Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.
Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....
Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.
BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.
#Sendusyoursuppers and join a global map of the Burns Supper, at 225 Years, AND as Living Heritage!
This is such a great scheme! I really appreciated and enjoyed hosting it at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social last year and getting the chance to mentor the fantastic Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social.
Apply to be hosted at LJMU by 11th May.
Applications for the 206/27 round of the C19 Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social are now open! Details and benefits below and here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/n.... Deadline Monday 11 May 2026; please share widely!
@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @drhorrocks.bsky.social
A reminder that the deadline for Expressions of Interest in hosting BARS 2028 is coming up - if you're potentially interested, but have questions or concerns, please feel free to drop me an email. It's a big responsibility, but a very rewarding one, and crucial for the health of the Association.
Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.
Deadline April 21st - please circulate!
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Just over one week left to submit abstracts for the CoAH PG Conference!
Link to submission form: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YzbADsQhqu
Publication Boxing Day! Shoutout to @books-borrowing.bsky.social in Feminist Librarianship, and thanks to @cilipscotland.bsky.social for a wonderful launch event at @natlibscot.bsky.social yesterday. If you’re interested in women’s reading, circulating libraries, and library history give it a read!
Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7
Delighted to have rejoined the @rrrjournal.bsky.social editorial board, this time as an Academic Editor!
The call for our next issue, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ remains open until 16th April. More details can be found here: www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub.... Please share with your PGRs!
Delighted to be a part of this programme and looking forward to speaking on Friday about @glasgowburns.bsky.social’s Burns Supper at 225 Years research project. We’ll be discussing our community engagement work, global living heritage, and sharing a few initial findings from our dataset so far!
How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? @drcleoocy.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owgU...
Join us next week for 2 online gatherings for the #BurnsSupper225 Global Community where we’ll discuss what the tradition means to us and its status as Living Heritage:
- Monday 9 March, 7-8am GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/the-burns-...
- Thursday 12 March, 7-8pm GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/the-burns-...
A pleasure to speak with @ceilidhclub.bsky.social last month about @glasgowburns.bsky.social’s ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project as part of their Scottish Spotlight series! The episode is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/owgUdrm0SmQ?...
#BurnsSupper225
Members of the Robert Burns Centre at Buckingham Palace with then University of Glasgow Principal Professor Anton Muscatelli.
About 2 years ago I took this picture of most of the Robert Burns Centre crew @glasgowburns.bsky.social with @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social at Buckingham Palace, there to receive their Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Was a very proud day for all @glasgow.ac.uk!
The Burns Supper at 225 Years
A free online gathering to celebrate 225 years of the Burns Supper & discuss its nomination to the Inventory of Living Heritage in the UK
To facilitate international participation there are 2 DATES: 9 March, 7–8 AM GMT:
1/2
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-burns-...
CFP: VPR will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2027. We’re taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a “KEYWORDS” special issue guest edited by Fionnuala Dillane, @jimmussell.bsky.social & @mdamkjaer.bsky.social. Proposals due March 30. Details: rs4vp.org/vpr-cfp-spec...
@katiemaclean.bsky.social
📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#JaneAusten #WutheringHeights
@ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social
Send us your Suppers! #BurnsSupper225
The 'Reading Scotland' series by Scotland Hub @unimainz.bsky.social has featured many IASSL members. Talks by @annafancett.bsky.social, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, @leoniejungen.bsky.social, @drcleoocy.bsky.social, @ainsley76.bsky.social and other scholars are available on the RS YouTube channel. 🏴 🇩🇪
Infinite Women: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
In this episode of the @infinite-women.com podcast, @drcleoocy.bsky.social & @kateferrier.bsky.social discuss the novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854)
#C18 #C19 #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHj...
📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).
This week on the podcast: @drcleoocy.bsky.social and @kateferrier.bsky.social on why Susan Edmonstone Ferrier is more than just "the Scottish Jane Austen"
Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!
3-year postdoc opportunity at Durham University - any department, any field. Detailed guidance in the link - note that you need a mentor from a relevant department to mentor and support your application.
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Amidst January’s Burnsmania it was a pleasure to speak last Thursday to the Stirling Local History Society about the lives and works of Elizabeth Hamilton and Susan Ferrier - two local legends in different ways! Many thanks to the Society for this invitation and to all who came for their questions.
