EXTENDED DEADLINE: 23 April
Category: CFPs
#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 the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP) at the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has now been extended until Sunday, 31 March.
The LCCT is a free, inter-institutional, interdisciplinary conference in critical thought that takes place annually in different institutions across London. LCCT follows a non-hierarchical, decentralised model of organisation that undoes conventional academic distinctions between plenary lectures and break-out sessions, aiming instead to create opportunities for intellectual critical exchange regardless of participants’ disciplinary field, institutional affiliation, or seniority. LCCT has no overarching or predetermined theme. The conference’s intellectual content and academic tone are set anew each year, stemming from thematic streams that are conceived, proposed and curated by a group of stream organisers. The streams for #LCCT2019 are:
- Art MANIFESTOS: The future of an evolving form
- Automating inequality: AI, smart devices and the reproduction of the social
- The Cold War Then and Now: Theories and legacies
- Culture/Politics of trauma
- Difference, evolution and biology
- Gendered technologies, gender as technology
- Immanence, conflict and institution: Within and beyond Italian Theory
- Multiplying Citizenship: Beyond the subject of rights
- Radical Ventriloquism: Acts of speaking through and speaking for
- Rethinking new materialisms: Ethics, politics and aesthetics
- Thinking critically with care
The full call for papers with details of the streams can be found at:
Please send abstracts for papers and presentations proposals with relevant stream title indicated in the subject line to: paper-subs@londoncritical.org. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and must be received by the extended deadline of Sunday, 31 March 2019.
We aim to make the LCCT open and accessible to all. For any queries about accessibility requirements, please get in touch with us at: access@londoncritical.org.
More information about the conference is available at www.londoncritical.org.
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 industries?
This one-day symposium will debate the ideas of canonicity and cultural value that inform research and teaching in contemporary literary studies. It aims to enable researchers at all levels, and working in all areas of contemporary literary studies, to theorise, articulate, and critique the role played by canons and values in their teaching and research, and to develop strategies for engaging with debates about canonicity and value beyond academia.
This event is supported by the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies, who have generously provided support for a number of travel awards to enable the participation of PGRs and ECRs working without institutional support.
Please see our website for details about the Call for Participants, and for details about how to apply for a bursary: https://contemporarycanons.wordpress.com/
This event is organised by Contemporary Studies Network (Rachel Sykes [University of Birmingham], Diletta De Cristofaro [University of Birmingham], Arin Keeble [Edinburgh Napier University]) in collaboration with Kevin Brazil (University of Southampton) and Andrew Dean (UCL).
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, modernist presses, and women’s work in periodicals and magazines has revealed the variety of ways in which women contributed to the circulation and production of nineteenth and twentieth-century print cultures. Academic interest in the value of networks and collaboration and the often overlooked aspect of women’s creative labour (#thanksfortyping) is at the forefront of some of this renewed interest in women’s diverse, deeply embedded work in publishing and the circulation of global print cultures.
This one-day symposium at the University of Reading will engage with the varied nature and roles of women’s work in twentieth and twenty-first century magazines and book publishing. Though high-profile women publishers and editors continue to attract public and scholarly attention, there are many aspects of women’s labour in the print and publishing trades, understood broadly, that are often overlooked. We invite papers exploring the broad and diverse ways in which women have shaped recent modern print cultures in a variety of roles: as translators, designers, illustrators, booksellers, advertisers, patrons, editors, travellers, office staff, publisher’s readers. We are particularly interested in work exploring transnational exchanges.
Papers may consider any of the following:
* Women’s work in the book, magazine, newspaper, and publishing trades
* Women publishers, editors, author-publishers, publisher’s readers, travellers, booksellers, office staff, printers
* Women translators, designers, illustrators
* Sex + gender + literary production and the literary marketplace
* Women as patrons, booksellers, feminist bookshops
* Archives, cataloguing, and women’s labour
* Women in publishing and the gender pay gap
* Politics and methodologies of recovery work
* Women and the suffrage press, feminist presses, lesbian presses, BAME press
* Networks/collaborations
* Women entrepreneurs and the creative industries
* Womens’ trade organisations in publishing and bookselling
Please submit abstracts (up to 200 words) and a short 2-line bio by 26 April 2019 to Dr Nicola Wilson at n.l.wilson@reading.ac.uk. Speakers will be notified by 3 May.
