Monday, 30 September

2:00 – 2:30 Daniel Fliege (Hamburg) / Jenny Körber (Hamburg) / Annika Nickenig (FU Berlin)
Introduction

Contexts of Prison and War

2:30 – 3:15 Leyla Sophie Gleissner (Paris, France)
“Herzensschatzi Komm“. Inscription and Interpellation in Emma Hauck’s 1909
Letters

3:45 – 4:30 Claudia Pimentel (Porto, Portugal)
Beyond “Bordered” Love

4:30 – 5:15 Maddalena Casarini (Berlin)
“Les graffitis amoureux”. Love Engravings on Prison Walls in Jean Genet’s Novels

Tuesday, 1 October

Evidence of Love in Space

9:00 – 9:45 Leah Mascia (Hamburg)
Echoes of Love From the Lands of Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt:
Tracing Evidence Through Archaeological, Papyrological, and Epigraphic Sources

9:45 – 10:30 Katherine Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College, US)
Tree Encarvings in 17th Century France

11:00 – 11:45 Ceri Houlbrook (Hertfordshire, UK)
Unlocking the Love-Lock

11:45 – 12:30 Peera Panarut (Hamburg)
Inscribing Royal Love. Inscriptions of Love from the Royal Cemetry of Bangkok

The Love Letter

2:00 – 2:45 Jonathan Gibson (The Open University, UK)
Convention, Incident and Rhetoric in the Materiality
of Early Modern English Love Letters

2:45 – 3:30 Eike Großmann (Hamburg)
“Writing your First Love Letter”:
Social Practices of Inscribing Love in Early Modern Japan

4:00 – 4:45 Piera Mazzaglia (Gießen, Germany)
Materiality and Performativity of Love’s Expressions in 19th Unpublished Love Letters written by Everyday Lovers

4:45 – 5:30 Eva Wyss (Koblenz, Germany)
Materializing Love. Linguistic Variations in 19th and 20th Century Love Letters

Wednesday, 2 October

Love, Bodies and Communication

9:00 – 9:45 Ya’ara Gil-Glazer (Tel Hai College, Israel)
Materiality and Performativity of Love’s Expressions in 19th Unpublished Love Letters written by Everyday Lovers

9:45 – 10:30 Jungyoon Yang (Seoul, South Korea)
Feigned Love in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Wedding Booklets

11:00 – 11:45 Janine Droese (Hamburg)
Vier Alben von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy an ihm nahestehende Personen

11:45 – 12:30 Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam (Aarhus, Denmark)
From Letter Box to Inbox. Changes and Constancies in the 20th and 21st Century Love Communication

12:30 – 1:00 Final discussion