Romanticism as distinctive global phenomenon

The Research Training Group on 'Model Romanticism' is entering its second phase. Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena) - DFG funds research training group 'Romanticism as a Model' at the University of Jena until 2024 Liberty What connects the Australian poets David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson with Jena? Where is the overlap between Romanticism, colonialism and the African country Cameroon? Since 2015, the research training group on the topic 'Romanticism as a Model. Variation - Scope - Relevance' at the University of Jena in Germany has been studying the influence of Romanticism on current forms of world interpretation, self-reflection, aesthetic design and ways of living. Topics of political discourse or the history of ideas are dealt with, as well as forms of religio­sity, scientific aspects, art inspired by Romanticism or phenomena of sub­culture and mass culture. Academics from the fields of literary studies, language studies, musicology and art studies, as well as history, theology, computational linguistics and socio­logy, work with partners from Jena, Germany and the wider world to study Romanticism as a distinctive phenomenon in Europe - and also beyond Europe. Second funding phase with 4.5 million euros from the DFG. In summer 2019, researcher Dr Ruth Barratt-Peacock from Tasmania gained her doctorate on the romantic interpretation of the world in contemporary Australian poetry, as shown in the examples of well-known writer David Malouf and Aboriginal poet Samuel Wagan Watson.