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CFP: _Edith Wharton Review_ (deadline: on-going)

The _Edith Wharton Review_, a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed journal is currently seeking submissions. The journal is committed to rigorous study not only of Edith Wharton, but on Wharton in the context of other authors, and on Wharton in relation to late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture more generally. It publishes traditional criticism, pedagogical scholarship, essays on archival materials, review essays, and book reviews. The _Review_ aims to foster emerging scholars and new approaches to Wharton studies as well as established scholarly approaches.

 

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the journal now boasts a new design and vastly expanded content. Recent special issues include “_The Custom of the Country at 100” and “Teaching Edith Wharton’s Late Fiction.” Opportunities exist to publish on Wharton’s lesser-known works, as well as her more canonical writings.

 

If you are interested in submitting, please contact Meredith Goldsmith, Editor (mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu). Submissions should be 20-25 pages, and prepared according to the _MLA Style Manual_.

Enquiries welcome.

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CFP: Beatrice Hastings essay collection — deadline 15 October

Call for Papers: Beatrice Hastings

Pleiades Press is seeking proposals for essays to be included in an upcoming collection on the life and work of Beatrice Hastings.  The book will be published as the seventh annual installment of the Unsung Masters Series, and it will include a selection of Hastings’ key works along with essays by contemporary scholars and writers.
Hastings, writing under a variety of pseudonyms for The New Age and The Straight-Thinker, had a front-row seat for the emergence of modernity.  As Beatrice Tina, she wrote poems, essays, and fiction encouraging her readers to re-imagine the political, domestic, and sexual lives of women.  As D. Triformis, she battled with the WPSU over the goals and tactics of the feminist and suffrage movements.  As T.K.L, she argued about and satirized early modernist literature.  And as Alice Morning, she wrote dispatches from Paris detailing trends in modernist painting and the horrors of the First World War.
She has appeared for decades as a supporting player in the stories of an astonishing range of twentieth century luminaries—Modigliani, Mansfield, Lewis, Radiguet, Cocteau, Max Jacob, Picasso, Orage—but her own work has been largely forgotten, and only sporadically discussed.
We welcome proposals for essays dealing with any aspect of Hastings’ work.  Proposals should be 250-500 words, and should be sent to Benjamin Johnson at bgjohnson@ucmo.edu by October 15.  Contributors whose proposals are accepted should plan to submit a 10-15 page essay by August 15, 2015.
For more information on Pleiades and the Unsung Masters Series, please visit:  https://www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/unsung_masters/

—
Dr. Ben Johnson

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CFP: Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century — deadline 19 October

Call for papers for a major conference

Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century

Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015

Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years around the First World War. Today, historical studies of literature, art, design, lifestyle and consumption as well as of the human sciences are exploring intensively, but frequently separately, on that talk of “science”.

Historians of science are exploring the interpenetration of discourse in the public sphere and expert communities. This pioneering interdisciplinary conference is therefore planned to bring together people who do not normally meet in the same space. Scholars from a range of disciplines will come together to explore how the complex interpretations of science affected the re-creation of what it was to be modern.

Please see the website for more details: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/

Submissions for four types of presentation and discussion are sought:

  1. disciplinary panels of three x15 minute papers and discussion
  2. cross-disciplinary panels of three x15 minute papers and discussion
  3. Focus on research presentations of 5 minutes plus two minute discussion each will provide opportunities particularly for graduate students
  4. Poster sessions

Closing date 19 October 2014. Get in early – competition will be strong!

Submissions to: research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

Enquiries to: Robert.bud@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

Dr Robert Bud

Keeper of Science and Medicine

The Science Museum, London

+44 207 942 4200

  1. makingthemodernworld.org.uk
  2. ingenious.org.uk
  3. sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife
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Call for Papers: The Turn into the Twentieth Century and the Problem of Periodization — Critical Essays on American Literary History — deadline 15 September

Call for Papers

The Turn into the Twentieth Century and the Problem of Periodization: Critical Essays on American Literary History

 

