resisting Disability” Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

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Moderator: Mark Lussier David Baulch, “Frankenstein versus the Mummy” Corey Goergen, “Generic Interventions: Lady Delacour’s Opium Plot and Feminist Addiction Studies” Lisa Kasmer, “Failed Resistance: The Allure of the Sino-Indian Opium Trade” Brittany Pladek, “Emotional Health and Vulnerability in the Academy” Kathleen Béres Rogers, “Boys will be Boys, Girls will be Nymphomaniacs” Emily B. Stanback, “Romanticism’s Disability Poetics” Crystal Veronie, “Resisting Medical Authority: Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions as a Pathography of Addiction”

12:00 PM Lunch Provided

Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

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John Opie c.1790–1

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Portriat of Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs William Godwin)

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Concurrent Workshops Resisting Colonialism/Resisting Gentrification Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549 Facilitated by Deanna Koretsky and Paul Youngquist.

Gentrification can be understood as a kind of urban settler colonialism: with the full force of the free market behind them, developers and city planners displace communities of color and the working poor to make room for a largely white population seeking to enact their particular version of “free” living—culturally appropriated yoga studios, kombucha shops, and all. What can the ideologies of liberalism and capitalist expansion that drove British colonialism teach us about the neoliberal forces enabling gentrification today? What can we learn from British domestic histories of enclosure as we think about the future of equitable housing and land distribution? How do romantic era efforts to resist these and other forces help us to imagine our own strategies for resistance? We'll examine the poetry of Blake and Clare with these questions in mind, then recast our answers in the context of today's gentrification of the historically black Five Points neighborhood in Denver, which we'll be visiting on Saturday. How can our romantic era writers help us engage old problems of settler colonialism appearing in the new guise of gentrification? More broadly, this workshop offers a chance to come together and discuss whether and how we can use the past to inform our current political and civic struggles. We'll be assisted in our discussion by a local activist deeply concerned with the transformation of Denver's urban neighborhoods.

Resisting Women Mabel Van Duzee Room: Norlin Libraries 424B

In this discussion-based workshop, we will discuss the recent flourishing of “rebel girls” in narrative non-fiction for YA and adult readers, looking closely at how romantic era women figure in these works. We will read in advance of the conference several brief examples in the genre, as well as two short essays that question the value and shortcomings of this trendy approach to C19 women’s history: Anna Leszkiewicz’s “Why is publishing suddenly obsessed with ‘rebel’ women?” from the New Stateman and Joanna Scutt’s “Well-Behaved Women Make History, Too” from Slate. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring in examples of women in Romanticism, in popular and scholarly writing, as a springboard for revisiting how they ought to be described, and, in Scutt’s words, “how much further we have to go” in presenting these figures in our scholarship and to a wider public.

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Facilitated by Devoney Looser.

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Workshops (cont.)

Keats’s Humor as a Tactic of Resistance Norlin Conference Room: Norlin Libraries N410

Resisting Canon Norlin Conference Room: Norlin Libraries N410

Moderator: Jeffrey N. Cox Brian Rejack, “The Camelion Comedian Poet: Negative Capability, the Hone Trials, and Strategies of Romantic Resistance” Kate Singer, “Keatsian Humors, Affective Turbulence, and Counter-public Feeling” Michael Theune, “How to Live Posthumously: Humor and Identification in Keats”

Facilitated by Thora Brylowe and Michael Gamer.

Since the 1990s, literary canon has become an unstable and contested terrain, which has been mapped and remapped in competing ways. This seminar will work through ways we might redraw the lines of literary study by decentering the idea of literary canon altogether. The session will be writing intensive, and we ask that all participants bring a laptop.

