BARS ECRs & Postgraduates

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Call for Contributors: The BARS Blog We would be excited to hear from potential contributors who would like to have their work published on the BARS Blog and shared on our popular social media pages. bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5809

CfP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies (organised by BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow 2025) Royal Holloway, in collaboration with BARS & BAVS, will host an in-person research day on Tues 3rd June bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5781

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies (Due 15-03-25) victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/cfp…

The Byron Society invites applications for a PhD bursary of up to £5,000 pa. Applications are open to new and existing full-time PhD students at a UK uni & working on a thesis addressing any aspect of the life, work &/or influence of the poet Lord Byron. bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5774

BARS Digital Symposia – Call for Expressions of Interest BARS is looking to run a series of one-day digital symposia. Along with the Digital Events, these symposia will provide spaces for more specialised topics in international conference off-years. bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5778

Call for Papers: 'Romanticism's Commons' The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference will be held online, accessibly, and hosted by Athabasca University, on August 14-16, 2025. More info and CfP: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5772

📢The CfP for the BARS Conference 2025 is officially closed! If you missed out on submitting a paper proposal but would still love to attend, we'll be sharing more info about registration and programming in a few months time. Watch this space👀

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Submissions for Issue 8, 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century', is now LIVE at this link. Please share widely within your networks! rrrjournal.com/call-for-submi…

🚨 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS!!! 🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to submit your abstracts for the BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'. Don't forget to submit your in-person or online paper or panel proposals by midnight (GMT).

Call for Proposals: BARS is delighted to invite proposals for digital roundtables in 2025! These 90-min events bring together 4/5 speakers, presenting for ca.10-minutes each, plus a Q&A. At least one of your panelists should be an ECR or PhD student. bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5768

📢 REMINDER: Submissions for the BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025 - 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness' - are due in one week! Don't forget to submit your paper and panel proposals by 20 January 2025.

📢 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.

📢We are delighted to announce that there will be several bursaries available for our 2025 conference! More details to follow once the CfP has closed. ⏰Deadline is 6th Jan so please send us your abstracts via the google links!