The event is the second part of a cooperative two-part workshop between the History of Art Departments of the University of York and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Considering the institution's main research areas, the event aims to discuss the different concepts of Europe present in the art and culture of Romanticism.

In recent years, national tendencies have challenged the European idea, exemplified by the wake of Brexit and its aftermath. In this context, the question arises to what extent European and national identity concepts can be reconciled. Today's debate between Britain and Europe still roots in the divergent notions of national identity that manifested in several European countries in the 1800s.

Therefore, the workshop addresses the relationship between visual images and constructions of nationality and questions how European Romanticism can be understood. In contrast to literary studies, investigating transnational transfer processes of Romantic movements has been a desideratum in art historical research. Considering transcultural methods, the participants will reflect national patterns of thought and Romantic identities not as fixed but as processual and hybrid phenomena within the framework of the binational exchange. Based on individual case studies, the event aims to reevaluate the complex interplay of alterity and reciprocity of the relations between cultural spaces.

For further details visit the event page of the University of York or the page of the University of Jena.

Location:
King's Manor
University of York
Huntingdon Room & K/111 York
YO1 7EP

Contact: europaeischeromantik@uni-jena.de

Social Media: www.twitter.com/EurRomanticismExterner Link and www.twitter.com/ArtHistoryYorkExterner Link 

Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and University of York.