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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW

The Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia was established in 2010 as a Research Centre within the School of the Arts and Media. Directed by Professor Julian Murphet, it consolidates existing research strengths in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and fosters relationships with the Faculty of the Built Environment and the College of Fine Arts. The Centre provides national leadership in Modernism Studies, and as a Sister Centre to the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, is instrumental in fostering an international research nexus with specializations in all areas of Modernism Studies.

The Faculty is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia in     Film and/or Theatre Studies, with a particular focus on modernism. The successful candidate will join a vibrant research culture, participate in Centre activities and pursue an independent research project.

The position is full-time and will be offered on the basis of a fixed-term employment contract for two years.

Applicants should read the position description and systematically address the selection criteria in their application.

An applicant may be required to undergo a pre-employment check prior to appointment to the position.

Application close:
21 July 2014
http://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/postdoctoral-research-fellow-2
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Announcement for Sussex Quadrophenia symposium

A reminder that registration is open for our conference:

Here by the Sea and Sand: A symposium on the album and film Quadrophenia

Brighton and the University of Sussex, 10-11th July 2014

Thursday 10th  July:  Franc Roddam (director of Quadrophenia) will discuss Quadrophenia at a showing at the Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton.

Friday 11th July:  Conference at University of Sussex including talks by James Wood (Harvard University, the New Yorker) and Paolo Hewitt.

Register in advance and the film showing is included in the conference price:http://herebytheseaandsand.wordpress.com/

Read about us in Rolling Stone!: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/quadrophenia-hits-the-quad-20140422

Our line-up of participants include:

Franc Roddam’s numerous films include Quadrophenia, K2, Aria, Lords of Discipline and War Party. He created the phenomenally successful Masterchef . He has won awards for his tv drama Dummy, and his BBC documentaries, Mini and The Family. He will be answering questions after the showing of the film at the Duke of York’s on Thursday the 10th of July.

James Wood is one of our foremost literary critics. His reviews and essays have appeared frequently in the The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He judged the Booker Prize in 1994, and is a professor of the practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He has published four books of essays and a novel. His collection, The Fun Stuff and other essays includes a killer homage to Keith Moon.

Paolo Hewitt has written, co-written, and edited numerous books on music, style, and Mod culture including The Soul Stylists: Six Decades of Modernism, Small Faces: The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story, My Favourite Shirt: A History of Ben Sherman Style, and The Sharper Image: A Mod Anthology.

Simon Wells has written on film and music for numerous magazines and newspapers including The Guardian; The Times and The Independent. His numerous  books on film and music include Your Face Here- British Cult Movies Since the 1960 , The Beatles: 365 Days and Butterfly On A Wheel, the story of the infamous trial of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1967. His book on Quadrophenia is published with Countdown in June.

Alan Fletcher channelled his obsession with 60s mods into a screenplay based on his own life which found its way to Pete Townshend’s door and led to his involvement with the film, and to his writing Quadrophenia-the novel. The script formed the basis of Brummell’s Last Riff, the first novel in his Mod Crop Trilogy. He has contributed to symposiums on youth culture at Derby, Nottingham and Keele.

Dr. Pamela Thurschwell
Senior Lecturer
Co-director, Centre for Modernist Studies
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/modernist/
School of English
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9QN
UK

Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia
10-11 July 2014, University of Sussex
http://herebytheseaandsand.wordpress.com/

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David Jones: Christian Modernist?” FINAL DEADLINE 15 JUNE

“DAVID JONES: CHRISTIAN MODERNIST?”
A conference in Regent’s Park College and St Anne’s College, Oxford
10–13 September 2014

David Jones’s (1895-1974) rich career as visual artist, poet and critic yokes together two terms, ‘Christian’ and ‘modernist’, which are sometimes considered incompatible. This conference examines the paradoxes of a Catholic artist committed to ‘making it new’ through formal experiment and a large-scale theory of sign, sacrament and civilization. Jones’s case demands an interdisciplinary approach drawing on theology, philosophy and history, as well as a wider rethinking of the critical vocabulary of Modernist Studies. We specially welcome a broad range of contributions from fields beyond Jones Studies, to widen the conversation about his work.

