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CFP: KMS Annual Postgraduate Conference, 10 April 2017, Oxford, UK

The Call for Papers is now live for the Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate Conference, to be held in Oxford on 10 April, 2017.

About the conference

The Katherine Mansfield Society’s annual postgraduate conference brings together emerging modernist scholars to present and discuss new research on Katherine Mansfield, as well as her contemporaries. We are delighted to announce that the conference will be introduced by Professor Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford and Director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Proposals for 15-minute papers are invited from postgraduates and emerging scholars.
Directions might include discussion of newly-discovered texts; circulation of texts and modernist magazines; materiality; genre; class; the everyday; the fantastic; nonliterary arts; philosophical and theoretical approaches; World War One; illness; bohemianism; the post/colonial; the visual arts and the theatrical; fashion; influence. Authors might include Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth von Arnim, T. S. Eliot, and numerous others.
How to submit
Please send 150-word proposals and a biographical sketch to the organisers: Dr Gerri Kimber (University of Northampton) and Joe Williams (University of Cambridge) by 28 February 2017to kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
Location and further details
The conference will take place at the Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG and is hosted by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), introduced by Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford).
All the latest conference information will be posted on the KMS society website website at:
www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/2017postgraduateday/
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Submit now: International D.H. Lawrence Conference: London Calling, 3-8 July

The Call for Papers has been extended for the 2017 International D.H. Lawrence Conference, London Calling, to be held in – where else? – London in July 2017.

About the conference

London played a crucial role in Lawrence’s early life: he taught here, got his first literary breaks here, and even got married here in 1914. It was in London that he met the friends and patrons who launched his career and facilitated his travels, and whenever he and Frieda returned to England, it was to London that they came first.

Lawrence visited London around fifty times – for the first time in October 1908 for his interview for a teaching position in Croydon, and for the last time in September 1926. Over those eighteen years he visited or lived in London in every single year, apart from during his travels in 1920-22.

He saw the city grow from seven to eight million people, and become the metropolis we know today, with  its buses, trams, private cars, bridges, Underground stations, West End theatres, and electric street lights. He knew London as it was approaching the historical peak population; this was followed by decline, and which has only just (in 2015) been exceeded.

He knew the London of the Edwardian period, of the War, and of the jazz age. He knew middle-class outer-suburban Croydon, but also some of London’s most fashionable districts, where his friends lived: Hampstead (Edward Garnett, Dollie Radford and Catherine Carswell), St. John’s Wood (Koteliansky), Mecklenburgh Square (H.D. and Richard Aldington), and Bedford Square (Lady Ottoline Morrell).

London was the legal, as well as the literary, artistic and theatrical, centre of England.  In 1913 Frieda’s divorce hearing was heard there; in 1915 Lawrence was examined for bankruptcy at its High Court; in the same year The Rainbow was tried at Bow Street Magistrate’s Court; in 1927 David was produced at the Regent Theatre; in 1928 Catherine Carswell oversaw the typing of part of Lady Chatterley’s Lover there; in 1928 Lawrence explained ‘Why I Don’t Like Living in London’ in The Evening News; and in 1929 his paintings were exhibited at the Warren Street gallery and impounded.

Given his hatred of London’s intellectualism and authoritarianism, and his objections to metropolises in general, it is not surprising that much of what Lawrence writes about London is negative. But, as he admitted in 1928, ‘It used not to be so. Twenty years ago, London was to me thrilling, thrilling, thrilling, the vast and throbbing heart of all adventure.’

For such a nodal city – the world’s biggest city, the heart of the world’s biggest empire, and a centre of international modernism – it has a peripheral place in his work and in work about him. But Lawrence could not have become the person and writer he did without having known his native capital city.

The 14th International D. H. Lawrence conference will be held in London at the College of the Humanities, Bedford Square, and nearby venues. It is authorized by the Coordinating Committee for International Lawrence Conferences (CCILC) and organized in collaboration with the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America and the D. H.  Lawrence Society (UK).

The conference welcomes papers on topics including but not limited to:

  • Lawrence’s experiences of, and/or reactions to, London and its various social groups and geographical districts
  • Lawrence’s relationships with individual Londoners
  • Lawrence’s interactions with London-based journals and publishers
  • The suppression of The Rainbow
  • The premiere of David in London
  • Lawrence’s exhibition of paintings at the Warren Street Gallery
  • Works written by Lawrence while he was resident in London
  • Lawrence’s responses to and thoughts about cities in general

 

Papers are welcome from Lawrence scholars, graduate students, and the public.

