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CfP: Keats Foundation Annual Conference: 'The Keats Circle' (5th-7th June 2026)
Abstracts due 21st February.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6210
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
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-...
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
Fellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow
Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
British Association for Romantic Studies
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
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
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
Panel calls for BARS 2026 are up on the blog!
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon & the Poetics of Retrospection (convened by Emily Rohrbach)
- Repetitions & Innovations in Late German Romanticism (Joanna Neilly)
- Creative-Critical Writing & Romantic Studies (Adam Neikirk)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
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...
