In addition to our existing funding schemes, BARS launched a new initiative in 2024: the Open Fellowship, which is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at… Read more »
In June 2020, the British Association for Romantic Studies announced its unequivocal support of the Black community, its condemnation of all forms of racism and its commitment to practical action. In… Read more »
We received a number of very high quality applications for the BARS Digital Events Officer position for the next election cycle. The Executive Committee are delighted to announce that the… Read more »
2025 Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism (GER)Negotiations of Value in the Romantic Age25-28 September 2025Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Campus Erlangen)Keynote Speakers:David Duff (London), Michelle Faubert (Manitoba), Joanna Rostek (Gießen… Read more »
14-15 July 2025, Parliament Hall, St Andrews ‘Tis sixty years since’ 2025 marks sixty years since the founding of Forum for Modern Language Studies in 1965. To celebrate, review, and renew the… Read more »
Exeter College, University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) In a time of planetary crisis, our understanding of the earth as a whole is… Read more »
Many thanks to Sharon Choe for her excellent report on the BARS Conference 2024! This year’s biennial BARS conference was held at the beautiful University of Glasgow. With the theme… Read more »
BARS extends our thanks to Liz Wan who has put together this wonderful conference report for us regarding 2024’s Biennial Conference held in Glasgow! Thanks to the titanic efforts by… Read more »
Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its eighth year, it is aimed at… Read more »
As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, environmental collapse, the cost… Read more »