The event will be held at Special Collections, University of Reading, UK, with no fees to attend. https://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Organising committee: Dr Nicola Wilson, Dr Sophie Heywood, Dr Daniela la Penna.
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’ preparation, staging, and performance; relationships to British Imperialism, gender, war, and social class; and understudied status within criticism and disciplinary study. A few topics are proposed below; additional areas of pageant scholarship are warmly encouraged.
- Pageant-specific (e.g., The Pageant of Great Women, The Pageant of Empire)
- Discipline-related (e.g., costumes, set and artistic design, book history, music)
- Writer/composer/artist-specific (e.g., Louis N. Parker, Gustav Holst, Edith Craig)
- Pageant eras or periods (e.g., Edwardian, inter-war, wartime, post-war)
- Methodological practices (e.g., location and space, archive research)
- Pageant themes (e.g., pastoral, historical, religious, suffrage, civic)
- Genre (e.g., pageant plays, pageant novels, pageant films, radio pageants)
The study of pageants (primarily outdoor amateur historical drama but also other forms such as pageant plays, pageant novels, and pageant films) is steadily increasing as researchers explore the richness of this intermedial art form. There is much potential for interdisciplinary research, largely due to pageants’ combinations of literature, music, history, art, religion, and politics. Despite the pageant genre’s relative critical obscurity, many prominent British writers, composers, directors, and actors were involved in pageants and pageant-making: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Charles Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Edward Elgar, Martin Shaw, Frank R. Benson, E. Martin Browne, Gwen Lally, Edith Craig, Ellen Terry, and Sybil Thorndike.
The conference will feature a unique musical and spoken-word performance of selections from pageants including T. S. Eliot and Martin Shaw’s The Rock (1934). The University of St Andrews Special Collections Library will also give a presentation on some of their pageant materials, including related texts published by the Hogarth Press.
The conference organisers are pleased to welcome Professor Paul Readman (King’s College London) and Dr Angela Bartie (University of Edinburgh) as panellists and speakers for the conference. Both are researchers for the pageant database The Redress of the Past.
The conference will combine round table panel discussions and scholarly papers. In the first instance, indications of a proposed topic/area of interest should be emailed to the conference organiser Parker T. Gordon (pg58@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 25 March 2019. Formal abstracts will be due on 22 April.
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 Society of America reflect this approach: Conrad’s Politics of Fear in 2018 and Conrad’s Politics of Hope in 2019. Both panels examined Conrad’s texts in relation to recent events, offering new perspectives on literature’s contribution to political understanding.
For this volume we are particularly interested in essays that use Conrad’s writing to engage with postcritique, either constructively or critically, or that in other ways reflect Conrad’s continuing relevance today.
Essay proposals should be 250–300 words, accompanied by a brief CV. Essays will be 5000–7000 words, including notes and citations. Please email proposals and CVs to both jayparker@hsu.edu.hk and Jwexler@luc.edu by 30 March. Accepted authors will be notified by 30 May and invited to submit completed essays by 1 January 2020. Please note that final acceptance will be confirmed upon receipt of the finished version of the essay.
Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society
20─21 June 2019
In November 2018, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops along the Mexican border as an “obviously moral and ethical mission”. In doing so, he aligned the enforcement of sovereignty through rigorous policing of borders as a specifically moral value. However, the criticism of the Trump administration’s border policy for violating US and family values provides a contradictory interpretation of what constitutes moral values. Despite the implication that values constitute a set of universally agreed principles, the controversy over the US-Mexican border is only one example that value is anything but ubiquitous. Common Ground invites scholars to Queen’s University Belfast in June 2019 to explore what we value, who we value, and why we value them. We seek to pull apart the concept of value to expose the multifaceted ideologies and rationalities from which competing values are derived. At the most basic level, the nationalist rhetoric deployed by Mattis and by Brexiteers poses the question of who has value to a nation. And often the individual’s value is predicated upon the economic concern of how they can add value to the nation. As such, nationalist rhetoric reveals the tension between the two most prominent understandings of “value” that dominate political and ethical discourse—morality and economics.
