Category: CFPs

You & Me & Ut Pictura Poesis Make Three: Illustrated Poetry after 1900 (NeMLA 2016, Hartford)

This panel invites examination of illustrated poetry, published after 1900, containing text by one person and images by another. Papers may treat broadsides, poetry chapbooks, children’s picture books, anthologies, and other illustrated poetic productions. Subjects for investigation can include contemporaneous collaborations; new illustrations of extant poems; or a retroactive application of older art to newer poetry. The focus of the session will be the collisions and collusions that occur between poem and illustration, including how the pictorial elements interpret, critique, subvert, amplify, or otherwise engage the text.

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15981

XVIIth Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Conference
Oak Park, Illinois /  Dominican University
July 17-22,2016 

AT HOME IN HEMINGWAY’S WORLD

 The Hemingway family’s homes in Oak Park accommodated a large, complex, intellectually curious, temperamentally diverse, ambitious, bold, and sometimes fragile family living in a rapidly changing village belonging to a deeply uncertain world. Their historical and cultural significance emerge not just from the fact that Ernest Hemingway spent his boyhood here, but also from relationships which were defined and negotiated within and beyond the walls of these homes, among the family members, between that family and the world, and between past and present.

Both insular and cosmopolitan, Oak Park nurtured Ernest’s confidence, taught him the value of domesticity, and inspired his wanderlust. He left home after high school, returning after his wounding in Italy. At home but not at home, Hemingway wrote and drank in his third floor bedroom, walked around the village with his cane, and read about the war on the front porch. By the summer of 1919 his parents had kicked him out. Hemingway, of course, went on to become among the most famous American citizens of the world, making homes or spending extended periods in North America, Europe, Africa, even China—a veritable prototype for citizens of the global twenty-first century. After his father’s funeral in 1928, Hemingway never returned to Oak Park. He was at home everywhere and nowhere in the world until that July 1961 day he left it for good.

If we become global citizens, crossing borders peacefully or through war, how do we remain wholly connected to family, friends, neighbors, to our sense of ourselves? How do places—geographical, imaginative, spiritual—become simultaneously “mysterious and homelike”? Where are we truly at home? And how do we attend to home’s mysteries? What does it mean for readers to be at home with Hemingway and his world? Furthermore, how can Hemingway help us better understand what it means to be at home in the world in 2016?

Presentations and panels on all aspects of Hemingway Studies are welcome. The above description and following list are suggestive rather than definitive, though they do represent the broad scope of the post-conference essay collection:

• Maternal and Paternal Legacies—Husbands and Wives—Sibling Tales I: Fictions—Sibling Tales II: Memoirs, Recollections, Correspondence—Incest in Hemingway—Grace’s Paintings, Clarence’s Photographs, and Ernest’s Visual Imagination—Origins and Inheritances, Literary and Otherwise—Births and Birthings
• Domestic Spaces—Home after War—Homes away from Home—Nostalgia—Models of Itinerancy—Road Trips, Train Rides, and Pilgrimages—From Congregationalist to Catholic—Growing up with Modernity
• The Childhood Scrapbooks—Hemingway and the Invention of Adolescence—”The Woppian Way” and Other Juvenalia—Being Children, Having Children—Football and other Sports—Fishing and Leisure—Boyhood and the Man
• Hemingway and the Chicago Renaissance—Midwestern Selves and Literatures—Oak Park Values and Influences—Oak Park Men: Ernest Miller Hemingway, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frank Lloyd Wright—Chicago: Next Door Neighbor
• Researching the Life: Local Resources, Tricks of the Trade, Tales from the Archives—Hemingway in the Classroom I: Teacher Perspectives—Hemingway in the Classroom II: Student Perspectives—Reading America in Hemingway: International Perspectives—Don’t Forget the Poetry & Play—Veterans’ Tales

One-page abstracts and 40-word professional bio to Alex Vernon by email (vernon@hendrix.edu(link sends e-mail)) or post (Department of English, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, Arkansas 72032 USA), by 1 October 2015http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/oak-park-2016-0

Dear fellow modernists,

The new academic year is almost upon us and it is time to look at opportunities of presenting papers on our current work.

Dear BAMS colleagues,

I’m writing with a reminder that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for Modernist Work is less than 6 weeks away, and to announce that a small number of travel bursaries will be available to assist with travel and accommodation costs for postgraduate students.

AMSN3: Modernist Work

The Third Biennial Conference of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network

Date: 29-31 March 2016

Venue: University of New South Wales, Sydney

Abstracts due: 1 October 2015

Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2015

This conference aims to explore the manifold intersections of modernist culture and the concept of “work”. Modernism emerged during a moment of rapid transformation in the conditions and meaning of labour. New jobs and professions proliferated with dizzying speed in the wake of the second industrial revolution, along with new techniques of “scientific management”. Under the influence of these and other changes, the kinds of work available to women changed markedly during the modernist period, while legal gender restrictions were abolished in a growing number of professions. At the same time, many strands of modernist culture involved a rethinking of the concept of “work” in literary and aesthetic domains, in often contradictory ways. Modernist writers and artists repeatedly interrogated the nature and function of an artistic career in an age of mass culture, and radical critiques of the notion of the art “work” itself—as organic, as self-contained, as a product of artistic skill—were launched from various sectors of the avant-garde. Numerous subsequent interventions in critical and aesthetic theory can be placed in the lineage of this initial modernist questioning of the work itself.

