Keynote Speakers Kari Weil, Wesleyan University (US) Derek Ryan, University of Kent (UK) ‘I still do not think La Somnambule the perfect title – Night Beast would be better except for that debased meaning now put on that nice word beast.’ – Djuna Barnes to Emily Holmes Coleman ‘Once again we are …
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Call for Poems: Beastly Modernisms, 12–13 Sept 2019, University of Glasgow
Whether it’s Virginia Woolf crafting a playful biography of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s dog in Flush, Clarice Lispector pondering the metaphysics of chickens in ‘The Egg and the Chicken’, or Marianne Moore with her elegant swans and pigeons, modernism is quite the menagerie of poetic animals. As part of an interdisciplinary conference on Beastly …
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CfP: Queer Modernism(s), 25–26 April 2019, Oxford
‘How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?’ ― Richard Bruce Nugent After the resounding success of the Queer Modernism(s) conferences in 2017 and 2018, we are excited to announce the CfP for the third Queer Modernism(s) conference, Queer Networks, set to be held on April 25th and 26th …
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Summer courses in Cambridge, July 2019
Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, 14–19 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Fictions of Home: Jane Austen to contemporary Refugee Writers, 21–26 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/home-2019/ Early bird discount for bookings made by 15 November 2018. Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
Registration open: Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance, 22–24 November, Reading
Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation Beckett Week at the University of Reading, 2018 22 – 24 November 2018 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance. We would like to thank …
CfP: 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Dublin, 22–26 July 2019
THE CRITICAL GROUND The 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 22–26 July 2019 | Trinity College Dublin 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of IASIL (or IASAIL, the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, as it existed in its first incarnation). …
CfP: British Society for Literature and Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University of London, 4–6 April 2019
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 …
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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