Category: Events

As part of Academic Book Week 2015, De Montfort University is holding a one-day workshop for second and third-year PhD students in English (PT and 4th year FT students also welcome), to discuss the future of the literary PhD. The Academic Book of the Future is an AHRC-funded two-year project in collaboration with the British Library.

Consideration of the academic book of the future will be incomplete unless the training of PhD students in English is also scrutinised. We therefore invite applications from PhD students based at universities in the Midlands, and who are approaching the second half of their PhD study. 

The day will consist of talks from stakeholders in academia (academics, publishers, funding councils), which will stimulate student discussion in small groups. Participants are invited to come along prepared to discuss ideas and proposals for PhD training in English, which the event co-ordinator will then collate and embed into a report sent back to The Academic Book of the Future, and ultimately to AHRC.

As the next generation of literary academics, this is your chance to envisage the future of the English PhD: by reflecting on the role of the university in society, the nature of literary criticism, the challenge of translating a PhD into an academic book, and the process of defining academia for REF purposes.

Please apply and submit an Expression of Interest using this form.

Deadline for applications is October 16th.

Please see below for the poster for the event “Vanguard Women – A Welcome to the Anna Mendelssohn Papers” which will be held at The Keep, Brighton on Friday 16th October 2015.

This event is being organised by the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex and will feature a series of talks, open to the public, given by academics talking on the theme of “Feminism and Vanguardism” in different historical moments, covering the fin de siècle and modernist periods, post 9-11, and 1968 and its environs. The speakers are Jill Richards (Yale), Liz Sage (Sussex), and Sara Crangle (Sussex).

There will also be a pre-talk workshop led by the Head of Special Collections at Sussex, Fiona Courage, and the collection’s archivist, Simon Coleman, which will give participants the opportunity to explore the holdings and learn more about the way in which the archive has been collated and catalogued. Limited to 20 spaces.

Further details of the event can be found on the Centre for Modernist Studies website. 

Registration  must be made in advance and the fee is  £10 / £5 concessions (including students). Participants attending both sessions will only pay once. To register please send your full name, your institutional affiliation (if any), which session(s) you would like to attend along with any dietary or access requirements to centreformoderniststudies@gmail.com.

English & Creative Writing at The University of Northampton proudly presents:
The Brigid Brophy Anniversary Conference
9 – 10 October 2015
Avenue Campus, The University of Northampton

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the death of Brigid Antonia Brophy (1929-1995), and the fiftieth anniversary of her article ‘The Rights of Animals’, published in The Sunday Times on 10th October 1965, the School of The Arts at the University of Northampton is delighted to announce a two-day international conference to celebrate all aspects of Brophy’s literary career, as well as her leading contributions to animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and her advocacy of the Public Lending Right.

Featuring: Professor Philip Hensher (Bath Spa University)
Dr Carole Ann Sweeney (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Professor Michael Bronski (Harvard University)
Professor Gary L. Francione (Rutgers University)
Dr Robert McKay (University of Sheffield)
Dr Richard Ryder (anti-speciesism campaigner)
Peter Parker (biographer and author)
– and Kate Levey (daughter of Brigid Brophy)

For more information, please e-mail: ecw@northampton.ac.uk
Organiser: Professor Richard Canning

26 September

Airport tour 1-2pm

Seminar at Aerodrome Hotel 2.30-4.30pm

The ancient past meets modernism with a juxtaposition of 1930s aerial photography, film, archaeology, celebrity pilots and archaeologists. Come to Croydon Airport to find out more about lost empires and the people who recorded their excavation.
A tour of Croydon Airport between 1-2pm will be followed by a seminar in the neighbouring Aerodrome Hotel. The Human Adventure, a 1935 film on archaeology in the Middle East produced by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago will be screened together with photographs taken by the Imperial Airways pilot chartered for the expedition, Captain Gordon P. Olley, from Croydon Airport Society’s archives. Introductory talks by academics Lindsay Allen (Kings College London) and Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey (University College London’s Filming Antiquity project www.filmingantiquity.com) will explore the connections between aviation, archaeology and discovering the past in the 1930s.

http://croydonairportcalling.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/flying-to-past-croydon-to-persepolis.html

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Please find the attached poster for the launch of the Christine Brooke-Rose Society. The launch will incorporate a number of speakers including Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté (UPenn), Dr Glyn White (Salford), Dr Joseph Darlington (Salford), Dr Marina MacKay (Oxford) and Joanna Walsh. The event will take place from 5pm-8pm on 26th June 2015 at Somerville College, Oxford in the Margaret Thatcher Conference Room, including a wine reception. This is a free event but we ask that all delegates register their attendance via the Eventbrite page on the poster as spaces are limited.

Please find below an announcement for Modernity and the European Mind: an International, Interdisciplinary Colloquium

The colloquium is hosted by the Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouth, and will take place on 25-26 June 2015.

Speakers include: Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Catherine Bernard (Univ Paris-VII), Mary Ann Caws (City University of New York), Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan), Tone Selboe (University of Oslo), Doug Haynes (University of Sussex), Sissy Helff (Goethe-University, Frankfurt), Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Hamburg), Monika Szuba (University of Gdansk)

Where does Modernity begin, how is it defined, and how does it define itself? What does it mean to be European, or to think in terms of Europe and / or non-Europe? How does Europe understand itself in relation to all that perceives as ‘not-Europe?’ How do those who are not gathered into the ontology of ‘the European’ see or represent themselves against the notion of a European identity, or address the question of ‘Europe’? And in what ways do ‘modernity’ and ‘European thought’ determine, and define one another?  Modernity is a fraught, often contested term in the Humanities and Social Sciences. There is little agreement as to its parameters, its definition, its starting point, or the understanding of its epoch. Similarly, the notion of Europe is equally contested, unavailable to a final consensus, irreducible to a single epistemological, historical or ontological determination.

For information on registration, contact: Julian Wolfreys, Director, CSL, julian.wolfreys@port.ac.uk

Professor Clare Hanson

‘Katherine Mansfield and Psychology’

Sunday 18 October 2015, 2.00pm

Keynes Library,
Birkbeck, University of London,
43, Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

Tickets £15 members and £20 non-members, to include a glass of wine, cake, and a copy of the birthday lecture booklet.

Please go to Eventbrite to book your tickets:  https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/17242300184/

Flier

Speakers

Speakers: Gillian Dow (Chawton House Library); Marina Cano López (St Andrews); Donna Moore (Glasgow Women’s Library); Henriette Partzsch (Glasgow)

26 June 2015, 14:00 – 18:00

Event Type:

Workshop

Venue:

Room 243 (Senate House)

Venue Details:

Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

CCWW Workshop organised under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing & Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women’s Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain) (http://travellingtexts.huygens.knaw.nl/) and sponsored by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)

This cross-cultural half-day workshop sets out to discuss different ways of approaching the history of women’s writing during the long 19th century and to explore how these roots can shape and inform contemporary praxis. Our aim is to establish a productive dialogue between the past and the present of women’s participation in literary culture, bringing together the remits of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing and the historical focus of the HERA-funded collaborative research project Travelling Texts, 1790-1914. Special attention will be paid to the important role of libraries as institutions that conserve, shape and present our literary heritage for contemporary users, with contributions from Dr Gillian Dow, Chawton House Library (http://www.chawtonhouse.org/), and Donna Moore, Glasgow Women’s Library (http://womenslibrary.org.uk/).

Programme and Abstracts