Biannual seminar of the Société d’Etudes Modernistes Friday 12 October 2018 (5–7pm) Institut du Monde Anglophone (Room 16) 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6th, France. Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg): Proletarian Modernism Respondent: Benoît Tadié (University Rennes 2). Abstract: This paper identifies a neglected tradition of twentieth-century literary, cultural, and theoretical …
CFP: The Second Annual International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA), 12–14 September 2019, Tokyo
MSIA2 ‘Modernism and Multiple Temporalities’ The Second Annual International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 12–14 September 2019 Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo Confirmed Keynote Speakers Prof. Laura Marcus (Oxford) Prof. Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins) Prof. Aaron Gerow (Yale) Following its highly successful inaugural conference held in June 2018, …
CFP: Modernism in the Home, 1–2 July 2019, University of Birmingham
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Modernism in the Home. The conference is set to be held on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July 2019 at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Centre for Modernist Cultures. Studies of modernism and the home are wide-ranging; this …
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CFP: Lewis and the Post-War, 1919–1921, Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
Call for Papers: ‘Lewis and the Post-War, 1919–1921′ In his autobiography Blasting and Bombardiering (1937), Wyndham Lewis memorably assessed the world in which he found himself on returning from the western front: “We were all in the post-war, but that period produced nothing but a lot of sub-Sitwells and sheep in …
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CFP: Re-presenting David Jones
‘Re-presenting David Jones’ (Proposed seminar at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, 7–10 March, 2019, Georgetown University, Washington, DC) Organizer: Thomas Berenato (University of Virginia) Co-Organizer: Anna Svendsen (University of York) The centenary of the First World War has prompted new publications on and public interest in the life and work of the Anglo-Welsh …
CFP: Doris Lessing at 100, 12–14 September, UEA
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA is hosting an international conference to mark the centenary of Lessing’s birth. The conference will take place on 12–14 September 2019 at the Thomas Paine Centre, UEA. Doris Lessing is one of the most widely-read and culturally important writers of the twentieth century, …
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CFP BAMS 2019: Troublesome Modernisms, 20–22 June, London
British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2019 Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London 20–22 June 2019 Confirmed keynote speaker: Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins) Second keynote speaker to be confirmed ‘What effects of synergy or friction result when the many, sometimes contradictory, criteria of high …
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Transatlantic Women in the Archives, 25 September, National Library of Scotland
Transatlantic Women in the Archives 2–4 pm, 25 September, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh This event, part of the Transatlantic Literary Women series, explores the legacies of twentieth-century women writers. Four speakers will discuss their experiences of recovering the works and lives of women with connections to, and identities shaped by, …
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CFP Modernist Legacies and Futures: Modernist Studies Ireland inaugural conference, 17 May 2019, Galway
Call for Papers: Modernist Legacies and Futures: Modernist Studies Ireland inaugural conference Friday 17 May 2019 National University of Ireland Galway Plenary Speaker: Dr Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths University of London In many ways, Modernism’s future is now. We are still grappling with modernism’s aftermath, afterlives, and its perpetual relevance. The new textualities …
