SWINC Scottish and Irish Gothic

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On behalf of SWINC (Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century), you’re invited to join us for a research seminar exploring Scottish and Irish Gothic on Friday 11th April 2025, from 14:00 to 18:00 in 50 George Square, Room 1.06. To register for the event, please use our Eventbrite page here.

 For further details, feel free to visit the SWINC website. We hope to see you there!

“Trust in the Archives”: BARS Open Fellowship 2024 Report by Dr Patricia Matthew

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The opportunity afforded by the 2024 BARS Open Fellowship dovetailed with the incubation year of a new initiative called The Race and Regency Lab and its first project “Trust in the Archives.” Before I outline how the fellowship supported this work, I want to note that at each stage the BARS Open Fellowship has been generative. The application process was a useful opportunity to move from a vision for the Lab to a concrete plan. Winning the award lent important scholarly credibility to the project and has been essential in securing funding for future collaborations. Reflecting on the work the BARS Fellowship helped fund in 2024 has been especially helpful during a time when the values that inform the Lab are under attack in the United States. The BARS Open Fellowship supported a series of dialogues that served multiple communities and provided financial support for graduate students assisting with this work. Its impact extends beyond 2024 into the Lab’s work in 2025, specifically a seminar on Cheryl Harris’ contribution to Critical Race Studies and its importance to eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies. 

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The BARS Fellowship supported my efforts to recalibrate my service to the profession and the public. After more than ten years of coordinating and leading workshops, giving talks, and consulting with departments and colleges to put the research from my edited book Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure to work towards institutional change, I wanted to develop new spaces for thinking about the cultures and ideologies that underscore racial formations. I wanted to connect what I have learned from my diversity work to my research and public writing about Regency-era culture in order to better serve people in and beyond the academy. I believe that communities, and not just experts, make meaning, so I aimed to bring activists, artists, cultural critics, curators, fans, and scholars of color together to reexamine and reimagine how race operates in the Regency era. The Race and Regency Lab’s goal is to serve a set of interconnected communities that includes the general public and educators of all kinds–museum professionals, librarians, and teachers. Its mission is rooted in bell hooks’ assertions about the margins and marginality. In her essay “Choosing the Margins as a Space of Radical Openness” hooks writes about the possibilities to be found for those who occupy subject positions outside of hegemonic centers:

I was not speaking of marginality one wishes to lose—to give up or surrender as part of moving into the center—but rather of a site one stays in, clings to even, because it nourishes one’s capacity to resist. It offers to one the possibility of radical perspective from which to see and create, to imagine alternatives, new worlds.

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The Lab’s inaugural year focused on how to develop new critical spaces while embracing the notion of radical margins in a series of interlocking activities: listening sessions, opportunities supporting scholars of color, and the project “Trust in the Archives,” a multi-institutional collaboration that focused on new acquisitions at the John Carter Brown Library. The BARS Open Fellowship supported these activities. It also provided research support for an intern funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and funded a research trip for the Norton Classic edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park I am currently preparing.

“Trust and the Archives” was organized by an international team of art historians, curators, historians, and literary scholars. We began with a shared understanding that the archive is primarily an edifice of whiteness that reflects its desired users. Sculptures, paintings, portraits, photos, statues, busts and friezes, pamphlets and brochures, maps, catalogs, as well as the faces of staff, and other researchers signal to people of color that the archive is a place designed by and for white users.  All of this impacts both who has access to the archives, their experience working with staff and leadership, and how they use its materials. Our goal was to address practices of exclusion. During a planning retreat sponsored by the Scholarly Communications Institute in October 2023 we worked on clarifying the Lab’s mission and our goals for the incubation grant we won from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. We developed a three-year plan and discussed strategies for collaborating with programs and institutes. We planned an event that would contextualize two new John Carter Brown Library acquisitions—”Plan of a Section of Belvidere Estate,” and the first American edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—and officially launch The Lab on September 13, 2024. We also planned the seminar series to re/reread Cheryl Harris’ Whiteness as Property.

