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Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Essay Prize Competition 2016

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2016, open to all, on the subject of:

KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND RUSSIA

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies (the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press).

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:

Professor Galya Diment

University of Washington, Seattle, US, Chair of the Judging Panel

Dr Rebecca Beasley

University of Oxford, UK

Dr Joanna Wood

Author of Katerina: The Russian Katherine Mansfield, NZ

Professor Claire Davison

Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

Essays that address all aspects of Katherine Mansfield and Russia, whether literary, cultural, historical, or biographical, are welcomed. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

  • KM and Chekhov
  • KM and Tolstoy
  • KM and Dostoevsky
  • KM and Russian Literature
  • KM and Marie Bashkirtseff
  • The Hogarth Press and Russia
  • Translating with Koteliansky
  • KM and Constance Garnett
  • KM and the Russian Revolution of 1917
  • KM, Gurdjieff and his Institute
  • KM and Russian Ballet and/or Theatre

 

Submissions of between 5000–6000 words (inclusive of endnotes), in Word format and using MHRA style formatting, should be emailed to the Guest Editor for this volume, Professor Galya Diment, accompanied by a 50 word biography: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org

 

A detailed MHRA style guide is available from the Katherine Mansfield Society website:

http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/yearbook-katherine-mansfield-studies/

 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31 August 2016

1 Prize essay flier 2016

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Postgraduate Editorial Position, Katherine Mansfield Studies

Katherine Mansfield Studies, the annual peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press, is looking to appoint a postgraduate as its next editorial assistant, following in the footsteps of Louise Edensor, who has done a fantastic job over the past three years. Details are as follows:
1. The post will be for two years initially, with a third year possible.
2. There is no remuneration, but we offer editorial experience in a prestigious annual publication.
3. Duties include coordinating communication with contributors; maintaining a spreadsheet of submissions/decisions; maintaining the production schedule; collating and editing the Notes on Contributors as well as the acknowledgements; etc.
4. Some co-editing of  submissions would be welcomed after training in our house style.
5. The Editorial Assistant’s name will appear on the title page of the volume.
6. Location is not an issue, since everything is done electronically. However, swift responses are essential during the main period of production: September – December.
7.  Submissions for this postgraduate position will only be considered from members of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Details regarding membership can be found here: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org

Please email a one page resumé to the co-editors, Dr Gerri Kimber and Professor Todd Martin, stating why you would like to be considered for the position, to
kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org  by 31 January 2016.

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CFP: ‘The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies’

Dear BAMS members,

Happy New Year! Here are two CFPs related to The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies:

  1. A general call for papers: http://www.wyndhamlewis.org/news/11-latest-news/57-jwls-cfp
  1. A call for submissions for the 2016 Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust Essay Prize (deadline 30th June 2016): http://www.wyndhamlewis.org/the-society/society-essay-prizeSubmissions are welcome from anyone working on Lewis in a scholarly manner, though please note that the competition is not open to anyone who, on the date of submission, has held a PhD for more than two years.

If you’d like to discuss ideas for a submission in relation to either CFP, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Very best,

Nath
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Dr Nathan Waddell
Assistant Professor, School of English
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Editor, The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
Twitter: @drnjwaddell

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CFP: Seeking Refuge, King’s College London, 23-24, May, 2016.

Postgraduate Conference – CFP: Seeking Refuge, King’s College London, 23-24, May, 2016.

refuge 

 

The OED defines ‘refuge’ as “the state of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger or difficulty.” As this all-encompassing definition suggests, refuge is a multifarious concept, subject to many interpretations. Conditions of economic, social and political crisis in our contemporary world have, however, rendered achieving ‘refuge’ an ever more elusive state.

Against the backdrop of one of the most significant recent migrant crises in the Middle East, and a new western economic crisis which has put into question the right of owning a house, the condition of homelessness, exile, and the need of refuge have become a prominent topic in our days. The experience of exile is not only experienced in the materiality of losing one’s own home, but it can also become an existential condition which can be manifested, for example, in the experience of domestic abuse of any kind.

This conference focuses on literary expressions and interpretations of crisis, trauma, and seeking refuge. A fundamental human need, the urge to achieve safety is a thematically rich one for literature. Writing itself presents a means of seeking refuge for some; for others, the act of narration is linked to trauma, displacement or a sense of loss or absence. Through the figure of the refugee – not only the political but also the existential refugee -, concepts of borders and spaces are interrogated, and we welcome papers which interrogate the notions of both physical and psychological encounters.

