Forming the Future, 2–3 Sept 2019, University of Plymouth Confirmed speakers: Amy J. Elias (Tennessee, Knoxville); Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque); Sandra Kemp (Lancaster/Imperial) Thinking about the future often focuses on its ‘content’: what might happen. Similarly, thinking about ‘future studies’ often concentrates on its goals, concepts and methods. But what about the …
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New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 December 2018, Glasgow: registration open
Saturday 1 December 2018, 10–5.30 pm The University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens Plenary Speaker: DR ANOUK LANG (University of Edinburgh) This one-day graduate conference is a joint event hosted by Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (SNoMS) in conjunction with Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, Modernism Studies Ireland …
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CfP: Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology, QMUL, 14–15 June 2019
Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology A major International Conference, 14–15 June 2019 Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Confirmed keynote speakers Prof. Martin Puchner, Harvard University Prof. Karen Kilcup, The University of North Carolina …
CfP: Beastly Modernisms, 12–13 Sept 2019, University of Glasgow
Keynote Speakers Kari Weil, Wesleyan University (US) Derek Ryan, University of Kent (UK) ‘I still do not think La Somnambule the perfect title – Night Beast would be better except for that debased meaning now put on that nice word beast.’ – Djuna Barnes to Emily Holmes Coleman ‘Once again we are …
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Call for Poems: Beastly Modernisms, 12–13 Sept 2019, University of Glasgow
Whether it’s Virginia Woolf crafting a playful biography of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s dog in Flush, Clarice Lispector pondering the metaphysics of chickens in ‘The Egg and the Chicken’, or Marianne Moore with her elegant swans and pigeons, modernism is quite the menagerie of poetic animals. As part of an interdisciplinary conference on Beastly …
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CfP: Queer Modernism(s), 25–26 April 2019, Oxford
‘How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?’ ― Richard Bruce Nugent After the resounding success of the Queer Modernism(s) conferences in 2017 and 2018, we are excited to announce the CfP for the third Queer Modernism(s) conference, Queer Networks, set to be held on April 25th and 26th …
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CfP: ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, September 2019, Plymouth
ASLE-UKI BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2019 4–6 September 2019, University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is delighted to be hosting the 2019 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia) David Higgins (University of Leeds) …
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Summer courses in Cambridge, July 2019
Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, 14–19 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Fictions of Home: Jane Austen to contemporary Refugee Writers, 21–26 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/home-2019/ Early bird discount for bookings made by 15 November 2018. Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
Registration open: Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance, 22–24 November, Reading
Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation Beckett Week at the University of Reading, 2018 22 – 24 November 2018 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance. We would like to thank …
CfP: 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Dublin, 22–26 July 2019
THE CRITICAL GROUND The 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 22–26 July 2019 | Trinity College Dublin 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of IASIL (or IASAIL, the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, as it existed in its first incarnation). …
