Nominations are sought for the 2020 Election of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) Executive Steering Committee. On 31st December 2019, the three-year terms of eight members of the BAMS Executive Steering Committee will come to an end. We now invite nominations for membership of the Steering Committee, along with …
New Work in Modernist Studies, Liverpool, 6 Dec 2019 (register by 25 Nov)
NWiMS 2019 draft programme Registration is now open for the ninth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies, which will take place on Friday 6 December 2019 at the University of Liverpool, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist …
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CfP: Richard Aldington/Imagism Conference, Chavignol, France, 20-22 June 2020 (deadline 5 Jan 2020)
XI INTERNATIONAL ALDINGTON SOCIETY and VII INTERNATIONAL IMAGISM CONFERENCE 20-22 June 2020, Chavignol/Sury-En-Vaux, France The XI International Aldington Society and VII International Imagism Conference will be held in Chavignol, France, near Sancerre and Sury-En-Vaux, the village where Aldington spent the last few years of his life. The International Richard Aldington Society …
CfP: Katherine Mansfield: Germany and Beyond, Bad Wörishofen, 21-22 Mar 2020 (deadline 31 Dec 2019)
Katherine Mansfield: Germany and Beyond Bad Wörishofen, Germany 21-22 March 2020 An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society Hosted by the Bad Wörishofen Mayorality and Tourist and Spa Bureau KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Claire Davison Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France CALL FOR ABSTRACTS It is well known that Katherine Mansfield’s first book of …
CfP: Urban Cultures, Digital Cities, June 2020 (first deadline 1 Dec 2019)
This unique initiative for 2020 brings City University of London and the University of Kent into collaboration with Routledge and Intellect Books on two conferences and associated publications. THEMES: Heritage, Preservation, Digital histories, Digital design, Art and Architectural History. Social history, Cultural industries, Urban design, Community Heritage, Architectural History. The University …
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CfP: Artefact, Aesthetic and Critical Represenation, Paris, 23-24 Apr 2020 (deadline 15 Jan)
Artefact, Aesthetic and Critical Representation: Experiment and Innovation in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction Call for papers for an international conference to take place at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée (research group LISAA (Literatures, Critical Thought and the Arts), subgroup SEA (English studies)): Thursday 23rd April and Friday 24th April 2020. Due date for …
CfP: Asking Big Questions Again, Venice, 24-25 Jan 2020 (deadline 5 Dec 2019)
CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th Forum of Critical Studies Asking Big Questions Again 24 – 25 January 2020 Venice, Italy Deadline for Paper Proposals: 5th of December 2019 The 8th Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, …
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CfP: Poetry & Painting: Conversations, Oxford, 23 Mar 2020 (deadline 30 Nov 2019)
You know how I feel about painters. I sometimes think poetry only describes. Frank O’Hara, ‘John Button Birthday’ (1957) The supposed similarity between poetry and painting was famously characterized in Horace’s ‘Ars Poetica’ by the dictum ‘ut pictura poesis’ (‘as is painting, so is poetry’). Yet in 1766, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing …
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CfP: British Society for Literature and Science, Sheffield, 15-17 Apr 2020 (deadline 12 Dec 2019)
The fifteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Sheffield from Wednesday 15 April until Friday 17 April 2020. Keynote speakers will be Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford), Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff), and Professor Angela Wright (Sheffield). The BSLS invites proposals …
CfP: Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age, Gdansk, 24-26 Feb 2020 (deadline 20 Nov 2019)
Call for papers Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age University of Gdańsk (Poland), 24–26 February 2020 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jeff Hearn and Dr Nena Močnik Organizers: Marta Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy We invite scholars, students, practitioners and activists from all fields to take part in the inaugural …
