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CFP: Peripheral Discourses of Modernity(ies)

Insula International Colloquium

1st Insula International Colloquium

Peripheral Discourses of Modernity(ies)

Funchal  |  University of Madeira Island (Portugal)

CIERL – Research Center for Regional & Local Studies

19, 20 and 21 November 2015

Submission of proposals by May 30, 2015. 

New deadline for submissions: June 15, 2015.

In March 1915, issue No. 1 of Orpheu. Quarterly Literary Magazine, the focus of interest of which would go way beyond literary creation, was published in Lisbon. In search of the new and the modern, Orpheu sought to break with the dominant cultural values and practices of the Portuguese cultural system. The so called 1st Portuguese Modernism developed, thus, in an ambivalent political-cultural context. If Lisbon was, on the one hand, capital of a ‘colonial empire’ and of the national cultural system, on the other, it was a marginal city in relation to Paris and the main European cities.

As with Lisbon in 1916, islands also have a paradoxical character. On the one hand, they are perceived as the periphery in relation to continental areas, without ceasing, however, to be affective, cultural and identity reference centres to those who were born and/or live on them. On the other hand, as spaces of transit and encounters, insular peripheries (as well ascontinental others) are also socio-cultural and political realities marked by transgression and, to that extent, spaces of innovation and (re)creativity.

Shifting the focus of academic attention to spaces, cultural phenomena, subjects and/or epistemological and creative perspectives considered peripheral (in particular, those insular), the 1st Insula International Colloquium – Peripheral Discourses of Modernity(ies) may be seen as a meeting that seeks to potentiate reflections on the map of modernism and modernity. While needing to give attention to Western metropolitan centres, this new cartography of modernity should also (re)view the cultural, epistemological and re-creative density of peripheries (both insular and continental), questioning itself about the modernities and modernisms they gave rise to.

According to several authors, high European modernism was played by “people from the province migrating to the great capitals of Europe, who will generate, for that reason, a culture of internationalisation and defamiliarisation” (Silvestre, 2008). But what has happened in reverse, i.e., from the centres to the peripheries? How were the vanguards of the early twentieth century and other modernisms and modernities experienced in geopolitical and cultural spaces considered peripheral? How did insular societies and subjects (European and colonial) respond to the newproposed by these (and other) modernisms? What role has been assigned to peripheral geo-cultural spaces in the construction of the narrative about the various modernisms and the diverse modernities?

In line with these concerns, CIERL – Research Centre for Regional and local Studies invites submissions of paper proposals for the 1stInsula International Colloquium, guided by the purpose of studying and discussing peripheral discourses of modernity(ies).

» Modernism(s) and Modernity(ies):

  1. Peripheries and centres: dichotomies and/or implications? Multidisciplinary perspectives;
  2. Marginality(ies) in agents and cultural phenomena of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
  3. The media in dissemination, legitimation and questioning of values and discourses;
  4. The Museum, Archive, Library, Editorial Activity, school: the role of these institutions in revising and revisiting modernisms and modernities;
  5. Literature, mobility, interculturality;
  6. Transits, translation, modalisations and transculturality;
  7. Nature, art, technology, science: knowledge building; (re)creation/(re)construction; human relationship with the eco-socio-cultural context;
  8. Rethinking the polis and the urban space;
  9. Affections, thought, spirituality;
  10. Subject, crisis and psychoanalysis.

Submission of proposals

Colloquium languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Paper (20m) and poster presentation (10m) proposals should be sent to the following e mail: insula mail.uma.pt, with the following elements:

a) Title

b) Abstract (c. 200 words)

c) Participant’s name, affiliation, email address,

d) Short bio note.

e) 5 keywords

Deadline for submission of proposals: May 30 June, 15 2015

Admission Feedback: June 30, 2015

– Participants with paper or poster:

* Until July 30, 2015 – 50 €

* Between August 1 and September 31, 2015 – 75 €

* Between October 1  and November 10, 2015 – 100 €

– Participants without a paper:

* Non UMa students – 15 €

* UMa Students providing enrolment document – free registration.