Over five listening sessions that took place during the winter and spring of 2024, the Lab brought together regency fans, critics, curators, and scholars to think about how we can build meaningful connections. Leigh-Michil George (Scholar of 18th and 19th century literature and teacher, Geffen Academy, UCLA) Amanda- Rae Prescott, (freelance entertainment journalist) and Vanessa Valdéz (historian, curator, editor) helped plan and facilitate these sessions. They included discussions about decentering academic hierarchies, maintaining safe spaces where pleasure and expertise can co-exist, discussions about the ethics of collaboration, and the importance of sharing resources. In one listening session, Caroline McCaffrey Howarth (Lecturer History of Art/ Programme Director, Global Premodern Art, The University of Edinburgh) spoke to New Jersey museum curators and administrators about her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum bringing a diverse community of young people into the museum to engage materially with objects in its holdings.

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As a co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, I was thrilled to collaborate with the Folger Institute on a pilot project for a manuscript workshop. One part of the Lab’s mission is to develop the work of scholars of color by providing the kind of support that tenured faculty, especially those at well-resourced, research-focused institutions, have access to. The series’ focus and the Folger Institute’s goals overlapped in generative ways for this project. The Folger is committed to expanding engagement with the library’s archive beyond its Shakespeare-related holding and seeks scholars whose work reveals how race operates in the early modern period; the series is interested in work that brings together critical work on the material and intellectual histories of race in the long nineteenth century. In May of 2024 we hosted a two-day manuscript workshop of Patricia Lott’s (Ursinus) book-in-progress with readers: Kimberly Brown (Dartmouth), Jasmine Nicole Cobb (Duke), and Lara Cohen (Swarthmore).

From June through August 2024, Boston University Center for the Humanities intern Constanza Robles completed researched for a project that provided context for the JCBL acquisitions. Constanza is completing her doctorate in Art History. Co-supervised by Joseph Rezek (Associate Professor of English and recent Director, American & New England Studies Program, Boston University) and myself, she spent the summer reading and researching for the project “Visualizing Property: A Virtual Exhibition.” Funds from BARS allowed Constanza to travel from Boston to New York City where completed research for the exhibit and met with Iris Moon, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The two discussed methodological approaches to curation that deals with empire and history. 

In September 2024, The John Carter Brown Library hosted the launch of the Race and Regency Lab. As I explain in my summary of the day, the launch brought together a diverse, interdisciplinary group to discuss the significance of Plan of a Section of Belvidere Estate and Mansfield Park. As part of the day’s events, which were livestreamed, Constanza shared her exhibition with attendees. We were particularly thrilled to learn that Juliet Wells (Professor, Department of Visual, Literary, and Material Culture, Goucher College) has included the virtual exhibition as a resource for further information in her forthcoming edition of Mansfield Park for Penguin Random House. 

Our plan for a reading seminar focused on Cheryl Harris’ work was revised in response to interest from Amelia Worsley (Associate Professor of English, Amherst College) to co-host the project and an invitation from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (SEL) editor Amy Huseby (Senior Lecturer, Rice) to edit a special issue of the journal focused on how Critical Race Theory shapes the way that pre-1900 scholars think about culture and history. With funding from Amherst College and SEL, Amelia, Kim Hall (Lucyle Hook Professor of English, Professor of Africana Studies, Barnard), and I are co-convening a reading series that brings twelve people from England, New Zealand, and the United States together to think about Harris’s work. We have been in dialogue via Zoom with one another and will meet with Cheryl Harris via Zoom over the summer. This seminar will culminate in a series of public events in Amherst over three days in October with roundtables, a book event, and a public forum featuring Cheryl Harris. In 2026 a special issue of SEL featuring work by seminar members will be published. BARS funds have supported Constanza’s work as rapporteur for the seminar. 

