Monthly Archives: March 2015
Stopping to smell the roses: more thoughts on DH and collaboration
By Laura Whitebell We have been fortunate to have a series of visiting Digital Humanities scholars at the University of Rochester over the last few months, and while all of… Read more »
Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana, Story 3: La Tête de mort
By maximiliaan@gmail.com by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg The third story in Fantasmagoriana is a personal favourite. While the influence of ‘La Tête de Mort’ on Shelley’s Frankenstein is minimal at best,… Read more »
CfP: Recording Nature in the Early Atlantic World, 1750 – 1830
By admin The Charles Brockden Brown Society is inviting paper proposals for its tenth biennial conference, ‘Recording Nature in the Early Atlantic World, 1750-1830′, which will take place between October… Read more »
CfP: Voices and Books, 1500-1800
By admin BARS members might be interested in the culminating conference of the AHRC Voices and Books project, which will take place in Newcastle in July (details below). Be aware,… Read more »
Report on How to Keep Your (Georgian) Man, 17 Mar 2015
By Alison Harvey There was an excellent turn out to this hotly awaited addition to the CRECS programme, which set out to explore the (fifty?) shades of grey that existed… Read more »
“Cant and Continuities …”
Last week, an old friend and fellow Romanticist posted an indignant “name and shame” tweet in defence of her gay friend, who’d been thrown out of a well-known chain of… Read more »
Visiting speaker, 24 Mar 2015: Gowan Dawson on citizen science in the 19th and 21st centuries
By Anthony Mandal Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester) will be presenting his paper, ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’, at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 24 March… Read more »
University of Roehampton Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarships
By marylshannon The University of Roehampton is pleased to announce 50 Vice Chancellor’s Scholarships for PhD study beginning in October 2015. Full funding (tuition fee waiver at Home/EU rate, and… Read more »