Call for Papers ‘The rest is silence’ Symposium of Sound Durham University 3–4 September 2018 Keynote speakers and performers: Professor Helen Abbott, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham Dr Edward Allen, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Aurélia Lassaque, bilingual poet and singer in French and Occitan The Symposium of …
CFP, Music in Radio Drama, ‘Word and Music Studies’ series
Call for Papers Music in Radio Drama Edited by Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp) and Jarmila Mildorf (University of Paderborn) Radio drama has been around since the development of the medium in the 1920s, roughly coinciding with the birth of film. Unlike that culturally dominant visual medium, however, the acoustic art …
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Maud Ellmann to give the Inaugural Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture at UEA: PG bursaries available
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA is pleased to announce the first annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture, to be given by Professor Maud Ellmann. The lecture will be titled ‘The Salesman Only Rings Once: Julian Maclaren-Ross and the Vacuum Cleaner in the 1930s’ and will take place …
CFP, James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue: Joyce and the Non-Human
James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue Call for Papers: Joyce and the Non-Human The idea for this issue began with a panel for the Toronto Joyce Symposium on “Our Funnaminal World,” which later turned into the theme for this year’s Zurich James Joyce Workshop (“Joycean Animals”). The topic came about as a …
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CFP, Recycling Woolf, 27–29 June 2019, Nancy
An international conference organised by IDEA (Université de Lorraine), with the collaboration of : Institut des Textes et de Manuscrits Modernes, The Italian Virginia Woolf Society, Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes 27–29 June 2019, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Brenda Silver (Dartmouth College, USA) Jean-Pierre Criqui (Centre Pompidou, France) Invited artists: Kabe Wilson Anne-James Chaton …
New BAMS PG reps elected
We are delighted to announce the result of our recent election for two PGR representatives to sit on the BAMS Executive Committee. Our new members are Gareth Mills and Séan Richardson, who will join Ruth Clemens (Leeds Trinity) to make up a fantastic team of PG reps. We welcome both of them …
T. S. Eliot International Summer School, 7–15 July: full bursaries available
Applications are encouraged for full fee-paying bursaries to attend the T.S. Eliot International Summer School (7–15 July). The deadline for bursary awards of £600 is 1 May. The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to central London all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and …
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Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style, King’s College London, 1 June 2018
Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style Organized by Dr Clara Jones (KCL) and Dr Natasha Periyan (Goldsmiths) Description The political activism and social commitments of interwar women writers were extensive and varied. Winifred Holtby was a member of the Six Point Group and Independent Labour Party, Sylvia Townsend Warner was a …
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A ‘cerebration’ for Hugh Haughton, University of York, 8–9 June
In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and the Humanities Research Centre are hosting a poetic and scholarly “cerebration”. We commence on Friday 8 June with an evening of poetry, featuring readings by: Gerald Dawe · Kit Fan · Bernard O’Donoghue · Caitríona O’Reilly · Peter …
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CFP Narrative Democracy in 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature and Visual Arts, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 18–19 October
SEAC 2018 conference, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 18–19 October 2018 This conference will consider the aesthetic and literary significance of the concept of narrative democracy. Many recent works have examined the interactions between art and democracy, be it the way the latter sheds light on the fictitious component of politics, or its pivotal …
