📚 🥂 Congratulations to Dr Alison O’Byrne and Prof Jim Watt on the publication of their co-edited collection, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours. Out now from CUP: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

🎁 New #ResearchCultureUncovered Episode: Navigating Failure in Academia

Dr Taryn Bell explores the topic of failure in academia, featuring insights from Dr Johanna Stadlbauer, Prof Leila Jancovich, Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social & Dr Anna Pilz @apilz.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce the CFP for the first special issue of Women’s writing devoted to Irish women writers that I’m editing with Amy Prendergast (TCD)!! Please share far and wide and consider submitting!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH -
for our 2024 Annual Conference New York 28-30 June - “Time in Nineteenth-Century Ireland”

Looking forward to "Romantic Making and Unmaking" @bars.bsky.social in Glasgow this summer. More coastal ponderings forthcoming from me! 🌊

Excited to be working with @miriamlw.bsky.social on this new collection. Please share and submit. #healthhums #c18 #histmed

Although it's a "romantic" landscape, someone viewing this painting circa 1820 would have instantly recognized it as a modern, artificially planted, and highly managed woodland. In it, Friedrich portrays the beauty of the technocratic values of resource management.

Friedrich, Evening, c 1820

Just published - Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms, special issue of Romanticism and the Net edited by Penny Fielding and @apilz.bsky.social 💦🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I have an article in this collection, 'Watery Romanticism: Walking and Sailing West with Keats'

ronjournal.openum.ca/articles/n79/

Excited to share the publication of "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms", co-edited w/ Penny Fielding in the #OA journal Romanticism on the Net! Thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social & team for their great work on this issue. Thanks Marie Curie Actions for funding the project.

shorturl.at/iwKM0

The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from July 23rd-25th and online August 1st-2nd.
Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference20...

Back from a residential Writing Retreat at The Burn! What a place & what a great group of researchers. Had great fun facilitating plenty of writing, while also enjoying woodland walks, and playing a game of chess. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for organising!

This term's program for our seminars on colonial instructions! For Zoom-link please email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. Next speaker, on the 25 Oct, is the fabulous Caroline Cornish.#histsci