Papers should last no longer than 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of questions. They will be presented in a panel together with two other papers.

How to submit

If you would like to contribute, please send an abstract of up to 500 words to the Executive Director, Dr. Catherine Brown at catherinelawrencelondon@gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is midnight on 31st December 2016 (unless you are a graduate student who wishes to apply for a Graduate Fellowship, in which case please follow the alternative procedure described below).

Submissions will be assessed by the Academic Program Committee detailed below, and responses will be issued by 15th February 2017.

The abstract should include the following information as part of the same file (in either MS Word or pdf format):

  • Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address
  • The name of the institution (if applicable) at which you are registered
  • Your CV (1 page condensed version)
  • Please indicate if you need OHP or other such media equipment for your presentation.

Feed and funding

The Conference Fee is expected to be approximately £280-320 for the week.

The Fee includes payment for attendance at academic sessions, four lunches, all tea/coffee breaks, and two dinners including the Gala Award Dinner on Thursday evening.

More information will become available on the conference website.

Graduate Fellowships

One Graduate Fellowships is available for Graduate Fellows.

A Graduate Fellowship covers conference fees (which include five lunches, two dinners, all tea/coffee breaks, the Gala Award Dinner on Thursday evening, and the full-day excursion to Eastwood and environs on Saturday 8th) – and cheap accommodation will be made available.

Graduate Fellows will be required to help with registration and other duties during the Conference.

If you would like to apply for one of these, please fill out the Graduate Fellowship Application form available on the conference website.

Submissions are to be sent to lawrencegraduatefellowship@aol.com by 31st December 2016.

This competition will be assessed by the Graduate Fellowships Committee chaired by Dr. Andrew Harrison.

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Programme: New Work in Modernist Studies, 10 December 2016

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We are pleased to publish the programme for New Work in Modernist Studies, Saturday 10 December 2016, 10am-6:30pm, hosted at ArtsOne Building, Queen Mary University of London.

10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30-11:45 Panels

1. Unfinished Work: Drafts, Archives, Paratexts

Chair: Sophie Oliver

Chloe Oram (Chichester), ‘Ottoline in the Archives: Shedding Light on Modernism’s Undervalued Muse and Patron’

Katie Jones (Nottingham), ‘Author, Reviewer and Translator: Katherine Mansfield’s Place in Literary Culture’

David Miller (Birkbeck), ‘Redrafting, Maintenance and Temporality in the Late Poetry of Djuna Barnes’

Ruth Clemens (Leeds Trinity), ‘The “Feeble Translations” of The Waste Land ’s Paratexts’

2. Moderns and Unmoderns

Chair: Helen Carr

Mick Sheldon (QMUL), ‘Discarded Imagist: The Life, Work, and Reputation of Allen Upward’

Hannah Scragg (Keele), ‘Socio-political engagement and formal experimentation: Bennett, the Great War, and the General Strike’

Rosemary Walters (Kent), ‘Charles Causley: Moderation, Movement and Modernism’

Alex Grafen (UCL), ‘The Whitechapel Boys and Little Magazines’

11:45-13:00 Panels

3. Knowledge, Self-Knowledge and Spectacle

Chair: Stephanie Boland

Seán Richardson (Nottingham Trent University), “I really don’t exist”: Queer (auto)biography and the fragmented self in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye To Berlin  (1939)

Katharina Boeckenhoff (Manchester), ‘Travelling Intimately with Barnes: Ways of Knowing in her New York Articles’

Ana Tomcic (Exeter), ‘Gods and Goods – Psychoanalysis, Evolution and the Cinema’

Adam Cuthbert (Dundee), ‘Cinematicity and the Spectacle of Memory in Modernist Fiction’.

4. European Connections

Chair: Scott McCracken

Abigail Richards (RHUL), ‘The Marvellous in Leonora Carrington’s and Gisèle Prassinos’s writings’

Eirini Apanomeritaki (Essex), ‘Insect transformations in the short fiction of Franz Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov; an exploration of human-animal subjectivity’

Frances Reading (Kent), ‘Olive Garnett and Anglo-Russian Cultural Relations from the Crimean War to the Russian Revolutions’

Natalia Ciofu (Essex), ‘Hybrid Modernism in Ciuleandra  by Liviu Rebreanu’

13:00-14:00 Lunch and BAMS AGM

14:00-15:15 Panels

5. Bodies, Affect, Aging

Chair: Helen Saunders

Imola Nagy-Seres (Exeter), ‘”[A]nd there is a sort of peace”: moments of delight in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love ‘

