Have a look at this wonderful video by Cecilia Moratori for Hypotheses, where she presents her book 'Renaissance Vegetarianism. The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s On Abstinence' in 3 minutes. Video ➡️ hpbin3.hypotheses.org/1058 Book info ➡️ mhra.org.uk/publications/i…

London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. Jane Stabler (St Andrews) on 'the Unseen, the Unsaid and the Unsayable' in Byron's Don Juan manuscripts. Friday 16 April 2021 at 17.30-19.30 on Zoom. Chair: David Duff. All welcome. Prior registration needed. Details at londonparisromantic.com/?p=1527

TODAY!! London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. International panel on Romantic Salons and Salonnières. Susanne Schmid (Berlin) on Lady Blessington; Carmen Casaliggi (Cardiff) on Holland House. Chair: David Duff. 21 May 17.30-19.30 on Zoom. All welcome. londonparisromantic.com/?p=1542

#OutNow in #OA: 'On the #Literature and #Thought of the #German #Classical Era: Collected Essays' by Hugh Barr Nisbet. You can #read and #download this #openaccess title for free or get your own hard copy at doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0… (1/10)

A new review of my 2008(!) book Play the Slav, which I was pleasantly surprised to find: thank you, ChessAudiobooks! youtube.com/watch?v=-MZSYA…

The 2021 Hazlitt Society Lecture and Day-School will be held at UCL on 18 September. The Lecture will be given by Freya Johnston. Day-School speakers: James Grande, John Mee, Anna Mercer, Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Hannah Tran, and James R. M. Wakefield. ucl.ac.uk/hazlitt-societ…

A fascinating conversation about the history of physiognomics: youtu.be/WjWABo9Yx_g

My review of Davorin Kuljasevic's book How to Study Chess on Your Own is in the August CHESS, p10 of this pdf sample. An inspiring book for players who want to organise their study time. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478…

The pleasures of Romantic Hamburg...

A group review of Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures; The Magnus Method; and Magnus Carlsen's Most Instructive Games: lichess.org/@/Minckwitz/bl…

Romantic Travel: Writing Germany and ‘the North’ A workshop on European cultural transfer around 1800, Friday 25 March 2022. Organizer: Dr James Vigus ([email protected]). The description and programme are here (times are Central European Time): hias-hamburg.de/en/events/roma…

Looking forward to this event on Saturday! Great lineup of speakers reflecting on The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion! Details on free registration are below or forms.gle/b7i8NN6UsC57UZ…. Friends of Coleridge Cambridge University Press Miriam Burstein Nishi Pulugurtha James Vigus

Tracing travelling literary figures around 1800 and their motivations. A workshop exploring these as well as cosmopolitanism, nationalism and the links of trading society with empire and slavery that emerged along the way. Details and registration: bit.ly/3IvxsYC

Join today: Annika Bärwald, Ute Berns, Emma Clery, Cian Duffy, Lis Møller, Robert Rix and Maximiliaan van Woudenbergexplore with James Vigus the emerging interest of Romantic writers in Germany and Scandinavia. Details and registration: bit.ly/3IvxsYC

A tribute to IM Mike Basman and his Audio Chess project: lichess.org/@/Minckwitz/bl…

Join us via clearing! Apply from 8am on Thursday 17th August here: apply.qmul.ac.uk