“Border Boundaries. British Romanticism, Gender and Sexuality”
2014-04-16 11:45 - 23:45 (Europe/Rome) | Aula VI – Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna , Emilia Romagna, Italy
16 aprile 2014, ore 11.45
Conferenza presentata da Anne K. Mellor
(Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California Los Angeles)
Aula VI, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne di Bologna

CFP “Byron and Italy”
2014-05-09 | The Byron Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Byron Centre, University of Manchester: Thursday 4 – Friday 5 December
CFP Deadline 15 September 2014
Call for paper

CFP: John Keats’s Early Poems, 1814-1817
2014-05-20 | Keats-Shelley House, Rome, Italy
An Academic Seminar organized by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation, and supported by the British School at Rome

31 October 2014 at the KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE, Rome
In order to mark the bicentenary of the composition of ‘Imitation of Spenser’ (1814), John Keats’s earliest known poem, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Keats Foundation are jointly hosting a day academic seminar on 31 October, Keats’s birthday, at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
Proposals for papers are invited on any subject focusing on, or relating to, Keats’s early poems, from ‘Imitation of Spenser’ itself up to the publication of his first full-length volume, Poems (1817).
Papers discussing poems by Keats published later than 1817 may, of course, be accepted, but only by means of comparison with earlier poems. Papers may be given in English or in Italian, and abstracts accepted in either language.
Deadline for submission of abstracts (c. 200 words): 30 June 2014. Registration fee €25.
For further information on registration, and to send your abstract, please contact in the first instance:
Dr Giuseppe Albano, Curator, Keats-Shelley House, Rome
giuseppe.albano@keats-shelley-house.org
Professor Nicholas Roe, School of English, University of St. Andrews
nhr@st-andrews.ac.uk
To print the document, please click here.
http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
2014-10-09 | The British Library, 96 Euston Road, Kings Cross, London, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom
@ The British Library
3 October 2014 – 20 January 2015 Two hundred rare objects trace 250 years of the Gothic tradition, exploring our enduring fascination with the mysterious, the terrifying and the macabre. From Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Stanley Kubrick and Alexander McQueen, via posters, books, film and even a vampire-slaying kit, experience the dark shadow the Gothic imagination has cast across film, art, music, fashion, architecture and our daily lives. Beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Gothic literature challenged the moral certainties of the 18th century. By exploring the dark romance of the medieval past with its castles and abbeys, its wild landscapes and fascination with the supernatural, Gothic writers placed imagination firmly at the heart of their work – and our culture. Iconic works, such as handwritten drafts of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the modern horrors of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and the popular Twilight series, highlight how contemporary fears have been addressed by generation after generation. Terror and Wonder presents an intriguing glimpse of a fascinating and mysterious world. Experience 250 years of Gothic’s dark shadow.

Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants. Application Deadline: November 1.
2014-11-01
The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to defray travel expenses incurred in pursuing archival and/or special-collections research related to British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. Preference is given to projects involving authors featured in the bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Association’s annual publication. Advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars working outside the academy are eligible. No country of origin (or destination) restrictions apply. Please note that the grants do not underwrite time off for writing or travel to conferences.
The awards honor Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. (1907-1996), past president, vigorous advocate, and most generous benefactor of our Association. An investment banker and philanthropist, he also served as head of The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, established by his parents. The Foundation has long been distinguished for funding scholarship in early nineteenth-century English literature.
The Keats-Shelley Association awarded the first Pforzheimer Grants for tenure in 2000. Our roster of winners, who have ventured as far as Ghana and Jamaica in pursuit of their subjects, continues to grow and flourish.
Application Deadline: November 1.
Eligibility: Advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty.
Purpose: To provide funding for expenses related to research in the field of British Romanticism and literary culture between 1789 and 1832, especially projects involving authors featured in the Keats-Shelley Journal bibliography.
Application Procedures
A complete application must include:

Application form.
Curriculum vitae.
Description of the project, not to exceed three pages. This brief narrative should clearly describe your project, its contribution to the field, and your plan for use of the money.
A one-page bibliography of publications that treat the topic.
Two letters of reference from people who know your work well and can judge its value. These letters should be sent directly by your referees to the Chair of the Grants Committee and be postmarked before the application deadline.

