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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Nov 11

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!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 7h

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

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 8h

Call for Papers: British Society for Literature and Science (@thebsls.bsky.social) 21st Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, 9th-11th April 2026. 200-word abstracts due by 12th December 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6183

CfP: British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference – BARS Blog

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Studies in Romanticism @studiesinrom.bsky.social · 1d

We are excited to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, which includes essays by Hilary Havens, Greta Colombani, and David Mullins. The issue is available Open Access on Project Muse
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 1d

It might have ended up in your junk? Have you been getting other emails from BARS? If not I can talk to Amy and figure out why you’re not getting them (this is Chloe—I certainly do not know the mysteries of the mailing list).

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 2d

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a Zoom link for the first session in the email sent round the BARS mail-base. For future sessions, if you email [email protected] they’ll add you to their mailing list :)

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 2d

The @bars.bsky.social President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Read more here: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

BARS President’s Fellowship – British Association for Romantic Studies

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

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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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to be re-elected as Vice President of @bars.bsky.social and looking forward to continuing work with our excellent team to strengthen Equality, Diversity and Inclusion practices, not least toward our academic-adjacent colleagues and supporters. Thanks to all members who cast their vote!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

Our friends at ‘Romanticism across Borders’ are back! As in previous years, all events will continue to be held online, with the first one coming up soon.

The session will take place on Wednesday 22 October, on Zoom at 5.30pm (London time, or GMT+01, i.e. 6.30, Paris time).

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

Please see the blog post at the link below for results of the BARS Executive Elections 2025.

Thanks to those who stood for election, and to the membership for voting.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6146

Many thanks,
BARS Executive Committee

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 3d

Just a little write up of my summer research project!

I'm very excited to be building this into something for publication in the future.

British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

New on the BARS Blog: Jordan Welsh's (@jordanwelshy.bsky.social) Copley Report on his research into Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz's friendship. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6167

Stephen Copley Research Award Report: Jordan Welsh on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz’s Friendship – BARS Blog

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

New on the BARS Blog: Jordan Welsh's (@jordanwelshy.bsky.social) Copley Report on his research into Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz's friendship. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6167

Stephen Copley Research Award Report: Jordan Welsh on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz’s Friendship – BARS Blog

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

New on the BARS Blog: Christina Morin's Open Fellowship Report, "Hocquet Caritat, the Minerva Press, and the ‘Patronizers of Polite and Entertaining Literature in America’".
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6159

Open Fellowship Report: Hocquet Caritat, the Minerva Press, and the ‘Patronizers of Polite and Entertaining Literature in America’ – BARS Blog

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

We are now on Instagram, where you can follow us @bars_romanticism!

We’ll be posting news, videos, and photos about our activities.
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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 3d

Keats Shelley Prize entries are now open, for both the Poetry and Essay Prize.
Deadline is 10am (GMT) on Monday 2 February 2026
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6155

Keats-Shelley Prize 2025-26 – BARS Blog

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 6d

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 6d

KSJ Volume 72 is now available on Project MUSE!
Read the latest issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50898

Members will receive print copies soon!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 6d

On the BARS blog: information on applying for the @ksaacomm.bsky.social Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Grants, worth $3000. Deadline 1st November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6151

Funding Opportunity: Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants – BARS Blog

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 6d

The newest issue of the BARS Review is now published! Check out issue 61 at the link below.
Thanks to all our wonderful reviewers!
www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here:
Deadline Sunday 30 November.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

BARS Biennial Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection – Updates and Call for Papers Announced – BARS Blog

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 11d

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

Article cover image of a blossoming branch in front of a stack of books

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 24d

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review

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