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Saturday 16 May Full Day Life-Writing Workshop: ‘Disputed Lives’

The following life-writing workshop on Saturday 16 May still has
limited space and is open for booking.

Saturday 16 May (Week 3), 10 am – 4.30 pm, Oxford Centre for
Life-Writing, Wolfson College, Oxford

Full day workshop: ‘Disputed Lives’

Price: £70 (£55 unwaged)

Booking:  http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=1784&prodvarid=1012

For those engaged in writing or researching life-writing, the
emergence of conflicting narratives or evidence in life-stories always
poses a challenge – and a subject of fascination. This full-day
workshop will encourage participants to examine areas of dispute that
may have arisen during their own research: from existent biographies
presenting conflicting versions of a subject’s life, to source
materials or witnesses testifying with dramatically different
evidence. The workshop will explore the range of reasons for such
apparent conflicts, and will foster discussion about ways in which to
manage, reconcile and interrogate these alternative genealogies.

The workshop will include three speakers presenting ‘case-histories’
of their own tussle with conflicting biographical evidence: the
award-winning author and journalist Rebecca Abrams, the assyriologist
Jacob Dahl and his cousin Noa Lavi (both currently wrangling with
their own contested family history), and the literary scholar Kate
McLoughlin (who will talk about the rivalry between Ernest Hemingway
and Martha Gellhorn concerning landing on the Normandy beaches on
D-Day). OCLW’s director and associate director, Hermione Lee and
Elleke Boehmer, will lead interactive workshop sessions designed to
help attendees turn complex evidence into narrative shape in their own
projects. The whole workshop will take place in the beautiful
surroundings of Wolfson College, and will include lunch and
refreshments throughout the day. Numbers are limited to 30, to allow
for delegates to benefit from small-group interactions.

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW),
Wolfson College Research Clusters,
Wolfson College,
Linton Road,
Oxford.
OX2 6UD
oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/life-writing

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“Re-Imagining the Gothic”: Sat 9th May

“Re-Imagining the Gothic” and the University of Sheffield is almost here! This is a friendly reminder that if you’d like to attend the symposium all you need to do is shoot us an email with your name and institution to reimagininggoth15@gmail.com

The Showcasing Event, taking place from 3-7pm in Jessop West exhibition space and the University and is FREE and OPEN TO ALL, no registration required! There will be a keynote speech from author Lynn Shepherd and tons of great projects on ‘re-imagining’ Gothic studies!

So if you love the gothic or just want to experience something different, check us out!

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29 April: London-based Children’s Literature event

The next event for the Children and the City series by ‘Children’s Literature/Children’s Lives’ and ‘The City Centre’ at Queen Mary, University of London, will be on Wednesday next week, with Jenny Bavidge and Aneesh Barai on London-based children’s literature.

Wednesday 29th April, 4.30pm-6.30pm
Queen Mary, University of London, Arts One, 1.36

Jenny Bavidge, “‘A Peep into London’: Children’s Guidebooks to London from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day”

This paper will discuss some early examples of guides to London produced for a juvenile audience in the form of chapbooks and, later, picture books. How are children introduced to the city and how are its wonder and horrors narrated by early and contemporary guidebooks?

Aneesh Barai, “Urban Children’s Literature in the Age of Modernism: Practical Catsand Billy and Beryl”

This paper will compare 1930s representations of London in the popular Billy and Beryl series of children’s books with T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. As even now people tend to believe that children are better suited to “natural”, open spaces rather than urban lives, how did writers in this time of mass urbanisation come to think of children’s space in the city?

This event will be of interest to those working on children’s literature, urban literature, Victorian, modernist or contemporary constructions of childhood and ideas of childhood space.
As always, wine and snacks will be served at the event, and we will move to a local bar after the event.

Hope to see you there!

