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

Eighth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift

von Montag, 26. Oktober 2026(09:00) bis Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2026(17:00)

Montag, 26. Oktober 2026
09:15 Welcome Addresses - Klaus Stierstorfer (Dean of Research, FB 09: Philology)
Welcome Addresses
- Klaus Stierstorfer (Dean of Research, FB 09: Philology)
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 Afterlives: Afterlives I
Afterlives I
09:30 - 10:45
Beiträge

09:30 “Men not afraid of God”: *Gulliver’s Travels* Now - Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham)

10:00 Jonathan Swift's Modelling in *Gulliver's Travels* - Klaus Stierstorfer (University of Münster)

10:30 Discussion
11:00 Afterlives: Afterlives II
Afterlives II
11:00 - 12:45
Beiträge

11:00 Gulliver the Ghostwriter - Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)

11:30 The Debts of Private Satire: Henrietta Howard and *Gulliver’s Travels* - David M. Palumbo (Emmanuel College, Boston)

12:00 Swift’s Descriptive Regime and the First Illustrations to *Gulliver’s Travels* - Andrew Bricker (Ghent University)

12:30 Discussion
13:45 Readings: Books One and Two
Books One and Two
13:45 - 15:00
Beiträge

13:45 *Gulliver* and International Relations: Then and Now - Matthew Gertken (Leawood, Kansas)

14:15 The Brobdingnagian Maids of Honour and Ideas of Female Community - Moyra Haslett (Queen’s University Belfast)

14:45 Discussion
15:15 Readings: Book Three
Book Three
15:15 - 17:00
Beiträge

15:15 Lemuel Gulliver, the “perfect stranger” - Gregory Lynall (University of Liverpool)

15:45 Gulliver and Japan, Swift and the Dutch - Clement Hawes (University of Michigan)

16:15 From Microscopes to Macrochips: Lemuel Gulliver and the Hook in Swift’s Character - Hans Förstl (München)

16:45 Discussion
Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2026
09:15 Readings: Book Four and Beyond
Book Four and Beyond
09:15 - 10:30
Beiträge

09:15 Humility, Humiliation, and Humanity in *Gulliver’s Travels* - Nicholas Seeger (Keele University)

09:45 “Earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants”: Environmental Satire in Jonathan Swift’s *Gulliver’s Travels* - Adam James Smith (York St John University)

10:15 Discussion
10:45 Contexts
10:45 - 12:30
Beiträge

10:45 Gulliver and the Golden Rule - Melinda Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)

11:15 Welcome to the 1726 Birthday Party! Contextualizing *Gulliver's Travels* in Early Enlightenment Thought - Sonja Fielitz (Marburg University)

11:45 *Gulliver* through the Lens of *New Objectivity* and *Postmodernism*: The Illustrated German Editions of 1925 and 2006 - Sigrid Seitlinger (München)

12:15 Discussion
14:00 Textual and Bibliographical Aspects
14:00 - 15:15
Beiträge

14:00 *Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels* (1727) - James Woolley (Lafayette College, Easton)

14:30 The Text, Contexts, and Afterlives of the Lindalino Episode - Kirsten Juhas (University of Münster)

15:00 Discussion
15:30 Taking Stock: Achievements and Failures
15:30 - 16:45
Beiträge

15:30 Method in the Criticism of *Gulliver's Travels*, Part Four - Stephen Karian (University of Missouri)

16:00 Responses

16:30 Discussion
16:45 Farewell - Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)
Farewell
- Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)
16:45 - 17:00