BARS Digital Events 2022/23: Call for Proposals – Deadline Friday 16th September

By Matthew Sangster

The British Association for Romantic Studies Digital Events Committee are glad to invite proposals for our 2022/23 series. We’ll be looking to run fewer events this session (four or five), but we’re keen to keep the series going.

As before, we invite proposals for curated roundtable sessions; these usually consist of four or five speakers, at least one of whom must be a doctoral student or early career scholar. Events last for 90 minutes and will generally take place via Zoom at 5pm UK time on a weekday. The usual format is a series of talks of between 7 and 12 minutes in length, then a discussion among the speakers, then a Q&A session. Events are free and open to all; they will be recorded and shared on the BARS YouTube channel.

Indicative topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Ecocritical and environmental studies
  • Romanticism and disability studies
  • Bicentenary celebrations and discussions
  • Romanticism and pedagogy
  • Romanticism and gender studies
  • Digital Romanticism and online collections and resources
  • Special editions and editing
  • Romanticism and race
  • Author studies
  • Romanticism in the 21st century
  • Romanticism and mobility
  • The relationship between academia, heritage sites, museums, and libraries.

We recognise that this application process favours scholars applying as a team or …read more

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