Registration will only be validated after receipt of payment.

Publishing: papers will be published after being refereed by the scientific committee.

All registered and paying participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Colloquium proceedings will be credited as training hours by the Regional Secretariat for Education and Human Resources of the ARM.

Form

Scientific Committee:

  • Alexandra Lopes (Univ. Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
  • Alberto Carvalho (Univ. Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Aline Bazenga (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Ana Isabel Moniz (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Ana Ruth Vidal Luengo (Univ. Las Palmas, Canárias, Espanha)
  • António Fournier (Univ. Turim, Itália)
  • Bernardo Vasconcelos (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Gabriel Fernandes (Univ, Santiago, Cabo Verde)
  • Ilan Kelman (Univ. College of London, Reino Unido)
  • José Manuel Marrero Henríquez (Univ. Las Palmas, Canárias, Espanha)
  • Juan José Miguel Tobal (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Espanha)
  • Leonor Martins Coelho (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Margarida Pocinho (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Maria Isabel González Cruz (Univ. Las Palmas, Canárias, Espanha)
  • María Teresa Cáceres Lorenzo (Univ. Las Palmas, Canárias, Espanha)
  • Nelson Veríssimo (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Nilo Palenzuela (Univ. La Laguna, Canárias, Espanha)
  • Noemi Serrano (Universidad de Cadiz, Espanha)
  • Paulo Miguel Rodrigues (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Philip M. Hosay (New York University, EUA)
  • Regina Capelo (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Rui Guilherme Silva (CIERL-UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Urbano Bettencourt (CIERL-UMa, Madeira, Portugal)
  • Vítor Magalhães (UMa, Madeira, Portugal)

Organising Committee:

Ana Isabel Moniz (CIERL-UMa)

Ana Salgueiro (CIERL-UMa)

Filipe Gomes (CIERL-UMa)

Leonor Martins Coelho (CIERL-UMa)

Regina Capelo (CIERL-UMa)

Rui Guilherme Silva (CIERL-UMa)

Catarina Teixeira (CIERL-UMa)

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A Writer Young and Old: Yeats at 150

The First Conference of the International Yeats Society

Scoil an Chultúir agus na Cumarsáide, Ollscoil Luimnigh

School of Culture and Communication, University of Limerick

15–18 October 2015

It has been a century and a half since the birth of W. B. Yeats. With the completion of major biographies and textual series, and in the context of technological and economic changes to global literary studies, Yeats studies finds itself at a critical juncture. This conference will gather scholars, critics, and creative artists from around the world to engage with Yeats as a figure of world literature, European and global modernisms, and Irish culture and politics; and Yeats’s work as poet, dramatist, autobiographer, and writer of fiction, critical and reflective essays, and philosophy. The larger questions to be addressed concern the field of Yeats studies itself, and the role of Yeats in literary and cultural studies. Where are we now? whence have we come? where are we going?

Topics may include:

  • thematic concerns such as youth and age or aging
  • formal considerations including rhythm, music, dance, drama, and the spoken word
  • Yeats in contemporary politics, media, and cultural studies
  • Yeats in and in relation to space, including Ireland, over time
  • translation and adaptation
  • history and the past, including mythology
  • futurity, including prophecy time and temporality

Plenary speakers: Matthew Campbell (U of York), Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Alexandra Poulain (U of Lille)

Presentations should be no more than twenty minutes. Please submit a proposal including your title and an abstract of 250 words. Indicate your name, email, and institutional affiliation clearly.

If you would like to organize a panel, plan for three twenty-minute talks or four fifteen-minute talks. Panel proposals should be 500-600 words and should clarify what each speaker will contribute to the conversation. Provide a title for the proposed session as well as titles for each talk. Please list all panelists’ names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations at the top of the proposal. If you would like help in locating potential co-panelists for your proposal, please send a brief description of the topic to Marion Quirici at marionqu@buffalo.edu.

