Monday, 30 September
2:00 – 2:30 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
3:15 – 3:45 Coffee break
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
6:00 Reception
Tuesday, 1 October, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
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) Carving symbols of love in bark and skin in the 17th c. French pastoral novels
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
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
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch break
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
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 4:45 Piera Mazzaglia (Gießen, Germany) Materiality and Performativity of Love’s Expressions in 19th Unpublished Love Letters written by Everyday Lovers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) Love Letters and Beyond: Insights from the Koblenz and Darmstadt Love Letter Archive
7:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 2 October, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Love, Bodies and Communication
9:00 – 9:45 Ya’ara Gil-Glazer (Tel Hai College, Israel) All we need is love and peace: The public relationship of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in photographs, performance, and songs’ lyrics
9:45 – 10:30 Jungyoon Yang (Seoul, South Korea) Feigned Love in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Wedding Booklets
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Janine Droese (Hamburg) Expressing love through albums. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s albums for Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy, née Jeanrenaud, and the singer Jenny Lind
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