This is a final reminder about the 2-day Beckett & Europe PGR and ECR Conference, which will take place at the University of Reading next Wednesday and Thursday (28-29 October). All are welcome from any career stage. Advanced registration is available until Monday 26 October. There will also be some limited booking during the event itself, but we won’t be able to guarantee places in the workshops. For the conference programme and details of how to register, please visit: https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/registration/.
Author: modernistudies
Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale’s Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound’s Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo, into a companion book to the Cantos, running from 1917 to 1972 and including the Cantos he wrote in Italian in 1944-5. An Italian edition was published in 2002 and revised in 2012. This is the first English edition of a crucial part of the Pound canon.Posthumous Cantos is arranged to reflect the eight phases of the Cantos’ composition. Pound’s writing suffered the consequences of the turbulent history of his century. World War I left the cultural world he came to Europe for in ruins; and the aftermath of the World War II in which he took a contrary side, made his work, like his life, discontinuous, a sequence of brilliant moments and profound ruptures.
Sensory Modernism(s)#2 is a two day interdisciplinary conference due to be held at the University of Leeds. The event, organised by the university’s Sensory Modernism(s) research group, follows the highly successful inaugural conference event held earlier this year.
The conference will seek to address the interrelationship of modernism with sensory perception. We invite abstracts proposals for twenty-minute papers which address this theme, but will welcome proposals which offer an alternative mode of presentation, such as films or performance art.
Papers/presentations
Papers may address, but are in no way limited to, the following topics and their relevance to the general scope of the conference:
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Cinematography
Radio
Medicine
Anthropology
Aesthetics
Linguistics
Literature and the marketplace
Animals
Sexuality
Abstracts of 200-300 words, with a brief bio of no more than 200 words, should be emailed to sensorymodernisms2015@gmail.com by 11 November 2015.
Conference Organisers: Georgina Binnie, Daniel Kielty, Andrew Moore and Crispian Neill.
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Oxford Brookes PhD Studentships
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Three year, full-time funded PhD Studentships available for January 2016
Bursary: £14,000 pa (with no inflation increase) to cover both Home/EU fees and Maintenance
Deadline: The closing date for applications is 13:00 on Wednesday 4 November 2015
Interview date: Interviews will be held in week commencing 23 November 2015.
Start date: 25 January 2016
Eligibility: Home/EU only
To mark its 150th Anniversary, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, is pleased to offer a number of full-time PhD Studentships across a range of subject areas in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, starting in January 2016.
Each Studentship award will include an annual maintenance payment of £14,000 (with no inflation increase) for a maximum of three years, subject to the candidate making satisfactory progress. Students will be required to pay the annual fees at the Home/EU rate, currently £4,152 for 2015/2016 academic year.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences spans a diverse range of disciplines that include social sciences, history, philosophy, religion, education, law, English and modern languages.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has a long tradition of producing world-class research. The REF 2014 results confirm our ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research status in a range of subjects, and serve as official recognition of the expertise, dedication and passion of our academic community.
We welcome applications with proposals for PhD research projects in distinct and multidisciplinary areas related to the Faculty’s wider research themes.
Some examples of our research strengths are, but not limited to:
• Leadership and management within education, special educational needs (SEN), pedagogic practice, and school subjects and curricula
• Early modern drama, nineteenth-century poetry, MODERNISM and post-colonial literature
• History of medicine, social and public health, eugenics and biopolitics, as well as the history of welfare and governance
• Human rights, equality, international security, migration, law and religion
• European politics and social change, gender, and critical international studies.
• Cultural anthropology, Human origins and palaeo-environments, primates and wildlife conservation
Eligibility: We are looking to recruit candidates of the highest quality and who are capable of submitting a PhD thesis within 3 years. Applicants are expected to have completed a relevant Masters degree prior to the Studentship start date. The Studentship holder may also be required to complete supplementary research methods training in their first year of study. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate strong research capabilities and be fluent in spoken and written English.
For further information about the Faculty and its research please go to: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/research/
How to apply:
To request an application pack, ask for further information about the application process or any other enquiries, please email: hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk stating one of the following options, aligning the broad research area that you wish to pursue to one of our departments, in the subject line of your email:
• 150 Studentship – History, Philosophy, Religion
• 150 Studentship – English & Modern Languages
• 150 Studentship – Social Sciences
• 150 Studentship – Law
• 150 Studentship – Education
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), http://www.espr-it.eu
7-8 July 2016
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
From the Black Dwarf to the little magazines of the European avant-gardes, from protest literature of the industrial revolution to the samizdat publications of the Soviet Bloc, from Punch to punk, periodical publications have long been associated with a challenge to dominant and mainstream culture. For ESPRit 2016 we return to this aspect of periodical culture, exploring the counter-cultural role of periodicals with particular emphasis on comparative and methodological points of view. Proposals are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Periodicals as sites for the genesis and dissemination of counter-cultural ideas, programmes, and manifestos
- The assimilation of periodical counter cultures into the tradition
- Theoretical and methodological approaches to the periodical as counter culture and as establishment
- The agency of periodicals at threshold moments of social, political, and cultural change
- Illegal and underground publications
- The interplay between established periodicals and radical newcomers
- Change and disruption in the history of long-standing periodicals
ESPRit encourages proposals that speak both within and across local, regional and national boundaries and especially those that are able to offer a comparative perspective. We also encourage proposals that examine the full range of periodical culture, that is, all types of periodical publication, including newspapers and specialist magazines, and all aspects of the periodical as an object of study, including design and backroom production.