We are delighted to confirm Dr Kevin Power of Trinity College Dublin and Professor Margaret Topping of Queen’s University Belfast as keynote speakers.
We seek proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate and early career scholars across a diverse range of disciplines in the humanities to explore the negotiation between different conceptualisations of value and values in literature, culture, and society from the Medieval period to present day, including moral, economic, mathematical, linguistic, environmental, literary, and aesthetic values. We would especially like to encourage papers from MA students. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- What are the identifying values of a society and how are these conveyed, questioned, or challenged through literature and/or culture?
- How does economic value influence questions of literary and artistic value?
- The tension between economic value and environmental values.
- Are values spontaneously generated by people in society or are values created and regulated by the state?
- To what extent is the public value of the Humanities under threat? How do we measure literary value, artistic value, value of popular culture, etc?
- The value and impact of religious thought and/or religion-derived morality in literary works and an increasingly secular society.
- The negotiation of the conflict between artistic value and moral values: reading the work of authors whose behaviour is unacceptable.
- The value of natural/artificial landscapes and boundaries as the result of a chain of social, historical and natural processes.
- Family values and pedagogical values.
- Post-truth and the value, exploitation, or weaponisation of “truth”.
- The value and exploitation of emotions.
- To what extent is the individual defined by the values of others, or defined by that which others value?
- The valuation of gender/sexuality/queerness.
- What value is given to identity and how does this change across historical time periods?
- To what extent does literature shape moral, social, and individual values.
- The value of politeness/manners/political correctness.
- Value of progress ─how do we measure “progress” whether social, political or economic?
Please submit all proposals to commonground2019@outlook.com by 31 March 2019.
Submissions should include:
- 250-word abstract
- Brief bio
- Contact details (email address)
We aim to respond to all submissions by 12 April.
Please advise us of any technical or accessibility requirements at the time of submission.
Common Ground 2019 Committee
Lillie Arnott, Jaime Harrison, Niall Kennedy, Lee Livingstone, Irene Tenchini
Submissions are invited for the 2019 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference.
Plenary guests confirmed include:
Professor Brian Ward (Northumbria University)
“The Beatles in Miami, 1964: Race, Class and Gender in the Atlantic World”
AND
Professor Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia)
“Transatlantic Romanticism and British-Indigenous Relations: 1800-1850”
PLUS
A Roundtable discussion on:
Transatlantic Relations in the Age of a Rising China
Following its first trip across the Atlantic for last year’s annual conference at the University of North Georgia, the TSA is returning to the UK for its eighteenth annual conference at the University of Lancaster.
The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.
The conference is organised around a number of subject themes, each of which is convened by members of the conference programme committee (indicated below). If you would like to discuss your paper or panel proposal prior to submission, please contact the relevant programme committee members. This year’s subject themes are:
- Diplomatic and international history
(David Ryan, david.ryan@ucc.ie, Chris Jespersen, christopher.jespersen@ung.edu, Thomas Mills, t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk)
- Political and intellectual history
(Gavin Bailey, gjzbailey@gmail.com, Philip Pedley, p.pedley@lancaster.ac.uk)
- Social, cultural and religious history
(Kristin Cook, kc31@soas.ac.uk, Constance Post, cjpost@iastate.edu)
- International Relations and Security Studies
(Luis Rodrigues, luis.rodrigues@iscte-iul.pt, David Ryan, david.ryan@ucc.ie)
- Literature, film, and theatre
(Donna Gessell, donna.gessell@ung.edu, Finn Pollard, fpollard@lincoln.ac.uk, Constance Post, cjpost@iastate.edu)
- Business and finance
(Thomas Mills, t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk, Philip Pedley, p.pedley@lancaster.ac.uk)
- Latin America in a transatlantic context
(Thomas Mills, t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk, David Ryan, david.ryan@ucc.ie)
- Ethnicity, race and migration
(Kristin Cook, kc31@soas.ac.uk, Gavin Bailey, gjzbailey@gmail.com)
Special subject theme: Transatlantic Romanticisms
Proposals are welcome for papers on any aspect of Romanticism in a transatlantic context. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to) comparative romanticisms, ecological romanticisms, romantic natural histories, romantic travel and exploration, romanticism and colonialism, romanticism and critical theory. Please send a 300-word abstract, 100 word author biography, and 2-page CV to Kevin Hutchings, University Research Chair, Department of English, University of Northern British Columbia (kevin.hutchings@unbc.ca).
