Author: modernistudies

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Deadline reminder: Symposium: Modernist and early twentieth-century publishing houses

To be held at the University of Reading, Special Collections, Friday 26th June 2015

“We are thinking of starting a printing press, for all our friends stories. Don’t you think it’s a good idea?” (Virginia Woolf to Lady Robert Cecil, October 1916.Letters 2:120).

Much scholarship has been undertaken in recent years on the “institutions”, producers, and material makers of literary modernism. Such work has aided our understanding of the cultural and textual production of modernist writing and has been particularly prominent with regards to the important role played by periodicals and small and little magazines. The Modernist Journals Project http://modjourn.org/is one example among many of the dynamic research taking place in this area.

This one-day symposium, taking inspiration from such scholarship, will offer an opportunity to focus on the publishers and publishing houses who also helped to make and produce modernism. Papers are invited from scholars and groups of scholars working on any global publishing house related to modernist writing – from Faber & Faber to Mills & Boon, from Chatto & Windus to the Gregynog Press, from Grant Richards to Tauchnitz. We hope that the day will offer an opportunity to explore some of the multifarious connections between these publishing houses and the writers, illustrators, press workers, managers and editors with whom they were associated. The day is being organised to coincide with the launch of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP, funded by SSHRC 2013-15) which we hope, through working with other teams, to expand from the Hogarth Press as case study into the wider publishing landscape of the period.

Papers might explore themes and concepts such as:

  • – Publishing and textuality
  • – Publishing history and the history of reading
  • – Publishing books and the little magazines
  • – The roles of publishers, editors, press workers
  • – Censorship and innovation
  • – Editing
  • – Digital initiatives in book and publishing history

Please submit abstracts for papers (300 words max) to Dr Nicola Wilson,n.l.wilson@reading.ac.uk no later than Friday 8th May.

Co-organised by Dr Nicola Wilson and Dr Claire Battershill, University of Reading

In collaboration with MAPP: The Modernist Archives Publishing Project

www.modernistarchives.com

https://publishinghistory.wordpress.com/
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Studentships

Post-doctoral fellowships

Please see below for links to adverts for two post-doctoral fellowships being offered in the Dept of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster:

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in English Literature Post-1800: https://vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/hrvacancies/default.aspx?id=50034091

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Visual Culture Studies: https://vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/hrvacancies/default.aspx?id=50041345

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CFPs

OBSOLESCENCE and RENOVATION – 20th Century Housing in the New Millennium

14-15 December, 2015
University of Seville, Spain

Details: http://architecturemps.com/seville/

Today, approximately 80% of people live in buildings that are thirty years old or more. Around 50% of people live in houses that are fifty years old and more. The possible obsolescence of this housing stock is a critical issue – both across the continent of Europe and beyond.  The reasons for this obsolescence are various: changing lifestyles; changed demographics; an aging population; poor quality of construction; the emergence of new communities etc.

Amongst the questions asked at this conference is how is the modernist legacy of housing in Europe to be conserved, adapted and reused in the future? This is a key practical, technical, cultural and heritage issue across the continent.

Key Dates:

01 September 2015: Abstract Submissions

14-15 December 2015. Conference

01 April 2016: Publication of Full papers begins

Details: http://architecturemps.com/seville/

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CFPs Postgraduate

CFP Deadline Reminder – ‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

Please find attached a Call for Papers for the ninth annual postgraduate workshop run by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham.

‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel

Monday 22nd June 2015

University of Nottingham

Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)

To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. Travel can create different spatial, bodily, and object identities, as (un)familiar places and landscapes are negotiated, and borders and boundaries are crossed and re-crossed. It can have multiple implications and legacies and can be represented and documented in diverse, sometimes surprising, ways.

This workshop aims to emphasise and explore the richness of travel in its multivalent forms, from antiquity to modernity and beyond. We will consider travel in relation to social, political, cultural, and environmental forces, as we ask how it is interpreted across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Papers are invited on – but are by no means limited to – the following themes:

  • The narration and representation of travel
  • Journeying in/through the landscape
  • Spatial identity and place
  • Travel and temporality
  • Modes and methods of transport
  • Home, abroad, belonging, displacement
  • Departures and arrivals
  • Origins, destinations, and the in-between
  • Crossing borders and boundaries
  • The implications and legacies of travel

This is a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop that seeks to offer postgraduate students an opportunity to present related work at any stage of their research within a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment. It is the ninth annual postgraduate workshop to be run by the Landscape, Space, Place Research Group and hosted by the Schools of English and Geography at the University of Nottingham.

We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute papers from all current postgraduate students. Please send, along with a short biography, to lsp.pgworkshop@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 8th May 2015.

Organising Committee:  Alexander Harby, Alice Insley, Hollie Johnson, Mark Lambert, Xiaofan Xu & Emma Zimmerman

Further details can be found in the attached CFP.

Visit the LSPRG website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/lsprg/index.aspx

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Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’ Conference, 28-30 May 2015, Chicago, Registration reminder

Registration is still open for the Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’ conference in Chicago!

An international conference organized by the Katherine Mansfield Society, to be held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA

28-30 May 2015

Keynote Address: Professor Sydney Janet Kaplan, University of Washington

All details are on the Katherine Mansfield Society website:

http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/chicago-conference-2015/

Speakers include:

Christine Darrohn

Galya Diment

Jay Dickson

Janka Kascakova

Gerri Kimber

Patricia Moran

Janet Wilson

Registration includes coffee/tea in the mornings and lunch both days (Friday and Saturday).  There is a reduced rate for graduate students.

