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CFP: May Sinclair Society Introductory Symposium

May Sinclair Society Introductory Symposium – Call for Papers

The newly-launched May Sinclair Society is to hold its Introductory Symposium on Friday, 18 July 2014. The symposium is organised by the May Sinclair Society: http://maysinclairsociety.com/ with the support of the Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University. A keynote talk will be given by Professor Suzanne Raitt of the College of William and Mary, Virginia.

Papers are invited on any aspect of Sinclair’s life and work. Although this will primarily be an academic event, contributions from associates or enthusiasts of Sinclair would be particularly welcome. Please forward 300-word abstracts in a Word document format to maysinclairsociety@sheffield.ac.uk by 31 March 2014.

Admission to the event will be free and lunch and refreshments will be provided. There will also be an optional visit to the Swaledale Museum on Saturday 19 July, which includes a guided walk taking in Sinclair’s house and some of the buildings which inspired her settings for Mary Olivier and The Three Sisters. Details will be forwarded along with registration documents.

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Modernist Magazines Research Seminar – ‘The London Magazine’ and Jean Rhys

The next session of the Modernist Magazines Research Seminar will be held a week today on Thursday 14th November at 6pm in Room 234 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House.

The session will be led by Faith Binckes, author of Modernism, Magazines and the British Avant-Garde (2010). We will be looking at the February 1962 issue of The London Magazine, with particular focus on Jean Rhys’s story ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’.

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New Work in Modernist Studies – updated CFP and travel bursaries

Please find attached an updated CFP for the upcoming BAMS postgraduate conference, New Work in Modernist Studies, to be held at the University of Edinburgh on Saturday December 7th 2013.

Proposals are invited from on-course PhD students at British universities for short 10 minute research papers. Please send proposals (300 words), with a short biography (50 words including details of your year of study) by email to: newmodstud2013@gmail.com by November 18th. We will inform you whether your abstract has been accepted by November 22nd.

We are now able to offer subsidized travel to all students and invite applications for travel bursaries. Please see the attached document for details.

UPDATED 2013 New Work Modernist studies cfp

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Queer London Research Forum Launch Event

Queer London Research Forum Launch Event

Friday 29 November 2013 @ 6.30pm

Old Cinema, University of Westminster

Following the success of the Queer London conference in March 2013, Katherine M. Graham and Simon Avery are pleased to announce the launch of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster.

This Forum is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions about versions of Queer London c.1850-present. A series of seminars will be held in 2013-14 and we are in the process of developing a web forum to continue debate and dialogue further.

The launch event for QLRF will take place on Friday 29 November at 6.30pm in the Old Cinema, University of Westminster (Regent Street Campus). We are pleased to welcome the artist Christa Holka (http://www.christaholka.com/) and Sam McBean (Gender Institute, LSE) who will be discussing the intersections between queerness, the digital archive and London, which they both interrogate in their work. Katherine and Simon will open the event with some remarks about the development and future of the Forum overall.

The event will be followed by a wine reception.

We very much hope that you will be interested in attending. Places must be reserved. This can be done by emailing queerlondonresearchforum@gmail.com.

If you would be interested in further information about the Forum and its events, please check our website at http://www.queerlondonforum.co.uk or see our Twitter feed @QLResearchForum.

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Thinking with John Berger: a 2-day conference at Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff, Wales, UK 4-5 September 2014

Keynote speakers:

Professor Bruce Robbins (Columbia University)

Professor Peter de Bolla (University of Cambridge)

Call for papers

John Berger presents a uniquely diverse model of critical artistic and intellectual work. He is, variously, artist (and a philosopher of drawing); art critic/theorist; ‘art geographer’ (Edward Soja); novelist (although preferring to call himself a storyteller); poet and dramatist; film-maker; photographic collaborator; theorist of migration; political activist in the domains of anti-capitalism and human rights.

This conference

This conference at Cardiff Metropolitan University places a focus on the transformative potential of Berger’s work for educational practice. Berger may be said to have kept a distance from the institutional lecture hall, seminar room or studio; yet his work, through an interdisciplinarity seemingly without boundaries, continues to impact upon a number of academic fields. In dedicating himself to‘the job of thinker and artist’ (Sally Potter), Berger seems also consistently to have orientated himself towards the future and to practice: he is, in the words of Sukhdev Sandhu, ‘in the best sense, a teacherly writer and performer’ — a teacherly method characterised, that is, by the principles of collaboration and equality.