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Concurrent Panels Teaching the Resistance Center for British and Irish Studies: Norlin Libraries M549

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Moderator: Kurtis Hessel Brian Bates, “Romanticism & Community Partnerships in the General Education Classroom” Deborah Hollis and Kurtis Hessel, “Resistance through Collaborative DH Pedagogy in the Library” Jonathan Mulrooney, “Teaching What Should Not Be Taught”

Resisting Aesthetics Mabel Van Duzee Room: Norlin Libraries 424B Moderator: Emily Harrington Elizabeth Fay, “Poets for Destitute Times: Psychosis, Dissembling, and the Thing” Michele Speitz, “‘If I had a Hammer’: Refiguring Lyric Resistance”

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Symposium Celebration Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Rd. Social evening hosted by the CU Boulder 18/19 Graduate Students in honor of the conference keynotes and speakers. Food trucks and drink options available at Rayback. We’ll be convening at Basecamp Boulder (2020 Arapahoe Ave.) at 6:45 PM for those who would like to walk there together (~25 min. walk).

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Thursdsay , September 6th Friday , September 7th Saturday , September 8th A Denver Experience: Historic Resilience – Present Day Resistance & Future Fortitude

Sunday , September 9th

Denver The purpose of “A Denver Experience” is to enrich researchers and symposium participants and expose them to the historic and real time essence of resistance in Denver. We’ll meet in Boulder and then depart for Denver’s Historic Five Points District. Vans leave from Basecamp Boulder at 9:15am. If you are taking your own form of transportation, we’ll meet up with you at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library (2401 Welton St., Denver, CO) at 10:00am. The first part of our day begins with a tour of the Historic Five Points District.

Five Points is where vanguard African Americans created a hub for the cultural, educational, economic and political frameworks to resist and combat the forces of racism and segregation and to empower their community in Denver. Tour participants will speak with local entrepreneurs and visit the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and the Black Western Museum during this segment of the day. We’ll break for lunch at Comal Heritage Food Incubator — lunch restaurant + training program whose goal is to provide skills in culinary arts and business to women as a platform for economic sustanibilty. The tour will continue to the present day stronghold of resistance racism, Whittier Café for coffee, wine or beer and a discussion on gender and LGBTQ issues.

Depart for Denver Basecamp Boulder (2020 Arapahoe Ave.)

Historic Five Points Tour: Bev’s Mo Betta Empowered People: An Account of Five Points by Beverly Grant Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library 2401 Welton St., Denver, CO The group will receive fresh healing juice from Bev’s Mo Betta Greens, a welcome to the neighborhood, and learn why it is important to set up a fresh market in that neighborhood and how music and language play an important part in health education.

Historic Five Points Tour:

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library 2401 Welton St., Denver, CO The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is the gateway to Five Points and the Welton Street Historic District. The building merges with Sonny Lawson Park via a plaza connecting the two. The Library has three levels, each with its own unique purpose.

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The group will go on a tour of Sister Gardens farm and learn how growing food can be used as a form of resistance. Following the tour, dinner will be served during the magic hours of the sunset. During this time, we’ll enjoy Deanna Koretsky’s keynote address. At 8:00pm, vans will depart back to Boulder.

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Origins 5 Points, Denver Juneteenth Emanacipation Celebration Photo circa 1865

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Historic Five Points Tour:

Black American West Museum & Heritage Center 3091 California St., Denver, CO The museum highlights history of African American pioneers, homesteaders, ranchers, farmers, miners, and the military in the West, and the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver.

Lunch Provided at

Comal Heritage Food Incubator 2023 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO Comal Heritage Food Incubator is a lunch restaurant + training program that serves families in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. Its goal is to provide skills in culinary arts and business as a platform for economic development to aspiring women - many originating from Mexico, El Salvador, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia - to maintain and celebrate their traditions through entrepreneurial ventures..

Coffee, Wine, Beer — Conversations with Rare Byrd$ & Toluwanimi Obiwole 1710 E 25th Ave., Denver, CO Whittier Café is Denver's only African espresso bar whose coffee is sourced from various East African Nations. Whittier Café is a space where social justice issues are discussed and addressed by the local community. But recently they have received a barrage of racist attacks against their establishment. During this hour an intimate conversion and performance will be held with Denver poets and artists Rare Byrd$ with Toluwanimi Obiwole — they will share their insights on how resistance plays out through artistic expressions and thoughts on socio-economic, gender, race and queer issues.

