British Association for Romantic Studies
@bars.bsky.social
The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
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Hello again to everyone on BlueSky!
We're the British Association for Romantic Studies & we promote the study of Romanticism & the history and culture of the period from which it emerged.
We organise conferences, circulate news, award fellowships, support PGRs & ECRs, publish a review & much more!
We're the British Association for Romantic Studies & we promote the study of Romanticism & the history and culture of the period from which it emerged.
We organise conferences, circulate news, award fellowships, support PGRs & ECRs, publish a review & much more!
TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!
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You just need to submit a proposal for the @bars.bsky.social conference before 30 Nov and write a *short* application note to apply for the bursary.
Of you're a historian, filmmaker, lawyer, architect, consultant, teacher, librarian - or anything else - share your new #romanticism insights with us!
Of you're a historian, filmmaker, lawyer, architect, consultant, teacher, librarian - or anything else - share your new #romanticism insights with us!
Also a reminder that @bars.bsky.social are offering a new conference #bursary this year, for professionals outside academia (not only teaching, heritage, alt-ac but any job) who are interested in #Romanticis and want to present their research.
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
You just need to submit a proposal for the @bars.bsky.social conference before 30 Nov and write a *short* application note to apply for the bursary.
Of you're a historian, filmmaker, lawyer, architect, consultant, teacher, librarian - or anything else - share your new #romanticism insights with us!
Of you're a historian, filmmaker, lawyer, architect, consultant, teacher, librarian - or anything else - share your new #romanticism insights with us!
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Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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Also a reminder that @bars.bsky.social are offering a new conference #bursary this year, for professionals outside academia (not only teaching, heritage, alt-ac but any job) who are interested in #Romanticis and want to present their research.
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Also a reminder that @bars.bsky.social are offering a new conference #bursary this year, for professionals outside academia (not only teaching, heritage, alt-ac but any job) who are interested in #Romanticis and want to present their research.
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Details on BARS website
#funding #IndependentScholars
Huge congratulations to the winner, Łukasz Mokrzycki, and runner-up, Andrin Albrecht, of the Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which was open to those who presented at the BARS PGR/ECR Conference in September. 🥳
More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212
More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212
Outcome: BARS ECR/PGR Conference | Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Huge congratulations to the winner, Łukasz Mokrzycki, and runner-up, Andrin Albrecht, of the Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which was open to those who presented at the BARS PGR/ECR Conference in September. 🥳
More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212
More on the BARS Blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6212
CfP: Health and Happiness / La santé et le bonheur Conference, Cardiff University, 8-10th April 2026
200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216
200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216
www.bars.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
CfP: Health and Happiness / La santé et le bonheur Conference, Cardiff University, 8-10th April 2026
200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216
200-word abstracts due in French or English by 1 December 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6216
Reminder that the next Stephen Copley Award deadline is 15th November!
The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reminder that the next Stephen Copley Award deadline is 15th November!
The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
The Stephen Copley Research Award funds bursaries of up to £500 for postgraduate and early-career researchers. See the website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
The deadline for the Wordsworth Winter Conference CfP has been extended to 1st December 2025!
The conference will be in Grasmere on 4th-7th March 2026, with the theme of "Romantic Ballads and Romantic Songs".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6214
The conference will be in Grasmere on 4th-7th March 2026, with the theme of "Romantic Ballads and Romantic Songs".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6214
Call for Papers: Wordsworth Winter Conference – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The deadline for the Wordsworth Winter Conference CfP has been extended to 1st December 2025!
The conference will be in Grasmere on 4th-7th March 2026, with the theme of "Romantic Ballads and Romantic Songs".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6214
The conference will be in Grasmere on 4th-7th March 2026, with the theme of "Romantic Ballads and Romantic Songs".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6214
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I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on | My Site
www.georgianyork.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
CfP: Keats Foundation Annual Conference: 'The Keats Circle' (5th-7th June 2026)
Abstracts due 21st February.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6210
Abstracts due 21st February.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6210
CfP: Keats Foundation Annual Conference: ‘The Keats Circle’ – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CfP: Keats Foundation Annual Conference: 'The Keats Circle' (5th-7th June 2026)
Abstracts due 21st February.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6210
Abstracts due 21st February.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6210
BARS News: Submit your proposals for Spring 2026 BARS Digital Events!
We are looking for 90-minute roundtables of four or five speakers, at least one of whom should be an ECR of PhD student.
250-word abstracts due 7th January 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6207
We are looking for 90-minute roundtables of four or five speakers, at least one of whom should be an ECR of PhD student.
250-word abstracts due 7th January 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6207
Call for Proposals: BARS Digital Events 2026 – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
BARS News: Submit your proposals for Spring 2026 BARS Digital Events!
We are looking for 90-minute roundtables of four or five speakers, at least one of whom should be an ECR of PhD student.
250-word abstracts due 7th January 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6207
We are looking for 90-minute roundtables of four or five speakers, at least one of whom should be an ECR of PhD student.
250-word abstracts due 7th January 2026.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6207
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
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The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
rs4vp.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
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Had a lovely time listening and learning about volcanic sublimity and coping with climate catastrophe last night with @bars.bsky.social 🌋Excellent papers from @dilarakalkan.bsky.social @katlion.bsky.social and Chloe Melvin! And huge thanks to our wonderful chair @davidhiggins.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Had a lovely time listening and learning about volcanic sublimity and coping with climate catastrophe last night with @bars.bsky.social 🌋Excellent papers from @dilarakalkan.bsky.social @katlion.bsky.social and Chloe Melvin! And huge thanks to our wonderful chair @davidhiggins.bsky.social
THIS EVENING!
Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Volcanic Romanticism (30 Oct 7pm UK time)
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
THIS EVENING!
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
bcrw.barnard.edu
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
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📣 Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person.
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
The Foxite Whigs and Visual Culture, 1780-1810
This book examines how sociability was strategically employed by the Foxite-Whigs and argues for the existence of two primary forms of sociability
link.springer.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
📣 Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person.
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
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Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
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This Wednesday! First @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar of the season!
First up is:
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This Wednesday! First @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar of the season!
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Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...
Talk: Performing Race and Empire in Victorian Glasgow - Glasgow Life
Talk on 19th century Glasgow Theatres
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...
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Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism
Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...
Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...
Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...
talks.ox.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism
Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...
Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...