The Last Man <\/em>at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please join us September 24-25, 2026, for a conference on Shelley’s novel and the environmental humanities, with a keynote lecture by Susan Wolfson, and variety of related programming, including the launch of Eileen Hunt’s dual bicentennial edition of The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow <\/em>(Oxford World’s Classics, 2026); a fireside chat with novelist Emily St. John Mandel addressing the Shelleyan resonances of her novel Station Eleven<\/em>; a reading by Rachel Feder from her new adaptation of The Last Man<\/em>; and Omar Miranda’s preview of his second edition of an abridged Last Man<\/em> for Romantic Circles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This two-day event serves as the 2026 Niemeyer Lecture in Political Philosophy, the Henkels Lecture in the Liberal Arts, and the 2026 K-SAA Curran Symposium<\/a>. It will produce a book under contract with Bloomsbury’s Nineteenth-Century Contexts series featuring the contributions of all speakers and an interview with Emily St. John Mandel, edited by Eileen Hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference on September 25 will take place in person and via Zoom<\/u><\/strong>; the fireside chat and associated events on September 24 are offered in person only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more details and to register, please visit: https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/a6f5cf68-666e-4c99-a241-4253745dacec\/summary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eileen Hunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear colleagues, To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, the University of Notre Dame and the Keats-Shelley Association of America invite you to The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/figure>\n\n\n\n