About the conference The seventh one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Friday 15th December at the University of Leeds (School of English), in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, …
Submit now to Queer Modernism(s) II: Intersectional Identities!
The organisers of Queer Modernism(s) have opened the call for papers for their second conference, “Intersection Identities”. Read their message and find out how to submit now.
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CFP: Special Issue (2018) of The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies (Tarr: 100 years on)
Wyndham Lewis’s quintessentially modernist novel Tarr was published in 1918 (Knopf, USA; Egoist Press, UK). To commemorate the centenary of the novel’s publication, the 2018 volume of JWLS seeks 7- to 10,000-word essays reconsidering Tarr’s significance, legacy, and meaning. We are particularly interested in essays approaching Tarr from innovative angles and standpoints. All submissions should try to engage with …
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CFP: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Modernism, 6-7 April 2018
Conference location: Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester. Confirmed speakers: Claire Harman and Jan Montefiore. Today, when political misinformation abounds, nationalism and Fascism have reappeared, and we find ourselves contending with ideology in simple, complex and covert forms, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s writing seems ever more relevant. In turns insightful, comic, …
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Register now: ‘In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism 1940-1980’
Registration is now open for the conference ‘In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism 1940-1980’ (University of St Andrews, 27th and 28th October). About the conference This international conference addresses how categories such as the ‘provincial’, the ‘regional’, and the ‘international’ have operated in relation to American art during …
CFP: Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace, June 2018
The 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf will take place on 21-24 June, 2018 at Woolf College, University of Kent, Canterbury. About the conference Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War and 80 years since the publication of Three Guineas, the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf invites …
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London Cantos Reading Group: October 11, Canto 86 (and more!)
The London Cantos Reading Group will reconvene on October the 11th at 18.00 in room 234, Senate House. We will read Canto 86. As ever, handouts and wine will be provided, and all are welcome. Future meetings The provisional schedule for the year is as follows: 11/10/2017, Room 234 (Senate House), Canto …
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CFP: Modernist Objects, Paris Sorbonne, 13-16th June 2018
The Third International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM) will be held 13-16th June 2018, Paris Sorbonne University (VALE EA 4085) About the conference 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 …
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Modernism/modernity: submit to a cluster on collaboration in modernist arts!
Contributions are sought for a prospective peer-reviewed cluster on the Modernism/modernity Print Plus platform (modernismmodernity.org) treating collaboration in modernist arts of the twentieth and twenty-first century. About the cluster Collaborative efforts pervade the arts and always have – to the degree that Howard Becker has called artistic production a ‘collective activity’ …
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English Postgraduate Essay Prize
The editors of English: the Journal of the English Association are pleased to initiate in 2017 the opening of an annual essay competition exclusive to postgraduates. The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide …
