We at BAMS recognise that more needs to be done to counter the whiteness of academia and of modernism studies, and that we need to do more. In February 2020, The Higher Education Statistics Agency reported that fewer than 1% of professors employed at UK universities are black, whilst 85% are …
CfP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, 15-16 Dec 2020 (deadline 28 June)
CFP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/sound-instruments-and-sonic-cultures-interdisciplinary-conference This interdisciplinary conference will take place on 15–16 December 2020 at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. Keynote speakers: Mara Mills (NYU Steinhardt) Trevor Pinch (Cornell University) COVID-19 NOTICE: In view of the unpredictability of the current pandemic situation, while we …
BAMS Essay Prize winners 2020
The BAMS Essay Prize 2020 received a huge response – far bigger than in recent years. The judging panel read some truly outstanding, innovative and challenging essays from all over the world, and decisions to arrive at a short-list and a winner were extraordinarily difficult. The sheer variety of the work …
CfP: Mary Butts: Feminist Reconstructions, book (deadline 15 June)
Mary Butts: Feminist Reconstructions In the past couple of decades, much has been done to recover British modernist author Mary Butts (1890-1937). Butts’s Collected Essays and unpublished novel Unborn Gods, forthcoming from McPherson & Co, attest to the ongoing nature of this project. There is still much more to do, and much to explore …
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CfP: Non-Canonical British Literature 1890-1945, book (deadline 15 April)
Non-canonical British literature: 1890-1945 Abstracts by 15 April – DEADLINE EXTENDED Papers due 30 August 2020 We are working on an edited book on non-canonical English literature between 1890 and 1945 to be published by a UK publisher. The provisional title of the book is Non-canonical British Literature: 1890-1945, and topics …
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CfP: From Proletariat to Precariat: Working-class writing 1930s to date, Birmingham, 26 June 2020 (deadline 30 April)
This conference is now postponed. The organisers hope to reschedule in 2021. From Proletariat to Precariat: Representations of Class and Identity in Working-class writing from the 1930s to the present Department of English, University of Birmingham 26th June 2020 We invite submissions to an interdisciplinary conference on working -class fiction, …
CfP: Katherine Mansfield on the French Riviera, Menton, 24-5 Sep 2020 (deadline 31 March)
Katherine Mansfield on the French Riviera Menton, France 24–25 September 2020 THIS CONFERENCE IS STILL GOING AHEAD AS PLANNED (03/04/2020) An international symposium organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Hosted by the Town Hall of Menton, and supported by the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship The Symposium …
CfP: Between the Waves: British Women Writers 1930 to 1960 redux, Hull, 12 June 2020 (deadline 17 March)
Fourth international conference at The University of Hull Friday 12th June 2020 Co-organised by Dr Sue Kennedy and Professor Jane Thomas This conference aims to rekindle the energy unleashed at the inaugural conference on British Women’s Writing 1930 to 1960: Revision, Revival, Rediscovery in 2016 at Hull University that was taken …
CfP: Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World, York, 16 May 2020 (deadline 8 March)
CALL FOR PAPERS Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Symposium Centre for Modern Studies, University of York 16 May 2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster University) Since the ‘spatial turn’ in the 1970s, scholars, theorists, scientists, and intellectuals across the globe have been carving out new critical, theoretical, and methodological concepts to expand and redefine the …
CfP: Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts, 16-17 July 2020, London (deadline 29 Feb)
MAPPING SPACE MAPPING TIME MAPPING TEXTS An International Conference 16th and 17th July, 2020. The Knowledge Centre, The British Library, London. This two-day interdisciplinary conference is hosted by the AHRC Funded Chronotopic Cartographies project (Lancaster University) in partnership with The British Library and comes out of the primary research of …