With best regards,

Aneesh and Kiera

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Exhibition on Octave Uzanne (“Aestheticism and Decadence in the Age of Modernism: 1895 to 1945” Conference, London)

I am happy to announce that my exhibition on Octave Uzanne will be shown at Senate House, London to accompany the conference Aestheticism and Decadence in the Age of Modernism: 1895 to 1945 (Friday 17 and Saturday 18 April 2015).

Octave Uzanne was a French bibliophile, writer and publisher whose work shows that Aestheticism and Decadence were anchored in the modern age.

For more information about the exhibition, visit my website: http://www.lisejaillant.com/2015/04/octave-uzanne-between-reaction-and.html 

The programme of the conference can be found here: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ies-conferences/ageofmodernism

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Dr Lise Jaillant
Lecturing Fellow | University of East Anglia | School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing
Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Universität Leipzig | Buchwissenschaft
SHARP Liaison Officer to MLA
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon in The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955 (Pickering & Chatto, 2014). http://www.pickeringchatto.com/modernlibrary 
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H.D. Conference Updates (Deadline Extended)

The English Department at Lehigh University is delighted to announce that H.D. will be awarded a posthumous honorary degree at the spring commencement ceremony. One of H.D.’s relatives, Beth Wolle McKay, who was herself among the cohort of first women at Lehigh in the 1970s, will accept the degree on H.D.’s behalf. We look forward to celebrating this honor at the “H.D. and Feminist Poetics” conference in September. The official announcement can be found here: http://www1.lehigh.edu/news/honorary-degree-recipients-named-0
We continue to update the conference website (https://english.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/185), which now contains information regarding registration fees and hotel rates. Also, please note that we have extended the deadline for submitting proposals to Saturday, April 25.
In the meantime, feel free to contact me with any questions.
Best wishes,
Jenny Hyest
Conference Coordinator
jehc@lehigh.edu
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Pointed Roofs Centenary Event

Pointed Roofs Centenary Event

The Dorothy Richardson Society invite you to an event in Bloomsbury to celebrate the anniversary of the publication of Pointed Roofs the first volume of Dorothy Richardson’s novel cycle Pilgrimage.

Time: 17.00-19.00
Date: Friday 15 May 2015
Place:

The Court and Jessel rooms
Institute of English Studies
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
17.00 Lecture: Deborah Longworth (University of Birmingham), Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs.

17.45 Panel discussion: Laura Marcus (University of Oxford), Jo Winning (Birkbeck College), Scott McCracken (Keele University), Deborah Longworth.

18.15 Questions and discussion.
18.45 Wine Reception
Dinner

The event is free, but if you wish to come please please inform Tracey Harrison t.l.harrison@keele.ac.uk

‘In this series there is no drama, no situation, no set scene. Nothing happens. It is just life going on and on. It is Miriam Henderson’s stream of consciousness going on and on. And in neither is there any grossly discernible beginning or middle or end. ‘ May Sinclair, The Egoist (1918)

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LitVisCult: Dr Catherine Gander on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings (9 April)

The next session of the Literature and Visual Cultures Research Seminar will take place on Thursday 9th April from 6.00-8.00pm at Senate House, London, room 261.

We’re very pleased to have Dr. Catherine Gander join us to give a paper entitled, “‘Twenty-six things at once’: Pragmatic perspectives on Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm’s Poem-Paintings”

Abstract:
Created over a couple of Sunday mornings in the Fall of 1960, the twenty-six collaborative Poem-Paintings of the artist Norman Bluhm and the poet Frank O’Hara represent what Bluhm later called a spontaneous ‘conversation’ between the painter and the poet. In this talk, Catherine Gander adopts a number of pragmatist positions to reconsider these overlooked works as essential examples of verbal-visual interaction that extend their ‘conversation’ to greet and involve us in a relationship that is at once interpersonal, integrated, and embodied. The works, Gander argues, constitute what John Dewey terms ‘art as experience’; in their back and forth exchange of verbal and visual gesture, abstraction and denotation, the Poem-Paintings are the ‘cumulative continuity’ of ‘the process of living’, dramatizing the shifting, spontaneous and multiple dimensions of interpersonal conversation, and in so doing, indicating a new path toward interconnective and equal exchange between word and image.