Eret Talviste (Northumbria), ‘Affect and its relation to ethics, aesthetics and politics in modernist fiction’

Yasutaka Kabuto (RHUL), ‘Aesthetics of Reduction: Falling Fertility and Aging Society in Virginia Woolf’s Novels’

Rosie Barron (Glasgow), ‘Embodied Travelling: Samuel Beckett and the Incarnation of Motion’

6. Intermedial Modernism

Chair: Morag Shiach

Sue Ash (Oxford Brookes), ‘Kinaesthetic Empathy in Isadora Duncan’s dance and in artists’ responses to her dance’

Charlotte Whalen (QMUL), ‘”Anglo-Mongrels and the Rogue”: Mina Loy’s decorative modernism’

Lara Ehrenfried (Durham), ‘Early Sound Film and the Late Modernist Novel: Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square  (1941)’

Christopher Gerrard (Dundee), ‘Méliès to Man Ray: The Cinema of Attraction as Precursor to the Cinema of the Avant Garde’

15:15-15:30 Coffee

15:30-16:30 Panels

7. Mathematical Modernism

Chair: Tim Armstrong

Daniel Cartwright (Westminster), ‘The Oulipo and Mathematical Form in Literary Composition’

Zoe Gosling (Manchester), ‘Modernism and Mathematics’

Catriona Livingstone (KCL), ‘Eye-Beams and Interference Patterns: Quantum Physical Experiments in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ‘

8. The Politics of Fiction / the 1930s

Chair: David Ayers

Chris Doyle (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Literary Criticism and Genre Fiction in the 1930s: The Left Review  Perspective’

Amy Olivia Hurle (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘Woolf and the Middle-Brow’

Teresa Sanders, ‘Alternative Forums, Subversive Identities: Education and Pedagogy in the Works of Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1926-1954.’

16:30-17:30 Keynote

Sascha Bru (MDRN, University of Leuven), ‘Are we Modernists Yet? Avant-Garde,

Temporality, History’

17:30-18:30 Reception

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CFP: Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Fields, Long Horizons, Edinburgh, 13-14 July

The call for papers is now open for Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Fields, Long Horizons, a symposium which will take place next year at the University of Edinburgh on July 13 and 14, with an associated event at Little Sparta on July 15.

Submissions are due by March 10. The conference is supported by the British Academy.

About the conference

This two-day symposium will explore new critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Scottish poet, artist and avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). As Finlay’s reputation worldwide continues to grow a decade after his death, we wish to ask searching questions about the boundaries of his practice, its philosophical, political and cultural dimensions, and its legacies and affinities across a range of media, disciplines and geographical boundaries. A number of attendees will also have the chance to visit Finlay’s poet’s garden at Little Sparta in the Pentland Hills for an event in its new workshop space.

Keynotes: Susan Stewart, Princeton University

Stephen Bann, University of Bristol

Drew Milne, University of Cambridge

 

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:

Finlay and late modernism(s)

Little Sparta and ecology

Finlay and poetics, including objectivist/concrete/visual/new-media poetics

Finlay and visual/conceptual art

Finlay in context: encompassing movements/milieus/cultures; associated figures

Finlay and the political, including Finlay as revolutionary/counter-revolutionary, Finlay and the French Revolution, Finlay and the Third Reich

“Flytings” and “Battles” as aspects of avant-garde practice

Finlay as collaborator/Finlay’s collaborators

Finlay and European romanticism

Finlay and the (nuclear) sublime

Neo-classical and pre-Socratic re-armaments

Finlay and (inter)nationalism

Finlay and Northern Renaissances

Wild Hawthorn Press and small-press publishing as creative practice

Finlay and landscape architecture/garden design

Ongoing and contemporary creative responses to Finlay’s work

 

250-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers and 500-word abstracts for full panels/round-tables will be accepted by the organisers Greg Thomas and Alex Thomson at Greg.Thomas@ed.ac.uk until 10th March 2017. However, participants are asked to respond with expressions of interest as soon as possible. For up-to-date event and attendance fee details visit our website.

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Last day: register for New Work in Modernist Studies now!

Today is the last day to register for New Work in Modernist Studies, BAMS’ postgraduate conference.

Register now!

About the conference
NWiMS 2016 will be the sixth one-day graduate conference organised, this year, by the London Modernism Seminar in conjunction with Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS). The provisional programme is attached to this email, and includes a keynote lecture by Sascha Bru (MDRN, University of Leuven), ‘Are we Modernists Yet? Avant-Garde, Temporality, History.’

