Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. What values shape the choices made in research and teaching on the contemporary? What canons does this work produce? And how do these values and canons relate to those produced in education and the publishing and cultural …
CfP Women in Publishing symposium, Reading, 14 June 2019
Women in Publishing, a one-day symposium at the University of Reading, Friday 14 June 2019 “All publishing was run by many badly-paid women and a few much better-paid men” (Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor’s Life, 2002) Feminist book history and print culture is thriving. Recent books and projects exploring feminist publishers, …
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CfP. Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants
Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants: Performance and Study 17 June 2019, Hosted by the School of English, University of St Andrews, Scotland This conference seeks to foster scholarly dialogue on the methodologies of twentieth-century pageant research as well as generate discussion on the aesthetic, historical, and political significance of pageants. The conference will consider pageants’ …
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism is now out with Pennsylvania State University Press as part of their Refiguring Modernism Series. The book responds to expansions of canons and critical questions that have shaped modernist studies since the late twentieth century, and it brings new thinking to Barnes’s full oeuvre and to the …
CFP: Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope: Postcritique and Joseph Conrad
We are seeking essay proposals for an edited volume focusing on Conrad’s politics in relation to ideas of fear and/or hope. The postcritical turn encourages us to consider what literature does in the world—the social, emotional, and political effects of reading. The last two MLA panels organized by the Joseph Conrad …
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CfP: Common Ground: Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society, 20–21 June 2019
Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society 20─21 June 2019 In November 2018, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops along the Mexican border as an “obviously moral and ethical mission”. In doing so, he aligned the enforcement of sovereignty through rigorous policing of borders …
Troublesome Modernisms: likely change of venue
BAMS 2019 Conference, Troublesome Modernisms, 20–22 June There is currently a boycott of Senate House in support of the campaign to make outsourced workers (including cleaners, receptionists, security officers, catering staff, porters, audiovisual workers, gardeners and maintenance workers) direct employees of the University of London: https://iwgb.org.uk/en/boycottsenatehouse The BAMS 2019 organisers support this …
BAMS Committee elections: vote now!
We are seeking to elect 2 postgraduate representatives and 3 further members to the Executive Steering Committee of BAMS. You can find further information about the election at: https://bams.ac.uk/2018/12/30/bams-elections-2019/ Voting is open to all current members of BAMS. You can find more information about joining BAMS here. Executive Committee nominations: Andrew …
BAMS essay competition 2018: winner announced
We’re delighted to announce that the winning essay in the BAMS Essay Competition 2018 is “Humphrey Jennings’s ‘Film Fables’: Democracy and Image in The Silent Village” by Masashi Hoshino. Masashi has recently been awarded his PhD by the University of Manchester. The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of …
BAMS Training Day, Bristol, 27 March
British Association for Modernist Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Training Day: Research and Digital Humanities in Modernist Studies Hosted by the AHRC South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Programme University of Bristol, Wednesday 27 March 2019 Southwell Street Training Rooms, 1st floor, New Veterinary School, Southwell Street, Bristol The 10th annual BAMS …
