Category: CFPs

Mary Butts: Feminist Reconstructions In the past couple of decades, much has been done to recover British modernist author Mary Butts (1890-1937).  Butts’s Collected Essays and unpublished novel Unborn Gods, forthcoming from McPherson & Co, attest to the ongoing nature of this project.  There is still much more to do, and much to explore …

MAPPING SPACE MAPPING TIME  MAPPING TEXTS An International  Conference 16th and 17th July, 2020. The Knowledge Centre, The British Library, London.   This two-day interdisciplinary conference is hosted by the AHRC Funded Chronotopic Cartographies project (Lancaster University) in partnership with The British Library and comes out of the primary research of …

Telepoetics Dana Research Centre, Science Museum, London, 27 May 2020 Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2020 www.crossedlines.co.uk From the ‘waves of sound, transmitted o’er the line’ in Jones Very’s ‘The Telephone’ (1877) to the ‘thin voice speak[ing] / from a drowning world’ in Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Six Rings’ (2018), telephones have been …

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of “modernism’s lost masterpiece,” Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem. Published by Hogarth Press in the spring of 1920, and typeset by Virginia Woolf herself, this ground-breaking long poem maps the range of continental avant-garde aesthetics of the 1910s even as it both engages and anticipates the …

The next biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) will be held at the University of Leuven from 17 to 19 September 2020 on the theme of CRISIS. Keynote speakers include Boris Groys, Ken Hirschkop, and Christine Poggi. A call for roundtable proposals (deadline 1 Jan.) …

XI INTERNATIONAL ALDINGTON SOCIETY  and VII INTERNATIONAL IMAGISM  CONFERENCE 20-22 June 2020, Chavignol/Sury-En-Vaux, France   The XI International Aldington Society and VII International Imagism Conference will be held in Chavignol, France, near Sancerre and Sury-En-Vaux, the village where Aldington spent the last few years of his life. The International Richard Aldington Society …

New deadline: 23 January 2020   Katherine Mansfield: Germany and Beyond Bad Wörishofen, Germany 21-22 March 2020 An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society Hosted by the Bad Wörishofen Mayorality and Tourist and Spa Bureau KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Gerri Kimber Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France CALL FOR ABSTRACTS It is  well known …