The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027

Wednesday 3rd March - Saturday 6th March

Call for Papers:

The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 will take place March 3-6 in the reading room of the Jerwood Centre in Grasmere, UK.

The conference theme is "Romanticism and the Visual." This obviously includes 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 1, 2026; we will aim to have acceptances informed with 7 days after this deadline.

More information regarding registration for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 coming soon.

For queries, please email wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com