The conference therefore takes an exploratory approach to the question of how we might, as educators, use, discuss, learn from and continue to develop Berger’s thought. In what ways might that thought help to transform curricula, pedagogy, and our work as writers, artists and teachers? How pertinent is it, for example, to the growing internationalisation of the academy and to questions of global educational citizenship? Or how relevant as a critical resource within the context of a new, corporate and marketised environment in education? Might Berger’s ‘radical humanism’ (Tilda Swinton) help to carve out alternative futures?

The conference will be held at the University’s Llandaff campus, close to historic Llandaff village and cathedral, and a 30-minute walk through parkland to Cardiff city centre. It is organised by Cardiff School of Education, with the collaboration of Cardiff School of Art and Design, and will coincide with the opening of a new centre for CSAD at the Llandaff campus.

 

Call for Papers

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited. The conference is open to contributors from all subject areas and disciplines, though it is anticipated that it will be of principal appeal to those interested in Berger’s impact upon the following fields: literary studies; visual arts; art history; philosophy; creative writing; film production and education; performance; drawing; photography; cultural geography; critical and cultural theory. Topics for papers will be organised into panels, which might include or resemble, but are definitely not restricted to, the following:

  • Criticism beyond a hermeneutics of suspicion
  • Storytelling and fiction in the C21
  • Aesthetics and materialism
  • Intellectual work today
  • ‘Planetarity’, global citizenship, cosmopolitics
  • Pedagogy in art history
  • Developments in photography and education
  • Combinations of theory and practice in writing
  • Consequences and cultures of the ‘new poverty’ (John Berger)
  • Spatial theory and ‘art geography’
  • Radical cinema
  • Spinoza and a new vitalism
  • Drawing and writing

Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length, and should be sent to the conference email address: bergerconference@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2014

Queries and correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Professor Jeff Wallace at jwallace@cardiffmet.ac.uk, or call 00 44(0)29 2041 7102.

A conference website, with information regarding fees, accommodation and logistics, will be up and running soon. In the meantime, queries on these issues should be addressed to Katerina Ray, Huw Jones or Donna O’Flaherty, conference administrators, at bergerconference@cardiffmet.ac.uk (tel 00 44 (0)29 2020 5754 or 00 44 (0) 29 2041 7078/6577)

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CFP: BAMS International Conference, Modernism Now! – deadline: 31 January 2014

Modernism Now!
BAMS International Conference

26–28 June 2014

Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London

Keynote Speakers:
Tyrus Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, London)

Modernism Now! is a three-day international, interdisciplinary conference organised by the British Association for Modernist Studies, designed to explore ‘modernism’ today. The conference thus aims to discuss not only the past achievements of modernism but also to consider its possible futures. In Modernism and Theory, Neil Levi has recently suggested that in thinking about modernism we consider ‘the idea of a contemporary perpetuation of artistic modernism’ and that we see ‘modernist works as events whose implications demand continued investigation.’

Modernism Now! will explore these issues in two distinct ways:

The conference aims to represent and reflect on the diversity of modernist studies today, and calls for papers assessing modernist writers, artists, texts and performances from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, methodological standpoints, and theoretical perspectives.

Modernism Now! also wishes to explore the ongoing use of ‘modernism’ as a cultural, philosophical, and artistic category, analysing how and where modernism functions as a continuing aesthetic in the twenty-first century, across multiple disciplines, geographies, and traditions.

Topics might include (but are not restricted to):

• The idea of a contemporary modernism
• Modernist futures and legacies
• Past and previous modernisms
• Modernism as a continuing event
• Current debates in world literature and global modernist studies that stretch the historical/geographical framework of modernism
• The ‘nowness’ (Jetztzeit) of modernism; the new and the now
• Assessments of individual writers, artists, performers, texts, works of art that explore their status and relevance today
• Historical assessments of the term ‘modernism’
• New trends in modernist studies e.g. periodical studies
• Anachronism
• Disciplinary borders and boundaries around modernism today
• ‘Early’ and ‘late’ modernisms; periodising modernism
• Current theorisations of modernism as a social/cultural/philosophical/political category
• How modernism informs the practice of contemporary artists/writers/performers
• Modernism and the tradition of the avant-garde
• Singular and plural modernism(s)

Proposals are welcomed for 20min papers, panels of 3-4 speakers, and focused round-tables on particular topics. Proposals should be no longer than 250 words per individual paper and should include a short biography for each speaker, including contact details.

Delegates must be members of BAMS in order to register. To become a member, go to https://bams.ac.uk/membership/

Proposals should be emailed to modernismnow@bams.ac.uk by January 31st 2014.