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Whittier Café:

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The Sister Gardens:

Mix and Mingle 2861 W. 52nd Ave., Denver, CO Light refreshments (cold drinks) provided. Sister Gardens offers greater access to better food and gives community members, who are often overlooked, more control over what they eat.

The farm does so by repurposing otherwise unused space and taking advantage of modernized forms of produce-growing through technologies.

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Farm Tour The group will go on a guided tour and have a conversation about good food and food justice with Fatuma Emmad.

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Farmset Dinner

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Dinner will be served as the sun sets. Cash bar for beer and wine. Guests will receive one drink ticket.

The Sister Gardens: Keynote Address Deanna Koretsky, “On Learning to Resist Romanticism in the Audre Lorde Archive�

Return to the Beginning 2861 W. 52nd Ave., Denver, CO Vans will depart back to Boulder.

Brunch at the Westin Hotel 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CO Join us at the Westin Hotel in Westminster for a casual brunch before you journey back home.

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Propaganda coin of Thomas Spence, radical agrarian, 1750-1814.

Welcome Note Table of Contents Participant Profiles Brian Bates teaches at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. His research focuses on print

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and performance cultures in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. His first monograph is Wordsworth’s Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing & Parodic Reception, and his current in-process monograph is Keats’s Authorial Play: Pantomime & Popular Culture. He also is editing a forthcoming essay collection—Keats in Popular Culture—for Romantic Circles Praxis Series, writing a solicited essay for The Vital Spark: Essays on the Legacy of Frankenstein for Charles E. Robinson as well as a solicited essay on the bicentennial of The River Duddon volume for The Wordsworth Circle, and is beginning to put together a collection of essays for European Romantic Review celebrating the bicentennial of Keats’s 1820 Lamia volume.

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avid aulch is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Florida. He is currently revising a manuscript on William Blake, revolution, ontology, and the aesthetic entitled Being at the Limit. His articles have appeared in European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, the Wordsworth Circle, and elsewhere.

Saturday , September 8th Thora Brylowe is an Assistant Professor of English at University of Colorado Boulder. Her first book, out this month, is titled Romantic Art in Practice: Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760-1820.

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olin arman, PhD, is the author of The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment (available from Routledge Books this winter) and teaches British Romanticism and LGBTQ studies at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO.

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Conny Cassity is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation, “Living Intertextually: British Women Writers and Community Building,” studies how women writers imagined and formed networks amongst themselves, in their literature, and across the boundaries of fiction and reality. She edited the graduate section of the English Language Notes special issue Secure Sites and has an essay forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction this fall.

Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century and the co-editor, with Tricia Matthew, of a recent issue of European Romantic Review focused on generic experimentation in Romantic abolitionist literature.

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Michael Demson is an Associate Professor of English at Sam Houston State University where he teaches courses in Romanticism, literary theory, and world literature. His academic publications, including a forthcoming collection of essays on the Peterloo Massacre co-edited with Regina Hewitt, and his graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy: The History of a Radical Poem, from Percy Shelley to The Triangle Factory Fire, explore the intersections of transatlantic radical culture and British Romanticism.

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In addition to her book, Anglo-Saxonist Pasts, postSaxon Futures (punctum, forthcoming), her essays have appeared in journals such as Exemplaria, postmedieval, and Rethinking History.

lizabeth ay is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, specializing in British Romanticism with interests in material culture, Atlantic Studies, and feminist, philosophical, and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. She has authored five books and has also co-edited two essay volumes and one edition. Her most recent book publications are Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (2010) and a co-edited volume, Urban Identity and the Atlantic World (2013).

