The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027

Wednesday 3rd March - Saturday 6th March

Please submit 250-word proposals to

proposal.wsc@gmail.com

by November 1st, 2026

Call for Papers

The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 will take place March 3rd-6th in the Reading Room of the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere, UK.

The conference theme is "Romanticism and the Visual". This covers visual arts, including forms like the panorama and diorama, as well as the illustrated book, but also the idea of vision and the visionary, and research by contemporaries into optics and the physiology of vision.  As always, proposals on any Romantic-era subject will also be considered. As it is the bicentenary of Blake's death, papers on Blake are especially encouraged.

Lecturers will include Ruth Abbott of St. John's College, Cambridge, Amy Concannon, Manton Senior Curator of Historic British Art at the Tate Gallery, and Jamie Castell and Nate Mann will perform "Mimic hoots and redoubled echoes: Wordsworth and Schwitters’ Lakeland Soundscapes."

The Winter Conference is non-residential. We recommend the Daffodil Hotel, just across the street from Dove Cottage and the Jerwood Centre, or the Swan Hotel, just up the A 591.

Please submit 250-word proposals to proposal.wsc@gmail.com by November 1st, 2026; we will aim to have acceptances informed within 7 days after this deadline.

Registration

The registration fee for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 is £235.

Registration will open on 1st October 2026.

For queries, please email wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com