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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    • 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
    • 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)