CFP for ‘Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920’ conference. https://www.facebook.com/events/432172733634749/
https://forgottengeographies.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
The deadline is 20 December.
Author: modernistudies
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Art History, Film, and Literature
Call for papers
University of Kent, 22nd – 23rd April 2016
This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the University of Kent, takes as its starting point the range of complex and contradictory engagements between masculinity and the developing metropolis since the beginning of the twentieth century. Throughout this period the metropolis maintained a paradoxical status as a place of liberation and possibility, but simultaneously as one of alienation, sin, and oppression. What do responses to the modern city in visual art, film, and literature tell us about masculinity as it both asserts itself and registers its own anxieties, and subsequent representations of the city? In what ways do these contrasting positive and negative conditions, which encouraged complex responses, fit within the framework of masculinity?
In the wake of industrialization artistic reactions to modern urbanity were spurred on by the rapid growth of cities and the transition from rural to metropolitan living. This caused socio-cultural changes and a diverse range of masculinities to develop within the metropolis in terms of race, class, and sexualities. How has masculinity been visualized with the construction of this modern cityscape and ideas of the urban? And later in the 20th Century, how did artists registering with ideas of deindustrialization or feminist and queer art forms affect or approach theories of masculinity and the urban? Can we construct an overarching lineage on this relationship? As one starting point, the so-called “crisis of masculinity”, and the way it is represented in various media, can be connected in interesting ways to the rise of the metropolis. This conference will bring together scholars from varying fields in order to begin a dialogue regarding the way theories of masculinity and the metropolis have developed in tandem, charting their evolution from the beginning of the 20th Century to the present day. Scholars with diverse interests and approaches to this broad subject are welcome with papers concerning various media within the 20th and 21st centuries.
Examples of subjects invited for submission include, but are in no way limited to:
- Representations of the male and masculinity in metropolitan society within literature, film, and fine art. Contributions from theatre, and music are also welcome.
- Male as artist or witness to the evolving physical cityscape
- Modern and contemporary responses to 19th Century representations of industrialisation and the urban / de-industrialization and the changing nature of the urban and the masculine
- The metropolis as a milieu of capitalist oppression, and how this can be related to masculinity
- Urban photography and the metropolitan male identity
- Masculine national identities within the cityscape
- Masculinity and the nocturnal city
- The modern or contemporary flâneur
- Cityscape planning and the organization of male spaces
- Destruction of the city and the crisis of masculinity
- The male Superhero
- Masculinities and sexualities within the metropolis
- Depictions of the urban male and race
- The relationship of masculinity to musical sub-cultures / the protest song and music as social commentary
- Feminist, gay, and / or trans artistic reactions to masculinity and the urban
- Masculinity and dramatic performance within the metropolis
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Deborah Longworth, University of Birmingham
Dr. Hamilton Carroll, University of Leeds
Dr. Gabriel Koureas, Birkbeck, University of London
Submission process
We invite submissions of short abstracts (300 words) accompanied by a brief biography (100 words). The time slot for presentations is 20 minutes with a 10 minute session for questions at the end of each panel.
Please send your abstract as an attachment (.pdf or .doc) to: masculinemetropolis@gmail.com
The subject of the email should contain the words: “Masculinity and the Metropolis submission”
The body of the email should include author(s) name, affiliation, abstract title and the email address you would like us to use to communicate with you.
Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2015.
Notification of acceptance/non-acceptance: 26 January 2016.
Registration
Postgraduate students / University of Kent Staff and Students: £10
Other researchers: £20
Accommodation
All hotels are in city centre, a 10-20 minute bus, or 10 minute taxi ride from the University.
Registration will be required prior to the conference. Registration opens on the 1st of March 2016. Details on how to register will follow in due course.
Contact: masculinemetropolis@gmail.com
Organizers
James Finch, History of Art
Hannah Huxley, Centre for American Studies
Sara Janssen, Film
Margaret Schmitz, History of Art
With a special thanks to our sponsors: The University of Kent’s History of Art and Visual Cultures Research Centre, Aesthetics Research Centre and the Centre for Film and Media Research.
We are very pleased to announce the call for papers of Samuel Beckett: Performance/Art/Writing, the closing conference of The London Beckett Seminar 2015-16. The event will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. For a brief description of the conference, a list of the suggested topics, and details on keynote speakers and AHRC CHASE doctoral masterclass, please consult the attached document or the following link: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/Beckett-Performance-Art-Writing.
