Category: Events

Romantic Heirs: Receptions, Legacies, Dialogues Since 1900

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 30TH NOVEMBER 2013

The University of Sheffield, 17th January 2014

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Matthew Campbell (University of York) and Prof. Michael O’Neill (Durham University)

Also includes a special concert held at Sheffield Cathedral, featuring original settings of Romantic poetry composed and performed by students of the Department of Music. See programme below.

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‘To search for what you already are is the most benighted of quests, and the most fated’

– Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence (1973)

Marking forty years since Bloom’s provocative study on the enduring influences of Romantic writers, the University of Sheffield invites the submission of papers for a free one day conference on the receptions, legacies and dialogues of Romantic literature. The study of Romanticism and its legacies sprawls across periods, disciplines, and forms, and this conference will contribute to growing scholarship in this field. The AHRC-funded “Romantic Heirs” project has hosted events at the University of Sheffield and the University of Durham throughout 2013 with the aim of promoting the work of postgraduate and early-career researchers interested in this subject. This concluding conference invites papers which consider the future of Romantic studies, in particular how this might pertain to theories of tradition and influence. Topics for papers might include, but are not limited to:

● Modern and contemporary receptions of Romanticism in poetry, prose, and drama;

● Romantic revisionism;

● the history of Romantic canonisation (e.g. inclusion of overlooked women writers) and its impact on literature and criticism;

● Romantic revolutions and/or the avant-garde;

● new readings of Romantic texts;

● the legacy of Romantic pan-Europeanism and/or its postcolonial contexts;

● the impact of the ‘Romantic child’ on subsequent and current society;

● adaptations of Romantic texts, figures, and events in film and visual cultures;

● Gothic and Romantic legacies and adaptations;

● transatlantic Romanticism;

● Romantic landscape, ecology and animal studies;

● recent and future impacts of Romanticism on policy, the arts, and psychology;

● Romanticism’s impact upon ideas of self, society, and nationhood;

● Critiques/ new readings of Bloom’s theory.

Panel proposals and abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers to be submitted to romanticheirs@sheffield.ac.uk by 30th November. Please get in touch if you will have any problems meeting this deadline.

Romantic Heirs Concert (1)

The fourth biennial conference of EAM

The European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies

University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 29.-31.8.2014

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CLOSED PANELS

(Scroll down for the full calls for papers and chairs)

UTOPIA

Modernism and Avant-gardism are artistic languages of rupture. Both were directed against traditional ways of conceiving art, often assuming an antagonistic position in relationship to existing cultural and social institutions and relationships. This conference explores the utopian alternatives which Modernist and avant-garde artists offered to existing society. This was not always simply a question of taking an outside position: for example, the Russian avant-garde was co-opted by the early Soviet state in an uneasy – and temporary – alliance to give birth to the New Man. The 2014 EAM conference in Helsinki commemorates the centenary of the break-out of the First World War by taking as its starting point the many utopian dreams within European literature and arts as well as their collapse in the face of the horrors of war. The effects of the War lasted throughout the century, and the conference will also explore the utopian dimensions of the neo-avant-garde, be it that of the West which dreamed alternatives to conformism and consumer society, or of the East which sheltered alternatives to socialist dystopia. We thus invite proposals for contributions that deal with the alternatives that modernism and the avant-garde offered to existing reality: utopias; chimeras; dreams; abstractions; desires; myths; dystopias; cityscapes or impossible landscapes; politics or anti-politics; the body freed or harnessed; erotic or amatorial liberation; the retreat into private worlds or the mapping of bold alternatives; the avant-garde as alternative to or embodiment of the state; the utopian moment in the nihilistic or rebarbative art-work. We welcome contributions across all areas of avant-garde and modernist research or practice: art, literature, music, architecture, film, artistic and social movements, lifestyle, television, fashion, drama, performance, activism, design and technology.

EAM website: http://www.eam-europe.be/

Conference website: http://www.eam2014.com/

For all the enquiries about the conference, please contact us eam2014@meetingsmill.fi

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CLOSED PANELS, November 1st – January 30th

All the submissions will be done with the online abstract submission form in our website: http://www.eam2014.com, bottom ”Abstracts”. There you will also find a link to the list of open panels and peer seminars. The maximum length of all the submissions is 200 words.

You can either submit

1) A CLOSED PANEL. A CLOSED PANEL consists of between THREE and TWELVE speakers. The CHAIR(s) may present a paper if desired. A closed panel may include no more than two doctoral students. These panels are ‘closed’ in the sense that they will include only the speakers whose names are submitted by the chair – they are of course presented before a conference audience. On the online abstract form the chair(s) will supply the title and a brief description of the panel, the titles of the papers that will be presented in the panel, name and affiliation of the chair(s) and all the speakers.