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ichael amer is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge UP, 2000) and Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2017), and is Associate editor for Essays in Romanticism. With Jonathan Sachs, Thora Brylowe, and nineteen other members of the Multigraph Collective, he helped to produce Interacting with Print: Modes of Reading in the Age of Print Saturation (Chicago, 2018).

Corey Goergen is a PhD candidate in English at Emory University, where his dissertation project explores the literary history of dissipation in the long eighteenth century and romantic period. His research focuses on disability studies, addiction studies, and British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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eil raistat is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. He is a co-Founder and for 22 years was co-General Editor of the Romantic Circles website.

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ikki essell is an Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She specializes in the intersection of Romanticism, indigeneity, and print culture studies.

Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018). She was a co-winner of the 2017 NASSR Pedagogy Prize for her course on Romanticism and Indigeneity.

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ina M. emma is a doctoral candidate in English, an Instructor, and the Assistant Director of Writing Across Communities at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Her dissertation examines the influence of social justice literacies upon the ethics of collaboration within writing studies and Romanticism.

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Julie Kipp is author of Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (CUP 2003) and she recently completed Ireland and the Atlantic Archipelago: Cosmopolitan Romanticism in the British Peripheries (currently under review with CUP). She was Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Hope College for many years and was an activist and advocate for many resistance movements on campus. More recently, she served as a Visiting Professor and Director of the Writing Program for the Westville Prison Educational Initiative, a college degree program in a medium security prison, administered through Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame. She just finished a self-gifted sabbatical year, during which she traveled extensively.

Jon Klancher is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Chair of Networked Events of Romantic Bicentennials 2016-2020. His publications include Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age and The Making of English Reading Audiences 1790-1832. Among current projects is a study of scale, print, and disciplinary formation 1650-1900.

Deanna Koretsky is an Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College. Her scholarship and teaching are committed to expanding the relatively narrow contours of British Romanticism through the frameworks of Critical Race Theory, Black Studies, and Afro-American and African Diaspora Studies. She is completing a book on the discursive relationship between slavery and suicide in the Romantic era, and her work on race, class, gender, and decolonial pedagogies appears in (or is forthcoming from) European Romantic Review, Essays in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Studies in the Literary Imagination.

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Kirstyn Leuner is Assistant Professor of English at Santa Clara University. She has published essays on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Rodolphe Töpffer’s earliest comic strips, markup languages, and book history. She directs and co-edits the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, a multi-institutional DH project that recovers Francis Stainforth’s library, which is the largest known private library of women’s writing collected in the nineteenth century.

Jacob Henry Leveton is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Northwestern. His work concerns the intertwined histories of carbon-intensive industry, transnational capital flows, and state surveillance from 18th-Century England through the Global Contemporary. Recently, he has been involved in developing the Ventre à Terre Collective, which includes romanticists engaging in the creation of political art and contemporary pamphleteering.

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is Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of seven books on literature by women. The most recent is The Making of Jane Austen, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) for 2017. Looser, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and NEH Public Scholar, is working on a book on the sister novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter.

Josette Lorig is a PhD candidate in English at CU Boulder. Her areas of research include Post-1945 U.S. literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture studies.

Mark Lussier is a Professor in the Department of English and a Senior Sustainability Scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. His major publications include Romantic Dynamics: The Poetics of Physicality (1999), Romanticism and Buddhism (2006), Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis (2008), and Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe (2011). His chapters and essays have appeared in a wide range of collections and journals, including Blake 2.0, Ecological Theory, Literature and Religion, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Studies in Romanticism, and Visible Language.

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is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem. His most recent book is Reading William Blake (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and among his other publications are Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2010); and William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003). In addition to his scholarly articles, he has also contributed pieces on current events to, for example, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

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Patricia Matthew (Montclair State University), is an Associate Professor of English and writes about the history of the novel and British abolitionist literature and culture. Her work has been published in Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Keats-Shelley Journal, European Romantic Review (with Manu Chander), The Atlantic, and Lapham’s Quarterly. She is currently writing a book on sugar, gender, and protest in nineteenth-century literature.

