Discontent with the prevailing culture, modernist artists sought to break the world apart in order to remake it, calling into question long-held assumptions about ethics and consciousness, identity, religion, responsibility and accountability. Further, the scientific discoveries and technological innovations that took place during this period resulted in a culture that was …
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Essay prize: The Emerging Beardsley Scholar Prize (deadline 31 Dec 2020)
To mark the foundation of the Aubrey Beardsley Society, a prize for the best short essay on any aspect of Beardsley’s work, life, and reception will be awarded to an outstanding emerging scholar. The Society aims to encourage new work that is intellectually adventurous and stylistically accomplished, and seeks submissions that …
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Publicising your call for papers and/or event via BAMS
A quick reminder on the different ways you can communicate with the BAMS community to promote your call for papers and/or event. 1: Use the JISCMail list If you join the BAMS jiscmail list you can post directly to it. 2: Tweet @ us If you mention us @modernistudies in a twitter post …
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CfP: Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction (deadline 31 Jan 2020)
Prospective Modernism/modernity Print+ cluster Edited by Caroline Hovanec and Rachel Murray We are living through the sixth mass extinction – a period of geological history in which species are dying out at up to 1000 times the normal rate. A 2019 UN report warned that as many as one million plant and animal species …
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CfP: Urban Cultures, Digital Cities, June 2020 (first deadline 1 Dec 2019)
This unique initiative for 2020 brings City University of London and the University of Kent into collaboration with Routledge and Intellect Books on two conferences and associated publications. THEMES: Heritage, Preservation, Digital histories, Digital design, Art and Architectural History. Social history, Cultural industries, Urban design, Community Heritage, Architectural History. The University …
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CfP: Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age, Gdansk, 24-26 Feb 2020 (deadline 20 Nov 2019)
Call for papers Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age University of Gdańsk (Poland), 24–26 February 2020 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jeff Hearn and Dr Nena Močnik Organizers: Marta Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy We invite scholars, students, practitioners and activists from all fields to take part in the inaugural …
BAMS ESSAY PRIZE 2019
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31 JANUARY 2020 The British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2019 The British Association for Modernist Studies invites submissions for its annual essay prize for early career scholars. The winning essay will be published in Modernist Cultures, and the winner will also receive £250 of books. …
BAMS Essay Prize 2018
The British Association for Modernist Studies invites submissions for its annual essay prize for early career scholars. The winning essay will be published in Modernist Cultures, and the winner will also receive £250 of books. The BAMS Essay Prize is open to any member of the British Association for Modernist Studies …
CFP, James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue: Joyce and the Non-Human
James Joyce Quarterly Special Issue Call for Papers: Joyce and the Non-Human The idea for this issue began with a panel for the Toronto Joyce Symposium on “Our Funnaminal World,” which later turned into the theme for this year’s Zurich James Joyce Workshop (“Joycean Animals”). The topic came about as a …
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CFP – Edited Volume: The Modern Short Story and the Magazines: 1880–1950
CFP – Edited Volume: The Modern Short Story and the Magazines: 1880-1950 – eds Elke D’hoker and Chris Mourant This essay collection aims to bring together and represent the growing body of research into the close ties between the modern short story and magazine culture in the period 1880-1950 in Britain …
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