Conference Organising Committee
Dr Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary, University of London)
Chris Mourant (King’s College London)
Dr Cathryn Setz (University of Oxford)
Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)

Modernism Now CFP

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CFP: Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945 – deadline: 2 December

CALL FOR PAPERS
Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945

The 16th annual conference of the multidisciplinary society,
The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

July 17-19, 2014, Institute of English Studies, London

The 16th annual conference of the Space Between society will explore the notion of ‘crossing’ − whether of oceans, borders, classes, genders, disciplines or genres − as it relates to literature, art, history, music, theatre, media, and spatial or material culture in any country between 1914 and 1945. From 1930s writers and intellectuals crossing the class divide to the surrealist crossing of a sewing machine with an umbrella, from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, from crossing the dance floor to spying and wartime betrayal, tropes and examples of crossing proliferate across the culture of the period. We invite proposals for papers considering any aspect of crossing whether literal or metaphorical, spatial or social, successful or unsuccessful. Topics might include:

• crossing time and space
• transatlantic crossings of American (North and Latin) and European cultures
• crossing between east and west
• crossing the Mediterranean
• crossing travel and colonialism
• crossing the breach between peace and war
• crossing between friendship and enmity
• crossing picket lines
• broadcast media crossing the airwaves
• border crossings
• double crossings, voluntary and involuntary
• identity crossing
• cross dressing
• cross purposes
• cross-cultural activity

Keynote speaker: TBC

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words along with a short biographical statement to Nick Hubble at Nick.Hubble@brunel.ac.uk by 2 December 2013.

Conference Organising Committee:
Erica Brown, Sheffield Hallam University
Richard Hornsey, University of Nottingham
Nick Hubble, Brunel University
Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University
Michael McCluskey, University College London
Ann Rea, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

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CFP: Hrotsvit 2014: Pageants and Pioneers Conference – deadline: 6th January 2014

Call for Papers

Hrotsvit 2014: Pageants and Pioneers Conference

To be held on Saturday 31 May 2014 at University of Hull, England

In January 1914 in London, England, the Pioneer Players theatre society produced a remarkable and disturbing play about prostitution. This play was written by Hrostvit, the tenth century nun from Gandersheim. Known also as ‘strong voice’, Hrotsvit has been claimed as the first female dramatist. Edith Craig’s production of the play for the Pioneer Players theatre society and Christopher St John’s translation was part of a programme of encouraging women’s writing for the stage in the period of the campaign for women’s suffrage. The play featured the punishment of the prostitute, Thais, by imprisonment, providing a topical allusion in 1914 to the brutal treatment of suffragettes in London.

This interdisciplinary international conference will mark the centenary of this remarkable production and provide an opportunity for a reassessment of Hrotsvit’s drama, bringing together researchers interested in the modern production of the play as well as the Medieval text and context.

Dr Anna Birch will lead a workshop reading of Paphnutius and a discussion, which will be filmed as part of the ongoing project on Pageants and Pioneers begun in May 2011 with Fragments & Monuments performance and film of A Pageant of Great Women. We look forward also to Pageants and Pioneers 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Confirmed Speakers: Professor Katharine Cockin, Professor Lesley Ferris, Dr Anna Birch, Dr Helene Scheck

Send abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers by 6 January 2014 to k.m.cockin@hull.ac.uk

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Job vacancy: King’s College London, Lecturer in English Literature 1900-1945

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13878

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CFP: BAMS New Work in Modernist Studies – deadline: November 18

Call for Papers
New Work in Modernist Studies
The University of Edinburgh
Saturday 7th December 2013

Keynote Lecture: Professor Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh)

This one-day graduate conference is the third joint-event held by the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the London Modernism Seminar, and the Northern Modernism Seminar and in collaboration with the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS).

Proposals are invited from on-course PhD students at British universities for short (ten-minute) research papers. The conference aims to engage participants in the three established modernist seminars, and the new Welsh Network of Modernist Studies, as well as students who are new to modernist studies in dialogues that will develop and expand our scholarly knowledge. Building on the impressive range of the New Work in Modernist Studies events since 2010, we hope to put together an interdisciplinary programme that will reflect the full diversity of work in modernist studies. Travel bursaries will be available, by competitive application.

The cost of the conference will be £10 (or £5 for BAMS members) and include lunch, tea and coffee, and a Christmas drinks reception. If you are not already a member of BAMS, you can join online at https://bams.ac.uk/membership/. Benefits include a free subscription to Modernist Cultures, free or reduced fee entry to all BAMS events, access to a members-only area of the BAMS website, and subscription to the dedicated BAMS email list.

Please send proposals (300 words), with a short biography (50 words including details of your year of study) by email to: newmodstud2013@gmail.com by November 18th. We will inform you whether your abstract has been accepted by November 22nd.