There will also be an optional conference dinner on Friday evening, which costs $70 and will include an appetizer, entree, desert, a glass of wine, and coffee at Bistro Zinc, a French restaurant near the Newberry Library.  You may opt for your choice of main dish when you pay–just below the Registration information.  Guests are of course welcome to the dinner; just be sure to make a separate payment for each person in attendance–this will allow us to get a more accurate head count.

Registration will remain open through to Monday 4 May 2015, but please register as soon as you are able.

A tentative conference programme is also now available on the website.

Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions.  kmsintheus@gmail.com

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CFPs

CfP: Texts in times of conflict (8 September 2015)

Reflecting on the seismic cultural and political shifts of his own time, Francis Bacon pinpointed ‘printing, gunpowder, and the compass’ as the technological drivers which had ‘changed the appearance and state of the whole world’. Bacon’s identification of communicative (print), violent (gunpowder) and technological (compass) forms of cultural expression and exchange as world-shaping continues to resonate, shaping the production and interpretation of texts.

We welcome papers of between 15 and 20 minutes’ length on topics including but not limited to:

  • Textual and visual representations, interpretations of and responses to conflict
  • Adaptations which respond to past and/or present conflicts (including conflicts within academic disciplines)
  • Conflictual relationships between artistic, critical and intellectual movements
  • Processes and agents shaping the design, production, dissemination and consumption of texts
  • Theoretical and bibliographical methodologies
  • Intellectual conflicts surrounding the emergence of new media and technologies
  • Competing or contradictory representations of conflict through identical or different expressive forms
  • State involvement in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts in times of conflict
  • The evolution of media forms and their impact on conflict-based studies

Proposals of up to 250 words should be submitted online at https://gradcats.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ by Friday 5 June. Alternatively, email them to gradcats@outlook.com.

Our keynote speakers are Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Prof. Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University).

Bursaries are available. See https://gradcats.wordpress.com/ for details.

This conference is jointly hosted by De Montfort’s Centre for Textual Studies and Centre for Adaptations.

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Studentships

AHRC collaborative doctoral award

The Department of English at King’s College London, in collaboration with Tate, is pleased to offer one AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership award, starting in September 2015 for a period of up to three years.

The award will enable the student to pursue doctoral research in visual/literary studies while gaining first-hand experience of work within a museum setting. The successful applicant will be enrolled at, and receive their degree from King’s College London. Supervisors are: Professor Mark W. Turner (Department of English, King’s College London) and Dr Clare Barlow (Tate Britain).

The ‘Beyond Bloomsbury: Queer/Race/Art’ doctoral project will focus on  the intersections between ethnicity and queer sexualities in British art, c. 1900-1940. The student will be working in tandem with an exhibition at Tate currently being planned for 2017.

For more details on the award and application process, see:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/index.php?action=view&id=618

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29 April: London-based Children’s Literature event

The next event for the Children and the City series by ‘Children’s Literature/Children’s Lives’ and ‘The City Centre’ at Queen Mary, University of London, will be on Wednesday next week, with Jenny Bavidge and Aneesh Barai on London-based children’s literature.

Wednesday 29th April, 4.30pm-6.30pm
Queen Mary, University of London, Arts One, 1.36

Jenny Bavidge, “‘A Peep into London’: Children’s Guidebooks to London from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day”

This paper will discuss some early examples of guides to London produced for a juvenile audience in the form of chapbooks and, later, picture books. How are children introduced to the city and how are its wonder and horrors narrated by early and contemporary guidebooks?

Aneesh Barai, “Urban Children’s Literature in the Age of Modernism: Practical Catsand Billy and Beryl”

This paper will compare 1930s representations of London in the popular Billy and Beryl series of children’s books with T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. As even now people tend to believe that children are better suited to “natural”, open spaces rather than urban lives, how did writers in this time of mass urbanisation come to think of children’s space in the city?

This event will be of interest to those working on children’s literature, urban literature, Victorian, modernist or contemporary constructions of childhood and ideas of childhood space.
As always, wine and snacks will be served at the event, and we will move to a local bar after the event.

Hope to see you there!

With best regards,

Aneesh and Kiera

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Registration now open: The Languages of Literature: Attridge at 70

The Languages of Literature, a three-day conference hosted by the Department of English and Related Literature at York, will celebrate the contribution of Professor Derek Attridge to literary criticism.

Derek Attridge

The conference will take place between 22 and 24 May 2015 in the Berrick Saul Building at the University of York.  Speakers will give lectures and papers on topics relating to Professor Attridge and his work.  In addition, poets and novelists including Tom McCarthy, Paul Muldoon, Emma Donoghue, Don Paterson, Zoë Wicomb and John Wilkinson will be attending the celebration and reading from their work.

Derek Attridge is one of the foremost critics and theorists of literature working today. He came to York from Rutgers University in the USA in 1998 as Leverhulme Research Professor, and in 2003 became Professor of English. His interests centre on the language of literature, but radiate in many different directions. Derek is the author or editor of twenty-one books on literary theory, poetic form, South African literature, and the writings of James Joyce. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camargo Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

In 2015 Derek will publish The Work of Literature (OUP) and The Craft of Poetry (Routledge, with Henry Staten).

To register for the conference, please go to the registration page and pay via Paypal or card. Further details not covered on this site can be obtained by emailing the organisers at attridge70@gmail.com.

Website: https://attridge70.wordpress.com

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“For a Materialist Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, May 8-9

“For a Materialist Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, May 8-9:  Final Programme and Exended Registration

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/foramaterialistpsychoanalyis