Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change An International Conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) in collaboration with CECILLE (Centre d’Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 5–6 April 2019 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France Site Saint Charles Keynote speakers: Thomas …
CFP: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society
Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society Call for Papers: Issue 3 Tinakori: The Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society (ISSN 2514-6106) invites submissions for its forthcoming issue. We welcome scholars conducting research on any aspects of Mansfield’s life or work to submit their papers to Tinakori: The Critical Journal …
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‘Man of the House’: Masculinity and Domesticity from 1800 until the present day’, University of St Andrews, 22 June 2018
‘Man of the House’: Masculinity and Domesticity from 1800 until the present day’ Friday 22 June 2018, School of English, University of St Andrews Keynote speaker: Professor Gill Plain (University of St Andrews) Poetry reading by Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) The Man of the House Conference is an interdisciplinary event examining the relationship between masculinity and the …
CFP: Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, 17–19 October 2019, Montpellier
Short Fiction as Humble Fiction An international conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) with ENSFR (European Network for Short Fiction Research), 17-18-19 October 2019 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3, France Keynote speakers Elke D’hoker, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Ann-Marie Einhaus, Northumbria University, UK Short Fiction as Humble Fiction The title of …
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Registration open: The Working-Class Avant-Garde, London South Bank, 22 June 2018
The Working-Class Avant-Garde One-day Symposium, London | Friday 22 June, 2018 This symposium seeks to examine contributions to the twentieth-century British avant-garde by artists and writers of working class heritage. The avant-garde is often conceived to be the domain of the elite – those with the financial backing, education, and networks to …
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CFP: ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890–1950’
Call For Papers: ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890–1950’ University of Sheffield, 11–13 April 2019 Organiser: Katherine Ebury Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include life-writing, modernism, psychoanalysis and law and literature. Her first monograph, Modernism and Cosmology, appeared in 2014, and she …
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Summer courses in Cambridge
Virginia Woolf and Politics summer course, Wolfson College, Cambridge 1–6 July 2018 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/2018/ Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen, Homerton College, Cambridge 8–13 July https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2018/Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Looking ahead to 2019: Woolf’s Gardens, July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
Modernist Objects Conference
Download programme here 13-16 June, Sorbonne University, Paris In a line which seems pre-emptively levelled at Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go exactly one century later, Richard Aldington wrote in The Egoist that “one of the problems of modern art” is that “to drag smells of petrol, refrigerators, ocean greyhounds, President Wilson and analine [sic] …
Modernist Objects Conference, Paris
Programme 13-16 June, Sorbonne University, Paris Keynote speakers: Rachel Bowlby (University College London); Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University).
CFP ‘The rest is silence’, Symposium of Sound, Durham University, 3–4 September 2018
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 …
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