Twentieth-century pageants were vibrant and colourful representations of popular culture. Hundreds of pageants – many involving thousands of participants – took place all over Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. The rich combination of story, history, and legend attracted incredible national attention, but today, the pageant genre remains …
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CfP: Beckett & Italy, Reading, 7-8 Nov. 2019; ‘Sapienza’ Roma, May 2020
We are delighted to announce a two-conference series on the topic: BECKETT & ITALY “old chestnuts”, new occasions University of Reading (7-8 November 2019) “Sapienza” Università di Roma (May 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS (READING CONFERENCE) Can’t conceive by what stretch of ingenuity my work could be placed under the sign of …
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CfP: 100 Years of Night and Day, 26 October 2019, London
A one-day symposium at University of Westminster on 26 October 2019. One hundred years after its publication, the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster are hosting a one-day symposium to celebrate and interrogate Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day. In her diary in 1920, Virginia Woolf wrote: ‘I …
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CfP: The Body and the Built Environment, 25 June, Durham
The period between 1750 and 1918 is widely acknowledged to have been one of dramatic societal and cultural change, not least in terms of people’s experience of the spaces in which they lived. The unparalleled urbanisation that took place over the course of the long nineteenth century necessitated new ways of …
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CfP: London Conference in Critical Thought, 5–6 July, London
#LCCT2019 Call for Papers – *Deadline Extended* London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) Friday & Saturday, 5–6 July 2019 Goldsmiths, University of London *Deadline Extended* Now Closing: Sunday 31 March 2019 The deadline for the Call for Papers for the 8th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), hosted and supported by …
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CfP: Canons and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies, Southampton, 15 June
Scholarship on the contemporary has a unique relationship to questions of canonicity and value. What values shape the choices made in research and teaching on the contemporary? What canons does this work produce? And how do these values and canons relate to those produced in education and the publishing and cultural …
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CfP Women in Publishing symposium, Reading, 14 June 2019
Women in Publishing, a one-day symposium at the University of Reading, Friday 14 June 2019 “All publishing was run by many badly-paid women and a few much better-paid men” (Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor’s Life, 2002) Feminist book history and print culture is thriving. Recent books and projects exploring feminist publishers, …
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CfP. Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants
Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants: Performance and Study 17 June 2019, Hosted by the School of English, University of St Andrews, Scotland This conference seeks to foster scholarly dialogue on the methodologies of twentieth-century pageant research as well as generate discussion on the aesthetic, historical, and political significance of pageants. The conference will consider pageants’ …
CFP: Politics of Fear, Politics of Hope: Postcritique and Joseph Conrad
We are seeking essay proposals for an edited volume focusing on Conrad’s politics in relation to ideas of fear and/or hope. The postcritical turn encourages us to consider what literature does in the world—the social, emotional, and political effects of reading. The last two MLA panels organized by the Joseph Conrad …
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