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The BARS Open Fellowship has provided more than simply funds for these projects, though that has been essential in myriad ways. It allowed me to reflect on the ethics of bringing people of color together to discuss difficult histories and was an opportunity to clearly articulate to potential partners why material support is essential to this work. In rethinking the margins, hooks points not only to the possibility of radical reimagining but the importance nourishing one’s capacity to resist. I have thought carefully about what that means. As I sought funding for the Harris seminar, I argued that it has often been the case that institutions seek the input and work of people of color in support of diversity and equity initiatives. This work, I explained, is challenging in many ways. In the first place, it requires additional emotional energy as we are often writing about traumatic conditions at the very same time as we are encountering them. It exposes us to intense and sometimes targeted blow back. Further, this work cannot happen in an academic vacuum, but inviting activists, community organizers, fans, and freelance scholars, to share their thoughts without providing material support is exploitative. Finally, my goal is to ensure that everyone who joins the Lab for its projects leaves feeling revitalized and valued rather than depleted. The BARS Open Fellowship has been key to providing time and support to think through what this looks like intellectually, politically, and materially with a focus on community building. 

Patricia Matthew

Patricia Matthew is an Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University and specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She has edited and co-edited journal issues (Romantic Pedagogy Commons, European Romantic Review, and Studies in Romanticism); the edited volume Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016); and is co-editor of the new Oxford University Press series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she has written about Regency, race, and popular culture for The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Times Literary Supplement. In 2020-2021 she was a Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar at SUNY Buffalo, and in 2022-2023 she was the Anthony E. Kaye Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Her forthcoming work includes the Wondrium/audible.com lecture “Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century.” She is currently writing a book about Britain’s sugar boycott, gender, and abolitionist culture for Princeton University Press and editing Mansfield Park for The Norton Library.

You can find Patricia’s university page here, and her personal website here.

Workshop: Cultivating Connections: Research Opportunities at the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Archive

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Cultivating Connections: Research Opportunities at the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Archive

Workshop: 10.30-3pm, 12 May 2025.

RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London

This one-day workshop seeks to raise awareness among humanities scholars of the rich archival holdings at the RHS. Further details are in the attached Pdf, but the key points to note are that this event is a literal workshop: participants do not need to prepare anything in advance. On the day, we will look at selected early nineteenth-century materials from the RHS archive and discuss them together. The overall aim is to develop ideas for future research and public engagement projects, and funding applications.

We can pay travel expenses (up to c. £150). Interested participants just need to email a short description of their research interests and a CV or brief bio to Sarah Easterby-Smith by 11 April (ses22@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Call for Papers: Wordsworth Summer Conference 2025

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Call for Papers 

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on all aspects of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, their contemporaries and the Romantic period. We also welcome proposals on all topics related to Romantic period culture and literature and  likewise welcome panel suggestions of 2-3 papers).

Papers that identify a bicentenary Wordsworth theme linking the 1820s to the 2020s will be welcomed and, as the 1820s was a productive decade,  possible topics might include the Duddon Sonnets and Topographical Description (1820), Vaudracour and Julia, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes (1822), Memorials of a Tour on the Continent (1820),  Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822), Poetical Works (1827), and the Galignani Poetical Works (1828). Further themes for papers might include Dorothy Wordsworth’s writings in the 1820s,  the Wordsworth family in the 1820s, the natural world, industry, steam power, and Wordsworthian travels in the 1820s.

Please note that participants presenting papers must attend as full participants for either all of Part 1 or all of Part 2, or the whole ten-day conference.

Papers should not be longer than 2750 words.

All proposals for papers, bursary applications  (and references, if applicable) should be emailed by 25 April 2025 to

proposal.wsc@gmail.com

Regular participants:

200-word proposals for papers of no more than 2750 words, together with a brief autobiographical paragraph, unformatted, should occupy no more than 1 side  of A4 in MS Word format. Please remember to include your name, institution and e-mail address on the abstract. Please do not send proposals as a PDF file as they will be copied into a composite MS Word document.

Bursary applicants:

Your application should be in the form of a Word attachment (not PDF) containing a paper proposal of 300 words, together with a short unformatted cv in the same file, the entire application being not more than two sides of A4 (the file will be copied and pasted into a composite file, so please avoid elaborate formatting). Applicants should also arrange for a short letter of academic recommendation to be sent independently to the same email address (see above) verifying the applicant’s academic status and country of residence. Candidates need not specify which bursary they are applying for. They will automatically be considered for any bursary for which they are eligible. **Please be sure to identify your e-mail as ‘BURSARY APPLICATION’**.

