Proposals for 25-30 minute papers are welcome for a one day event to take place online (via Zoom) on the 12th of July 2021, as a collaboration between the Modernist Studies in Asia network (MSIA) and the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS). Attendance is free and will be part of …
BAMS Essay Prize (deadline 16 July 2021)
The British Association for Modernist Studies invites submissions for its annual essay prize for early career scholars. The winning essay will be published in Modernist Cultures, and the winner will also receive £250 of books. The BAMS Essay Prize is open to any member of the British Association for Modernist Studies …
Publicising your call for papers and/or event via BAMS
A quick reminder on the different ways you can communicate with the BAMS community to promote your call for papers and/or event. 1: Use the JISCMail list If you join the BAMS jiscmail list you can post directly to it. 2: Tweet @ us If you mention us @modernistudies in a twitter post …
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BAMS statement on Black Lives Matter
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 …
Call for nominations in D.H. Lawrence Studies (deadline 6 Sep 2021)
The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to invite nominations for the following awards in Lawrence studies: The Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Encouragement of Lawrence Studies. The Mark Spilka Lectureship. Lecture by a distinguished Lawrence scholar to be delivered at the International Conference. Awarded …
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CfP: Reading in theory and in higher education practice (journal SI; abstracts 15 July 2021; articles 15 Oct)
[Call for Articles] Reading in theoryand in higher education practice Special issue of CLW – Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (2022)ed. by Janine Hauthal & Hannah Van Hove deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2021; deadline for articles: 15 October 2021 Over the past few decades, the field of literary studies has increasingly been interested in …
CfP: Smallness: Myths, frames and avatars of the late modern (26 Nov 2021; deadline 30 June)
Grupo Poéticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Research Seminar Smallness: Myths, frames and avatars of the late modern In an effort to reach beyond the conspicuous, the large and clearly visible, the spectacular and magnified, this seminar is an invitation to read, watch and assess smallness, detail, imperceptibility, following Virginia Woolf’s direction: …
CfP: Postgraduate English (deadline 28 May)
Call for Submissions: Issue 42 Postgraduate English, Durham University’s online peer-reviewed literary journal, has been publishing postgraduate research biannually since the year 2000 and is one of the longest-running online postgraduate literary journals in the world. In recent years the journal has received reprint requests from academic publishers. The journal aims …
CfP: Before Europe: The Classic Avant-Gardes in the Longue Durée (Leuven, 9-10 Dec 2021; deadline 30 June)
University of Leuven9-10 December 2021 This interdisciplinary symposium, open to contributions on all art forms, aims to explore the deepest temporal strata of the so-called “historical” or “classic” avant-gardes. Our goal is to chart how these avant-gardes, both within Europe and beyond, engaged with the longue durée, with “prehistory”, with deep …
CfP: Moving the Centre: Toward Radical Futures (Online, 4-6 Aug 2021; deadline 5 Apr)
Cross-Disciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference on Post/Decolonial and Global Studies 4th – 6th August 2021 University of Glasgow – Online Call for Proposals Website: https://movingcentre2021.wordpress.com Important Dates Deadline for submissions: 5th April 2021 Notification of acceptance: by 14th May 2021 Conference dates: 4th, 5th and 6th August 2021 The climate crisis and …
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BAMS Postgraduate Training Day: Pedagogy (9 April 2021)
We’ve already circulated a save the date for this, but here are further details of this year’s BAMS Postgraduate Training Day, which will run online (via Zoom) on Friday 9 April 2021. This year’s topic is pedagogy. In addition to the kinds of questions that we all have when we come …
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BAMS Executive Steering Committee 2021 (election results)
We’ve already announced this via social media, but we’re pleased to confirm that joining the committee from 2021 for a three-year term will be: Dr Barbara Cooke (Loughborough University)Dr Rob Hawkes (Teeside University)Dr Udith Dematagoda (Waseda University, Japan) The postgraduate rep election was very closely fought – so much so, in …
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