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Come to our Modernist Life postgraduate morning!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date June 4, 2017

As part of Modernist Life, BAMS, in conjunction with postgraduates at University of Birmingham, have organised a PGR morning.

The sessions will begin with coffee and networking. We’ll then have a publications workshop, led by the editorial team at Modernist Cultures, followed by a careers panel, led by BAMS PGRs and ECR representatives. A lunch will mark the end of the event.

The event is free to attend, as part of the conference, and will take place in the morning of Thursday 29th June, from 0930.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please send expressions of interest to Dr Daniel Moore (D.T.Moore@bham.ac.uk) by Friday 9th June.

We’ll be producing a PGR contacts booklet as part of the event. If you would like be included in this, please send through:

name
email address
affiliation
location (we know that not all students live near their department)
thesis title (working/provisional is fine!)
up to five keywords for your thesis (e.g. James Joyce; affect; modernist novels; gender).

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Register now! The City as Modernist Ephemera, London, June 2017

Post author By modernistudies
Post date June 4, 2017

The Call for Papers is now open for “The City as Modernist Ephemera”, a one-day colloquium to be held at London South Bank University on, suitably, 16 June 2017.

About the conference

The School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University (LSBU) will host a one-day interdisciplinary colloquium on Friday 16 June 2016, 9am – 6.30pm.

The modernist city emphatically encapsulates the dialectic of the ephemeral and the eternal. Its dynamic flows of goods, people, and commerce at once determine the city’s transitory nature while at the same time reinforce its status as an immutable seat of power and culture attested to by the very materiality built up within and around such dynamic flows.

Amid the fleeting and transient experience of the city, what is it that constitutes an abiding culture? Where is ‘culture’ and in what form does it appear or exist? What are the spaces, moments, events, and cultural artefacts that make up the ephemera that in turn (re)constitute the modernist city?

Prompted by such questions, this colloquium invites proposals that will explore the myriad city-borne arts, objects, practices, and movements that typify the ephemeral and eternal dialectic.

Confirmed speaker: Dr Nathan Waddell, Asst. Professor in Literary Modernism (Nottingham)

Registration details

Conference fee: £45/£10 Students/unwaged

Learn more about the conference, including the full program, here, or register here.

For enquiries, please contact the organiser: Dr Leon Betsworth (LSBU)

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Registration is now open for Movement in/and/of the City, Kent, June 16

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 21, 2017

The programme is now available for Movement in/and/of the City, a postgraduate conference to be held at the University of Kent on 16 June.

About the conference

The notion of ‘movement’ has particular pertinence to our present cultural moment: across the globe, we live in a period marked both by unprecedented movements of population and by new popular political movements of all types. Yet the idea of ‘movement’ as a literary preoccupation is as old as the earliest recorded literature itself, defining the quest/journey narratives of the ancient world. Movement can be conceived on the grandest geological or even planetary spatial and temporal scale, but by the same token is also perceived daily and personally in the individual human body.

To find out more and register for the conference, visit the conference website.

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Register now for Gothic Modernisms, Amsterdam, June 29-30

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 20, 2017

Registration is now open for Gothic Modernisms, a two-day conference to be held a the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on June the 29 and 30.

About the conference

Gothic Modernisms is a two-day international conference discussing the legacies, histories and contested identities of European Gothic/early-modern visual cultures in (global) modernity, in particular in contexts of new fin-de-siècle cultural modernities, modernism, avant-gardes, nationalisms and cosmopolitanisms.

Learn more about the conference, including the full program here, or go straight ahead and register here!

Further registration details

Conference fee (two days): 125€; 40€ for studentsincludes conference, access to the Rijksmuseum Collections on both days, guided visit to the exhibition

Includes conference, access to the Rijksmuseum Collections on both days, guided visit to the exhibition Small Wonders, coffee, tea, lunch, snacks and drinks.

For enquiries please contact both: Professor Juliet Simpson (Coventry University) at juliet.simpson@coventry.ac.uk and Dr Tessel M. Bauduin (University of Amsterdam) at t.m.bauduin@uva.nl

This conference is the culmination of a trilogy, including ‘Primitive Renaissances’ and ‘Visions of the North’: for earlier events, see ‘Visions of the North’.

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CFP: Come to Montpellier this September for “Ford and the Other”

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 9, 2017

Proposals are invited for an international conference on Ford Madox Ford and the other to be held at Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, from September 7-9, 2017.

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Bloomsday at Birkbeck: roll up to see James Joyce on television!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 7, 2017

This Bloomsday (June 16th), Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image will host a free event, “James Joyce on TV”. Book now!

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Seminar: Grace in Twentieth-Century Literature and Dance, 23 May, Leicester

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 2, 2017

You are warmly invited to the next Seminar to be run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance, on Tuesday 23 May, 1pm, at Room 3.07 Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester.

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Roll up for Craft Modernism: an assembly at the University of Sussex, 15 June

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 28, 2017

What is “craft modernism” – and how do you enact it in a group? See below for a message from Dr Annabel Haynes and Dr Hope Wolf on their June 15 “assembly”.

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Provisional Programme for Remaking the New: Modernism and Textual Scholarship 13-14 July 2017

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 19, 2017

The provisional programme is now available for “Remaking the New” Modernism and Textual Scholarship”, to be held at Queen Mary, University of London from the 13-14 of July.

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Register now for “Dockland Encounters”, Dún Laoghaire, 22 June

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 17, 2017

Registration is now open for “Dockland Encounters”, a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held at Ireland’s National Maritime Musem, Dún Laoghaire, on June 22.