Christmas News from staff & students in the Centre for New Writing University of Leicester …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/12/christ… Future Students Office at Leicester Jonathan Taylor Everybody'sReviewing Literary Leicester 2024 @[email protected] Leicester Writes Writing East Midlands NAWE Library & Learning Services UoL Press Office College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

We've just submitted ours! The Charles Lamb Society invites proposals for 20-minute papers on the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb and their circle. We would be especially interested in paper topics that deal with the conference theme of ‘Romantic making and unmaking’

For the #BARS2024 British Association for Romantic Studies conference I've put out a session call for a panel on 'Extractive Arts' - which will be the first UK outing of my The Leverhulme Trust project!! Please send me your abstracts. More details here: bars.ac.uk/conference2024…

Romanticists! Elians! Session call for BARS 2024 now up. Do consider submitting a paper on Charles and/ or Mary Lamb… £100 bursary for PGRs/ECRs bars.ac.uk/conference2024…

The Midlands Romantic Seminar is back! We have put together a great programme (to follow). Our first 2024 speaker is Dr Madeleine Callaghan (Sheffield) on 14th March, who will be speaking on ‘‘’The Magic Circle There’’: Inner & Outer Worlds in Shelley’s Lyrics’. All are welcome!

JOIN THE EMPATHY CENTRE TEAM: WE'RE HIRING The Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare is hiring Research Fellow in #medical #Statistics / #evidencesynthesis jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9368… Applications open until 20/2/2024 Kindly share widely Kerry Hood (she/her) Becca Webster @UniofLeicester Leicester Medical School

🗓️ 7 Feb, 5.15pm, Attenborough 1707, University of Leicester - Mathew Winterbottom's talk ⏳ 18 Feb - Final Day: ashmolean.org/exhibition/col… From Queen Victoria's wedding dress to Millais, Ruskin, Rossetti, Turner, and Whistler, the exhibition features objects from around the world!

Great to have a brand new special issue of the Friends of Coleridge Bulletin in the mail today, following up on last year’s ‘De Quincey’s Confessions at 200’ conference. Articles by Brecht de Groote, Matthew Sangster, Robert Morrison, Felicity James, Nick Dodd, Prof Daniel Cook and more. 🤩

This is coming up soon! I’ll be running the online portion, so I hope to see your name in the waiting room!

Today! Happy birthday Charles!

My inaugural lecture is coming up: 'John Donne, Rising', Wednesday 28th Feb at 5.30pm, University of Leicester campus. You can join the guest list here. tickettailor.com/events/cssahev…

So excited to be running the Charles Lamb sessions at BARS beside Felicity James. I'll also be presenting on Charles Lamb and the ethics of debt--always a hot topic for young academics. #BARS2024

So many congratulations both Dr. Adam Neikirk and Rebecca Ferrier - what lovely news

C'mon down to Literary Leicester 2024 today - Wed 20 Mar 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: British-Latin American Literature: Writing Ourselves Visible tickettailor.com/events/literar…

'In the cherry blossom's shade, there is no such thing as a stranger' (Kobayashi Issa) I love that Japanese has a different word for looking at the cherry blossom during the day (hanami) and at night (yozakura)🌸 Japanese cherry blossom in #Oxford🌸

🗓️ 5.15pm today 🗨️ Two talks on pioneering research on: ⚕️the doctor blamed for the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales and the succession crisis that led to Queen Victoria 👩‍⚕️the life and contributions made to the field of psychiatry by pioneering 'alienist' Dr Adele de Steiger

I see a Charles Lamb Society event, I quote tweet

Counting down now! This super event will be on Saturday 15th June at the RAS and online at 2.30pm.

Today! You can see it on zoom! All welcome.

Congratulations to Dr Andy Ward from our Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare who has been awarded a Principal Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy for his work in communication skills training, inclusion healthcare and empathic healthcare education #CitizensOfChange