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Programme and registration: A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales

Programme announced and registration open: A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales

We are pleased to launch registration for the inaugural Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) conference, A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales, to be held at Swansea University on Monday 7 September. 

This conference aims to showcase the diverse range of research on modernism, Welsh and otherwise, happening in Wales today. Please see the attached draft programme for details of speakers and paper titles. 

Those wishing to attend can purchase tickets via our Eventbrite page: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-century-on-modernist-studies-in-wales-tickets-17863151166. The deadline for registration is 13 August 2015.

We are also delighted to announce that, due to the generosity of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), we are now able to offer a limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries. Postgraduate speakers should retain their receipts and we will be in touch with details of how to claim following the conference. 

For further information on travel and parking and to stay up to date with all conference updates, please visit the 2015 Conference pages on our website, http://modernistnetworkcymru.org/.

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CFP: Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today

CFP: Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today

Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network

Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University

Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural resistances to it, might be said to be the paradigm of the present. This has had, and continues to have, wide-ranging ramifications for Comparative Literature. Is the discipline to be subsumed under the broader economic, political and cultural spread of Globalization? Or can it offer points of resistance and critique – alternative ways of understanding the spread of culture and language in the twenty-first century? Comparative Literature could be said to offer an historicizing view of cultural exchanges, movements and clashes which are not primarily economic; but it may also be understood to have contributed to, or be complicit in, the spread of economically-motivated globalization. Perhaps we might think in terms of ‘globalizations’ and ‘comparative literatures’, and view their multiple and multiplying processes, intentions and effects, as still very much in progress and to be accounted for. These issues have been raised in recent scholarship, for instance in Haun Saussy’s edited collection Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006), and this seminar seeks to further develop and widen the scope of the debate.

Contributions are welcome on any aspect of literature and related disciplines, including drama, visual arts and cinema. Topics for papers might include but are not limited to:

Globalization

‘European Literature’

Migration and border crossing

World Literature or Comparative Literature

Colonial/Postcolonial Literature

Literature and the Other

Translating texts, translating cultures

Post-national and transnational literature

Responses to recent critical work in the field, such as Saussy’s collection noted above

The reception of a particular work, author or movement in other language(s) or culture(s)

We welcome abstracts and expressions of interest in the group from established scholars, postgraduates and researchers. Abstracts of 250 words for papers lasting around 20 minutes should be forwarded to Peter Jackson peter.jackson@bcu.ac.uk or Tom Knowlesthomas.knowles@bcu.ac.uk by Thursday 24 September 2015

About The Northern Comparative Literature Network

The NCLN is a group of scholars from the Midlands and the North of the UK who have come together in order to foster research, teaching and collaboration in Comparative Literature, and to promote its importance in the curricula of higher education. The seminar is a space for those active in the field to share their work and ideas, but also a chance for those engaged in other disciplines to think about their own field in international, inter-linguistic and inter-cultural terms.

Please do to get in touch if you are interested in joining NCLN or wish to attend a seminar.

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Registration open: Politics and Periodicals – 10-11 September

BAMS colleagues may be interested in the attached draft programme for the conference Politics and Periodicals to be held 10-11 September at The Nordic Museum, Stockholm.
Registration is open at www.esprit2015.axaco.se
Politics and Periodicals draft programme
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EUP Discount Offer

BAMS Discount from Edinburgh University Press

A third off The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield, edited by Anna Plumridge. Now £20

25% off Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence. Now £56

For more details and information on how to order, visit www.euppublishing.com

  9780748694419

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Registration now open: After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity

Registration is now open for ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’… featuring panels on Strachey, Stein, the Sitwells, among others. More info, including full programme, here: https://afterimage2015.wordpress.com

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Call for Papers: Asian Communication Research

Special Issue on Asian Popular Culture

Asian Communication Research (ACR) is now accepting submissions for Vol. 12 N. 2 to be published in December 2015. ACR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, published by the Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies since 2004 and is indexed on KCI (Korean Citation Index).