Full CFP and registration: http://modernismchristianity.org/david-jones-conference/
(Please note: Only those registering for college accommodation are guaranteed a place at the conference at this stage. If you need to register without accommodation please contact erik.tonning@if.uib.no in advance.)

The final deadline for registration is 15 June, but early registration is strongly encouraged. Please contact the organisers as soon as possible if you intend to register.

Papers are 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion.

Keynote speakers:
Thomas Dilworth (University of Windsor)
Paul Fiddes (University of Oxford)
Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham)
Micheal O’Siadhail (Poet, critic and linguist)
Anne Price-Owen (University of Wales)

Organised by the Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford and the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ project, University of Bergen, Norway.
Organisers: Paul Fiddes, Anna Johnson and Erik Tonning.
Contact: erik.tonning@if.uib.no

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Modernist Magazines Research Seminar – June 12th, Senate House

We warmly welcome you to a talk by Gerri Kimber next Thursday in Senate House, Room 224.  Gerri will be talking about Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm – an abstract of the paper that will be presented and Gerri’s biosketch are included below.  Please join us for this engaging presentation, as well as a glass of wine and lively discussion.  There is no need to book and the seminar is free to attend.
Rhythm magazine is available to view as part of the Modernist Journals Project here:http://library.brown.edu/cds/mjp/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=1159905483482363
If participants would like to do some background reading before the evening, they are invited to look at this issue which features an article about Stanislaw Wyspianski by Floryan Sobieniowski: http://library.brown.edu/cds/mjp/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=1159897880678184
Best wishes,
Aimee, Chris and Natasha
Modernist Magazines Research Seminar
http://modmags.wordpress.com/
12 June 2014, Dr Gerri Kimber (Northampton) ‘”The artists sail in stately golden ships over this familiar and adventurous ocean”: Katherine Mansfield, Rhythmand Foreignness’, 6pm to 8pm
Abstract:
Rhythm, established in the summer of 1911, and which ran for 14 issues until its demise in March 1913, was an avant-garde publication with a bias towards Symbolism, the arts and Post-Impres­sionism, the music of Debussy and Mahler and the philosophy of Bergson. The list of contributors, mostly unknown at the time beyond the confines of the Left Bank in Paris, reads impressively today and included Derain, Picasso, Tristan Derème and Francis Carco.
Co-editors John Middleton Murry and his future wife Katherine Mansfield were well read in foreign literature; Murry had spent time in Paris and made many acquaintances within its artistic community and Mansfield had spent almost a year in Bavaria in 1909, where she had befriended a group of Polish writers. Thus there developed an émigré aspect to the contributors of both journals; Mansfield and Carco were both born and brought up in the south Pacific, and Eastern Europe was also strongly represented, with contributions by Floryan Sobienowski, with whom Mansfield had had a liaison in Bavaria in 1909, and who became the magazine’s ‘Polish correspondent’. In addition Mansfield’s passion for the oriental brought foreign contributors such as Yone Noguchi into the Rhythm stable.
This paper will highlight the extent of the émigré creative input into Rhythm and also consider Mansfield’s own contributions, which frequently took émigré subjects as their theme. This influence would manifest itself throughout the pages of Rhythm and its short-lived reincarnation as the Blue Review. As a result, both little magazines could be described as having a transnational identity, with a plethora of international correspondents publicising the new movement of the avant-garde.
[All copies of Rhythm and the Blue Review are now digitised and can be viewed here:http://library.brown.edu/cds/mjp/journals.html ]
Gerri Kimber Biosketch:
Dr Gerri Kimber is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-15). She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (forthcoming, 2015), Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008). She is also co-editor of the following volumes: Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences(forthcoming, 2015), Katherine Mansfield and World War One (forthcoming, 2014), Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial (2013); Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011);Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays (2011); Framed! Essays in French Studies (2007). As well as having published numerous articles, she has contributed chapters in the following books: The Great Adventure Ends: New Zealand and France on the Western Front (2013); Bloomsbury: Inspirations and Influences (2013); Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011); Translation and Censorship: Arts of Interference (2008);Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction (2007). Gerri is Chair of the International Katherine Mansfield Society and has co-organised numerous international Mansfield conferences and events. In 2014, Gerri was one of three nominees for the title UK New Zealander of the Year, for her services to New Zealand culture.​
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Registration open for ‘Forming Ruins: an interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop’

The Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the eighth annual postgraduate workshop!