Please note that we may award a bursary without having space to include the proposed paper on the conference programme: such papers may, however, be ‘taken as read’, that is, made available in print form at the conference, if the proposer so chooses.  

Remember: paper proposals, bursary applications and references should be submitted by 25 April 2025 to proposal.wsc@gmail.com

Conference Information & Online Access: Romanticism across Borders (24-25 March), international conference in Paris

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Dear all,

We are delighted to announce that the international conference ‘Romanticism across Borders’ will take place on Monday 24–Tuesday 25 March in Paris, at the Hôtel de Lauzun, home of the Institut d’études avancées de Paris.

The programme can be accessed on the conference website as well as below: https://romanticismacrossborders.com/conference-programme-2/

The conference is free to attend, but it is necessary to register for both in-person and online attendance. In order to register, please fill in the form using the following link: https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/romanticism-across-borders

We hope you can join us for this exciting event!

Felix Duperrier, Pauline Hortolland, and Camille Adnot

Université Paris Cité

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‘Romanticism across Borders’ Conference, 24-25 March 2025

PROGRAMME

Monday 24 March

9h-9h30: Registration / Welcome address

9h30-10h30: Panel 1: Liminal Figures

  • 9h30-10h: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck University): Exodus in Pictures: From Single Image to Serial thinking
  • 10h-10h30: Elisabeth Ansel (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): Crossing Borders: The Geological and Mythological Imagination of Staffa in British and European Romanticism

10h30-11h00 : coffee break

11h00-13h00 : Panel 2 : Otherness

  • 11h00-11h30: Rebekah Musk (Lancaster University): Porous Boundaries: Space, Shorelines and Sexuality in Byron’s Turkish Tales
  • 11h30-12h00: Carmen Faye Mathes (McGill University): Romantic Derivativeness, Oriental Tales, and Poetic Attachments
  • 12h00-12h30: Fabien Desset (Université de Limoges): “An equal amidst equals”: the Boundary between Human Beings and Animals in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry and Prose
  • 12h30-13h00: Andrin Albrecht (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): ‘Full Fathom Five: Breaching the Vertical Border in Romantic Ocean Narratives’

13h00-14h30: lunch break

14h30-16h00: Keynote: Nicholas Halmi (University of Oxford): ‘Porous Borders/Border Controls’

16h00-16h30: coffee break 

16h30-18h00: Panel 3: Radicalism and its Legacies

  • 16h30-17h00: Patrick Vincent (Université de Neuchâtel): Henry Brougham, French Romantic?
  • 17h00-17h30: Piper Winkler (Princeton University): “Marriage had bastilled me”: The International Contexts of Wollstonecraft’s Prison Metaphors
  • 17h30-18h00: Cal Sutherland (University of Edinburgh): The Girondin of Rydal: Enclosure, Form, and Cross-Border Exchanges in the Later Wordsworth

Conference Dinner at Bouillon Racine, 3 rue Racine, 75006

(end of the first day of the conference)

Tuesday 25 March  

9h00-10h30: Panel 4: Blakean Borders

  • 9h00-9h30: Michael Demson (Sam Houston State University, Texas): Nationalistic Epics Across International Borders
  • 9h30-10h00: Jake Elliott (University of Roehampton): Metropolitan Borders: Blake, London, and the Development of Regent Street
  • 10h00-10h30: Silvia Riccardi (Umeå University): Material Borders in Blake’s Manuscripts

10h30-11h00: coffee break 

11h00-13h00: Panel 5: Textual Boundaries

  • 11h00-11h30: Young-ok An, Adam Bezdicek, Beth Marrinan (University of St. Thomas): Mary Shelley across Borders: Digital Mapping of Shelley’s Novels
  • 11h30-12h00: Lewis Roberts (University of Cambridge): “With wild surmise”’: Borders and cognition in Romantic Manuscripts
  • 12h00-12h30: Jeremy Elprin (Université de Caen): “I have nothing but my dull self”: Joseph Severn’s Significantly Borderline Correspondence

13h00-14h30: lunch break

14h30-16h00: Panel 6: The Borders of the Novel

  • 14h30-15h00: Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto): Scottish Travellers, National Characters, and Cross-Border Storytelling
  • 15h00-15h30: James Chandler (University of Chicago): Scott’s “Border Characters”
  • 15h30-16h00: Jack Murphy (University of Texas): Novels without Ends: Belinda and the Subjectivity of Compression

16h: Concluding remarks

(end of the second day of the conference)

Reviewers Needed: The Year’s Work in English Studies

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The Year’s Work in English Studies is an annual review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English from 601 to the present; expert critical commentary is provided for each essay and book covered. YWES is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind and the oldest evaluative work of literary criticism.

