CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals …
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CfP: V International Flann O’Brien Conference, Dublin, 16–19 July 2019
Palimpsests: The V International Flann O’Brien Conference University College Dublin (16–19 July 2019) Keynotes Louis de Paor (NUI Galway) Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield) Maebh Long (University of Waikato) Erika Mihálycsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj) Guest Writers Anne Enright (The Gathering, The Green Road) Patrick McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto) Lisa McInerney (The …
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Richard Hoggart Lecture: Rachel Bowlby, Goldsmiths, 16 October
The Uses of Shopping: Richard Hoggart Goes to Woolworth’s Tuesday 16 October, 6.30pm From The Uses of Literacy all the way to the many autobiographical works of his retirement years, Richard Hoggart wrote about shops and shopping. Quietly resituating the adverse stance of the literary world to all things consumerly, Hoggart, …
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CFP BAMS 2019: Troublesome Modernisms, 20–22 June, London
British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2019 Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London 20–22 June 2019 Confirmed keynote speaker: Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins) Second keynote speaker to be confirmed ‘What effects of synergy or friction result when the many, sometimes contradictory, criteria of high …
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Transatlantic Women in the Archives, 25 September, National Library of Scotland
Transatlantic Women in the Archives 2–4 pm, 25 September, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh This event, part of the Transatlantic Literary Women series, explores the legacies of twentieth-century women writers. Four speakers will discuss their experiences of recovering the works and lives of women with connections to, and identities shaped by, …
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CFP: Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change, 5–6 April 2019, Montpellier
Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change An International Conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) in collaboration with CECILLE (Centre d’Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 5–6 April 2019 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France Site Saint Charles Keynote speakers: Thomas …
‘Man of the House’: Masculinity and Domesticity from 1800 until the present day’, University of St Andrews, 22 June 2018
‘Man of the House’: Masculinity and Domesticity from 1800 until the present day’ Friday 22 June 2018, School of English, University of St Andrews Keynote speaker: Professor Gill Plain (University of St Andrews) Poetry reading by Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) The Man of the House Conference is an interdisciplinary event examining the relationship between masculinity and the …
CFP: Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, 17–19 October 2019, Montpellier
Short Fiction as Humble Fiction An international conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) with ENSFR (European Network for Short Fiction Research), 17-18-19 October 2019 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3, France Keynote speakers Elke D’hoker, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Ann-Marie Einhaus, Northumbria University, UK Short Fiction as Humble Fiction The title of …
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Registration open: The Working-Class Avant-Garde, London South Bank, 22 June 2018
The Working-Class Avant-Garde One-day Symposium, London | Friday 22 June, 2018 This symposium seeks to examine contributions to the twentieth-century British avant-garde by artists and writers of working class heritage. The avant-garde is often conceived to be the domain of the elite – those with the financial backing, education, and networks to …
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CFP: ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890–1950’
Call For Papers: ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis, 1890–1950’ University of Sheffield, 11–13 April 2019 Organiser: Katherine Ebury Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include life-writing, modernism, psychoanalysis and law and literature. Her first monograph, Modernism and Cosmology, appeared in 2014, and she …
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