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 …
BAMS PGR Training Day: Teaching & Pedagogy, Edinburgh, 3 Apr 2020
CANCELLED Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus Friday 3 April 2020 Register here BAMS runs a rotating three-year series of postgraduate training days which focus on the three key parts of most salaried academic contracts: research, teaching and administration. This year the training day focuses on teaching and pedagogy. The focus will …
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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 Butts’s Collected Essays and unpublished novel Unborn Gods, forthcoming from McPherson & Co, attest to the ongoing nature of this project.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 …
CfP: Telepoetics, London, 27 May 2020 (deadline 10 March)
Telepoetics Dana Research Centre, Science Museum, London, 27 May 2020 Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2020 www.crossedlines.co.uk From the ‘waves of sound, transmitted o’er the line’ in Jones Very’s ‘The Telephone’ (1877) to the ‘thin voice speak[ing] / from a drowning world’ in Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Six Rings’ (2018), telephones have been …
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CfP: Women Writers and Social/Political Activism (abstract deadline 1 Aug 2020)
Women Writers and Social/Political Activism A special issue of Women: A Cultural Review Call for Abstracts Guest Editors: Lise Shapiro Sanders and Carey Snyder Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2020 The early twentieth century abounded with movements that reshaped women’s lives—including those for women’s suffrage, peace, birth control, and better working conditions, …
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