Applications are again open to contribute to two chapters, ‘The Eighteenth Century’ and ‘1780-1830: The Romantic Period’:

  • ‘Prose’ and ‘Miscellaneous’ sections, for both chapters

1 contributor sought per chapter, to support the existing team if needed

  • ‘Poetry’, for ‘The Romantic Period’

1 contributor sought

  • ‘The Novel’, for ‘The Romantic Period’

1 contributor sought, to review Jane Austen scholarship published in 2023 

All contributors get to keep review copies of books and YWES pays contributors at the rate of £8 per page of the printed volume. But this is also an opportunity to stay up-to-date with relevant publications in your field and to join a supportive community of reviewers, editors, and publishers.

Get in touch with Sarah Wride, the Associate Editor for both chapters, at s.r.wride@gmail.com if you have any questions. 

To apply, please submit a copy of your CV and the role/s that you are interested in to Sarah at the same email address as soon as possible. If you have not yet published, please include a writing sample (of no more than 5000 words) and ask someone who knows your work well to write a brief reference on your behalf outlining your suitability for the role/s.

Scholars at any career stage are warmly encouraged to apply. 

PhD/Postdoc Opportunity: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – three year PGR and ECR Scholarships

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*There is no application deadline for this opportunity*

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz announces the following scholarships within the framework of the new Mini Graduate College (MGRK) “The Aesthetic Inventions of Ecology around 1800”, funded by the Gutenberg Junior College (GNK):

4 doctoral scholarships (m/f/d) with a monthly stipend of EUR 1,550

1 postdoctoral scholarship (m/f/d) with a monthly stipend of EUR 1,900

The scholarships are for a duration of three years.

Requirements:

Excellent university degree (state examination, M.Ed., M.A., or equivalent) in German Studies, English Studies, Art History, Music Theory, or related fields.

An innovative project idea within the research area of MGRK.

Knowledge in the areas of Classicism and Romanticism, as well as in ecological matters.

Interest in interdisciplinary work and team collaboration.

Proficiency in the college’s languages German and English.

Postdoctoral applicants should also present an outstanding dissertation, along with initial presentation and publication activities.

Application Documents:

A one to two-page motivational letter explaining the reasons for pursuing the planned doctoral or postdoctoral project, demonstrating expectations from a Mini Graduate College and convincing statements about interdisciplinary work.

Curriculum vitae and academic certificates (high school diploma, MA, state examination, transcript of records for all courses in the master’s program, equivalent foreign degrees, and Ph.D. for postdocs).

If possible, a list of publications.

If necessary, language proficiency certificates.

A project outline (approximately 5–7 pages) for a project tailored to the college’s theme and methodology.

A work sample (e.g., master’s thesis, dissertation for postdocs) and an abstract (approximately 1 page) of the work sample.

Identification of two university professors who can provide information about personal suitability and academic qualifications.

Further details of the research and study program of the Mini Graduate College are available by AESTHOEK1800@uni-mainz.de on request.

The university aims to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and encourages qualified female academics to apply. Disabled individuals will be given preferential consideration if equally qualified. The college is committed to the principles of diversity and gender equality. International applicants should have sufficient knowledge of German. The MGRK accepts fellows from other funding organizations and guest scholars without providing positions but with full integration into research.

