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Registration Open: New Work in Modernist Studies 2017

Post author By modernistudies
Post date November 13, 2017

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Registration is now open for New Work in Modernist Studies 2017, held this year at the University of Leeds on Friday 15th December. To register, please follow this link: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-arts/new-work-in-modernist-studies-2017

About the conference
NWiMS 2017 will be the seventh one-day graduate conference in modernist studies held in conjunction with the London Modernism Seminar, Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS). As in previous years, this conference will take the form of an interdisciplinary programme reflecting the full diversity of current graduate work in modernist studies; it encourages contributions both from those already involved in the existing networks and from students new to modernist students who are eager to share their work. The full programme will be announced soon, and will include a keynote lecture by Dr Hope Wolf, University of Sussex.

There is a conference registration fee of £15 for BAMS members and £25 for non-BAMS members, including lunch, coffee and a wine reception at the end of the day. Membership of BAMS will entitle you to discounted rate for NWiMS 2017 (current members will also qualify for the discount). Memberships cost £50 (£40 student rate) per annum (including hard copies of Modernist Cultures) and £35 (£30 student rate) per annum (online access to the journal only).As well as the discounted rate for NWiMS, new and renewing members of BAMs will receive:

• A print subscription to Modernist Cultures which is published four times a year

• Online access to Modernist Cultures

• Free or reduced access to all BAMS events including postgraduate training days, conferences, and the ‘New Work in Modernist Studies’ graduate symposia

• Access to members-only content on the BAMS website, including training resources and publisher discounts

• Eligibility for entry to the BAMS essay prize for early career researchers

Please contact Ruth, Anne, and Jivitesh at NWiMS2017@gmail.com if you have any questions about the conference.

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CFP: New Work in Modernist Studies, 15th December 2017

Post author By modernistudies
Post date October 1, 2017

BAMS_GREEN (1) About the conference

The seventh one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Friday 15th December at the University of Leeds (School of English), in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS).

As in previous years, this conference will take the form of an interdisciplinary programme reflecting the full diversity of current graduate work in modernist studies; it encourages contributions both from those already involved in the existing networks and from students new to modernist students who are eager to share their work.

The day will close with a plenary lecture by Dr Hope Wolf, Lecturer in British Modernism, and Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex. Previously she worked at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. In 2017 she curated an exhibition on Sussex Modernism at Two Temple Place, London. She continues to work on this project, which explores the lives and works of diverse artists and writers including Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Eric Gill, David Jones, Edward James, Serge Chermayeff, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Edward Burra, and many more. She is also working on a further project and exhibition to be held at the 1930s modernist venue, the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, on the Surrealist artists Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff. Hope enjoys working with museums and galleries. She held a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Imperial War Museum, and ran a course with curators at the Museum of London. She has compiled an anthology of First World War writing for Hutchinson/Vintage, and has published in Textual Practice, Life Writing and A Cambridge History of English Autobiography; publications in press include an article on David Jones, measurement and poetic calibration for a British Academy/Oxford University Press collection.

Proposals

Proposals are invited, from PhD research students registered at British universities, for short (10 minutes maximum) research position papers. Your proposal should be no longer than 250 words, and please include with it a short (50 words) biography. If you wish to apply for a contribution to your travel expenses you should also include an estimation of travel costs with your proposal (see below for details). Proposals should be sent to nwims2017@gmail.com to which any other enquiries about the conference should also be addressed.

Deadline: 5pm Saturday 4 November 2017. Acceptance decisions will be communicated within ten days.

Registration

Conference registration will open soon. Registration must be completed by 1 December at the latest. The conference fee is £25 (£15 for BAMS members) and includes lunch, coffee and a wine reception. The day will run 10am – 6pm.

Bursaries

Travel costs: It is anticipated that a subsidized contribution to all travel costs over £20 will be offered to all postgraduates who contribute to the conference. This means that we will aim to pay the amount that remains after the first £20 for which you will be responsible. If your travel expenses are less than £20 we will not be able to contribute. Please note that funds are limited and our ability to contribute depends on your co-operation in finding the cheapest fares. To apply for a travel bursary please include a separate indication of your estimated travel costs with your proposal. This will not be taken into account when assessing your proposal.

