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 …
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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 …
‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work, Bletchley Park, 8 March 2019
‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work | Bletchley Park | Friday 8 March 2019 This one-day symposium will bring together writers, artists, scholars and technologists to explore the role of women in surveillance, transcription, cryptography, espionage, translation, observation, visualisation and recording. It will consider how this work influenced and …
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BAMS elections 2019
Call for Nominations For: the 2019 Election of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) Executive Steering Committee and up to two Postgraduate Representatives. On 31 December 2018, the three-year terms of three members of the BAMS Executive Steering Committee came to an end. We now invite nominations for membership of …
CfP: Transatlantic Studies Association 18th annual conference, Lancaster, 8–10 July 2019
Submissions are invited for the 2019 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference. Plenary guests confirmed include: Professor Brian Ward (Northumbria University) “The Beatles in Miami, 1964: Race, Class and Gender in the Atlantic World” AND Professor Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) “Transatlantic Romanticism and British-Indigenous Relations: 1800-1850” PLUS A Roundtable …
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CfP: Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship, Birmingham, 21 February 2019
‘Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship’ University of Birmingham, 21 February 2019 A one day symposium hosted by the Modern and Contemporary Forum and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham. The focus of this one-day symposium is to bring together experienced scholars, …
Joyce Without Borders, Mexico City, 12–16 June 2019
Joyce Without Borders, North American James Joyce Symposium, Mexico City, 12–16 June 2019 Website: www.joycewithoutborders.com The 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium will be jointly hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). This will be the first annual gathering of Joyceans in the global south, …
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CfP: Forming the Future, 2–3 Sept 2019, University of Plymouth
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 …