There is a conference registration fee of £15 for BAMS members and £25 for non-BAMS members, including lunch, coffee and a wine reception at the end of the day. Membership of BAMS is now available for 2017 and will entitle you to discounted rate for NWiMS 2016 (2016 members will also qualify for the discount). Memberships cost £45 (£32 student rate) per annum (including hard copies of Modernist Cultures) and £28 (£23 student rate) per annum (online access to the journal only).

As well as the discounted rate for NWiMS, new and renewing members of BAMs will receive:

•      A print subscription to Modernist Cultures which is published three times a year

•      Online access to Modernist Cultures

•      Free or reduced access to all BAMS events including postgraduate training days, conferences, and the ‘New Work in Modernist Studies’ graduate symposia

•      Access to members-only content on the BAMS website, including training resources and publisher discounts

•      Eligibility for entry to the new BAMS essay prize for early career researchers

Please contact Suzanne and Jade at nwims2016@gmail.com if you have any questions about the conference.

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CFP: Alphonse Legros in France and in Britain: A Tale of Two Countries, Dijon, May 2017

The call for papers is now open for Alphonse Legros in France and in Britain: A Tale of Two Countries, an international conference to be held at the University of Burgundy and Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon, on May 4-5, 2017.

About the conference

Although he was born and possibly taught in Dijon, Alphonse Legros spent most of his life in Britain where he was appointed professor at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1876. Legros held the position until 1893, introducing etching and, later, sculpture to the syllabus. In 1880, he was one of the six founding members of the Society of Painter-Etchers which was to play an influential role in the late Victorian revival of printing. He was also instrumental in the modern revival of the cast portrait medal. When he died in 1911, Legros was a British citizen and a distinguished artist. The Tate Gallery organized the largest-ever retrospective of his works. However Legros did not forget France, nor did France forget him: a one-man show was held at Samuel Bing’s L’Art Nouveau gallery in 1898, and a large retrospective exhibition was curated by Léonce Bénédite at the Musée du Luxembourg in 1900. In Dijon, the Musée des Beaux-Arts set up an exhibition in 1987 and recent smaller events in France testify to an enduring interest for this transnational and transmedia artist.

The conference organized at the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in May 2017 by the Centre Interlangues (Texte-Image-Langage) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts will revisit Legros’s work and role as well as his legacy and reception in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Conference convenors

Sophie Aymes, University of Burgundy
Bénédicte Coste, University of Burgundy
Bertrand Tillier, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Keynote Speakers

Elizabeth Prettejohn, University of York
Stephen Bann, University of Bristol

Submissions

We invite art historians, specialists of Victorian visual culture and aesthetics, curators, collectors and art school teachers to send proposals for 20-minute papers that explore the following themes in this non exhaustive list:

  • Legros and the visual culture of his time in relation to Aestheticism, pre-Modernist aesthetics and the revival of the graphic arts;
  • Legros, a multi-media artist with an experimental legacy: techniques (etching, lithography, painting, drawing, medal making) and transmediality;
  • Legros in France: the ‘Société des Trois’; the creation of the Société des Aquafortistes, and its first portfolio in 1862; Legros’s later career in France;
  • Legros and illustration: his own illustrations (to Edgar Poe’s stories for instance); his influence on contemporary illustrators;
  • Legros and British artists: acquaintanceships, avant-garde, networks of sociability and influence (D. G. Rossetti and F. Watts for instance);
  • Art school teaching: Legros’s teaching method and influence as professor of etching at the South Kensington School of Art and as Slade Professor; changes to the curriculum, Legros in the history of the teaching of fine arts and draughtsmanship;
  • Legros’s influence on younger artists (H. S. Tuke, Charles Furse, and William Strang, Philip Rothenstein, Charles Shannon, Augustus John);
  • France and England: cross-fertilisation and artistic transfers, recognition and/or neglect;
  • The history of the reception of his work: connoisseurship, tradition and transmission; building up collections in the UK and in the US; Legros on the contemporary market both in Britain and in 
France.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short biography before 1st January 2017 to:

Sophie Aymes: sophie.aymes@u-bourgogne.fr

Bénédicte Coste: benedicte.coste@u-bourgogne.fr

Bertrand Tillier: bertrand.tillier@univ-paris1.fr

Notification of acceptance: 15th January

 

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November 28-December 4: News and Views

Welcome to “News and Views”, a newsletter from BAMS that will bring you updates on publications, conferences, and other tidbits from modernist studies around the globe, direct in to your inbox.