Themes:

Asia has been a site of both interests and controversies. Some have extolled it as a future center of global political economy, while others still view it as a lump of under-developed countries. For many years, Asia has been a test bed for development communication theories. When it comes to popular culture, Asian media capitals such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bombay have produced popular media content for global audiences for several decades. More recently, South Korea has joined their ranks by manufacturing popular TV dramas, pop music and films. Korean singer Psy’s Gangnam Style phenomenon a few years ago on the global stages confirmed the influence of Asian popular culture. Further, the influence of Bollywood films is gathering force with the global spread of diasporic audiences equipped with new media technologies. In addition, China is ready to appear as the global power of popular cultural production and consumption. At this critical juncture of Asian media and cultural development, Asian Communication Research invites papers that address any theme that are related to Asian popular culture for this special issue.

Submissions on following topics are welcome, but are not limited to:

Asian Popular Culture and Global Communication

Global fandom of Asian Popular Culture

Asian Popular Music

Asian Cinema

Media and cultural policies in Asia

Cultural industries

Critical and cultural studies, gender and communication

Asian Game Industries and Cultural Studies

International communication and cultural flow

Diasporic Cultures and Asian Media

Localization of Global Popular Culture

Korean Wave

Bollywood

Japanimation

Chinese media

Thai cinema

Digital mediation and global fandom of K-pop

Pan-Asian media productions in Asia

Sports, media and Popular Culture

Social Media and popular culture

Advertising and popular culture

Popular media representations on international disputes in Asia

Key Dates:

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 20 July, 2015

Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 15 September, 2015

Published: December, 2015

Submission Guidelines:

Original manuscripts should be prepared according to the APA author guidelines.

Send inquiries and manuscripts to asiancommr@naver.com

Editors:

Sunny Yoon (Hanyang University) syoon@hanyang.ac.kr

Doobo Shim (Sungshin University) doobo@sungshin.ac.kr

Wonjun Chung (The University of Suwon) wjchun1@hotmail.com

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Call for submissions: 31st edition of the Postgraduate English Journal, Durham University

You are cordially invited to submit articles to the 31st edition of the Postgraduate English Journal, Durham University’s online peer-reviewed literary journal. This is one of the longest-running online postgraduate literary journals in the UK, and in recent years the journal has received reprint requests from academic publishers.
Early-career researchers/academics and postgraduates are invited to submit papers of 5 – 7,000 words (or book reviews of no more than 2000 words) by Saturday, 15th August 2015.
Contributions from any area of literary research are welcome to reflect a wide diversity of interests. If submitting a book review, please contact the editors in advance with details of the book you wish to review.
For queries or further information contact: pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

For more information about the journal, and to read current and previous issues, please visit: http://community.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.…/…/pgenglish/index/

Please send submissions and Forum content to the editors, Sreemoyee Roy Chowdhury and Sarah Lohmann via pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk.

Lastly, we are also happy to advertise postgraduate conferences in the UK and Europe on request.

With best wishes and warm regards,

Sree and Sarah
Co-Editors
Durham University Postgraduate English Journal

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CFP Deadline Today: Women and the First World War, Newcastle University

Please find below the CFP for Women and the First World War, to be held at Newcastle University on Thursday 17 September 2015. The event will feature a keynote address from Professor Alison Fell (Leeds), and is supported by the North East Forum for FWW Studies, the Living Legacies 1914-1918 AHRC Engagement Centre, the Gender Research Group (Newcastle) and the Military, War & Security Research Group (Newcastle). 
 
Please note that the deadline for abstracts is TODAY, Wednesday 15 June 2015. Papers from PG students are most welcome. Please circulate widely, and apologies for cross posting.
Many thanks, and best wishes,
Emma Short and Stacy Gillis, Conference Organisers

Women & the First World War (1910-1930)

North East Research Forum for First World War Studies

17 September 2015

Newcastle University

Call for Papers

 

This interdisciplinary symposium will showcase research on any aspect of women’s history in relation to the First World War. We welcome papers on the role and place of girls and women both during the war and also in the years leading up to the outbreak of hostilities and in the decade after. For example, how did literature for girls before the war prepare children for war? How were women involved in pacifist groups? What kinds of work did women do during the war? How were women and girls involved in memorialisation activities? What is the relationship between spiritualism, war and gender politics? Do new transnational paradigms complicate our understanding of women and war? What role did women play in journalism during the war? These are indicative questions only – the symposium is intended to share and develop research on women and the First World War. Papers from a range of fields – including Literature, History, Archaeology, Geography, Politics, Film and Media, Modern Languages, History of Medicine, and Law – are encouraged.

