LMS programme 2019-20
Category: Events
New Work in Modernist Studies, Liverpool, 6 December
About the conference The ninth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Friday 6 December at the University of Liverpool, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and …
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CfP: 100 Years of Night and Day, 26 October 2019, London
A one-day symposium at University of Westminster on 26 October 2019. One hundred years after its publication, the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster are hosting a one-day symposium to celebrate and interrogate Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day. In her diary in 1920, Virginia Woolf wrote: ‘I …
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CfP: The Body and the Built Environment, 25 June, Durham
The period between 1750 and 1918 is widely acknowledged to have been one of dramatic societal and cultural change, not least in terms of people’s experience of the spaces in which they lived. The unparalleled urbanisation that took place over the course of the long nineteenth century necessitated new ways of …
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Poetry and Philosophy Colloquium: On Poetic Determination, 4 May, Warwick
Saturday, 4 May 2019 University of Warwick, room MS.05 (Mathematics and Statistics Building) “Determination” is a concept applicable to subjective agency, historical circumstance, and formal particularity. If determinism posits the way things must be, an account of determination is concerned not only with how something is but also how it might …
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CfP: London Conference in Critical Thought, 5–6 July, London
#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 …
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CfP: Canons and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies, Southampton, 15 June
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 …
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CfP Women in Publishing symposium, Reading, 14 June 2019
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, …
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CfP. Engaging with Twentieth-Century Pageants
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’ …