Please include four copies of your application form, CV, project description, and bibliography and return them to: Chair, Grants Committee, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., Room 226, The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018- 2788.
If you are unable to print the application form from this Website or have further questions about the awards, please contact Doucet Fischer, the Administrator of the Grants, at the address listed above (phone: 212-764-0655) or send an e-mail to: doucetfischer@nypl.org.
Report to the Association: The Keats-Shelley Association expects awardees to file project reports by the following December describing how the grants furthered their research.
Link to the website

Being Human – Festival of the Humanities
2014-11-15 - 2014-11-23
Link to the website
Being Human is the UK’s first national festival of the humanities. Between 15 and 23 November 2014, the festival will engage people across the UK with innovative research.
Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the festival will draw together a programme of activities to inform, extend, and ignite our contemporary thinking and imagination.
Participating universities and partner organisations >
The festival will highlight the ways in which humanities research can:

inspire and enrich our everyday lives
help us to understand ourselves, our relationships with others, and the challenges we face in a changing world
provide world class knowledge that is vibrant, vital, and accessible to all

Over 35 research institutions from across the UK are set to participate in the 2014 festival, and that number is growing daily. From Truro to Orkney, Swansea to Belfast, Norwich to Liverpool, we will be celebrating the breadth and diversity of the humanities in a series of events across the country. Activities are being held in museums, galleries and cultural and community centres … even caves!

PhD Studentships in Romanticism
2014-11-28 08:00 - 17:00
AHRC funding for UK/EU arts and humanities doctoral research students
The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in conducting research into British literature and culture of the Romantic period.
The DTP, a collaboration between the universities of Birmingham, Birmingham City, De Montfort, Leicester, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent, provides research candidates with the potential for cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate to the project, subject-specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for and developing a career. For full details, see their website: www.midlands3cities.ac.uk
Supervisory teams across the DTP can offer expert supervision on canonical and non-canonical Romantic writers, as well as a range of specialist topics. A comprehensive list of research areas, supervisory teams and contact details is available here: M3C Romanticists.docx. Students interested in developing a research proposal are warmly invited to contact any member of the DTP.
The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 14 January 2015, at which time students must have applied for a place to study at the home institute of the proposed lead supervisor and have provided details of two references. The funding application should normally be submitted at the same time as the application for a place to study. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk .

Trans-Cultural Crossings in Post-Revolutionary Europe
2015-02-27 08:00 - 17:00
1816: Trans-Cultural Crossings in Post-Revolutionary Europe è un progetto gestito dall’Università di Warwick. Il 1816, l’anno dopo Waterloo, viene preso come momento paradigmatico per interrogare l’età dei romanticismi in chiave post-rivoluzionaria.
Maggiori informazioni al seguente link.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants – The Keats-Shelley Association of America
2015-09-21
The Pforzheimer Grants are awarded each year to defray travel expenses incurred in pursuing archival and/or special-collections research related to British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. Preference is given to projects involving authors featured in the bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Association’s annual publication. Advanced graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars working outside the academy are eligible. No country of origin (or destination) restrictions apply. Please note that the grants do not underwrite time off for writing or travel to conferences.
Further information: http://k-saa.org/awards/

CFP: Burney and Popular Entertainments
2015-11-04
Conference of the Burney Society
St Chad’s College, Durham University, 4-6 July 2016
Burney and Popular Entertainments: the business of pleasure in Late-Georgian Britain
Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers on the subject of ‘Burney and Popular Entertainments: the business of pleasure in Late-Georgian Britain’
Frances Burney grew up at the centre of a vibrant metropolitan cultural scene, and was part of a network of musicians, writers, actors and artists whose careers depended on a culture of consumption, both imaginative and material. This was the world she evoked in her novels, plays and journals and this conference builds on the movement
in Burney scholarship toward greater contextualisation of her work. The conference centres around entertainment, with the conference programme itself featuring a range of entertainments, including an excursion to a site of local interest, and the world premiere of Burney’s play Love and Fashion, which will be performed by Durham Student Theatre. The conference’s keynote address will be given by Harriet Guest, Professor Emerita of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of York.
Papers should address the work of Burney and/or members of her circle, with potential topics including (but not limited to):

Burney and the Theatre
Public Spaces (such as Parks, Gardens, Assembly Rooms, the Seaside)
Private Entertainments
Commercial Entertainments
Shopping/Consumer Culture/Fashion
Tourism
The Promenade
Curiosity/Spectacle

Abstract of no more than 250 words should be sent as an email attachment in MS Word document format to Francesca Saggini (fsaggini@unitus.it) and burneysocietyuk@gmail.com . You should also include a 250 word biographical statement. Please use your surname as the document title. The abstract should be sent in the following format: (1) Title (2) Presenter(s) (3) Institutional affiliation (4) Email (5) Abstract (6) Biog.
The deadline for receipt of all proposals is January 31, 2016. We will attempt to notify all correspondents before February 28 regarding the status of their submission.
A small number of travel bursaries will be available for postgraduate students presenting at the conference. Applications are invited from research students registered on a programme of postgraduate study on the date of the conference. Please indicate at time of submission if you wish to be considered for one of these, stating your affiliation and level of study, and include a brief statement of how attendance at the conference would be of benefit to your research project.