Keynote Address: 

Professor Alison Fell (Leeds) 

‘Back to the Front: French and British Female Veteran Groups in the 1920s’

Please send abstracts of 150 words for

20-minute papers to fww@ncl.ac.uk by 15 July 2015.

This event is supported by the North East Research Forum for First World War Studies, the Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre, the Gender Research Group (Newcastle) and the Military, War & Security Research Group (Newcastle).

 

Conference Organisers: Stacy Gillis & Emma Short

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Register for MSA 17 “Modernism & Revolution, ” Boston, Nov. 19-22

I am happy to announce that registration is now available for MSA 17 “Modernism & Revolution” at the Westin Copley Place in Boston (Nov. 19-22).

Before you begin registering, please visit the conference website to learn about the exciting events you might wish to select. The registration information page provides a helpful walkthrough of the process. Registration will be facilitated if you have your MSA login and password available. If you are a new member or your membership has expired (most did in June) you will need become a current member while completing registration for the conference. If you are uncertain of your login information, there is a retrieval tool on the membership page. If you need assistance, you may contact JHUP customer service at: 1-800-548-1784 or jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu.

A few potentially tricky spots: There is no “promo code” for the conference (but an obligatory box appears on the second screen). If you do not wish to sign up for one of the seminars, locate the “skip” button at the bottom of the seminar selection screen to continue checking out.

And a few notes about the exciting conference we are preparing:

This year, we are offering both pre- and post- conference workshops focused on professionalization. As usual, you have the option of joining a seminar  one of the MSA’s most unique and productive conference offerings. Seminar participants circulate position papers and meet for two hours during the conference to discuss their work. Seminars are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. You can also join a “What are You Reading” session simply by naming a book you would like to present in the form provided during registration.

We are offering one off-site event, an excursion to the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Exhibit “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957” on Friday evening, Nov. 20. The cost for the museum and transportation is just $10 for MSA members, but space is limited, so register early! Our website includes more information on the exhibition, ICA’s remarkable collection, and a series of roundtables about Black Mountain College that will be held at the conference venue.

There will be keynote talks by Anne A. Cheng (Princeton University) and Martin Puchner (Harvard University). And a plenary roundtable  on “Modernism & Revolution” featuring Toral Gajarawala (New York University), Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania), Janet Lyon (Penn State University), and Tavia Nyong’o (New York University).

You will be entertained by Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood’s POEMJAZZ on Thursday and a performance of Mary Manning’s Passages from Finnegans Wake: A Free Adaptation for the Theatre by the Here Comes Everybody Players on Saturday evening.

So check out the registration information page. Dust off your MSA login and password. And register! We look forward to welcoming you to Boston in November!

Warmly,

Carrie Preston

for the MSA 17 Host Committee

Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Carrie Preston (Boston University), and Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross)

Graduate Assistants: Linda Martin, Nell Wasserstrom, & Bryan Russo

Webmaster: Alex Christie,

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Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate conference, 19 September, University of Dundee

Call for Papers for the Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate Conference 

19th September 2015, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee 

‘Our modern attraction to the short story is not an accident of form; it is the sign of a real sense of fleetingness and fragility; it means that existence is only an impression, and, perhaps, only an illusion. We have no instinct of anything ultimate and enduring beyond the episode.’ G. K. Chesterton, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911).

‘The traditional concern of the short story has been the portrayal of the experience of misfits, marginal figures of some kind […] The short story is a form of exclusion and implication; its technical workings mirror its ideological bias, its tendency toward the expression of that which is marginal or ex-centric to society.’ Clare Hanson, The Gender of Modernism (1990).

In both content and critical reception, the short story has always possessed an uncertain status. Growing rapidly in popularity towards the end of the nineteenth century, the short story form became representative of the experimental spirit of the age, allowing authors to create fragmented, ambiguous narratives, and explore themes and characters outside of the dominant cultural perspective. This conference invites proposals from postgraduate students and early career researchers for papers relating to (but not limited to) the following topics:

Identity and authenticity

Liminality, ambivalence, thresholds

Short stories and gender

Intermediality

Short stories and epiphany

Queer perspectives

Short stories and print culture

The postcolonial short story

We particularly welcome papers on the work of Katherine Mansfield, as the conference will include special Mansfield sessions. Suggestions for readings are also encouraged. Please send abstracts of 250 words to modernistshortstory2015@gmail.com by 17th August 2015.