Postgraduate
One of the key aims of the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group is to encourage dialogue amongst the South Coast postgraduate community. Postgraduates from any discipline are warmly invited to attend group events, seminars and conferences, as well as any events targeted specifically at postgraduates.
Points of contact for postgraduate and early careers include Debbie Welham (University of Winchester) and Deborah Brown (University of Chichester).
Postgraduates are welcome to submit conference reports or book reviews of up to 500 words for consideration for publication on this website.
LAUNCH OF NETWORK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Southern Early Modern and Medieval Postgraduate Network (SPEM) is a new pan-institutional group based in the South of England. It aims to provide a forum for postgraduate students to discuss their research with their peers, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and to provide practical help and advice from established academics. Twice-yearly events will be held featuring a mixture of papers by researchers, workshops and discussions led by established academics and other experts.
To that end, SPEM will be holding a one day conference at the University of Chichester on June 23rd 2011. This event will feature papers by postgraduate students working in the medieval and early modern periods and presentations on the topics of publication and non-academic careers for the postgraduate researcher. Professor Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex, editor Renaissance Studies) will discuss the process of publication.
We are accepting proposals for papers on any area of research in the medieval and early modern periods. The conference is open to all; the presentations on publication and careers will be general rather than specific to the medieval and early modern periods.
Papers should be 20 minutes long. Please send abstracts (250 max) to p.quinn@chi.ac.uk or c.a.parsons@sussex.ac.uk by May 31st 2011.
Conference report: ‘New Directions in Austen Studies’ Chawton House Library 2009
Workshop report: ‘Writing Women’s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities’ University of Kent November 2009
Call for Papers: 'Framing the Self' University of Portsmouth Centre for Studies in Literature Annual Postgraduate Symposium
Other sites of useful information include: British Association of Romantic Studies postgraduate page, including information about BARS postgraduate conferences and grants and prizes for postgraduates www.bars.ac.uk/
Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)
AHRC: www.ahrc.ac.uk