Despite the substantial reconceptualization of the field of American literature in recent decades, century-based constructs typically remain in place throughout the field, particularly in relation to “nineteenth-century American literature” versus “twentieth-century American literature.” Courses are taught, textbooks sold, and academic jobs are constructed around such distinctions. Such logic particularly limits scholarship on the turn into the twentieth century, often characterized as a midpoint on a teleological trajectory culminating in literary modernism.  This collection of essays aims to complicate and challenge the conceptual divide between the 19th and 20th centuries by exploring turn-of-the-century works (“T-20” works) in light of the particular negotiations engaged in by writers from the 1880-1920 era, or those that render writing from this period irreducible to a clear periodization by century.  We are especially interested in essays that rethink boundaries denoted by century and in those that create models for extending both “19th c thought” and “modernity,” so as to interrogate the meeting of a long, late 19th century and an extended, emergent modernity.

 

Proposals for 25-page  essays might consider the following:

*What constructs, authors, and texts are particularly useful in exploring the unique historical and ideological assumptions about literature from the century’s turn?

* In what ways does the language we use to describe cultural and literary movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reinscribe the logic of periodization by century?  How, for example, might rhetorics of progress and teleology reveal assumptions that undergird our approach to turn-of-the-century American literature? In what ways might these assumptions/terms be reconsidered?

*In what ways does the idea of the “turn of the century” emerge as a useful category through which to explore  continuities across centuries rather than stark divisions between them?  If there is a “long nineteenth century,” where might it end? If there is an “emergent modernity,” at what point(s) might it begin?

*In what ways does the profession of literary studies—the job market, academic conferences, scholarly journals, and book publishing—reproduce or challenge these divides in regard to specific authors or works?  In what ways can scholars and students take a less temporally restrictive view of the field?

 

Send abstracts of 250-500 words and short c.v.s to Melanie Dawson (mvdaws@wm.edu) and Meredith Goldsmith (mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu) by September 15, in anticipation of full-length essays being due by February 15.  Enquiries welcome.

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CFP: Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism – deadline 29 September

Call for Papers
 
Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism
 
The Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference,  held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia
 
29 January 2015
 
University of New South Wales
 
Keynote Speaker: Emeritus Professor Angela Smith (Stirling)
 
 
When Wyndham Lewis described Katherine Mansfield as ‘the famous New Zealand Mag.-story writer’
in September 1922, it was not meant as a compliment. Yet this disparaging remark gives a hint as to
what makes her such a fascinating figure today. In the context of the recent scholarly extension of
modernism’s borders in terms of geography, gender, class, and time, as well as such diverse new
interests as the roles of literary networks, periodicals, and popular and material cultures, Mansfield is
more important than ever.
 
These developments encourage new approaches to Katherine Mansfield, new ways of reading her not
only as a short-story writer but as also an editor, a literary critic, a translator, and a poet. Recent
criticism has also turned to considering Mansfield as a transnational modernist, whose antipodean
origin influenced and affected her even after she emigrated to Europe, and whose legacy continues to
inspire succeeding generations of writers and artists in New Zealand and beyond.
This, the third annual Katherine Mansfield Society postgraduate and early career researcher conference,
aims to explore the place of this complex literary figure in terms of both modernist and antipodean
writing: the ways that she and her works have crossed national, professional, and linguistic boundaries.
Proposals are invited, on these topics or any other topic related to Mansfield, from postgraduate
students and early career researchers. Please submit abstracts of 250 words with a brief biography of 50
words to mansfield.unsw@gmail.com by 29 September 2014.
KM & Antipodean Modernism CFP
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CFP: Humanity and Animality in 20th and 21st Century Culture

Call for papers:

 

University College London (UCL)

Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies

 

HUMANITY AND ANIMALITY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY CULTURE:

NARRATIVES, THEORIES, HISTORIES. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

 

15 September, 2014

 

This interdisciplinary conference takes up an important debate in a field of growing importance in the humanities, where animal studies, post-humanism, and eco-criticism have surged in recent years. The definition of mankind seems necessarily to pass through an understanding of what constitutes the animal. Philosophically, what distinguishes, or indeed brings together humanity and animality has been the subject of debate from Aristotle’s understanding of man as ‘zôon logon echon’ and from Kant’s view of man’s treatment of animals as an insight into the true nature of humankind, Derrida’s seminars on ‘the beast and the sovereign’, up to Agamben’s recent theory of ‘bare life’ as the breakdown of the barrier between man and animal.