Byron and the Regency: An International Conference CFP
2015-12-03 08:00 - 2015-12-04 17:59 | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Call for Papers: Byron and the Regency: An International Conference
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Thursday 3 – Friday 4 December 2015
CFP

Myth and Memory: Representing and Misrepresenting National Cultures and Peoples
2016-05-05 - 2016-05-06 | Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages “Luigj Gurakuqi”, University of Shkodra, Albania, Albania
2nd International Conference of English and American Studies
5-6 May 2016 organized by
Department of English and American Studies,
Faculty of Foreign Languages
“Luigj Gurakuqi” University of Shkodra, Albania
The Department of English and American Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international and inter-disciplinary conference to be held at the University of Shkodra in May 2016.
The end of the 20th century saw the break-up of several apparently established nation states, often following violent conflict. All this took place paradoxically in an era in which the idea of universal human rights was widely promoted in the context of a so-called globalised economy.
The virulent racism of the early 20th century returned as „ethnic cleansing‟. This process, compounded by sectarian, linguistic and cultural difference and rivalry has continued into our own century seemingly accompanied by even greater violence. The older religious and imperial orders were largely replaced during the 19th century by the appeal to a new dynamic of „nation building‟. What appeared as a progressive movement of liberation, one of the grands recits of history, had consequences that proved disastrous, not least for Europe‟s „dark twentieth century‟. The subsequent break-up of Europe‟s overseas empires, the struggles for anti-colonial independence, may be thought in many cases to have produced similar results.
Patriotic sentiment and revolutionary fervour, in both their positive and negative formations, have always been deeply entwined with cultural and educational activities and programmes. The whole fabric of civilisation is present: writing novels, history, poetry, journalism; composing music; sculpture, painting and architecture; building schools and universities; science and technology; mobilising and training armies; founding constitutions; establishing territorial and sectarian/confessional claims are all necessary and complementary features of a conflicted „modernity‟, that defers to the existence of nation states, while invoking a wider common multi-cultural humanity.
In order to explore these issues, whether in the past or the present (or even, possibly, the future) we invite papers that address aspects of national, ethnic, sectarian, linguistic and cultural identities, and their relative importance as they are manifest in the following fields:
Literary, artistic, and popular cultural (film, TV, newspapers, etc) production
Political and economic history
Legal and educational systems and practices
Social psychology
We hope to attract speakers from a wide variety of disciplines including literary, media and cultural studies; linguistics; sociology and political science; theology and philosophy; law and economics; history; education.
Abstracts no longer than 300 words in English with up to 5 key words should be sent to bbushgjokaj@gmail.com or ierkoci@unishk.edu.al by 30 December, 2015. Please make sure you include the title, the author‟s name, affiliation and email.
The conference fee of 80 euros includes the book of proceedings, conference material, conference dinner, refreshments, and certificate. The payment method, information about accommodation and other details will be available shortly on the conference website which is currently under construction.
Delegates unfamiliar with Albania may like to refer to Byron‟s „Childe Harold, Canto II, XLVI‟
Ev’n to the centre of Illyria’s vales
Childe Harold pass‟d o‟er many a mount sublime,
Through lands scarce noticed in historic tales;
Yet in famed Attica such lovely dales
Are rarely seen; nor can fair Tempe boast
A charm they know not; loved Parnassus fails,
Though classic ground and consecrated most,
To match some spots that lurk within this lowering coast.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Shkodra!
Organizing committee:
Prof.as.Dr Meri Guli
Dr. Arben Bushgjokaj
Dr. Albana Hadri
Dr. Dalila Karakaçi
Dr. Ilda Erkoçi
MA. Nivis Deda
Academic committee:
Prof.Dr. Rajmonda Këçira, University of Shkodra
Prof. Simon Edwards, University of Roehampton, England
Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz
Prof. Dr. Refik Kadija, University of Shkodra
Dr Robert Elsie, scholar of Abanian studies
Dr Gezim Alpion, University of Birmingham
Prof.as.Dr. Meri Guli, EASD, University of Shkodra
Prof. Dr. Shpresa Delija, University of Tirana
Dr. Arben Bushgjokaj, EASD, University of Shkodra

Figure della soggettività e imitatio dal Romanticismo al Decadentismo
2016-12-09 15:00 - 2016-12-10 20:00 | Wake Forest University Venice Campus, Dorsoduro 699 - San Gregorio, Venezia, Italy
Primo colloquio del ciclo: Metamorfosi dei topoi nella poesia europea dalla tradizione alla modernità
Programma

Convegno "Il Mito del Nemico"
2017-06-08 08:00 - 2017-06-09 17:00 | Dipartimento delle Arti, Bologna