Contributions from postgraduates working on literature, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective are warmly invited to investigate this theme of ‘seeking refuge.’ Abstracts from other disciplines which engage with literature are also welcome. Some topics to address, but not limited to, are the following:

  • Endangered spaces, both public and private
  • Encounters of literary, geographical and/or political borders between ‘East’ and ‘West’
  • Architecture, literature and the condition of homelessness
  • Literary genre and form as means of refuge
  • Subjectivity, identity and conceptions of the nation
  • Mental illness, narratives of trauma and psychological safe havens
  • Representations of war and violent conflict
  • Literary representations of the figure of the refugee, and reader expectations of refugee literature in the (global) literary marketplace
  • Censorship, surveillance, dissent and cyberspace
  • Seeking refuge across disciplines

Please send abstracts of no longer than 250 words along with a brief biographical note on the contributor(s) to seekingrefuge2016@gmail.com by February, 15th. Decisions will be communicated by March, 30th.

 

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‘Translation and Modernism’ at Warwick University

[REGISTRATION NOW OPEN] Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas

This two-day conference (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism), due to be held at the University of Warwick on 22-23 January 2016, seeks to explore the role of translation in the development of literary, religious, and philosophical responses to the new realities of the twentieth century, in particular, the disappearance of a stable religious framework and the traumas of totalitarianism, the World Wars, and the Holocaust.

The programme for the conference can be found at: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism/programme

To register, please follow this link: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism/registration/. Registration is open until 7 January 2016.

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Modernist Networks (ModNets) Online and Accepting Applications

Modernist Networks, a federation of digital projects in the field of modernist literary and cultural studies, officially launched at last month’s MSA conference in Boston. ModNets provides a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship and a technological infrastructure to support access to scholarship on modernist literature and culture. Please check out the site at http://www.modnets.org!
We are now actively seeking digital projects to join our federation. For information on our editorial board, our peer review process, and the kinds of projects we are looking for, see http://www.modnets.org/about/what-is-ModNets, or contact our project manager, Nikolaus Wasmoen, at pm@modnets.org.
Pamela Caughie and David Chinitz, Directors
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CFP Life of Testimony / Testimony of Lives: A Life-Writing Conference

Testimony evokes first and foremost legal connotations and images of the courtroom. In this context testimony is bound by strict procedural conventions and the act of testifying in a courtroom can incur actual legal consequences. Outside of the courtroom, however, life-writing (in its broadest sense) can serve as a form of testimony which, while not necessarily causing specific legal ramifications, presents a life’s experience for judgment by the public. This relationship between an idea of testimony and the practice of life-writing is twofold: on the one hand, authors of life-writing may have certain testimonial or confessional intentions and use writing as a way of bearing witness. Readers, on the other hand, may interpret various forms of life-writing as testimony even if the author’s intentions about recording their experience are unknown. The act of interpreting or employing life-writing as testimony thus demands ethical scrutiny from readers as well as scholars using such materials.

This conference aims to explore the notion of testimony as an idea that pervades the practice, reception and interpretation of life-writing across time periods, academic disciplines and literatures. We are interested in testimony as a broad concept, and hope to investigate its scope and impact as an interpretive lens through which the breadth of life-writing can be viewed. Not only does testimony bear witness to the lives of individuals, it takes on a life (and even an afterlife) of its own as it is read and reinterpreted throughout history.

Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Paul Strohm (Columbia University), Professor Roger Woods (Nottingham University).

Papers are invited from all scholars (including postgraduate students) across the fields of (comparative) literature, history, philosophy, art, cultural studies, religious studies, curation and conservation of archival material, memory studies, and film studies. Topics could include but are not limited to:

  • The ethics of producing, reading and interpreting life-writing as a form of testimony
  • Stylistic, rhetorical and aesthetic dimensions of life-writing
  • The relationship between authors and readers of life-writing
  • Truth and subjectivity
  • The afterlife of testimony
  • Images as testimony
  • Culture as testimony, eg. published diaries of Holocaust survivors
  • Persuasion and manipulation of and within life-writing sources
  • Instrumentalisation of life-writing for political purposes
  • Life-writing as (historical) evidence and the act of bearing witness
  • Life-writing and the law
  • Reappropriation and adaptation of life-writing in popular culture
  • History and the individual
  • Challenges and conditions of writing lives

The conference will be hosted at Queen Mary University of London (Arts Two lecture theatre) on 5 and 6 May 2016, the registration fee will be £35,-/£20,- (non-concession/concession).

Please submit a short abstract (c. 300 words) and a short bio (c. 100 words) to Lotte Fikkers and Melissa Schuh at lifeoftestimony@gmail.com by Sunday 17 January 2016. Notification of acceptance will be given by 8 February 2016.