In addition to the subject themes above, we welcome papers and panels on any aspect of transatlantic studies. Interdisciplinary papers and panels are particularly welcome, as are innovative formats, such as roundtables / multimedia presentations.
Submission Instructions
Panel proposals should constitute three or four presenters and a Chair (as well as a discussant if desired). Panel proposals should be sent by email as one document attachment, and include:
- 300-word overview of the panel theme;
- 300-word abstracts for each of the papers;
- 100-word author biographies;
- 2-page CVs for all participants.
The subject line of the email for panel proposals should read: ‘TSA Proposal-[Last name of panel convenor]-[Subject theme]” (state ‘Other’ if not falling under listed themes) (E.g. “TSA Proposal-Smith-Diplomacy and International History”).
Individual paper proposals should be sent by email as one document attachment, and include:
- 300-word abstract for the paper
- 100-word author biography;
- 2-page CV.
The subject line of the email for paper proposals should read: “TSA Proposal-[Last name of presenter]-[Subject theme]” (state ‘Other’ if not falling under listed themes) (E.g. “TSA Proposal-Smith-Other”).
Travel Grants
The TSA particularly welcomes proposals from new members and junior scholars. Travel grants are available to support early career scholars presenting a paper at the conference. If wishing to apply for a travel grant, applicants should indicate this in the body of the email when submitting their paper or panel. In addition to the materials requested above, travel grant applicants should include a brief statement explaining why it is important for them to attend the TSA conference, and an outline of the principal costs entailed. For further details about TSA travel grants, see the TSA website: www.transatlanticstudies.com.
All paper and panel proposals, and travel grant applications, should be sent to the conference email: tsalancaster2019@gmail.com
Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 20 January 2019
Contact details and further information
Vice-Chair of TSA / Local Organiser: Thomas Mills: t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk
Chair of TSA: Christopher Jespersen: christopher.jespersen@ung.edu
‘Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship’
University of Birmingham, 21 February 2019
A one day symposium hosted by the Modern and Contemporary Forum and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham.
The focus of this one-day symposium is to bring together experienced scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students, to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and debate on shifting notions of modernity.
Papers on any aspects of history from the late-eighteenth century to the twenty-first will be considered. To encourage a broad range of papers the invited topics of the conference include, but are by no means limited to, those listed below.
- Time and temporalities
- Material Culture
- Literature and literary influences
- Place, space, and architecture
- The state and structural hierarchies
- Class/gender/race in the global context
- Museum studies
- Medical humanities
- Newspapers and the media
- Emotions
- Senses
- Popular culture, film, TV, music, fashion
- Religion, spiritualism and occultism
- Art history
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words along with a CV for 15 minute papers, or a 150 word abstract for a poster presentation, to uobmacforum@gmail.com by 14 December 2018.
The MAC forum is part of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham, and is run by postgraduate researchers from a range of disciplines within the university. The forum encourages discussion and networking across disciplines and institutions, for those who have an interest in modern and contemporary history.
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, as well as the first to host panels in both English and Spanish, and will thus foreground the excellent work on Joyce being done in both languages. Joyce has had a major impact on Latin American writers, who have found much to admire in Joyce’s bold experimentalism; his fusing of experiential details with universal concepts; his baroque profusion of words, languages, and styles; his critique of hegemonic structures of family, nation, and creed; and his resistance to myriad manifestations of imperialism.