Catherine Gander is a lecturer in American Literature and Visual Culture at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely on the subject, and her monograph Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: the Poetics of Connection (Edinburgh, 2013) won the biennial IAAS (Irish Association for American Studies) monograph prize.  Her latest book Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (with Sarah Garland) will be published by Manchester University Press later this year, and she is currently at work on another book, Pragmatic Perspectives on American Avant-Gardes.

For more details and for information about other sessions, see: https://literatureandvisualcultures.wordpress.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @Litviscult.

We hope to see you at the seminar on 9 April.

Sarah Chadfield and Sophie Oliver

(Royal Holloway, University of London)

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 Scotland and Russia: Cultural Perception Since 1900

10-11 April, 2015

This is the second event of the ‘Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters since 1900’ project, dedicated to uncovering the history of cultural exchange between the two countries over the last hundred years (www.englit.ed.ac.uk/scotland-and-russia).

The two-day symposium at the University of Aberdeen will feature talks by historians, sociologists and literary scholars from both Scottish and Russian studies.  It will explore the role of travel writing, poetry and art in cultural mediation, the experience of national bridge-building organisations, as well as political perceptions circa 1914 and 2014, in relation to the Great War and Revolution and the Scottish Independence Referendum.  Speakers include Prof Anthony Cross and Lt Cdr Dairmid Gunn

The event is free and open to the public.  Programme attached.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scotland-and-russia-cultural-perception-since-1900-tickets-15802193787

University of Aberdeen
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Humanity Manse
19 College Bounds
Aberdeen AB24 3UG

Contact Organiser: Anna Vaninskaya (anna.vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk)

Sponsored by the University of Aberdeen Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Edinburgh Challenge Investment Fund and the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Scotland Russia Cultural Perceptions Since 1900 Programme

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Lecture Day: The Legacy of Walter Gropius

Saturday 25 April, 10am – 4pm, Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire

This special lecture day will take place in the Grade 1 Listed Building at Impington Village College – the only public commission in the UK by Gropius.

Walter Gropius (1883 –1969), Architect and founder of The Bauhaus School, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.  The lecture day will bring together experts from different fields to discuss the influence of Gropius’ work at Impington and how his work which penetrated the wider world is still significant today.  There will be presentations on the built environment in the 1930s, conservation principles and the impact of modernist architecture on practice today.  Speakers include leading Architectural Historian Dr Alan Powers, English Heritage and RIBA Architects.  There will include a tour of the building, an introduction about Henry Morris and panel discussion.

Adults: £25, Students: £15.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Please find attached a flyer with further information including full programme. 

Buy your tickets online here

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LitVisCult: Prof. Laura Marcus, Wednesday 18 March

The next session of the Literature and Visual Cultures Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th March, 6.00-7.30pm, Senate House, London, room 261.

We’re very pleased to have Professor Laura Marcus join us to give a paper entitled, ‘Silence, sound and city films and fictions of the 1920s and 1930s’.

Abstract:
This talk uses examples of late silent and early sound films (including F.W.Murnau’s Sunrise and Paul Fejos’s Lonesome) to explore the relationship between the visual and the aural in the cinema of the period, and the charged role played by representations of urban modernity in this context. It closes with brief discussion of novels (including works by Woolf, Graham Greene and Patrick Hamilton) in which relationships between silence and sound are played out in literary terms.

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Her book publications include The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014). Current research projects include a study of the concept of ‘rhythm’ in interdisciplinary contexts (with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) and a book on literature and the cinema, which looks in particular at the relationship between writing and the silent/sound transition in film.

For more details and for information about other sessions, see: https://literatureandvisualcultures.wordpress.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @Litviscult.

Sarah Chadfield and Sophie Oliver

(Royal Holloway, University of London)