Please send abstracts by 1 June 2015 and any queries to:

Margaret Mills Harper at Margaret.Harper@ul.ie

Download a flyer in A4 Format or US Letter Format

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Samuel Beckett and Europe

MERL, University of Reading · 28-29 October 2015

Beckett and Europe
Abstract Deadline: 8th June 2015
Keynote Speaker: Dr David Tucker (Chester University)

Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

The Beckett at Reading Postgraduate group is pleased to announce a new postgraduate and Early Careers two-day conference with the theme of Beckett and Europe. We will be hosting two on-site archival workshops on manuscripts and performance during the conference. There will also be a public lecture on Happy Days by Professor James Knowlson. This will be followed by the Beckett International Foundation Seminar on the 30th of October.

We invite postgraduates and Early Career Researchers to submit abstracts under the general theme of ‘Beckett and Europe’. The aim of the conference is to engage postgraduates and ECRs in research exchange with an interdisciplinary and cross-media focus. Born in Ireland in 1906, Beckett wrote in English, French and German and directed his own theatrical work in London, Berlin and Paris. The span and influence of Beckett’s work in 20th Century Europe is essential to many questions that inform Beckett scholarship: How do we frame Beckett nationally/internationally and has this changed? What influence did Beckett have on European artists, writers and thinkers? How has Beckett’s work entered the European tradition?

All disciplines are welcome including philosophy, linguistics, theatre and performance, archival research, art, science, cultural studies, politics, history, music, theology and literature. We also invite submissions that contest and interrogate a Eurocentric focus on Beckett. Issues to consider may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Beckett, History and the Politics of Europe
  • Beckett and World War II
  • Beckett’s European Legacy
  • Beckett and the City
  • Beckett and European Theatre: Performance and Practice
  • Beckett and the Archive
  • Beckett, Nation and Translation
  • Beckett and Culture: E.g. Music, Art, Architecture
  • Beckett and European Philosophy
  • Beckett and Traditions: Prose, Poetry, Drama
  • Different modes of Beckett criticism in the various European traditions

Please send abstracts, in English, of 300–500 words to barpconference@gmail.com with a short bio of no more than 150 words before 8 June 2015.

Beckett at Reading Postgraduates (BARP): https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: CfP The Resurfacing of “Modernism” in Contemporary English Fiction and Poetry, 29 Oct 2015

We kindly invite you to send us proposals for our expert meeting “The Resurfacing of “Modernism” in Contemporary English Fiction and Poetry.” The EXTENDED DEADLINE for proposals is 15 June 2015. Please feel free to forward this e-mail or the online CfP (http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/60598) to all who may be interested.
 
 
Call for Papers expert meeting
 The Resurfacing of “Modernism” in Contemporary English Fiction and Poetry
 Date: Thursday, 29 October 2015
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Organizers: Dr. Dennis Kersten and Dr. Usha Wilbers

Proposals deadline: JUNE 15, 2015
The early twenty-first century has seen the resurfacing of Modernism in English literature. Authors like Will Self and Tom McCarthy have actively discussed how they deal with the legacy of Modernism in their work. The reception of a number of contemporary British novels, among which Nicola Barker’s Darkmans (2007), McCarthy’s C (2010) and Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), also suggests a resurrection of the label “Modernism” in the critical appraisal of literature. Reviewers use the label, as well as related terms such as “avant-garde”, “experimental”, “Futurist,” and “Joycean,” to categorise and evaluate these works. However, the phenomenon is still uncharted, lacking a clear definition and raising complex issues, as is also shown by the works of scholars like David James and Marjorie Perloff. Are novels by, for instance, Barker, McCarthy and Smith instances of what might be termed “retro-Modernism”, as imitative of canonised early-twentieth-century avant-garde fiction? Are they “neo-Modernist” texts, reinventing Modernism as we thought we knew it? Or does the use of “Modernist” terms signal the advent of “Metamodernism”, a relatively new, but ever-expanding field of research?
This expert meeting seeks to explore the revival of Modernism in contemporary English fiction and poetry. Our aim is to connect scholars working on this topic in order to (further) define the origins, development and implications of this trend. We are predominantly interested in how the contemporary literary field—authors, publishers, critics, academics—deals with the label “Modernism”; not necessarily in close readings of Modernist texts or the after lives of the canonical Modernist authors of the early-twentieth century. A selection of the papers presented during the expert meeting will be prepared for publication.

