I’m writing to update members on the outcome of the first Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which we inaugurated at this year’s BARS ECR\/PGR Conference in Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our keynote speakers generously helped judge the shortlisted papers, of which there were five strong contenders, and have selected the following winners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Winner:<\/strong> \u0141ukasz Mokrzycki, \u201cThe Ecological (Un)Consciousness of the Campagna Romana in Shelley and Leopardi\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Runner-up:\u00a0<\/strong>Andrin Albrecht,\u00a0 “For in This Sea What Dreams May Come: Exploring the Aqueous Romantic Unconscious”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The judges said the following: Thanks to the generous support of CUP, each winner will receive a book voucher to spend with CUP of \u00a3100 and \u00a350 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The prize was very well received by delegates and we received 21 submissions in total. We hope this initiative is something that can be continued in future ECR\/PGR conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the best, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m writing to update members on the outcome of the first Cambridge University Press Best Paper Prize, which we inaugurated at this year’s BARS ECR\/PGR Conference in Cambridge. Our keynote speakers… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
On behalf of the assessment panel, I am pleased to say we have agreed unanimously to recommend \u0141ukasz Mokrzycki\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Ecological (Un)Consciousness of the Campagna Romana in Shelley and Leopardi\u201d for the CUP Best Paper Prize. The panel was impressed by how the paper explores the Campagna Romana as contested aesthetic terrain. This is nuanced work that is methodologically and conceptually robust and ambitious, working across ecological thought, history, and visual art. The paper limns the emergent but limited environmental consciousness of Romantic poets; the argument that Shelley and Leopardi anticipated ecological aesthetics is well made, especially as it is cautiously stated and contextualised.
All of the papers offered valuable insights into their respective topics and texts. But we agree that Mokrzycki\u2019s is the standout on this occasion.\u00a0
Andrin Albrecht’s “For in This Sea What Dreams May Come: Exploring the Aqueous Romantic Unconscious” should be the runner up. The judges thought it was an imaginative paper that did an especially nice job in framing the topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kate, Cleo, and Zooey
BARS PGR and ECR Representatives<\/p>\n\n\n\n