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Irish Caribbean Connections cfp
Irish Caribbean Connections is an interdisciplinary conference, to be held at University College Cork on 22-23 July 2016, keynote speaker Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison. Proposals are welcome on all aspects of Irish-Caribbean interactions, cultural, political, historical, sociological:
https://irishcaribconnect.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/call-for-papers/
Irish Caribbean Connections takes place just before University College Cork hosts the 2016 IASIL conference (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature). Visit:
2016 T. S. Eliot Society Meeting
Rapallo, Italy, June 17-21
Keynote Speaker: Lyndall Gordon
ADDITIONAL PEER SEMINAR ANNOUNCED
Peer Seminars
The Society will sponsor three peer seminars, led by Ronald Schuchard, Jahan Ramazani, and Peter Nicholls. Participants will pre-circulate short position papers (5 pp) on the topic of the seminar by June 1, 2016 for discussion at a two-hour meeting on the first day of our conference, Friday, June 17. Membership in the peer seminars is limited to twelve in each on a first-come, first-served basis. Please enroll by April 15, by sending an email with the subject line “peer seminar” totseliotsociety@gmail.com with your contact information. No paper or proposal is required to enroll.
Seminar I: Eliot’s Prose
Ronald Schuchard
Seminar II: T. S. Eliot and the Global
Jahan Ramazani
New! Seminar III: Eliot and Pound
Peter Nicholls
This seminar invites 5-page papers treating any aspect of the connection or relations between T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Peter Nicholls, the Henry James Professor of English at New York University, has written widely on Ezra Pound and modernism more generally. He is the author of Politics, Economics and Writing: A Study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos (1984); “Bravado or Bravura? Reading Ezra Pound’s Cantos,” in Modernism and Masculinity: Literary and Cultural Transformations, ed. Lusty and Murphet (2014); and “‘You in the dinghy astern there’: Learning from Ezra Pound,” in Ezra Pound and Education, ed. Yao and Coyle (2012). In the wider field of modernist studies, his Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995; 2nd expanded ed. 2009) is essential reading, and he has also edited Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and High and Low Culture (with Sascha Bru, 2012); and On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (with Sara Crangle, 2010).
For further information about the Schuchard and Ramazani seminars, and for the complete CFP, please visit our website (http://www.luc.edu/eliot/activities.htm).
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Contemporary Poetics CFP [Extended Deadline]
Call for Papers: EXTENDED DEADLINE
CONFERENCE: CONTEMPORARY POETRY: THINKING AND FEELING
MAY 20th-22nd 2016
ORGANISERS: ANTHONY CALESHU AND MANDY BLOOMFIELD,
PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY
This conference is dedicated to exploring the interplay and divide between thinking and feeling in poetry. In what ways might poetry embody a process of thinking? What’s the role of emotion in recent poetry? Can thinking be divided from feeling? Does a poetry of the head preclude a poetry of affect, and vice versa? Are these the terms of competing antagonisms or productive dialogues? What’s the relationship between the intellect and affect?
Poetry has long explored these questions, but this conference dedicated to 20th and 21st century work, asks what ‘new’ developments are shifting the terms of debate and practice? Issues we hope to explore include the role and use of autobiography, imagination, sexuality, race, gender, faith, the lyric voice, narrative, conceptualism, history, eco-poetics and poetic materiality.
We welcome papers on 20th/21st century poets or poetries which might exist in that liminal space in between the thinking/feeling binary, or which might privilege either side of the divide. Within this broad rubric, we invite discussion of poets and poetries of the page, spoken-word, digital mediums, 3D design, hybrid constructions etc.
Scholars and creative practitioners alike are welcome.
Plenaries will be given by: Redell Olsen
Keston Sutherland
Matvei Yankelevich
Emily Berry, Sam Riviere, and Jack Underwood
Please submit proposals by email in the form of 100-200 word abstracts for 20 minute long panel papers by 20th January 2016. We also welcome proposals for pre-formed panels of 3 x 20-minute papers.
The conference will be held at Plymouth University, in the port city of Plymouth, Devon, in the Southwest of England.
Anthony Caleshu
anthony.caleshu@plymouth.ac.uk
Mandy Bloomfield
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CFP Impressions 1860-1920
Please find below a CFP for a seminar that will be held at the next conference of ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English) in 2016:
ESSE 2016
Galway (Ireland), Monday 22-Friday 26 August
Seminar S39
Impressions 1860-1920
Convenors:
Bénédicte Coste (University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
Elisa Bizzotto (University of Venice, Italy)
Sophie Aymes (University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
The seminar will discuss intermedial practices, the mutual influence of artistic practice and textual production, as well as the dual meaning of impression as a mode of reception and of expression. Papers will examine impression both as theme and trope in literary texts and art criticism in connection with the material characteristics of media in which writers/artists chose to express themselves. They can also address how the shift from late Victorian aesthetics to modernist experimentation was negotiated in this field.