For inquiries, please contact the participating faculty representatives:

Prof. Dr. Barbara Thums, Department of German, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Email: thums(at)uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig, Department of English and Linguistics / English Literature and Culture, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Email: emigr(at)uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Immanuel Ott, Music Theory, Mainz University of Music at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Email: immot(at)uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Gregor Wedekind, Department of Art History and Musicology / Art History, University of Mainz, Email: Gregor.wedekind(at)uni-mainz.de

Please send your complete application documents in electronic form as a consolidated PDF file titled “Name-First Name-Application” via email to the spokesperson of the MGRK:

Prof. Dr. Barbara Thums

Department of German

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Jakob-Welder-Weg 18

55128 Mainz

Phone +49 6131 39-22575

Email: aesthoek@uni-mainz.de

CFP: Feminist Enlightenment Politics / Feministische Aufklarung und Politik

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Wednesday 25th-Saturday 28th June 2025
Monte Verità, Ascona (Switzerland)

Keynote speakers:

Astrid Dröse (Universität Tübingen), Sarah Richardson (University of Glasgow),

Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford)

‘Women it is said have no business with politics.—Why not?’ (Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792))
‘Demandons des Représentantes à l’Assemblée Nationale.’ (Étrennes Nationales des Dames (1789))
‘Die Weiber, nicht für öffentliche Ämter bestimmt sind.’ (Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Grundlage des
Naturrechts (1796))

Debates about women and politics raged across Europe throughout the eighteenth
century. Although women were denied direct political representation, scholars have shown that
women were actively involved in the world of eighteenth-century politics. Far from being
unconcerned with contemporary politics, women attended public events such as the trial of
Warren Hastings (1787-1795) and debates at the Houses of Parliament in great numbers, facilitated
political discussions in salons across the continent, and were key figures in political campaigns such
as the 1784 Westminster election. In the wake of the French Revolution, women campaigned for
active citizenship, as Olympe de Gouges demanded in Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
(1782). Women were also instrumental in promoting abolition campaigns and reform movements.
As monarchs, empresses, queen consorts, and courtiers, women across Europe exercised political
power and authority through official and non-official channels.
‘Feminist Enlightenment and Politics / Feministische Aufklärung und Politik’ is an
international and interdisciplinary conference which examines the role and presence of women in
eighteenth-century political debates across Europe. The conference brings together researchers
specialising in the long eighteenth century across Europe from the fields of literature, history,
philosophy, politics, and legal studies. It is part of the international project Feminist Enlightenment across Europe. (https://feministenlightenment.eu/en/ ). The conference is a bilingual event
(English and German). We also welcome papers in other languages (French and Italian) and will
offer to translate papers.
We will consider the following research questions, among others:
• What constitutes the political subject in Enlightenment Europe?
• How did the law influence debates about married and unmarried women and active
citizenship?
• Which media helped circulate women’s political thinking and participation?
• Which forms of politics sought to achieve gender equality, and which actively sought to
prevent it?
• How did class, religion, and race intersect with reflections on (gender) equality?
• What tactics were developed after the Rousseau-like attack on the postulate of equality
designed in the early Enlightenment?
• How does the question of nation intersect with the universal impetus of Enlightenment
norms?
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers focusing on the conference theme. Topics may
include but are not limited to:
• Debating societies;
• Women at court;
• Wives in the diplomatic world;
• Political theory from the perspectives of gender and race;
• The role of literature in political discourse;
• Networks of correspondence and sociability;
• Women and political practice;
• Politics and material culture;
• Women and local politics
• New approaches to teaching and researching gender and politics in the long eighteenth
century
Please send a 250 to 500-word abstract in the language of your choice and a short
biographical note to Anne-Claire Michoux (anne-claire.michoux@es.uzh.ch) by 1st April 2025.
Proposals are welcomed from scholars at all career stages. Acceptance will be communicated in
late March.
The conference will be held in the beautiful historical Monte Verità cultural centre,
overlooking Lake Maggiore and the Alps. We have secured subsidised accommodation rates.
Bursaries towards accommodation costs will be available.
Conference organisers: Anne-Claire Michoux (University of Zurich); Gideon Stiening (LMU
München)

Invitation to join Joanna Baillie working group

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Building on last autumn’s rehearsed reading of The Tryal and subsequent panel at BSECS 2025, members of the Baillie Working Group are keen to meet again this summer (virtually) to discuss further possible collaborations. If you have an interest in Baillie and would like to take part in the conversation, please email me at christopher.bundock@essex.ac.uk