Artists, authors and filmmakers, such as Kafka, Dalí, Borges, Coetzee, Primo Levi, Margaret Atwood, Karl Appel, Paula Rego, Werner Herzog (‘Grizzly Man’), and Benh Zeitlin (‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’) to name but a few, have also grappled with the significance of the divide or symbiosis of humanity and animality. Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Andrew Benjamin are also redefining ways in which humanity and animality can be thought together, or apart. The violent upheavals of the 20th century, with its global wars, unprecedented genocides and totalitarian experiments led to a re-evaluation of notions such as humanism and humanity, which has made way for new hopes and anxieties relating to the subhuman and the post-human.

By hosting a varied programme of papers and debates chaired by high-profile contributors to this emerging field of inquiry, this conference aims to establish a forum for researchers throughout the UK to discuss this important theoretical issue.

 

Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to the following questions/topics:

 

  • Is it possible, or even desirable to distinguish between animality and humanity?
  • In which ways does the dialectic of ‘human’ and ‘animal’ shape our identities, culture and morality?
  • Why is the comparison with animal world so important for our culture?
  • Shame, pride, sorrow, fear, anxiety, fascination, awe: how do emotions acknowledge the relation between humanity and animality?
  • How do literature, art, evolutionary theory, philosophy and other disciplines negotiate the changes undergone by the concept of the ‘human’ in the last century?
  • How have our perceptions of ‘humanity’ and ‘animality’ changed in relation to violent and extreme events such as genocide, widespread atrocity, world war etc.?
  • What does the persistence of the fascination with animals suggest about specific cultural and historical moments?
  • Are we really a Darwinian species, or do technology, morality and creativity separate us from the rest of the natural evolution?
  • How can we rethink the binary opposition between humanity and inhumanity?
  • Have we entered into a post-human era?
  • Evolutionary theory and the human condition
  • Human-Animal studies
  • Humanity and Animality in Art, Literature, Science, Philosophy, Cinema, Religion, etc.

 

 

Deadline for Abstracts: 

 

Please send an abstract (300 words maximum) and a short biography (50 words maximum) to s.bellin.12@ucl.ac.uk byAugust 1st, 2014.

 

A selection of the papers will be published.

 

Confirmed speakers (other speakers will be announced soon):

 

Martin Crowley (Cambridge; University)

Robert S. C. Gordon (Cambridge University)

Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University)

Florian Mussgnug (UCL)

Kevin Inston (UCL)

other speakers will be announced soon

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Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference, ‘Transnational Modernisms’

Call for Papers

 

AMSN2: Transnational Modernisms

Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference

Hosted by the University of Sydney

15-16 December 2014

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Paul Giles (University of Sydney)

Professor Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia)

Professor Sue Thomas (La Trobe University)

 

 

The ‘Transnational turn’ in literary studies has been the focus of intense debate and sustained reflection in recent years, as have critical re-evaluations of Modernism’s transnational scope. Scholarly interventions by Paul Giles (Transnationalism in Practice), Wai Chee Dimock (Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time), Jahan Ramanzani (A Transnational Poetics), and Paul Jay (Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies), among many others, establish the viability of transnationality as a disciplinary focus. Transnational Modernismsaims to provoke fresh thinking about the particular resonances between Transnationalism and Modernism, including the ongoing critical review of Modernism’s traditional Transatlantic focus.

 

This broader awareness of the sites where Modernism was practiced and transnational connections were initiated (or resisted) prompts a range of compelling questions, including:

 

  •        How might uneven flows of cultural capital between centres of Modernist practice and erstwhile peripheries be understood, accounting for the varieties of geographic and temporal displacement?
  •        Must a global Modernism be co-synchronous, or did it evolve in different phases in different locales and under different socio-economic conditions?
  •        What is to be made of the increasingly intensive scholarly attention given to East Asian Modernism(s) in Western scholarship, and how might this inflect more long-standing work in Asian literary, art historical and musicological studies?
  •        How might an Asian-Pacific Modernism be conceived, and how might this intersect with regional scholarship in literature, visual arts, music, and dance?
  •        How might, for example, Caribbean, South Asian, Brazilian, Latin American, Nigerian or Arab Modernisms be comprised, and reckoned with respect to hegemonic literary and cultural history?

