{"id":6401,"date":"2026-04-08T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:10:29","slug":"important-information-bars-conference-2026-registration-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6401","title":{"rendered":"Important Information: BARS Conference 2026 Registration Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2-624x780.png 624w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romantic-Retrospection-8-outline10-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Image credit: Birmingham Museums Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.birmingham.ac.uk%2Fevents%2Fthe-british-association-for-romantic-studies-international-conference-2026&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAmy.Wilcockson%40glasgow.ac.uk%7C71bfe456231b4841718708de94be42d2%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C639111743825561303%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6yNEbfXaAmkt2v55z9k12Tjzd%2BrfhINz6P%2Ft6Z5COZs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\"><u>conference website<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for details of registration fees, the conference dinner, and university accommodation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*To clarify re Concessionary registration fees, these apply to&nbsp;unwaged, postgraduate, part-time and impermanent, or retired delegates*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draft programme (below) will also be available on the site soon, and further changes to the programme will be uploaded there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BARS-Full-Draft-Programme.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of BARS-Full-Draft-Programme.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-981b95cb-819d-4262-8d11-65a47cc498de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BARS-Full-Draft-Programme.pdf\">BARS-Full-Draft-Programme<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BARS-Full-Draft-Programme.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-981b95cb-819d-4262-8d11-65a47cc498de\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The in-person conference will take place from\u00a0<strong>Wednesday 29th\u00a0July to Friday 31st\u00a0July<\/strong>, with welcome events on the Tuesday evening and an optional conference excursion on the Saturday. It will include keynote lectures from Mary Favret, Ruth Abbott, and Richard Cronin as well as special sessions featuring Kevis Goodman, Jonathan Sachs, and Jon Mee. To mark the centenary of Ernest de Selincourt\u2019s edition of Wordsworth\u2019s thirteen-book\u00a0<em>Prelude<\/em>\u00a0(1926), there will be a display of his working papers, and the conference dinner will take place at The Grand Hotel, Birmingham.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online conference is on&nbsp;<strong>Thursday 6th August<\/strong>&nbsp;(registration for which is included in the in-person registration fee). Our online keynote lecturer is Nikki Hessell. The programme of online papers will be circulated soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or queries, please write to us at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:bars2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk\"><strong><u>bars2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Fay, Andrew Hodgson, and Matthew Ward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BARS 2026 Organising Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open. Please see the\u00a0conference website\u00a0for details of registration&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6401\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[7,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401"}],"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=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}