We welcome proposals for 15 to 20 minute presentations about the above themes. 
Please send a 250 word proposal by JUNE 15 to the organizers: Dennis Kersten: d.kersten@let.ru.nl / Usha Wilbers: u.wilbers@let.ru.nl
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CFP: European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism studies (EAM) in Rennes, France, June 1-3 2016

Call for Papers 5th Bi-annual EAM Congress (European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies) University of Rennes, France, June 1-2-3, 2016

The fifth EAM congress invites scholars to consider the coupling of the notions of quest and investigation in works of art or movements of the avant-garde or neo-avant-garde, or of the various forms of modernism, even though modernism and the avant-garde seem often to have been constructed in opposition to the spiritual or scientific heritage suggested by these two terms. The notion of quest suggests a metaphysical beyond informed by mysticism, implying the absence of an end or of a conclusion, whereas the notion of investigation implies a totally rational conception of reality and a process likely to bring a definite result and reach a conclusion. Coupling the two notions, quest/investigation, is therefore an invitation to overcome an initial paradox: the endlessness of the quest as opposed to the fixed scope of the investigation. The co-articulation of the two notions may shed some light on marginal or neglected works. It may also question the dialectical relationship between modern and anti-modern, between avant-garde and rear-guard, between insistent innovations and archaisms, acknowledged or disguised.

Whether dialectical or dynamic, the approach we suggest applies to all the fields or domains of research in the Arts, literature, aesthetics, cinema, photography, drama, T.V. or digital media, architecture, music, design…

As a guide to researchers, we suggest four possible approaches:

1 A genetic approach: this would deal with the process of creation itself as quest or investigation (artistic protocols, the work as investigation, models or projects designed as research, studies, excavations, exploration, etc.)

2 A formal approach: to identify the motifs, terms, or forms of the quest or investigation in works of art, fiction and/or documentary (e.g: works of mystical inspiration, the reintroduction of the sacred; or the schematic models for a project, the presence of user manuals, guidelines, etc.)

3 An approach in terms of reception: the place or the role of the spectator or reader confronted by an open/closed work, the state of completion or incompletion of the work (is the finitude or completeness of the work put into question by new technologies? do these technologies enable a new appropriation of the work?)

4 An epistemological or meta-discursive approach: dealing with historiography and historicity, new modes of research, new technologies (restoration of paintings, collaborative creations, databases, etc.). This approach considers the way in which the quest/investigation of the researcher and the artistic quest or investigation itself mutually inform or act on each other.

The submissions should explicitly mention which of the four approaches is primarily involved.

The scientific committee invites proposals for panels of three or four speakers, or for double panels of up to eight speakers. Individual proposals are also accepted. Panels may not consist only of graduate students. All submissions must contain a title (for each paper and for the panel), a 300-word abstract (of the individual paper or of all the papers of the proposed panel), the name and qualifications of the author(s), the language in which the paper(s) will be read (English, French, German, Spanish). Proposals must be submitted in a Word, Times New Roman 12 format (no PDF) before September 1, 2015 to the following address: EAM.rennes2016@gmail.com

Answers will be sent by October 1st 2015.

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CFP: H.D. panel at SAMLA Nov 13-15, 2015 (abstracts deadline 6/10/15)

The H.D. International Society invites paper proposals for a panel called “H.D. and Her Circle: New Directions” at this year’s South Atlantic MLA in Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015.

Papers may focus on work by H.D. and/or those in her circle (Bryher, Kenneth Macpherson, Marianne Moore, Richard Aldington, John Cournos, Robert Herring, Ezra Pound, Paul and Eslanda Robeson, Sigmund Freud, etc.), and the thematic focus of the panel is open to a range of new approaches. Given SAMLA 2015’s conference theme, “In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts,” papers that address connections to other art forms/media are welcome, although this is not a necessary component.

