Eighth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift

Name: Eighth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Start: 2026-10-26T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-27T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Schloss Münster

26.10.2026, 09:00 → 27.10.2026, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Schloss Münster

Hermann J. Real, Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas, Klaus Stierstorfer

Beschreibung

Celebrating 300 Years of Gulliver's Travels

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Mo., 26. Oktober
- Mo., 26. Okt.
- Di., 27. Okt.
- 1
  
  Welcome Addresses
- Afterlives: Afterlives I
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)
  - 2
    
    “Men not afraid of God”: *Gulliver’s Travels* Now
    
    Sprecher: Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham)
  - 3
    
    Pinging off the Guy-Ropes, Pro-EU Blobs, Jug Ears and Gentle Giants: Gulliver’s Literary and Visual Journey through Twenty-First Century UK Politics
    
    Sprecher: Ruth Menzies (Aix-Marseille Université)
  - 4
    
    Discussion
- Afterlives: Afterlives II
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Ashley Marshall (University of Nevada)
  - 5
    
    Gulliver the Ghostwriter
    
    Sprecher: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)
  - 6
    
    The Debts of Private Satire: Henrietta Howard and *Gulliver’s Travels*
    
    Sprecher: David M. Palumbo (Emmanuel College, Boston)
  - 7
    
    Swift’s Descriptive Regime and the First Illustrations to *Gulliver’s Travels*
    
    Sprecher: Andrew Bricker (Ghent University)
  - 8
    
    Discussion
- Readings: Books One and Two
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn)
  - 9
    
    *Gulliver* and International Relations: Then and Now
    
    Sprecher: Matthew Gertken (Leawood, Kansas)
  - 10
    
    The Brobdingnagian Maids of Honour and Ideas of Female Community
    
    Sprecher: Moyra Haslett (Queen’s University Belfast)
  - 11
    
    Discussion
- Readings: Book Three
  
  Sitzungsleiter: J. A. Downie (Goldsmith's College, London)
  - 12
    
    Lemuel Gulliver, the “perfect stranger”
    
    Sprecher: Gregory Lynall (University of Liverpool)
  - 13
    
    Gulliver and Japan, Swift and the Dutch
    
    Sprecher: Clement Hawes (University of Michigan)
  - 14
    
    From Microscopes to Macrochips: Lemuel Gulliver and the Hook in Swift’s Character
    
    Sprecher: Hans Förstl (München)
  - 15
    
    Discussion
Di., 27. Oktober
- Mo., 26. Okt.
- Di., 27. Okt.
- Readings: Book Four and Beyond
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Janika Bischof (University of Münster)
  - 16
    
    “A Strange Animal”: Defining Humanity in *Gulliver’s Travels*
    
    Sprecher: Corrina Readioff (University of Liverpool)
  - 17
    
    Humility, Humiliation, and Humanity in *Gulliver’s Travels*
    
    Sprecher: Nicholas Seeger (Keele University)
  - 18
    
    “Earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants”: Environmental Satire in Jonathan Swift’s *Gulliver’s Travels*
    
    Sprecher: Adam James Smith (York St John University)
  - 19
    
    Discussion
- Contexts
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Klaus Stierstorfer (University of Münster)
  - 20
    
    Gulliver and the Golden Rule
    
    Sprecher: Melinda Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
  - 21
    
    Welcome to the 1726 Birthday Party! Contextualizing *Gulliver's Travels* in Early Enlightenment Thought
    
    Sprecher: Sonja Fielitz (Marburg University)
  - 22
    
    Discussion
- Textual and Bibliographical Aspects
  
  Sitzungsleiter: James E. May (Lancaster)
  - 23
    
    *Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels* (1727)
    
    Sprecher: James Woolley (Lafayette College, Easton)
  - 24
    
    The Text, Contexts, and Afterlives of the Lindalino Episode
    
    Sprecher: Kirsten Juhas (University of Münster)
  - 25
    
    Discussion
- Taking Stock: Achievements and Failures
  
  Sitzungsleiter: Dirk F. Passmann
  - 26
    
    Method in the Criticism of *Gulliver's Travels*, Part Four
    
    Sprecher: Stephen Karian (University of Missouri)
  - 27
    
    Responses
  - 28
    
    Discussion
- 29
  
  Farewell
  
  Sprecher: Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)