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C19c Day Conference: “COLLABORATIONS”

Monday 27 April 2026, Parliament Hall

 Conference Programme

 9:00-10:15: Interdisciplinary Collaborations (Chair: Professor Mary Orr)

 Professor Christian Moser (Bonn) ‘Diderot – Geßner – Kleist: Outlines of a Transnational and Transgenerational Collaboration’

Dr Adeline Heck: ‘Catulle Mendès’s & Emmanuel Chabrier’s Intermedial Collaboration: Forging the French Artwork of the Future’

 Anqi Huang: ‘Interdisciplinarity, Collaboration, and the “Geddesian World”’

 10:15-10:30: Tea and coffee break

 10:30-11:30: Political Collaborations (Chair: Professor Aileen Fyfe)

 Professor Sean Allan: ‘Franco-German Collaboration and the Mainz Republic

Professor Will Fowler: ‘“The road to hell is paved with good collaborations”’: Maximilian, Napoleon III, the Mexican Monarchists, Pope Pius IX and the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67)”

 11:30-12:30: Pedagogical Collaborations (Chair: Dr Stephanie O’Rourke)

 Professor Christos Lynteris: ‘A Collaborative Anademic: Pasteurian Science and Sylvatic Plague in Postcolonial Mauritania’

Agnese Martini: ‘Teaching Seaweeds: Epistolary Pedagogy and Knowledge Production in the Toscanelli-Ardissone Correspondence (1880-89)’

 12:30-13:30:   Lunch

 13:30-14:30: Archive Collaborations (Chair: Dr Andrew Cusack)

 Maitrayee Roychoudhury and Dipankar Sarkar: ‘“Archeglyph”: Re-imaging Archives through Cross-disciplinary Collaborations’

 Dr Laurence Talairach (Alexandre-Koyré Center, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès): “‘She Sells Seashells by the Seashore’: Seaweed Hunting and Women’s Collaborations in Nineteenth-Century Britain’

14:30-15:30: Poetic Collaborations (Chair: Professor Linda Goddard)

Dr Gregory Tate: ‘Humphry Davy’s Collaborative Poetry’

Dr Dave Evans: ‘New Motherhood, Between Poetry and Music: The Songs of Claire Delbos’

15:30-16:00: Tea and Coffee Break

 16:00-17:00: Plenary DR EDWARD SHAWCROSS (Chair: Professor Will Fowler)

 Dr Edward Shawcross: “‘The future will know all his crimes”: Napoléon III and the limits of collaboration’