British Association for Romantic Studies

British Association for Romantic Studies

Website of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

The Early Career and Postgraduate Conference

The Early Career and Postgraduate Conference

The BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference is currently held biennially. It provides a friendly forum in which researchers can present their own work, learn about professional practices and socialise and connect with their contemporaries. It is organised by the Early Career and Postgraduate representatives on the BARS Executive

BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025: Romantic (Un)Consciousness

ROMANTIC (UN)CONSCIOUSNESS - 1

We are delighted to announce that the next British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Researcher Conference, ‘Romantic (Un)Consciousness’, will take place at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge on 4-5 September 2025 and online on 12 September 2025.

For more updates - including our call for papers - please visit the website for Romantic (Un)Consciounsess

Previous Conferences

Romantic Boundaries ((university of Edinburgh, 2023)

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Romantic Futurities (Keats House/Online, 2020)

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Romantic Exchanges (University of Glasgow, 2018)

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Romantic Voices (Univerity of Oxford, 2016)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Locations (Wordsworth Trust, 2014)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Connections: Networks of Influence, c.1760-1835 (Newcastle University, 2012)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Identities: Selves in Society, 1770-1835 (Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, 2011)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Biographies: Writing Lives and Afterlives, c.1770-1835 (Keele University, 2009)

Programme web site not available.

Romanticism and Heroism (University of Leeds, 2007)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Textuality (University of York, 2004)

Programme web site not available.

Romantic Performances (University of York, 2002)

Programme web site not available.

BARS Postgraduate Conference (Newcastle University, 2000)

Programme web site not available.

Silence and Romanticism (University of Durham, 1999)

Programme web site not available.

Spectres of Romanticism (University of Liverpool, 1998)

Programme web site not available.