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 …
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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CfP: Woolf: Hope and Wonder, panel for MLA 2022 (deadline 15 Mar 21)
International Virginia Woolf Society Panel for MLA 2022 “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.” Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “Woolf’s Darkness,” opens with this quotation from Woolf, and follows with a discussion that celebrates Woolf’s investment in uncertainty and even darkness as a space …
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The Writer as Psychological Warrior, online conference (12-16 July 21; abstracts 19 Mar)
The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict Online conference, hosted by Durham University12-16 July 2021 The tendency of the modern state is to wipe out the freedom of the intellect, and yet at the same time every state, especially under the pressure of war, finds itself more and …
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CfP: Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (abstracts 28/2/21; deadline 26/4)
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We …
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BAMS Elections 2021, running 22/1-28/2/2021
This year, the BAMS Executive Steering Committee is looking to fill three vacant academic positions and two PG Representative positions. At the close of the application period, we received three academic applications, and five PG Representative applications, all of which included nominations from existing BAMS members. Click to download a pdf …
CfP: Collaborations & Networks symposium, 4-5 Sep 2021 (abstract 31 Mar; deadline 31 July)
Virtual Symposium Irish Women’s Writing Network 4-5 September 2021 The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected …
