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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Summer courses in Cambridge
Virginia Woolf and Politics summer course, Wolfson College, Cambridge 1–6 July 2018 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/2018/ Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen, Homerton College, Cambridge 8–13 July https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2018/Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Looking ahead to 2019: Woolf’s Gardens, July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
Modernist Objects Conference
Download programme here 13-16 June, Sorbonne University, Paris In a line which seems pre-emptively levelled at Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go exactly one century later, Richard Aldington wrote in The Egoist that “one of the problems of modern art” is that “to drag smells of petrol, refrigerators, ocean greyhounds, President Wilson and analine [sic] …
Maud Ellmann to give the Inaugural Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture at UEA: PG bursaries available
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA is pleased to announce the first annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture, to be given by Professor Maud Ellmann. The lecture will be titled ‘The Salesman Only Rings Once: Julian Maclaren-Ross and the Vacuum Cleaner in the 1930s’ and will take place …
T. S. Eliot International Summer School, 7–15 July: full bursaries available
Applications are encouraged for full fee-paying bursaries to attend the T.S. Eliot International Summer School (7–15 July). The deadline for bursary awards of £600 is 1 May. The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to central London all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and …
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Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style, King’s College London, 1 June 2018
Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style Organized by Dr Clara Jones (KCL) and Dr Natasha Periyan (Goldsmiths) Description The political activism and social commitments of interwar women writers were extensive and varied. Winifred Holtby was a member of the Six Point Group and Independent Labour Party, Sylvia Townsend Warner was a …
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A ‘cerebration’ for Hugh Haughton, University of York, 8–9 June
In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and the Humanities Research Centre are hosting a poetic and scholarly “cerebration”. We commence on Friday 8 June with an evening of poetry, featuring readings by: Gerald Dawe · Kit Fan · Bernard O’Donoghue · Caitríona O’Reilly · Peter …
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Mathematics and Modern Literature, University of Manchester, 3–4 May: registration now open
Registration for this conference is now open: Student/Unwaged: £40 Waged: £60 See the website for a full programme. Keynotes include Nina Engelhardt, Emily Howard and Tim Armstrong.
Weekly online Shut Up & Write Session for PGRs and ECRs
Weekly Shut Up & Write Session for PGRs and ECRs Following the fantastic discussion at our BAMS careers and support panel at New Work in Modernist Studies, we are setting up a weekly ‘Shut Up & Write’ Session for postgraduate and early career researchers. Many of our PGR and ECR members have said …
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