 

‘Forming Ruins: an interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop’

 

Wednesday 2nd July 2014

 

Funded by the AHRC Landscape & Environment Programme and the School of English.

 

This one-day interdisciplinary event explores the different forms ruins can take, and the way these formations are realised and written as ruins are explored as both material ‘things’ and intangible process. It is concerned with when, where, by and for whom, ruins are formed and how this formation relates to social, political and cultural forces. It aims to use the ambiguity of ruins to enrich the enquiry into their meaning, asking how ruins can be read productively and what might be the significance and implications of the recent academic interest surrounding them.

 

Panels for the day will cover the following themes:

 

  • Crisis and Contestation
  • Intervention and Potentiality
  • Evolving Materialities and Practices
  • Temporality and Reimaginings

 

Papers will be followed by a keynote speech from Amy Concannon, assistant curator of the recent Ruin Lust Exhibition at the Tate Britain.

 

Further details can be found in the attached programme and poster. 

 

All are welcome to attend this free event, although places are limited. If you wish to attend, please email by Wednesday 18th June: forming.ruins@nottingham.ac.uk

 

We look forward to seeing you in July!

 

Organising Committee: Alice Insley, Philip Jones, Xiaofan Xu, Emma Zimmerman

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May Sinclair Symposium – programme and registration

The programme for the upcoming May Sinclair Symposium is now online!
Follow the links below for the programme and registration form. This event is free to attend, but we ask that you register your attendance by the 27th of June.
We hope to see you in Sheffield for what promises to be a very exciting symposium!
http://maysinclairsociety.com/2014/06/03/the-may-sinclair-symposium-programme-and-registration-form/
best,
Becky Bowler and Claire Drewery
maysinclairsociety@sheffield.ac.uk
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AHRC Research Network: Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities (1880-1939)

AHRC Research Network: Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities (1880-1939)

Please see the programme below for the final network workshop on the topic “Women, Clothes, and the New Workforce” that will take place on Monday, 14 July 2014 at the University of Exeter. Highlights include Becky Munford’s paper on Virginia Woolf and trousers and Rhonda Garelick’s lecture on Coco Chanel!

The event is free of charge but requires registration. Please book your place here: http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=16&prodid=848.

All welcome!

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INFORMATION OVERLOAD – Call for Papers / Workshop Leaders

INFORMATION OVERLOAD – Call for Papers / Workshop Leaders
Conference Date: 4th-5th September 2014, University of Edinburgh
Deadline for Proposals: Friday 16 June 2014
www.infoload.co.uk | @infoload2014 | cfp@infoload.co.uk

In recent years, information overload has become a popular term to describe the psychological, emotional and physical consequences of living in a culture defined by the increasing density of data and reach of communication technologies. We invite contributors for a two-day conference to explore the reverberations of this bloom of data in cultural, artistic and academic practice. Aiming to trace an aesthetics of information overload, this event seeks to analyse how different environments and their consequent effects, both real and projected, public and personal, have engendered artistic forms. We encourage participants to experiment with a range of presentational formats, testing new ways of sharing information as well as discussing its conceptual ramifications. The conference aims to prompt conversations between new and perhaps unexpected perspectives on contemporary art, literature, media and culture, opening discussion to a wide range of disciplines, approaches and theoretical frameworks. How have authors and artists interrogated information overload, diagnosed its symptoms and hypothesised its cure? Are there benefits to conceptual overload? What aesthetic forms have been developed to represent or counteract the effects of overload?

Please see the CfP at infoload.co.uk/cfp for full details.

CONTACT: cfp@infoload.co.uk
ORGANISERS: Dorothy Butchard, Andrew Campbell, Rob Lederer

INFORMATION OVERLOAD is a project to trace the aesthetics of information overload in cultural, artistic & academic practice. The conference in Edinburgh on 4th-5th September 2014 is funded by AHRC Collaborative Skills award and Edinburgh University’s Researcher-Led Initiative fund.

