Today is the day! October is c18.masto.host's member drive month. When we began this adventure 11 months ago, I said I was committed to hosting at $20 a month as my contribution to our community.

Our current hosting costs, due to growth and the extra charge for Elasticsearch, which allows you to search full text of public participating posts, are now $50 a month.

For next year, that leaves $360 beyond my commitment to cover our masto.host server.

Venmo me @johnsonians !

Book Borrowing in Scotland, 1750–1830
Thurs 21 Sept, Edinburgh & online – free

Prof Katie Halsey will discuss some of the early research findings of the AHRC-funded research project “Books and Borrowing, 1750–1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers” with a particular focus on the #libraries & wider book culture of #Georgian #Edinburgh

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #BookHistory

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dr-katherine-halsey-book-borrowing-in-scotland-1750-1830-tickets-720341198917

When my partner first told me the Oppenheimer movie didn't talk about this AT ALL, I immediately lost whatever little interest I had. Gross to make so much money off of them, yet not even mention the victims. 35 infants died the month after the test bomb alone.

Idk, call me a buzzkill or whatever but I don't think there's enough special effects in the world to make me feel less gross about this. I really thought part of the movie would be him facing the reality of what he created tbh.

CFP: Walter Scott, North & South
The 13th International #WalterScott Conference
22–25 May 2024, University of South Carolina

Participants are invited to consider categories of north & south as they apply to, intersect with, & inform Scott’s life, work, reputation, & reinterpretation, including the norths & souths of Scotland, the UK, Europe & Africa, the Americas, & the global north & south more generally

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #CallforPapers

@litstudies

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/beyond_classroom/walter_scott_conference_2024/index.php

NEW PHILLIS WHEATLEY CFP PLEASE CIRCULATE

“Wheatley in London”- a forum

Eds: Bakary Diaby and Abigail Zitin

Studies in Romanticism

Deadline: February 1, 2024

https://www.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/media/2023/07/Wheatley_SiR_CFP_R1_0.pdf