 

This two-day conference will seek to address these and other notions of Transnational Modernisms. Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or panels of three papers examining any relevant aspect of the conference theme across literature, the visual and plastic arts, music, theatre, and related genres. Proposals from postgraduate students are especially encouraged.

 

Please send abstracts of 300 words and a brief biographical note to mark.byron@sydney.edu.au by 31 August. Notification will be forthcoming by 15 September.

 

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

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Modernism at War – University of Glasgow, Saturday 18 October 2014

SCOTTISH NETWORK OF MODERNIST STUDIES
Modernism at War 
University of Glasgow, Saturday 18 October 2014
 
Keynote speakers:  
Adam Piette (University of Sheffield), ‘War Modernism as Commemorative Trauma’
Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh),”Hoarse Oaths that Kept Our Courage Straight”: Language and War, Modernism and Silence’
The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies will be holding a one-day symposium entitled ‘Modernism at War’ at the University of Glasgow on 18 October 2014. Proposals are invited from academics and post-graduates for 20-minute presentations on any topic addressing war in modernist writing and art (including film and other media), the aesthetics and politics of commemoration, trauma and reconstruction, war elegy, anti-war and anti-art, war and the avant garde, war and the archive, war and pedagogy, methodologies for studying war and modernism, or any other related issues and approaches.
Short proposals for papers, expressions of interest and queries should be sent to Vassiliki Kolocotroni  (vassiliki.kolocotroni@glasgow.ac.uk) by Friday 5 September 2014.
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CFP: Reading Modernism with Machines

CFP: Reading Modernism with Machines

 

From data mining and visualization to mapping and topic modeling and beyond, digitally enhanced studies of literature and culture offer a series of computational methodologies for use in literary and cultural criticism. Using these approaches, scholars can ask new questions of literature and culture, while also intervening in existing debates. And with the publication of a variety of anthologies, handbooks, and treatises addressing the Digital Humanities in general, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary and cultural history. Reading Modernism with Machines aims to bring together the most rigorous and exciting modernist criticism to have been conducted using computers.

 

Each submission should offer a case study of modernist literary and cultural analysis conducted using a computational approach. While methodologies should be outlined, the majority of each submission should be reserved for humanistic discussions, which should be based on, or supplemented by, any electronic analyses. Submissions will be judged based on 1) the innovation and sophistication of the digital tools used in the analysis, 2) the essay’s broader impact on modernist studies, and 3) the degree to which computational analysis and literary/cultural interpretation merge cohesively.

 

Submissions

 

Initial proposals of ~500 words are due by September 31st, 2014

(Where appropriate, sample graphics, tables, tools, or datasets may also be submitted with proposal.)

 

Final submissions of ~6,000 – 8,000 words are due by January 31st, 2015

Submissions should be sent to James O’Sullivan (jco12@psu.edu) and Shawna Ross (smross3@asu.edu)

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CFP: 21st-century Moore, Houston

21st-century Moore.
March 19-22, 2015, University of Houston
Call for Papers: deadline 15 July

In March 2015 the University of Houston will host the first meeting in a
decade to focus on Marianne Moore. In light of the past decade’s work on
Moore, including variorum editions of her early and middle- period work and
a ground-breaking new biography by Linda Leavell, the conference will
examine Moore’s place in the twenty-first century’s understanding of
modernism. Abstracts of 250 words are invited for scholarly and creative
presentations on any aspect of Moore’s work. Please send abstracts with
brief resumé, and MOORE ABSTRACT in the subject line to egregory@uh.edu by
15 July 2014.

Steering committee: Elizabeth Gregory, Fiona Green, Stacy Hubbard,
Cristanne Miller, Heather White.