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CFP: Peer English

Peer English (ISSN 1746-5621) is a refereed, open-access online journal produced by the Department of English at the University of Leicester and the English Association. Since 2006, its remit has been to provide a forum for exciting, high-quality work and new critical thinking by early career researchers (graduate study, post-doctoral research) through to those already established within the community. This approach also includes the notion of ‘work in progress’ and we welcome contributions of high academic standards from those currently involved in active research, be they doctoral candidates or Heads of Departments.
Peer English embraces not only the full range of subject coverage within the field of English Studies, but also the increasingly wide range of approaches and perspectives that can be brought to bear upon the discipline. We welcome, therefore, both traditional and modern approaches to the field, from close critical readings of literary texts, to interdisciplinary approaches or cross-subject analysis.
We invite academic papers (2000-5000 words), short articles on research-related issues (funding, careers, the ‘publish-or-perish’ culture), and reviews and review-essays of recent publications. Work needs to be submitted by email to the address below, double-spaced, MLA referenced, and attached as a Word document.
The deadline for submissions for our next issue is 15th March 2016. A style sheet for the journal is available by request.
Contributions and queries should be sent to:
Email: peerenglish@le.ac.uk
Twitter: @peerenglish
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Orphan Works Survey–of Interest to BAMS

Dear colleagues,
I am conducting research with Professor Melissa Terras of University College London on the current provision of Orphan Works registration schemes and how they have been implemented. An ‘Orphan Work’ is one whose copyright holder cannot be located, but which is still in copyright ( based on its publication/creation date).  Recent legislation (Directive 2012/28/EU) passed in 2012 and enacted in late 2014 has led to the development of Orphan Works Registries in the UK and the EU.
We would appreciate if you could answer some survey questions to help us in our research. This survey covers the UK registry, but may still be of value to respondents living and working in the EU or elsewhere, as the UK registry requires any Orphan Work which may have an as-yet-unidenfitied UK copyright holder to be registered and licensed in order to be legally viewed, displayed, replicated or incorporated digitally on websites accessible to the public in the United Kingdom. In other words, if you have an orphan work in your institution or incorporated into one of your digital projects, and you are not sure if it is either a) still in copyright or b) may have a UK copyright holder, you may be liable to register this work with the UK licensing scheme (and will need to provide evidence that you performed a diligent search for any possible known copyright holders).
The survey is available at the following web address: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/OrphanWorksSurvey and, depending on your answers and level of familiarity with the UK scheme, may take about 20 minutes to complete. We would appreciate your insights into the current handling of Orphan Work registration schemes, even if you/your institution have chosen not to use them. The survey will be active until the end of January.
In January, we will be conducting follow-up phone/skype/in-person interviews with a small selection of people who have filled out the survey. If you are interested in being one of the people we contact for a follow-up interview, please indicate this at the end of the survey.
Thank you so much in advance for filling out this survey. If you would be so kind as to spread this survey widely throughout your social media networks and list servs, we would appreciate it!
Merisa Martinez
PhD Candidate | SSLIS at University of Borås
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow | DiXiT ITN
Visiting Researcher | Cambridge Digital Library
Visiting Student | Cambridge HPS
@merisamartinez
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Call for MSA Book Prize Nominations

The Modernist Studies Association seeks nominations for this year’s MSA Book Prize, to be awarded to a monograph book with a printed copyright date of 2015. The prize is given each year to a work that makes a significant contribution to modernist studies. The recipient will receive $1000 plus up to $600 toward travel expenses to the 2016 MSA conference, where the award will be presented.

Instructions

To nominate a book for the MSA Book Prize, please send an email to David Ayers (D.S.Ayers@kent.ac.uk) as soon as possible and then contact your publisher to ask that a copy of your book be sent to each of the three committee members, at the following addresses:

  • 1. David Ayers: School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX UK
  • 2. Suzanne Hobson: Department of English, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS UK
  • 3. Alan Golding: Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA

Please let your publisher know that books must be received by committee members no later than 15 March. Books arriving after that date may be considered for the prize but are not guaranteed consideration.

Self-nomination is strongly encouraged, as it saves a step in the process and helps assure timely receipt of books. Whether a book is nominated by the author or by someone else plays no role in the Committee’s deliberations.

Please note also that books published in years other than the ones mentioned above (2015 for the MSA Book Prize) are ineligible. This exclusion applies even if a revised edition or paperback was published in 2014 or 2015.

Submissions will not be returned.