CfP: Society of Dix-Neuviémistes for their 2027 Conference in Dundee: uksdn.co.uk/sdn-annual-c...

Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie (Dundee 2027)

Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet, 1875 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie Dundee, 14–16 April 2027 With the support of th…

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GRANT: The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant, named in memory of the Society’s first Secretary-Treasurer, of up to ₤1,000 to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

Research Grant

The Ian McGhee Research Grant from the John Galt Society The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant, named in memory of the Society’s first Secretary-Treasurer, of up to ₤1,000 to defr…

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CfP: "Framing the Human in the Nineteenth Century", the 48th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social (Philadelphia, PA, March 2027) Abstracts due 31 Oct 2026 Details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6576

⭐️ I’m absolutely delighted that my article ‘The Volcano and the Vampire’ (@gothicstudies.bsky.social) has been awarded the honourable mention in the @ncsascholars.bsky.social Article Prize! Thank you NCSA! Entries for the 2026-7 prize now open. ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article... #c19th

The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association is looking for new committee members for the Travel Awards Committee and the Publicity Committee. Both committees have leadership in place and include periodic work, one or two times a year 🌿 @ncsascholars.bsky.social 〰️ Email: christarosedimarco@gmail.com

Our @ncsascholars.bsky.social is open! Come see us on the 2nd floor landing of the National Union Building where you'll find excellent deals on books! #ncsa2026 #INCS #INCSA

Late yesterday at the @ncsascholars.bsky.social conference we met @routledgebooks.bsky.social author Emily Burns, pictured below with two of her three books on exhibit. #INCSA #NCSA #INCS #19thC

Thank you for an amazing conference in Washington, DC: Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation. 〰️ NCSA @ncsascholars.bsky.social will meet again in Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027; CfP coming soon. INCSA will meet next in Tokyo in summer 2028. And INCS will post a new call soon. 〰️ Until then!

CALL FOR PAPERS Our friends at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) have a new CfP: Framing the Human in the #19thC. They meet in Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. The submission deadline is October 31, 2026. CfP Link: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... @ncsascholars.bsky.social

We are pleased to share our CfP: Framing the Human in the 19th Century. We meet in #Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. 🎃 Proposals due October 31, 2026. For more details, visit: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... 💰We have four Conference Travel Grants, due January 15, 2027: ncsaweb.net/grants-fundi...

New from one of our members! www.routledge.com/Routledge-Re...

Of potential interest to our colleagues!

Alex Zivkovic@alexzivkovic.bsky.social · last yr.

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture. Paper proposals due Aug 29! caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... please repost and share!

#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron. If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole. Pictured here: 1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874 2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70 3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66

Spent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work. Pictured here: 1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882 2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884 3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884 4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82 #blueskyart #art

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

It's publication day!! Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.

Overwhelmed and understaffed, the Louvre shuts its doors — a warning sign for global overtourism

The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.

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@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below! Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025 tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. Some used their imaginations to fill in what the blurry images couldn’t convey.

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🚨 Last call! 🚨 We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Hello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open. 21-24 July 2026 National Union Building, Washington, DC In-Person and Online Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025 Details 👇 in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...

Our VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025

i learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:

Order of the Good Death@ordergooddeath.bsky.social · last yr.

In record time, Georgia becomes the 13th state to pass human composting legislation, expanding eco-friendly care that resonates with a growing number of people who want their final act to be meaningful

🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...

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if anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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Deadline extended! Submit your proposals by 5/31.

19 Century Studies Association@ncsascholars.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new CFP from the Victorian Institute: vi2025.wordpress.com

CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina World Literatures in English universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...