2) An INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL to join an OPEN PANEL listed on the website, http://www.eam2014.com, click on the bottom ”Abstracts”.

3) An INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL to a PEER SEMINAR. Please check the list of peer seminars on the website, http://www.eam2014.com, please click on the bottom ”Abstracts”. For the peer seminar, participants circulate short position papers (2000 words) one month before the seminar. The papers are discussed at the seminar. There is NO audience at the peer seminar which is closed to the rest of the conference. Doctoral students may apply to participate in a seminar and this can be a good way to get accepted to the conference for people whose work is at an early stage.

4) An INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL without specifying a panel and the organisers will assign your paper to a panel if accepted.

The participants will be informed about the acceptance of the papers by February 28th.

The official languages of the conference are English, French and German. Both papers and entire panels are accepted in all the three languages. A paper submitted to an open panel MUST be in the language of that panel.

Conference convenors and the EAM network chairs

Prof. David Ayers, University of Kent, UK / Dr. Marja Härmänmaa University of Helsinki, Finland

The scientific committee of the EAM 2014 conference

Professor Henry Bacon, University of Helsinki / Professor Natalia Baschmakoff, University of Eastern Finland / Professor Tomi Huttunen, University of Helsinki / Dr. Irmeli Hautamäki, University of Helsinki / Dr. Teemu Ikonen, University of Helsinki / Dr. Timo Kaitaro, University of Helsinki / Dr. Janna Kantola, University of Helsinki / Professor Pirjo Lyytikäinen, University of Helsinki / Dr. Alfonso Padilla, University of Helsinki / Dr. Riikka Rossi, University of Helsinki / Professor Pekka Pesonen, University of Helsinki / Professor Kirsi Saarikangas, University of Helsinki / Professor Riikka Stewen, Academy of Fine Arts / Professor Harri Veivo, University of New Sorbonne / University of Helsinki

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Please see the attached CFP below for information about ‘Katherine Mansfield and France’ which will be held in Paris, 19–21 June 2014.

Paris 2014 Call for Papers

May Sinclair Society Introductory Symposium – Call for Papers

The newly-launched May Sinclair Society is to hold its Introductory Symposium on Friday, 18 July 2014. The symposium is organised by the May Sinclair Society: http://maysinclairsociety.com/ with the support of the Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University. A keynote talk will be given by Professor Suzanne Raitt of the College of William and Mary, Virginia.

Papers are invited on any aspect of Sinclair’s life and work. Although this will primarily be an academic event, contributions from associates or enthusiasts of Sinclair would be particularly welcome. Please forward 300-word abstracts in a Word document format to maysinclairsociety@sheffield.ac.uk by 31 March 2014.

Admission to the event will be free and lunch and refreshments will be provided. There will also be an optional visit to the Swaledale Museum on Saturday 19 July, which includes a guided walk taking in Sinclair’s house and some of the buildings which inspired her settings for Mary Olivier and The Three Sisters. Details will be forwarded along with registration documents.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945

The 16th annual conference of the multidisciplinary society,
The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

July 17-19, 2014, Institute of English Studies, London

The 16th annual conference of the Space Between society will explore the notion of ‘crossing’ − whether of oceans, borders, classes, genders, disciplines or genres − as it relates to literature, art, history, music, theatre, media, and spatial or material culture in any country between 1914 and 1945. From 1930s writers and intellectuals crossing the class divide to the surrealist crossing of a sewing machine with an umbrella, from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, from crossing the dance floor to spying and wartime betrayal, tropes and examples of crossing proliferate across the culture of the period. We invite proposals for papers considering any aspect of crossing whether literal or metaphorical, spatial or social, successful or unsuccessful. Topics might include:

• crossing time and space
• transatlantic crossings of American (North and Latin) and European cultures
• crossing between east and west
• crossing the Mediterranean
• crossing travel and colonialism
• crossing the breach between peace and war
• crossing between friendship and enmity
• crossing picket lines
• broadcast media crossing the airwaves
• border crossings
• double crossings, voluntary and involuntary
• identity crossing
• cross dressing
• cross purposes
• cross-cultural activity

Keynote speaker: TBC

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words along with a short biographical statement to Nick Hubble at Nick.Hubble@brunel.ac.uk by 2 December 2013.

Conference Organising Committee:
Erica Brown, Sheffield Hallam University
Richard Hornsey, University of Nottingham
Nick Hubble, Brunel University
Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University
Michael McCluskey, University College London
Ann Rea, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown