Eighth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift

Europe/Berlin
Schloss Münster

Schloss Münster

Hermann J. Real, Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas, Klaus Stierstorfer
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Celebrating 300 Years of Gulliver's Travels

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    • 09:00 09:30
      Welcome Addresses 30m
    • 09:30 10:45
      Afterlives: Afterlives I
      Sitzungsleiter: Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)
      • 09:30
        “Men not afraid of God”: *Gulliver’s Travels* Now 30m
        Sprecher: Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham)
      • 10:00
        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 30m
        Sprecher: Ruth Menzies (Aix-Marseille Université)
      • 10:30
        Discussion 15m
    • 11:00 12:45
      Afterlives: Afterlives II
      Sitzungsleiter: Ashley Marshall (University of Nevada)
      • 11:00
        Gulliver the Ghostwriter 30m
        Sprecher: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)
      • 11:30
        The Debts of Private Satire: Henrietta Howard and *Gulliver’s Travels* 30m
        Sprecher: David M. Palumbo (Emmanuel College, Boston)
      • 12:00
        Swift’s Descriptive Regime and the First Illustrations to *Gulliver’s Travels* 30m
        Sprecher: Andrew Bricker (Ghent University)
      • 12:30
        Discussion 15m
    • 13:45 15:00
      Readings: Books One and Two
      Sitzungsleiter: Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn)
      • 13:45
        *Gulliver* and International Relations: Then and Now 30m
        Sprecher: Matthew Gertken (Leawood, Kansas)
      • 14:15
        The Brobdingnagian Maids of Honour and Ideas of Female Community 30m
        Sprecher: Moyra Haslett (Queen’s University Belfast)
      • 14:45
        Discussion 15m
    • 15:15 17:00
      Readings: Book Three
      Sitzungsleiter: J. A. Downie (Goldsmith's College, London)
      • 15:15
        Lemuel Gulliver, the “perfect stranger” 30m
        Sprecher: Gregory Lynall (University of Liverpool)
      • 15:45
        Gulliver and Japan, Swift and the Dutch 30m
        Sprecher: Clement Hawes (University of Michigan)
      • 16:15
        From Microscopes to Macrochips: Lemuel Gulliver and the Hook in Swift’s Character 30m
        Sprecher: Hans Förstl (München)
      • 16:45
        Discussion 15m
    • 09:15 11:00
      Readings: Book Four and Beyond
      Sitzungsleiter: Janika Bischof (University of Münster)
      • 09:15
        “A Strange Animal”: Defining Humanity in *Gulliver’s Travels* 30m
        Sprecher: Corrina Readioff (University of Liverpool)
      • 09:45
        Humility, Humiliation, and Humanity in *Gulliver’s Travels* 30m
        Sprecher: Nicholas Seeger (Keele University)
      • 10:15
        “Earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants”: Environmental Satire in Jonathan Swift’s *Gulliver’s Travels* 30m
        Sprecher: Adam James Smith (York St John University)
      • 10:45
        Discussion 15m
    • 11:15 12:30
      Contexts
      Sitzungsleiter: Klaus Stierstorfer (University of Münster)
      • 11:15
        Gulliver and the Golden Rule 30m
        Sprecher: Melinda Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
      • 11:45
        Welcome to the 1726 Birthday Party! Contextualizing *Gulliver's Travels* in Early Enlightenment Thought 30m
        Sprecher: Sonja Fielitz (Marburg University)
      • 12:15
        Discussion 15m
    • 14:00 15:15
      Textual and Bibliographical Aspects
      Sitzungsleiter: James E. May (Lancaster)
      • 14:00
        *Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels* (1727) 30m
        Sprecher: James Woolley (Lafayette College, Easton)
      • 14:30
        The Text, Contexts, and Afterlives of the Lindalino Episode 30m
        Sprecher: Kirsten Juhas (University of Münster)
      • 15:00
        Discussion 15m
    • 15:30 16:45
      Taking Stock: Achievements and Failures
      Sitzungsleiter: Dirk F. Passmann
      • 15:30
        Method in the Criticism of *Gulliver's Travels*, Part Four 30m
        Sprecher: Stephen Karian (University of Missouri)
      • 16:00
        Responses 30m
      • 16:30
        Discussion 15m
    • 16:45 17:00
      Farewell 15m
      Sprecher: Hermann J. Real (University of Münster)