Please send 250-word abstracts, a brief bio, and A-V requests to rawalsh@ncsu.edu by June 10, 2015.

For more information about SAMLA, please visit
https://samla.memberclicks.net/

For information about The H.D. International Society, please visit
http://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu/

Best regards,

Rebecca Walsh and Celena Kusch, co-chairs of The H.D. International Society

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Call for Papers: Phalansteries, Groups, Circles and Guilds. Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community. 1880-1940

Phalansteries, Groups, Circles and Guilds. Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community. 1880-1940

Special issue of the online peer-reviewed journal Other Modernities/Altre Modernità/Autres Modernités ISSN 2035-7680 (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/index), edited by Caroline Patey and Laura Scuriatti

Following a very successful panel at the 2014 EAM conference in Helsinki the editors are seeking additional contributions.

Deadline: 1st December 2015

Authors guidelines: http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Expected publication date: Spring 2016

CFP description:

While Modernism, especially literary Modernism, has long been investigated in the wake of the primary role played by individual voices and authorship, critical studies increasingly investigate the roles played by group artistry in the elaboration of avant-garde and modernist aesthetics and ethics throughout Europe and the United States. Together with the more renown instances such as the Wiener Werkstätte, Bauhaus, the Omega workshops and the groupings which followed the outbreak and success of the Russian Revolution, a number of less known collective experiences (circles, little magazines, theatre companies, guilds) challenged the consolidated idea of authorship and creation and are crucial for understanding the writing practices in the first half of the twentieth century. In many ways, the utopia of new and unfettered forms of expression seems to go hand in hand with the experimentation of unconventional modes of living. Whether institutionalised or informal, most of these groupings, which were housed both in urban and rural surroundings, involved artists, authors and thinkers working together in a collective attempt to reassess/reformulate the fundamental questions about art, creativity and craft in the light of communal practices and choices.

We seek original contributions exploring the diverse communities disseminated throughout Europe, with a focus on literary practices, and the role they played in the emergence of new literary languages, hoping to be able to exhaustively map such efforts.

The following aspects are of particular interest:

1. The ‘prehistory’ of utopian artistry: in the case of Britain, the role played by such people as William Morris and iconic places as he Red House or Kelmskott Manor in disrupting Victorian conventions, existential and aesthetic alike. Investigation of the influence of the Morris constellation onto later utopian experiences, as well as the assessment of the literary output of the rural community gathered around Edward Carpenter at Millthorpe and his militant activity for the rights of homosexuals.

2. Communal living and writing in Britain and Europe.

We aim at drawing a first map of these experiences throughout Europe.

3. Journals, small magazines, salons, theatre groups. We are interested in contributions investigating these collective ventures in cultural capitals or marginal places, where adventurous and ferociously independent periodicals write a special chapter of co-writing and associate editorship. 

4. Authorship between the individual and the collective voice. On the methodological and theoretical side of things, we are interested in issues of signature, authorship, authority, format, visibility, impact and acceptance within the various communal experiences. We also welcome investigations on the episodes of intermediality suggested by the coexistence of diverse forms of artistic expression in the community, and their impact on the aesthetic discourses of the group.

Contributions should aim at: 

  1. Filling the white places of our initial map by investigating experiences throughout Europe.

  2. Elaborating on the theoretical aspects of authorial identity, agency, originality, subversion.

  3. Interrogating the role played by the multiple discourses entailed by an artistic community.

  4. Exploring and assessing the cultural and political status of such communities in relation to the societies they are part of.

