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Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...
Book cover for Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours.
📚 🥂 Congratulations to Dr Alison O’Byrne and Prof Jim Watt on the publication of their co-edited collection, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours. Out now from CUP: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
🎁 New #ResearchCultureUncovered Episode: Navigating Failure in Academia
Dr Taryn Bell explores the topic of failure in academia, featuring insights from Dr Johanna Stadlbauer, Prof Leila Jancovich, Dr Darcey Gillie @dfgillie.bsky.social & Dr Anna Pilz @apilz.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce the CFP for the first special issue of Women’s writing devoted to Irish women writers that I’m editing with Amy Prendergast (TCD)!! Please share far and wide and consider submitting!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Awww now. Thanks, Cathryn. Much too kind. I miss our writing groups with @coastalhistory.bsky.social.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH -
for our 2024 Annual Conference New York 28-30 June - “Time in Nineteenth-Century Ireland”
Looking forward to "Romantic Making and Unmaking" @bars.bsky.social in Glasgow this summer. More coastal ponderings forthcoming from me! 🌊
Thanks for sharing, Cathryn. Looking forward to listening. You might also be interested in a podcast called Drafting the Past! They quite frequently discuss writing trade books / writing for wider audiences. It's fabulous. Nelson was the very first contributor. :) draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
From debates between Brunonian, Hunterian, and Boerhavian conceptions of the body to indigenous and non-western practices, we invite scholarly essays that contest and complicate our understanding of the meanings, representations, and practices of health and/or medicine in the period. This collection seeks proposals for 5,000-6,000 word essays that explore alternative conceptions, practices, and approaches to health in the long-eighteenth century. We expect that these essays will be accessible to a wide range of scholars from different disciplines and hope that they will be written in a way that makes them available to advanced undergraduate readers. We particularly invite essays that explore: Indigenous and non-western traditions of health and healing Home remedies and homeopathy Prosthetics and other technological developments for atypical bodies Intersections of race, imperial networks, and health Literary renegotiations of health, illness, and care Please submit 300-400 word abs
Excited to be working with @miriamlw.bsky.social on this new collection. Please share and submit. #healthhums #c18 #histmed
This is probably tangential to this but regarding book circulation & reading habits in the Southern Hemisphere see this fab project by UCD colleagues led by Porscha Fermanis: southhem.org/about-southh...
Incl a digital database
www.ucd.ie/southhem/cat...
Thanks, Stephanie. Hopefully plenty for the interdisciplinary art historian there. :)
Although it's a "romantic" landscape, someone viewing this painting circa 1820 would have instantly recognized it as a modern, artificially planted, and highly managed woodland. In it, Friedrich portrays the beauty of the technocratic values of resource management.
Friedrich, Evening, c 1820
Just published - Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms, special issue of Romanticism and the Net edited by Penny Fielding and @apilz.bsky.social 💦🌊🏴
I have an article in this collection, 'Watery Romanticism: Walking and Sailing West with Keats'
ronjournal.openum.ca/articles/n79/
Our special issue closes with Gerard Lee McKeever who places John Galt's cultural geography of the coastal region of Scotland within British imperial, European, and transatlantic contexts.
shorturl.at/fCS45
Katie Garner reads the female testimony of a coastal encounter w/ a mermaid as example of Donna Haraway's "situated knowledges". Curious to learn about its literary afterlife in satirical fiction? shorturl.at/knsIW
Chris Donaldson (Lancaster Uni) & James Maclaine (Natural History Museum, London) offer a "Tale of Two (Stuffed) Fish" to explore qs of knowledge production & taxonomies. They invite us "to rethink the geographical assumptions that often govern the study of national pasts."
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@claireconnolly.bsky.social sails from Port Patrick to Belfast w/ Keats to introduce us to 'the Duchess of Dunghill'. Archival research frames Connolly's reading of Keats's description of this impoverished Irish woman's body & her challenge to romantic aesthetics.
shorturl.at/mFS67
Nigel Leask turns our attention to William Daniell's topographical art in a close reading of aquatints of the Isle of Skye & the West Highlands. He highlights that 'Coasts had never been so important.'
shorturl.at/hlGR8
Susan Oliver takes a close look at a familiar sight of the Scottish coast - the Bass Rock. She shows how natural philosophers, writers, & artists in the late C18th & early C19th 'embodied what we now regard as interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge'.
shorturl.at/tzEW8
Thanks to Marie Sklodowska-Curie funding, we were able to commission the wonderful Christina Riley to reflect on what Romanticism might mean to the C21st artist. Her illustrated essay on 'Fragments of Romance' is a tender piece on place. image caption below!
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Warm thanks @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & SWINC Network for co-hosting the workshop that started conversations on a rainy February day 2 years ago! Such a treat to bring together those who have inspired my Scottish adventures. Lengthy acknowledgements here incl Katie Ritson, Katie Garner, Edel Semple
My intro explores "The Coastal Turn in Romantic Studies", connecting early C19th texts w/ today's artists, musicians, & writers incl David Cass, Karine Polwart & Roseanne Watt. Shout out to #CoastalStudies reading group @coastalhistory.bsky.social & @stevementz.bsky.social
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Excited to share the publication of "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms", co-edited w/ Penny Fielding in the #OA journal Romanticism on the Net! Thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social & team for their great work on this issue. Thanks Marie Curie Actions for funding the project.
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The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from July 23rd-25th and online August 1st-2nd.
Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference20...
I hope you get to experience it as a writing retreat in future. Your research sounds really interesting! I've dipped my feet into Coastal Studies and hope our paths cross in real live some time.