Category: CFPs

Joyce Without Borders, North American James Joyce Symposium, Mexico City, 12–16 June 2019   Website: www.joycewithoutborders.com   The 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium will be jointly hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). This will be the first annual gathering of Joyceans in the global south, …

Forming the Future, 2–3 Sept 2019, University of Plymouth Confirmed speakers: Amy J. Elias (Tennessee, Knoxville); Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque); Sandra Kemp (Lancaster/Imperial) Thinking about the future often focuses on its ‘content’: what might happen. Similarly, thinking about ‘future studies’ often concentrates on its goals, concepts and methods. But what about the …

Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology A major International Conference, 14–15 June 2019 Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film   Confirmed keynote speakers Prof. Martin Puchner, Harvard University Prof. Karen Kilcup, The University of North Carolina …

Keynote Speakers Kari Weil, Wesleyan University (US) Derek Ryan, University of Kent (UK) ​‘I still do not think La Somnambule the perfect title – Night Beast would be better except for that debased meaning now put on that nice word beast.’ – Djuna Barnes to Emily Holmes Coleman ​‘Once again we are …

Whether it’s Virginia Woolf crafting a playful biography of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s dog in Flush, Clarice Lispector pondering the metaphysics of chickens in ‘The Egg and the Chicken’, or Marianne Moore with her elegant swans and pigeons, modernism is quite the menagerie of poetic animals. As part of an interdisciplinary conference on Beastly …

‘How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?’ ― Richard Bruce Nugent After the resounding success of the Queer Modernism(s) conferences in 2017 and 2018, we are excited to announce the CfP for the third Queer Modernism(s) conference, Queer Networks, set to be held on April 25th and 26th …

THE CRITICAL GROUND The 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 22–26 July 2019 | Trinity College Dublin  2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of IASIL (or IASAIL, the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, as it existed in its first incarnation). …

CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals …

Palimpsests: The V International Flann O’Brien Conference University College Dublin (16–19 July 2019) Keynotes Louis de Paor (NUI Galway) Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield) Maebh Long (University of Waikato) Erika Mihálycsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj) Guest Writers Anne Enright (The Gathering, The Green Road) Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto) Lisa McInerney (The …