Editors’ profiles

Caroline Patey has read English and Comparative literature in Paris (Paris III), Dublin UCD and the Università degli Studi, Milan, where she is now professor of English literature. Her research has oscillated between the two poles of Renaissance and Modernist Studies and recently become increasingly comparative in scope and methods, focusing on visual and textual modernity in Joyce, Proust, Ford, Woolf, Conrad and Eliot; following the trail of anthropology and literature, and also concentrating on urban culture and literature, in the works of Henry James, Conrad, Ford, and Isherwood. Among her last investigations, the intersection between museums and literature; in this area of research she has co-edited The Exhibit in the Text. The Museological Practices of Literature (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009) and edited the Italian translation of Sir John Soane’s Crude Hints towards an History of my House (Per una storia della mia casa, Palermo, Sellerio, 2010). She has also lately promoted the research project on literature and nomadism and co-edited the proceedings of the related conference, Transits. The Nomadic Geographies of Anglo-American Modernism (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2010). In 2010, Caroline Patey has co-organized the conference Provence and the British Imagination. (Proceedings published in Milan, Ledizioni, 2013). In December 2011 she has hosted in Milan an international conference to investigate the inheritance of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in the seventieth anniversary of their death: Parallaxes. Virginia Woolf meets James Joyce (Proceedings published Cambridge Scholar Press, 2014). She has recently co-edited Will the Modernist. Shakespeare and the Historical European Avant-Gardes (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2014) and contributed to the volume with the essay: ‘Beckett’s Shakespeare, or, Silencing the Bard’. 

Laura Scuriatti studied English and German literature at the University of Milan, and holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Reading. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and the visual arts in modernism and the avant-garde, and on gender theory. She was a teaching assistant at the University of Reading and is Junior Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin (formerly European College of Liberal Arts), where she has been teaching since 2003. She has published on Mina Loy, Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, and Sacheverell Sitwells. She has co-edited, with Caroline Patey, the volume The Exhibit in the Text. The Museological Practices of Literature (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009) and, with Sara Fortuna, Dekalog. On Dogville (London and New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2012).

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Registration Open: Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism

Registration is now open for a conference on ‘Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism’ to be held at the Trinity Long Room Hub on 2-3 July. The keynote lecturers are Peter Howarth and Alex Davis. The conference will also feature a screening of To Hell with Culture, a film about Herbert Read directed by Huw Wahl. All are very welcome. Further programme and registration details can be found at: http://collaboratingmuse.wordpress.com/

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CFP: Katherine Mansfield, Leslie Beauchamp & World War One

Conference details will be updated regularly on the website: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/messines-symposium-2015/

Katherine Mansfield, Leslie Beauchamp 

& World War One

An international symposium to be held at
Mesen/Messines, Belgium
26 – 27 September 2015

Keynote Speakers: Professor J. Lawrence Mitchell 

and Dr Gerri Kimber

Call for Papers

Leslie Heron Beauchamp lost his life in Ploegsteert Wood, close to Messines, on October 6 2015. The young Second Lieutenant serving with the South Lancashire Regiment was just 21 when he was accidentally killed by a malfunctioning grenade while teaching his men how to throw these “bombs”. “Chummie”, as he was known to his family, had just spent two weeks with Mansfield and John Middleton Murry at their home in St John’s Wood, London, while on an army course, ironically on the use of hand grenades. The death of her much-loved younger brother would go on to have a significant impact on Mansfield’s writing, unleashing memories of New Zealand and their shared childhood, which she now felt compelled to record.

This symposium in Messines, commemorating the centenary of Leslie’s death, and close to where he died, aims to encourage a discussion of his life, his relationship with his sister Katherine, and how her own writing was transformed by his untimely death.

The symposium will take place in the theatre on the second floor of the Old Town Hall at Messines over the weekend of September 26 and 27 and will include a visit to Leslie’s grave. Keynote speakers include Dr Gerri Kimber of Northampton University, UK, and Professor J. Lawrence Mitchell of Texas A&M University, USA. The organisers are grateful for the support of the Katherine Mansfield Society, the Mesen/Messines Council and the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels.

Please send 200 word abstracts to Martin O’Connor, symposium organiser at:

words@telenet.be 

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 July 2015.

