Oxford hosts the inaugural workshop of the collaborative research project “Symbolism and Decadence as World Literature”

Poster by Gisbert Gombaz, 1895.

Led by Professor Clément Dessy at ULB and Professors Stefano Maria Evangelista and Patrick McGuinness at Oxford University, the research project “Symbolism and Decadence as World Literature” is one of the nine collaborations supported by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation for the 2022-2024 period.

The inaugural workshop of this project was held at St Anne’s College, Oxford, on October 21-22. Entitled “Geographies of Symbolism – Symbolist Geographies”, it explored how geography affected symbolism and how symbolism reconfigured geography.

Speakers included Wiener-Anspach Fellow Edward Lee-Six, who presented a paper on “‘Thekla’ by Jane Wilde and the Symbolist North”. Dr Lee-Six has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a research project at ULB on “Émile Verhaeren at the cross-roads of Belgian symbolism and English romanticism”. He will work with Prof. Clément Dessy, himself an Alumnus of the Foundation.

More information about “Symbolism and Decadence as World Literature” is available on the project’s website.