Conferences and Calls for Papers

If you would like to advertise a conference or other event on the BARS website and electronic mailbase (for members only), please send the text by email to Padmini Ray Murray (website) and Neil Ramsey (mailbase).

Conferences that have been advertised previously on the BARS electronic mailbase can be seen at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html.

See also "For Members" pages for publishing calls.

The dates given here indicate the first day of the conference rather than its duration.  Conference details will be retained for the year in which the conference takes place for information purposes.

• Emblems of Nationhood, 1707–1901 (10.8.'12, UK)
• Situating and Interpreting States of Mind 1700-2000 An Interdisciplinary Conference (14.6.'12, UK)
• Anna Letitia Barbauld in Twenty Hundred and Twelve: New Perspectives (11.5.'12, UK)
• Citizens of the World Conference: Adapting (in) the Eighteenth Century (22.6.'12, Singapore)
• Romanticism and Secrets (2.5.'12, UK)
• Locating Revolution (9.7.'12, UK)
• Paranoia and Pain: Embodied in Psychology, Literature, and Bioscience (2.4.'12, UK)
• First Annual Studies in Gothic Fiction Conference(16.3.'12, US)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Britain (28/6/'12, UK)
• Eleventh Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop(9/5/'12, US)
• Spiritual Matters/Matters of the Spirit, 33rd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Association (22/3/'12, US)
• British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41st Annual Conference ''Landscapes & Environments' (4/1/'12, UK)
• Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928) (15/6/'12)
• 200 Years of Sense & Sensibility (9/9/'11)
• Romanticism & Philosophy (28/9/'12)
• War’s Affects: Mediating Conflict and Emotion, 1700-1900 (5/10/'11)
• International conference, Southey and European Romanticism (27/6/'11)
• Female Explorers: Women’s Scientific Travelling, 1750-1850 (3/3/'12)
• Crabbe's Tales Conference (12/7/'12)
• Encountering Malta: British Writers and the Mediterranean 1760-1840 (18/11/'11, Malta)
• Bluestockings: The Social Network (3/6/'11, UK)
• Spectres of Class (15/7/'11,UK)
• International Conference on Dialect and Literature (11/7/'11, UK)
• Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Narratives, Histories and Collections (14/7/'11, UK)
• Romantic Identities: Selves in Society, 1770-1835 (13/5/'11 London)
• Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd (2/8.'11 Germany)
• ‘The Object of Poetry’ (26.3.'11, UK)
• Money/Myths: 32nd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (3/3-3/6/11; due 9/15/10, USA)
• Poetry and Melancholia, University of Stirling (8.07.'11, UK)
• The Ninth Scott Conference: Walter Scott, Sheriff and Outlaw (5.06.11,USA)
• The Semiotics of Shipwreck: A Symposium on the Representation and Resonance of Maritime Disaster (19.11.10, UK)
• ‘The Godwin Diary: Reconstructing London’s Culture 1788-1836' (23.07.10, UK)
• James Hogg's Borders (14.07.10, Germany)
• The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition (28.06.10, UK)
• Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century, Annual Conf. of the NCSA (11.03.10, USA)
• Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long 18th Century (26.02.10, USA)
• Women in the Ibero-American Atlantic, 1500-1800 (18.02.10, USA)
• Women and Gothic (23.01.10, UK)
• "Byron and the Revolutionary Spirit" - Byron Society of America, MLA Convention 2009 (30.12.09, USA)
• Byron and the Politics of Continental Europe (04.12.09, UK)
• Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine, 1785-1859 (04.12.09, UK)
• Bridging Two Oceans: Slavery in Indian and Atlantic Worlds (19.11.09, SA)
• Cities in Revolt: The Dutch-American Atlantic, c.1650-1830 (13.11.09, USA)
• Lives in Relation: an interdisciplinary conference on life writing (30.10.09, UK)
• Capital Crimes: people, places, politics - Colloquium (28.10.09, UK)
• Breaking Down Barriers : Blackwell Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference (19.10.09, virtual/online)
• The Art and the Act: John Thelwall in Practice (16.10.09, Canada)
• Spectacular Science: Science and the Lands of the Extreme: Exploration, Representation, Imagination (13.10.09, France)
• Romantic Explorations (08.10.09, Germany)
• Reworking the Regency  (08.10.09, Australia)
• 'Ann Veronica': Feminist, Flâneuse and Freethinker? (26.09.09, UK)
• Dialect Representation in British Fiction 1800-1836 -a workshop day (25.09.09, UK)
• The Sublime in Crisis? New Perspectives on the Sublime in British Visual Culture 1760-1900 - Tate Britain (14.09.09, UK)
• Lord Byron and History, 35th International Byron Society Conference (06.09.09, Greece)
• Romanticism and the Periodical in the Long Eighteenth Century (27.07.09, UK)
• Romantic Circulations 20th BARS International Conference (23.07.09, UK)  
• Medical Circulations Panel: Romantic Circulations, BARS International Conference (23.07.09, UK)
• Panel on Forgery for Romantic Circulations (main conference call above)
• Monstrous Media /Spectral Subjects (21.07.09, UK)
• Republican Exchanges c.1550 - c.1850 (16.07.09, UK)
• New Approaches to Austen (09.07.09, UK)
• Landscape, enclosure and rural society in post-medieval Britain and Europe.
• The Other Nineteenth Century (20.06.09, UK)
• Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-185- (18.06.09, UK)
• The European Republic of Letters, 18th to 21st Centuries (15.05.09, France)
• Byron and Women [and Men] (02.05.09, UK)
• Poetry and Belief (24.05.09, UK)
• Romantic Biographies: Writing Lives and Afterlives c.1770-1835 Bars Postgraduate Conference 2009 (08.05.09, UK)
• Breaking Boundaries: the 1790s in Germany, Britain and France (22.04.09, UK)
• Childhood in its Time: the Child in British Literature (28.03.09, UK)
• British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009 (27.03.09, UK)
• Robert Burns in European Culture (06.03.09, Prague)
•  Robert Burns in Global Culture (22.01.09,UK)
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• British Society for Eigteenth Century Studies 38th Annual Conference (06.01.09, UK)