Many thanks to all who came along to our annual ‘Autumn Round-Up’ this afternoon, where friends and colleagues congregated to present and listen to a selection of papers and new research from this summer’s busy conference season! Details of our next event to follow soon… /1
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.
Full details and registration below:
swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scotti…
ALT Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads:
Scottish and Irish
Gothic
11 April
50 George Square, 1.06
2pm - 6pm
Followed by a reception
Keynote by Claire Connolly
Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.
Full details and registration below:
swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scotti…
ALT Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads:
Scottish and Irish
Gothic
11 April
50 George Square, 1.06
2pm - 6pm
Followed by a reception
Keynote by Claire Connolly
Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
🚨 Call for Papers: Family
If you are a postgraduate researcher, submit your work to FORUM!
📩 Deadline: 6 April 2025
Read the full CFP & our journal guidelines here: journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/anno…
Applications are now open for 2025-26 IASH Fellowships, with 50 places available! Apply here: iash.ed.ac.uk/application-fo…
Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 Apr.
See our Fellowship pages for details: iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-pro…
ALT An IASH Fellow in the Fellows' Library: a man with dark hair, glasses and a beard wearing a blue shirt. He is reading a book in front of glass-fronted bookshelves.
📢 Call for Blog Contributors in 2025!
Women’s History Scotland is seeking blog posts on women’s and gender history in Scotland. Share your research, projects, or thoughts on exhibitions, talks, books, or films!
For more details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kwbayum
📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED: After a wonderful initial response to our Call for Papers, we have decided to extend the deadline for the BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025 - 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.
The new deadline for all paper and panel proposals will be 20 January 2025.
📢 Call for Papers: We're delighted to invite submissions for the BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025 - 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.
🗓️ Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 4-5 September, & Online, 12 September.
Submissions due on 6 January 2025.
🔗 More Details: barsconference2025.wixsite.c…
Newly published: REGIONAL ROMANTICISM tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. link.springer.com/book/10.10…
A final 🎄pre-holiday🎄 reminder to submit an abstract for #BARS025, ‘Romantic (Un)Consciousness’, if you’ve not already done so!
CFP CLOSES 6 JANUARY 2025
Very happy to be able to offer a number of bursaries; more details to follow in the New Year! ✨
barsconference2025.wixsite.c…
🌿CFP for a special journal issue of Scottish Literary Review @scotlit, entitled 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing', edited by @SarahDunnigan1 and me. Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025. Full details below.🌿
📢 As part of our conference programme we're delighted to announce a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College to view a curated selection of Romantic-period materials on September 4 at 17.30.
Remember to submit your abstracts! Our CfP remains open until January 6 2025.
Only eleven sleeps till Christmas so the little bears are busy with the finishing touches for their tree 🎄 🧸 From Molly Brett's The Jumble Bears (1977) in Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood book collection @EdinCulture#children#books#TEDDYBEAR
Happy that Remediating the 1820s is now available as a (relatively) affordable paperback. One of the reasons we wanted to publish with @EdinburghUP was their commitment to paperback releases: edinburghuniversitypress.com….
📢Happy to announce that registration is now OPEN for our conference, 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century' (17 Jan. 2025 @UniKent)📢
Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-in-t…
Programme here: rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d4…
Do share widely; we look forward to seeing you in the New Year!
Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), guest edited by myself, @MJRSangster, and @maxinebranagh, is now out in the world and ready to read!
euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40…
Now on the BARS Blog: CFP: 49th International Byron Conference
Check out the details here! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5701
And don't forget to share widely! Thank you!
*FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT* We are delighted to announce the inaugural round of the RIISS New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship. Open to scholars proposing projects in Irish and Scottish Studies. For details on how to apply, please see the following link: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news/23799/