In addition to the symposium, an optional battlefield tour is offered on Friday September 25

A tour of main World War One sites on the Ypres Salient will be run for those attending the symposium, on Friday September 25. This is optional only and the charge per person is 85 euros (€50 for students / unwaged). The price includes the guide, lunch and transport.

Your transport will leave at 8.30 am from the coach park at the front of the Cathedral in Ypres (behind the Cloth Hall).

We will visit the Messines battlefield of June 7 1917, including the Pool of Peace, the preserved crater of one of the massive British mines exploded that day. We will then move on to Ypres and the Menin Gate.

We will drive over the Passchendaele battlefield and visit Tyne Cot, the largest of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s cemeteries. We will then visit the Memorial Museum Passchendaele before ending the day at Essex Farm, the site where John McCrae wrote the iconic poem “In Flanders Fields”. Lunch will be provided en route.

Should time permit we will also visit the German Cemetery at Langemark and the area of the frontline where the Germans launched the first gas attack in April 1915.

New Zealanders who are visiting for the symposium may wish to do a tour focused on the New Zealand Division. This can cover Flanders, The Somme, Arras and Le Quesnoy depending on how much time is available and can be made prior to or after the symposium. Anyone who is interested should contact Martin O’Connor at:  words@telenet.be

On the weekend following the symposium a major New Zealand event which will be announced shortly will take place on Saturday October 3 at Zonnebeke (Passchendaele). Memorial services are planned for Sunday October 4 in commemoration of The Battle of Broodseinde in which the New Zealand Division with the Australians to their right made a first successful push towards Passchendaele. Eight days later as they made the push for the village itself, the New Zealanders suffered their worst day in history losing 840 dead in just four hours.

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Poetry/Poetics Call For Papers

Call for Papers for a University at Buffalo English Department Poetics Program conference. This conference will be preceded by a Friday April 8 Robert Creeley Lecture. This is the inaugural lecture in what will become an annual lectureship in poetry and poetics, and in 2016 will include a community celebration and presenters on Creeley’s translation into and reception by the French. More information about these events (free and open to the public) will be forthcoming at a later date. Please feel free to circulate the Call for Papers.

Call for Papers “Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years” Conference,  April 9-10, 2016 

The Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo invites the submission of papers or workshop topics for a conference marking its 25th anniversary and looking toward the future of the field. “Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years” convenes an occasion for intensive reflection on the possibilities and agencies poetry and poetics bring to bear on trajectories of the now and histories-to-be. We envision a conference that consists primarily of discussion: papers will be short (10-12 minutes); there will be no plenary speakers and no introductions. Seminar workshops will enable intensive conversation on particular topics in small groups. Panel presentations will propose material and ideas for continuing discussion with all participants.

Among other topics, we hope to engender conversation on://

Poetry/Poetics as interdisciplinary exploration (eco-poetics & bio-politics; poetics of the political economy of affect)
Poetry/Poetics as trans- and cross-cultural, including poetry in alternate writing systems
Poetry/Poetics and media technologies, including history of the book
Poetry/Poetics and contemporary events, subjunctive histories
Poetry/Poetics as investigation of social difference and hierarchy, especially as produced, policed, and undone by language
Poetry/Poetics as (in)comprehension of planetary crisis

You may submit an individual *paper (250-word proposal) or a topic for a **seminar-workshop (350-word proposal).
*Seminar topics and paper proposals due: September 1*
*Papers: 10-12-minutes, each panel with 4-5 speakers, to be followed by 30-50 min. discussion

**Seminar-workshops: brief (5-7 page) papers will be circulated in advance of the conference; there will be no formal presentations during the seminars, which will consist of discussion among participants. Seminar participation will be limited to 15, although the coordinator at discretion may allow up to 5 guests who do not contribute papers.

Anyone who submits a paper proposal that is accepted but cannot be accommodated into a panel slot will be invited either to participate in a proposed seminar or to lead a seminar on the topic of the proposed paper.
Submitters will be informed of acceptance either as seminar leaders or paper presenters by October 1. A call will then go out for proposals to participate in the seminars: proposals due November 1; submitters will be informed of participation by December 1.