Montgomery did crop up again later in the day; although this time when I gave my own paper after a somewhat complicated but well-handled panel shift, with the Romantic Radicalism and Romantic Life-writing panels being combined synergistically in a new beast that worked remarkably well. I\u2019ve not had much experience giving papers, but I found the energy and interest in the room genuinely inspiring; questions and comments I\u2019ve received have given me a long list of additional areas for me to investigate, which I am grateful for! Me presenting my paper<\/em><\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, considering my own paper on Montgomery\u2019s radicalism and imprisonment, many of my personal highlights were the papers of a political nature \u2013 Olivia Murphy<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of the bizarre difficulties of the Birmingham mob to burn \u2018Dr Phlogiston\u2019 was fascinating, and Ian Packer<\/strong>\u2019s paper on Wat Tyler <\/em>reminded me that I really need to read more on how the older Southey dealt with his more radical youth. That\u2019s not to say that I neglected other panels; I thoroughly enjoyed viewing Scottish Romanticism and Percy Shelley Panels, despite how they demonstrated my own near-criminal neglect of Romantic Drama.<\/p>\n I could, of course, talk about the panels ad infinitum<\/em>, but I cannot fail to mention the other plenaries. Professor Diego Saglia<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of (potentially) Byron\u2019s skin was fascinating and wonderfully macabre; something I had never even thought of considering before. Professor Jane Stabler<\/strong>\u2019s comparison of Byron to The Office (US)<\/em>\u2019s Dwight Schrute is forever etched on my brain, Dr Robert Poole<\/strong>\u2019s wonderful discussion of Peterloo highlighted the role of women, and clarified the state of Manchester in 1819 \u2013 dispelling a lot of my own misunderstandings. Finally, Professor Sharon Ruston<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of Humphry Davy and his rejection of poetry in favour of science felt like a fitting microcosm of the Humanities side-lining to the Sciences.<\/p>\n The excursion to Newstead was also wonderful; I visit it regularly as I work there part-time, but seeing it full of scholars who know and appreciate Byron and his history was wonderful; and I was pleased with how much enthusiasm everyone had for the Abbey, both as postgraduate helper and as part-time Visitor Assistant. In short, the conference was wonderful, and there is far more to be said than could fit in 500 words. I am glad that many seemed to enjoy it as much as I.<\/p>\n The next BARS conference will be the BARS PG\/ECR Conference in 2020. The conference will be held at Keats House, Hampstead, from 12th-13th June. Further details and CfP to follow \u2013 for now, save the date!<\/strong><\/p>\n Johnny Cammish, University of Nottingham<\/em><\/p>\n 16th August 2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today on the Blog is a post from Johnny Cammish (University of Nottingham). This is the second in a series of reports from the International BARS conference that took place in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[16,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5981.jpg\")
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