We hope you enjoy this first round-up, and please do send us your news to share: whether you’ve got an article in print, a new job to shout about, or just spotted a great exhibition that your colleagues might enjoy.

Best,

Helen & Stephanie

Brave New World

Congratulations to Jonathan Greenberg and Nathan Waddell on the publication of Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies (Palgrave, 2016). The book features a Foreword by the late David Bradshaw. 

Make it New (Work in Modernist Studies)

For the last time: registration for New Work in Modernist Studies closes TODAY (Monday December 5). Registration is open now; if you can’t join us in person, follow along with the hashtag #nwims2016.

Please do encourage your postgraduates to attend!

Historical Modernisms

This conference will be taking place next Monday (12th) at London’s Senate House. The keynote speaker will be Jean-Michel Rabaté; download the programme here.

See you all next Monday!

Got news or thoughts to share? Share them with us at info@bams.ac.uk, subject line: “news and views”.

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Participate: BAMS postgraduate survey, 2016/17

We’ll be presenting your feedback at English Shared Futures this summer in Newcastle – and using it to help decide the future of BAMS. Let us know your thoughts!

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Registration live: Historical Modernisms Conference, London 12-13 Dec

Registration is now open for the ‘Historical Modernisms’ conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies-School of Advanced Study, to be held at the Senate House, London on 12-13 December 2016.

You can register here.

Please  watch the conference site for updates on the programme  and other information.

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CFP: The Second Modernist Network Cymru Conference: Word and Image

The Call for Papers in now open for the second Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) conference, to be held at The Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth on the 12th and 13th of September, 2017.

About the conference

For its second conference, organised in conjunctions with Aberystwyth University’s David Jones Centre for Word and Image, the National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth School of Art, Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) aims to interrogate the symbiotic relationship between the visual arts and the written word. How did modernist artists respond to literary texts? How did writers incorporate visual elements into poetry and prose? How did author and artist collaborations arise? And how did modernist texts, from collages to magazines to scrapbooks, combine word and image in radical new ways?

In Wales, figures such as David Jones, Brenda Chamberlain and Margiad Evans worked across art and literature, whether in poetry and painting or short stories and illustration. Texts such as Chamberlain and Alun Lewis’s Caseg Broadsheets juxtaposed modern poetry with experimental woodcuts; more recently, the photographer Aled Rhys Hughes and the Welsh National Opera have both produces multimedia responses to Jones’s prose poem In Parenthesis.

Over the course of two days, we aim to explore the multitudinous connections between word and image in a range of modernist texts from Wales and beyond. We invite interdisciplinary responses to any aspect of word and image in modernism, but we particularly welcome scholars working on Welsh modernist writers and artists, as well as modernist art and writing in Wales. The full story of the visual arts in Wales is only just beginning to unfold; this conference provides us with an opportunity to discuss future research in this developing field. What should a Welsh modernist art history be, and what relationship should it have to its sister arts, especially literature?

Although we are a Welsh Network, we have an international outlook. We are interested in Welsh art and literature’s international connections, as well as how place, language and history affected experiments in word and image elsewhere, especially in other ‘small nations’.

With these histories in mind, we invite proposals on topics including but not confined to:

  • Literary responses to art
  • Artistic responses to literature 
  • Artist-writers (and vice versa)
  • Radical combinations of word and image
  • Cross media projects, e.g. magazines, posters, graphic novels
  • Book design / illustration / illustrated books
  • Similarities and differences between visual and verbal forms of art
  • Visual, film or literary adaptations
  • Interdisciplinary collaborations
  • Images and titles / captions
  • Film and /or intertitles 
  • Architectural interventions
  • Colour in literary and visual forms
  • Photography and photographer’s books / travel guides
  • Contemporary inter- / multi-disciplinary responses to modernism
  • Opportunities and challenges of visual arts practice-based PhD

How to submit

The National Library of Wales and the School of Art welcome researchers who wish to explore their extensive archives, with the aim of presenting a conference paper based on their research.

Proposals for papers (20 minutes) should include a summary of the proposed paper (300 words), the speaker’s contact details and a short biography (100 words). Papers can be delivered in English or Welsh with simultaneous translation; please indicate the language in which you wish to deliver your paper. If you wish to submit your abstract and biography to us in Welsh please also send a copy in English.

Proposals should be sent to modernistnetworkcymru@gmail.com by 31st January 2017.

Since 2014, MONC has aimed to showcase a range and diversity of research into modernism happening in Wales today. Through its website, mailing list and conferences, it brings together scholars and professionals working on modernism in Wales and beyond to encourage collaborations and communication. For more information, please visit our website.