Tilar Mazzeo is Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College.

Jonathan Mulrooney is Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross and author of Romanticism and Theatrical Experience (Cambridge UP, 2018).

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Kieran Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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atrina Loughlin is a Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at Brunel University and author of Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century, which will be published this month by Cambridge University Press. With Stephanie Downes, she has co-edited Writing War in Britain and France, 1400-1854 (Routledge, 2017) and Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literatures (Palgrave, 2015). She is currently at work on editions of two women travel writers, Eliza Fay and Harriet Newell, and a book project entitled The Republic of Feeling: Ekaterina Dashkova and the Art of Literary Friendship.

Deven Parker is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a former Huntington Library fellow and the founder of CU’s 18/19 Graduate Group. She has articles forthcoming from SEL 1500-1900 and Romantic Textualities.

Marlene Perez is a PhD student in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Grace Rexroth is a PhD candidate and Center for the Humanities and the Arts fellow in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in British Romanticism, print culture, and nineteenth-century theories of memory and cognition. Her dissertation project examines how late eighteenth-century artificial memory systems influenced romantic print culture and literary philosophy. Grace is also a contributor to the NASSR Grad Student blog and her work appears in English Language Notes.

Jared S. Richman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Colorado College.

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Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, Co-Chair of Networked Events of Romantic Bicentennials 2016-2020, and Principal Investigator of the Montreal-based Interacting with Print Research Group. He has recently held residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. His publications include Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 and The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism. Sachs is currently at work, with Andrew Stauffer, on a new one-volume edition of Byron’s Major Works (under contract with Oxford University Press) and on a new monograph, provisionally titled, “Slow Time.”

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David Sigler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

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Emily B. Stanback is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Her book, The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. Her current objects of scholarly enthusiasm include Tom Wedgwood, Dorothy Wordsworth, gravestones & The Gravestone Project, and The Keats Letters Project.

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Michael Theune is a co-founding editor of the Keats Letters Project. He is the author of “Negative Capability T wang dillo dee” (Jacket 40) and co-editor (with Brian Rejack) of Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives (Liverpool UP, forthcoming). Theune is Professor of English and Writing Program Director at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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ana an ooy is a scholar of transnational and global Romanticism in the Humanities department at Michigan Technological University. Her research ranges from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century and is focused on literary, theatrical, and visual forms of cultural production. She is the author of Shelley’s Radical Stages (Routledge 2016) and is working on a monograph about the construction of the Atlantic world in the early modern period.

Denys Van Renen, Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, is the author of The Other Exchange: Women, Servants and The Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature (University of Nebraska, 2017) and Nature and the New Science in England, 1665-1726 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018). He is also co-editor of Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution (University of Virginia Press, 2018).

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Nicole M. Wright is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

A Yale PhD, her articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University. His monograph, Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene, is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press (2019). His work concerns Romanticism, environmentalism, animal studies, speculative realism, and posthumanism. His current book project, “Quantum Extinction: Love and Life in British Romanticism,” deals with Romanticism, feminism, and quantum science studies. He has published essays in Essays in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, and Literature Compass. He is editor of the collection, “Teaching Romanticism in the Anthropocene,” for Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, which includes his own essay on Mary Wollstonecraft and sexuality.

In addition, he has several more essays forthcoming in scholarly journals and book collections.

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Special Thanks to. . .

We would like to thank the generosity of the following departments and organizations in supporting this conference. It would not have been possible without their help.

Beverly Grant & Bev’s Mo Betta Greens Black American West Museum & Heritage Center Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library Bountiful by Design Center for Humanities and the Arts Center for British and Irish Studies Center for Western Civilization Comal Heritage Food Incubator Department of English at CU Boulder Resistance in the Spirit of Romanticism: Special Thanks to...

Graduate Committee for the Humanities and the Arts JA creative Media Archaeology Lab Norlin Libraries 18/19 Graduate Student Reading Group Sister Gardens Wadada Arts Foundation

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