Borders, boundaries, barriers: Joyce bowed to none. That is why this year’s Symposium is dedicated to the many ways in which Joyce was an artist without borders; to the ways in which his work, like his life, transcended conventional divisions. As Stephen Dedalus famously puts it, “I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning.” By celebrating Bloomsday in Mexico at this historical moment, the Symposium seeks to honor Joyce’s spirit of artistic freedom and exilic statement.
And yet, exile can have its pleasures. In 2016, the New York Times named Mexico City its number one tourism destination, atop a list of 52, calling it “A metropolis that has it all.” Among the many cultural, culinary, and architectural attractions the article describes, it mentions the “French-style 19th-century mansions of La Roma”, arguably the city’s most beautiful and cosmopolitan neighborhood. One of those mansions, the UNAM’s exquisite “Casa Universitaria del Libro”, will be the Symposium’s main venue. And since Mexico, like Ireland, is renowned for its hospitality, this Symposium aims to make good on that reputation, while also showcasing for attendees the deep influence Joyce’s work has had in this country.
The Symposium is proud to announce its confirmed keynote speakers:
• Luz Aurora Pimentel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Departments of English and Comparative Literature
• Michael Wood, Princeton University, Departments of English and Comparative Literature
• Terence Killeen, James Joyce Centre, Dublin
As with all annual conferences, this Symposium “without borders” is open to all kinds of contributions that address Joyce, directly or indirectly, in the form of scholarly papers as well as creative or multi-media presentations and installations. It welcomes proposals for paper presentations, fully-formed panels, and roundtables, as well as exhibitions of artistic, multimedia or digital work. Presenters are limited to one paper and one other type of participation (artist, panel-chair, respondent, etc.).
**The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, 25 February 2019**
We are particularly interested in contributions that engage with the transcendence of borders, broadly conceived, such as those pertaining to nation, language, identity, race, religion, gender, class, psychology, artistic form, literary genre, avant garde movements, historical periods, and popular culture. Possible topics include:
• Transnational modernism
• Comparative poetics
• Joyce’s influence on Mexican and other Latin American writers
• Migration of immigrants/transmigration of souls
• Recycling/recomposing/reframing
• Transcontinental intertextuality, influence, and erudition (south-north, east-west, etc.)
• Theology, theosophy, and other traditions in Western and Eastern thought
• Consumerist circulation, mass production, and globalization
• Popular culture in Joyce / Joyce in popular culture
• Diasporas, dispersions, dislocations
• Posthumanism and transhumanism
• Transcultural genetic criticism
• Gender studies, queer studies
• “Binomeans to be comprendered”: translating Joyce
• Postcolonial affinities: Ireland and the global south
• The individual writer and psychoanalysis
• Bioliterary or ecological propagations
• Intercrossings of writing, plastic arts, music, film, drama, dance, performance
The Symposium invites proposals for individual papers, fully-formed panels, and roundtables, in English or Spanish, as well as multi-media/digital exhibitions, and roundtable proposals. Please send to joycewithoutborders@gmail.com, beginning the subject line with the word “PROPOSAL” for English proposals, and “PROPUESTA” for Spanish proposals.
For individual papers (no more than 20 minutes in length), please submit the following information:
First and last names, academic affiliation (if applicable), title of paper, a brief abstract (maximum 300 words), and a brief bio (maximum 250 words).
For fully-formed panel proposals, the panel chair should submit the following:
Panel title, first and last names of all participants (no more than four), academic affiliations of all participants (if applicable), email addresses of all participants, titles for each paper, name and affiliation of chair (if applicable) and any respondents (maximum 2), a brief abstract for the panel as a whole (maximum 500 words), and a brief bio for each participant (maximum 250 words). Individual speakers on these panels need not submit abstracts separately. The panel chair has the option to present a paper, but please note it is customary for the chair to be scheduled last. Panels must be entirely in English or Spanish.
Most panel sessions will last 90 minutes. Certificates of participation in the conference will be made available to those who present and subsequently request documentation. We encourage participating scholars to be paid-up members of the International James Joyce Foundation.
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