We are seeking papers on the relationship between modernism and work in any of its myriad configurations—formal, historical, empirical, theoretical, literal, metaphorical, textual, contextual, material and everything in between. We also welcome papers that test the boundaries of the concept of modernism itself, whether by extending its chronological scope, rethinking its traditional canon or questioning its privileged media.

Postgraduate travel bursaries

The Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia (UNSW) together with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network will offer a small number of bursaries of up to $500 each for Australian and international graduate students. Bursary applications will be invited following the acceptance of paper proposals.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Christopher Nealon (Johns Hopkins University)

Professor Morag Shiach (Queen Mary University of London)

Other keynote speakers to be advised

Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or panels of three papers examining any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals from postgraduate students are especially encouraged.

Please send 300 word abstracts and a brief biographical note to j.attridge@unsw.edu.au by Thursday 1 October 2015.

The full cfp can be viewed and downloaded here.

Registration and other information will be available through the AMSN website, at http://amsn.org.au/

All best wishes,

John Attridge

School of the Arts and Media

University of New South Wales

We all have these thoughts sometimes.’

— Stevie Smith, Some Are More Human Than Others (1958)

The work of Stevie Smith (1902-1971) has received uneven critical attention. Widely loved outside the academy, her novels and poetry resist traditional modernist narratives. In a critical context which values texts according to their complexity, her writing – with its nursery-rhyme rhythms and accompanying sketches – can seem disconcertingly “simple”.

However, Smith is enjoying a revival both within and beyond academia. Not only has Virago Press recently re-released her novels, but a critical edition of her poems is forthcoming.

Given this resurgence in popular and academic interest in her writing, we invite you to share ‘thoughts ‘on Stevie Smith’s work, for a one-day conference in Oxford.

Contributors may consider, but need not be limited to:

– Stevie Smith and her contemporaries

– Smith and life-writing

– Smith in relation to modernism/postmodernism

– Stevie Smith’s critical history

– Smith and her forebears (myth, fairytale, the Romantics, the Victorians…)

– Stevie Smith and visual art

– Smith and “simplicity”

– Smith in her historical-political context

– Stevie Smith and gender

– Artistic responses to Stevie Smith’s writing (music, drama, etc)

Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers, to be delivered as part of panels of three. Individual proposals (of 250 words), and panel proposals (of up to 700 words), for three papers that interact under a common theme, are warmly accepted. Creative responses to Smith’s work are also welcome.

The conference’s plenary speakers have been confirmed as Professor Dame Hermione Lee and Dr Will May.

Please send proposals to steviesmithconference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 11^th November 2015. The one-day conference will take place on 11^th March 2016 at Jesus College, Oxford.

For more information, please visit https://steviesmithconference.wordpress.com/. We welcome you to disseminate this CfP widely.

This conference is organised in association with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).

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Extended CFP for the first European MLA-Symposium!
Please send submissions to othereuropes2016@hhu.de. All submissions must be received by 15 September 2015, and participants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by 15 October 2015.

See: www.facebook.com/pages/MLA-International-Symposium-Düsseldorf-2016/425612110962932 or mlasymposia.commons.mla.org for more information!

CFP: Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today

Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network

Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University

Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural resistances to it, might be said to be the paradigm of the present. This has had, and continues to have, wide-ranging ramifications for Comparative Literature. Is the discipline to be subsumed under the broader economic, political and cultural spread of Globalization? Or can it offer points of resistance and critique – alternative ways of understanding the spread of culture and language in the twenty-first century? Comparative Literature could be said to offer an historicizing view of cultural exchanges, movements and clashes which are not primarily economic; but it may also be understood to have contributed to, or be complicit in, the spread of economically-motivated globalization. Perhaps we might think in terms of ‘globalizations’ and ‘comparative literatures’, and view their multiple and multiplying processes, intentions and effects, as still very much in progress and to be accounted for. These issues have been raised in recent scholarship, for instance in Haun Saussy’s edited collection Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006), and this seminar seeks to further develop and widen the scope of the debate.

Contributions are welcome on any aspect of literature and related disciplines, including drama, visual arts and cinema. Topics for papers might include but are not limited to:

Globalization

‘European Literature’

Migration and border crossing

World Literature or Comparative Literature

Colonial/Postcolonial Literature

Literature and the Other

Translating texts, translating cultures

Post-national and transnational literature

Responses to recent critical work in the field, such as Saussy’s collection noted above

The reception of a particular work, author or movement in other language(s) or culture(s)

We welcome abstracts and expressions of interest in the group from established scholars, postgraduates and researchers. Abstracts of 250 words for papers lasting around 20 minutes should be forwarded to Peter Jackson peter.jackson@bcu.ac.uk or Tom Knowlesthomas.knowles@bcu.ac.uk by Thursday 24 September 2015

About The Northern Comparative Literature Network

The NCLN is a group of scholars from the Midlands and the North of the UK who have come together in order to foster research, teaching and collaboration in Comparative Literature, and to promote its importance in the curricula of higher education. The seminar is a space for those active in the field to share their work and ideas, but also a chance for those engaged in other disciplines to think about their own field in international, inter-linguistic and inter-cultural terms.

Please do to get in touch if you are interested in joining NCLN or wish to attend a seminar.

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