Unknown Tongues is a symposium on Romanticism’s minor and marginal languages. On 24 September 2021, invited leading scholars will gather online to debate and discuss what a closer study of (trans)national Romanticisms through their languages can bring to Romantic and nineteenth-century studies, and what relevance a recovery of these traditions may have for our sense of the present.

Organised by Brecht de Groote (Universiteit Gent ⬨ University of Ghent) and Rhys Kaminski-Jones (Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant ⬨ University of Wales Trinity Saint David).

• Conference Website

My paper “How Finnish Romanticism became Finnish: The Romantic Background of the Kalevala” was held on 24. September 2021 at 12.30 on Zoom.