Please send proposals for 20-minute papers (max 250 words), panels of three or four papers, round tables, one-hour workshops or other suitable sessions, together with a short CV (max. one page), to 2016esprit@gmail.com. The deadline for proposals is 25 January 2016.
CALL FOR PAPERS
New Work in Modernist Studies
Saturday 5 December 2015, 10am-5.30pm,
University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Queen’s Building
The fifth one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place at the University of Exeter (Streatham campus), in conjunction with the Welsh Network of Modernist Studies, the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS).
As in previous years, this conference will take the form of an interdisciplinary programme reflecting the full diversity of current graduate work in modernist studies; it encourages contributions both from those already involved in the existing networks and from students new to modernist students who are eager to share their work. The day will close with a plenary lecture by Professor Simon Shaw-Miller, Chair in the History of Art, University of Bristol, and author of Eye hEar: The Visual in Music (Ashgate 2013), Visible Deeds in Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage (Yale, 2002, second ed. 2004) and numerous essays and articles on art and music in the modern period, including ‘Modernist Music’ in the Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford, 2010).
Proposals are invited, from PhD research students registered at British universities, for short (10 minutes maximum) research position papers. Your proposal should be no longer than 250 words, and please include with it a short (50 words) biography. It should be emailed to nwims2015@gmail.com to which any other enquiries about the conference should also be addressed.
Deadline: 5pm Weds 28 October 2015. Acceptance decisions will be communicated within one week.
Registration: delegates (those speaking and those simply attending) must register online via the link on the following webpage:
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/research/conferences/newworkinmoderniststudies/
Registration must be completed by 20 November at the latest. The conference fee is £26 and includes lunch, tea and coffee.
Travel costs: BAMS will offer a number of travel subsidies to postgraduates who contribute to the conference. In order to be eligible you must be a member of BAMS. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please include a separate indication of your estimated travel costs with your proposal. This will not be taken into account when assessing your proposal.
Conference Organizer: Prof. Adam Watt, Modern Languages (French), University of Exeter
We are excited to welcome two speakers to our next session:
‘They couldn’t see the forest for looking at the trees’: Emily Carr’s colonial modernism
Prof. Angela Smith (Stirling University)
D.H. Lawrence and visionary awareness: “not so much because of his achievement as because of his struggle”
Elliott Morsia (Royal Holloway, University of London)
For further details please see: https://literatureandvisualcultures.wordpress.com
Dear all,
Consider applying for ‘Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920’ (Birkbeck, 8-9 July 2016). The conference is organised with a twofold intention: to reconsider the intellectual and national foundations of the British fin de siècle and to unlock and reframe the perception of British authors and artists abroad during this time.
The deadline is 20 December 2015.
The Katherine Mansfield Society is delighted to announce details of its next international conference, ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story’, to be held in the town of Bandol on the French Riviera, 10-12 June 2016. The keynote speakers will be Professor Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Professor Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK.
Please see the conference poster and Call for Papers attached. We would be grateful if these could be disseminated widely and printed and displayed wherever appropriate. Many thanks in advance.
UK Association of Art Historians Annual Conference 2016, University of Edinburgh
7 – 9 April 2016
Deadline for abstracts: 9 November 2015
Relationships between artists and writers have long played an integral role in the dissemination and shaping of artistic, literary and critical reputations. This session will investigate the relevance of Derrida’s statement (in The Politics of Friendship) that ‘between talking to them and speaking of them there is a world of difference’, and the ways in which proximity between writers (not necessarily art critics) and artists has proved not only commercially convenient but has also fostered other forms of exchange and engagement. Examples of such reciprocity might be demonstrated through texts or artworks which exhibit varied degrees of rupture, interruption, proximity, presence and familiarity. Potential formats include:
• correspondence
• interviews, conversations and questionnaires as forms of deliberation
• portraiture
• text-image collaborations
• artists’ interventions in critical writings and translations
• writers’ involvements in artists’ statements and titling of artworks
• transcriptions from oral interviews/conversations to text.
How do such relationships develop, what are their benefits and limitations, and how have they changed over time in relation to artistic and literary innovations, distribution networks, and changing socio-political contexts? What new forms of knowledge result from these exchanges between the verbal and the visual? What is their relevance to artistic production and art writing today? Alert to the dangers of normalising a binary ‘fraternal’ dynamic, we are particularly keen to encourage contributions addressing feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives on this topic.
Please email proposals for 30-minute papers to the session convenors by 9 November 2015. Abstracts to be mo more than 250 words.
Rachel Smith, University of York / Tate, rrs506@york.ac.uk
James Finch, University of Kent / Tate, jf335@kent.ac.uk
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