#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’ …
CfP: Common Ground: Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society, 20–21 June 2019
Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society 20─21 June 2019 In November 2018, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops along the Mexican border as an “obviously moral and ethical mission”. In doing so, he aligned the enforcement of sovereignty through rigorous policing of borders …
Troublesome Modernisms: likely change of venue
BAMS 2019 Conference, Troublesome Modernisms, 20–22 June There is currently a boycott of Senate House in support of the campaign to make outsourced workers (including cleaners, receptionists, security officers, catering staff, porters, audiovisual workers, gardeners and maintenance workers) direct employees of the University of London: https://iwgb.org.uk/en/boycottsenatehouse The BAMS 2019 organisers support this …
BAMS Training Day, Bristol, 27 March
British Association for Modernist Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Training Day: Research and Digital Humanities in Modernist Studies Hosted by the AHRC South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Programme University of Bristol, Wednesday 27 March 2019 Southwell Street Training Rooms, 1st floor, New Veterinary School, Southwell Street, Bristol The 10th annual BAMS …
‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work, Bletchley Park, 8 March 2019
‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work | Bletchley Park | Friday 8 March 2019 This one-day symposium will bring together writers, artists, scholars and technologists to explore the role of women in surveillance, transcription, cryptography, espionage, translation, observation, visualisation and recording. It will consider how this work influenced and …
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CfP: Transatlantic Studies Association 18th annual conference, Lancaster, 8–10 July 2019
Submissions are invited for the 2019 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference. Plenary guests confirmed include: Professor Brian Ward (Northumbria University) “The Beatles in Miami, 1964: Race, Class and Gender in the Atlantic World” AND Professor Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) “Transatlantic Romanticism and British-Indigenous Relations: 1800-1850” PLUS A Roundtable …
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CfP: Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship, Birmingham, 21 February 2019
‘Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship’ University of Birmingham, 21 February 2019 A one day symposium hosted by the Modern and Contemporary Forum and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham. The focus of this one-day symposium is to bring together experienced scholars, …