The time period considered here spans six decades which saw the advent of photomechanical process and the revival of printmaking as an “original” mode of expression based on the premium granted to individual impression as autographic response and to the trope of the print as imprint on a medium and/or on the mind.
Please send your proposals to the three convenors by 28 February 2016:
XXV International James Joyce Symposium, London, 13-18 June 2016
The deadline for paper and panel proposals for the Symposium has been extended to 15 January. We especially welcome contributions that examine the theme of anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations that link with 1916 and the significant historical events that took place that year. Guidelines for submissions can be found on the Symposium website athttp://anniversaryjoyce.com/call-for-papers/.
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The XXV International James Joyce Symposium in London welcomes papers and proposals for panels on any aspect of Joyce. We especially welcome papers that examine the symposium theme of anniversaries…
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Academic Committee: Professor Joseph Kelly (College of Charleston), Dr Vike Plock (University of Exeter), and Dr Wim Van Mierlo (Loughborough University).
Dr Wim Van Mierlo | Lecturer
Department of English, Drama and Publishing | Loughborough University
Call for Submissions: “Women’s Voices”
Short Story Journal is seeking short stories and critical articles on the theme of women’s voices for its spring 2016 issue.
– Submissions should not exceed 4000 words (if possible, please use MLA format).
– Email submissions as .doc, .docx, or .rtf attachments, and include your full name, contact information, and a brief bio on the first page.
– Email short stories to April L. Ford: april.ford@oneonta.edu.
– Email critical articles to Dr. Suzanne Black: suzanne.black@oneonta.edu.
– The editors are accepting submissions until February 1, 2016.
Short Story is a refereed scholarly journal published every spring and fall. It is a joint publication of the University of Texas at Brownsville, SUNY College at Oneonta, and Claflin University, SC. The editors solicit manuscripts on every aspect of the short story, particularly those with a theoretical basis, as well as previously unpublished short stories, short stories in translation, book reviews, and interviews.
University of Sussex and the Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London present:
Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK
9.30am-6pm, Saturday 27th February 2016
Bedford Square, London
In 2015, discussions about race and contemporary poetry and poetics in North America have dominated creative and critical communities. Following Boston Review’s forum on ‘Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde’, co-curated by Dorothy Wang, boundary 2 published the dossier ‘On Race and Innovation’ this November. The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo continues to mobilise social media, disseminating their anti-racist and anti-colonial campaigns. The whiteness of the avant-garde and conceptual art and poetry has been disclosed, and readers, writers, and critics are asked to consider their complicity in a movement inextricable from its racialized and possibly racist origins.
How do these discussions relate to poetry and poetics in the UK? How do readers, writers, and critics address the complexities of social and political histories and contemporary realities of race in British and Irish contexts? How do racialized assumptions structure and determine English language poetics and aesthetics? Why are the intersections between literary tradition and contemporary practice and post-colonialism, diaspora, racial identity and inequality so rarely addressed? This year, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric won the Forward Prize for Best Collection; Andrea Brady published an article stating ‘The White Privilege of British Poetry is Getting Worse’; and Paul Gilroy discussed racism in Britain in the interview ‘What “Black Lives” Means in Britain’. Furthermore, the issues of the pressures on multiculturalism – with rising xenophobia, racialized policing, immigration policy and detention, and material inequality stratified along racial lines – hold great significance for the current of cultural production in the UK. This event will create a platform for questions, dialogues, and collaborations in response to the subject of race and poetry and poetics in the UK.
We invite contributions in the form of short presentations (10-15 minutes), workshop activities (25-50 minutes), topics and texts for group discussion (25-50 minutes), and poetry readings and performances. We hope to schedule two panel discussions and two workshops during the day (at Bedford Square), and a programme of poetry readings and performances in the evening (venue to be confirmed).
We intend to record presentations, readings, and performances, and to make them available on our website. It is our hope that the questions, dialogues, and collaborations initiated by the event will continue online. This event is part of a larger project, which will include further events, digital media, and creative and critical publications.
If you would like more information about this project, or if you would like to get involved, please contact: racepoetrypoetics@gmail.com. Website (under construction): www.rapapuk.com.
About:
Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK is an international research group founded by Dr Sam Solomon (University of Sussex) and Professor Dorothy Wang (Williams College). The steering committee, which includes Professor Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Nat Raha (University of Sussex), and Dr Nisha Ramayya, is organising a programme of events and activities that will take place at various sites in the UK, internationally, and online.
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