Follow us @infoload2014 or check infoload.co.uk for conference updates, writing on the theme of information overload, and more details.

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Re-mapping Modernism(s): Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches – Bristol

Re-mapping Modernism(s): Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches

 

11:30 am, Friday May 30th

 

 Room B54,

15, Woodland Road

 

The postgraduate members of the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster will be holding a series of short talks, followed by a round-table, on the disciplinary and cultural challenges in defining “modernism”. Papers will be offered from literature, music, and the visual arts and will include the following topics:

 

–          The Musicological Discourse on Modernism

–          Leopoldo María Panero and Spanish Modernity

–          Modernism as Seen Through Greek Sculpture

–          Cinematic Modernism and Holocaust Representations

–          Transnational Modernism/Transnational Capitalism

 

The round-table, chaired by Dr Angela Piccini, will look to involve audience members as well as speakers in a lively inter-disciplinary discussion.

 

All are welcome. A buffet lunch will be provided.

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

Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’

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

 

In his eagerness to establish Katherine Mansfield’s place among her peers, John Middleton Murry sometimes published work that she herself would have rejected. Likewise, the extent of his culling of her letters and notebooks glossed over Mansfield’s complex personality and relationships, elements of her life that provide a context for better understanding her fiction.  This ‘Mansfield Myth’ made her appear out of touch with the social and cultural upheaval of her time.

Having generally been relegated to the fringe of literary modernism during her lifetime, especially among the influential ‘Blooms Berries’, as Mansfield referred to them in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell on 15 August 1917, she nevertheless worked her way into enviable positions of prestige in some key literary magazines, and had become well known as a writer by the end of her life. It is as a member of the social fringe, though, that Mansfield becomes the most intriguing. As Sydney Janet Kaplan demonstrates in her seminal book, Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction, Mansfield brings a different perspective –– and, like Virginia Woolf, provides a corrective – to the dominant, male-centered version of modernism.  Likewise, as a colonial, Mansfield remained free of the traditions that haunted most of the Bloomsbury group, including their ‘anxiety of influence’.  In this, Mansfield demonstrated herself as more ‘modern’ than some of her contemporaries; having less ‘tradition’ to overcome, she was able to adopt a style that was unselfconscious of influence. The focus of this conference will therefore allow us to place her more firmly within the literary context of her time.

 

Suggested topics for papers might include:

  • Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’, focusing on her personal and/or professional relationships with particular members of the Bloomsbury group.
  • Mansfield on the Fringe, exploring her relationship with other fringe-members of the Bloomsbury group such as D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, or perhaps the impact her relegation to the fringe had on her personal and/or professional life.
  • Mansfield and Style, which could address some of the literary influences of some of the Bloomsbury group on Mansfield or her influence on them.
  • Mansfield and Art, focusing on the shared influences the post-impressionists had on both Mansfield and the members of the Bloomsbury group, as well as other cross-fertilizations.
  • Mansfield ‘in’ Bloomsbury, exploring how Mansfield has been portrayed in the fiction and letters of the various members.
  • Bloomsbury ‘in’ Mansfield, turning the tables to focus on how members of Bloomsbury are portrayed in Mansfield’s fiction and letters.
  • Mansfield, herself.  We would entertain proposals that focus more specifically on Mansfield; however, priority will be given to those proposals that tie more directly to the conference theme.

What better venue to explore Mansfield’s interrelationships with the members of Bloomsbury than the beautiful Newberry Library in Chicago, the world’s second largest holder of Mansfield’s papers.  As part of the conference, Huntington University will sponsor an exhibit of some of the library’s Mansfield holdings.  Those interested in staying over on Sunday can arrange to visit the Shedd Aquarium, the Art Institute of Chicago, or the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.

 

Please submit abstracts of 250 words plus a bio-sketch of 50 words to the conference organizers, Todd Martin, Erika Baldt, and Alex Moffett, to:

kmsintheus@gmail.com

Complete panel proposals of three speakers plus a chair, are welcome.

Deadline for abstracts:  30 October 2014