BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations β BARS Blog
Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.socialβs blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Do share widely!
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Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize
The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length worβ¦
Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Β£300 prize.
ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
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A printed image of an Eastern dragon over a stormy sea: Utagawa Kuniyoshi ζε·ε½θ³ (1798-1861), 'Dragon and Waves', Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Smithsonian, https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/S2004.3.149/.
A helpful dragon to remind you that the Call for Papers and Sessions for the inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts (23rd-25th June 2026 in Glasgow), closes on Friday 12th December.
More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....
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Just sent in my BARS 2026 proposal - if you haven't yet done so, you still have 59 minutes...
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the InterrogativeΒ Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
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RLF Archive
Index of the case files for those who first applied between 1790 and 1939 is here: www.rlfarchive.org.uk. Hopefully, the full set of catalogue records should be available again when the new BL manuscripts catalogue is up in a week or two.
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5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! βοΈ
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Many thanks for your talk! Twas great to see you.
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Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.
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Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP β¨
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Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) β Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
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Benjamin Bell.
The transcription of Edinburgh University Libraryβs Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project is well underway. Kit Baston gives an update on her project, funded by an OEC Jean Guild Grant. #edinburghsurgeons #edinburghuniversitylibrary #RCSEd
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...
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Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to Β£2500.
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Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
π£Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
Weβre delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
πClosing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
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Fantasyβs Present Pasts β Call for Papers and Sessions β Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
A reminder that we're hosting the first European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts, in Glasgow next summer (23rd-25th June 2026). The Call for Papers and Sessions can be found here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20.... Closes 12th December. Please do consider submitting!
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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-...
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Call for Proposals: BARS Digital Events 2026 β BARS Blog
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
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No tricks, just opportunities! π Apply for our Research Internships before the deadline creeps up β Friday 31 October!
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BARS Stephen Copley Research Award - applications open (deadline Nov 15 2025)
Postgraduate researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies are invited to apply for a BARS Stephen Copley Research Award, to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of Β£500.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
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BARS News: Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.Β
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
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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.
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...
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Shelleyβs Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelleyβs poetry.
Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Shelleyβs Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 Nov 6pm UK time)
Roundtable with Neil Fraistat, Nora Crook, Stephen Behrendt, and Madeleine Callaghan
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
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The BARS Presidentβs Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studiesβ―to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to Β£1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
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Coleridge in 1809: 'In the present age (emphatically the age of personality!) there are more than ordinary motives for withholding all encouragement from this mania, of busying ourselves with the names of others, which is still more alarming as a symptom, than it is troublesome as a disease.'
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Fantasyβs Present Pasts β Call for Papers and Sessions β Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
Call for Papers and Sessions
Fantasyβs Present Pasts
University of Glasgow
Tuesday 23rd β Thursday 25th June 2026
Keynote Speakers: Stefan Ekman, Sofia Samatar and Helen Young
More details on the conference in the post linked below - deadline for proposals is Friday 12th December.
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It is a great joke. I think Peter Conradi read the two authors as being divisions of the things Murdoch feared she was or was seen as. There's certainly some very self-aware exaggerations of her quirks.
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New Yorker abroad. Adam Smith Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at University of Glasgow studying governance by/of corporations. Sometimes journalist. Always feminist.
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social
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Giving this another try...
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Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
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Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Global Romanticism, University College London.
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Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities
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Philosophy of literature, Post-Romantic media.
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a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present
Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & theatre & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