Conference Organizers

Ruth Clemens and Anne Reus, Leeds Trinity University, and Jivitesh Vashisht, University of Leeds

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Come to our Modernist Life postgraduate morning!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date June 4, 2017

As part of Modernist Life, BAMS, in conjunction with postgraduates at University of Birmingham, have organised a PGR morning.

The sessions will begin with coffee and networking. We’ll then have a publications workshop, led by the editorial team at Modernist Cultures, followed by a careers panel, led by BAMS PGRs and ECR representatives. A lunch will mark the end of the event.

The event is free to attend, as part of the conference, and will take place in the morning of Thursday 29th June, from 0930.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please send expressions of interest to Dr Daniel Moore (D.T.Moore@bham.ac.uk) by Friday 9th June.

We’ll be producing a PGR contacts booklet as part of the event. If you would like be included in this, please send through:

name
email address
affiliation
location (we know that not all students live near their department)
thesis title (working/provisional is fine!)
up to five keywords for your thesis (e.g. James Joyce; affect; modernist novels; gender).

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Register now for the 2017 BAMS postgraduate training day!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date March 6, 2017

Registration is now live for the 2017 BAMS postgraduate training day, to be held at De Montfort University, Leicester on April 5. Read the full program and sign up below.

Please note: the day will be held in VPPD 2.02 (Vijay Patel Building). A PDF map is attached below.

Essay Prize Past Events Postgraduate

The 2016 BAMS essay prize results!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date February 16, 2017

Congratulations to Annabel Williams, runner-up George Potts and third place winner Kirstin Smith.

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Save the date! The next BAMS Training Day will be on April 5, at De Montfort

Post author By modernistudies
Post date January 27, 2017

Get your diaries out: the next BAMS Training Day will be held at De Monfort University on Wednesday, April 5th. This year’s event will focus on Teaching Modernism, and postgraduates at all stages are warmly invited to attend. Watch this space for more details!

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Programme: New Work in Modernist Studies, 10 December 2016

Post author By modernistudies
Post date December 8, 2016

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We are pleased to publish the programme for New Work in Modernist Studies, Saturday 10 December 2016, 10am-6:30pm, hosted at ArtsOne Building, Queen Mary University of London.

10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30-11:45 Panels

1. Unfinished Work: Drafts, Archives, Paratexts

Chair: Sophie Oliver

Chloe Oram (Chichester), ‘Ottoline in the Archives: Shedding Light on Modernism’s Undervalued Muse and Patron’

Katie Jones (Nottingham), ‘Author, Reviewer and Translator: Katherine Mansfield’s Place in Literary Culture’

David Miller (Birkbeck), ‘Redrafting, Maintenance and Temporality in the Late Poetry of Djuna Barnes’

Ruth Clemens (Leeds Trinity), ‘The “Feeble Translations” of The Waste Land ’s Paratexts’

2. Moderns and Unmoderns

Chair: Helen Carr

Mick Sheldon (QMUL), ‘Discarded Imagist: The Life, Work, and Reputation of Allen Upward’

Hannah Scragg (Keele), ‘Socio-political engagement and formal experimentation: Bennett, the Great War, and the General Strike’

Rosemary Walters (Kent), ‘Charles Causley: Moderation, Movement and Modernism’

Alex Grafen (UCL), ‘The Whitechapel Boys and Little Magazines’

11:45-13:00 Panels

3. Knowledge, Self-Knowledge and Spectacle

Chair: Stephanie Boland

Seán Richardson (Nottingham Trent University), “I really don’t exist”: Queer (auto)biography and the fragmented self in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye To Berlin (1939)

Katharina Boeckenhoff (Manchester), ‘Travelling Intimately with Barnes: Ways of Knowing in her New York Articles’

Ana Tomcic (Exeter), ‘Gods and Goods – Psychoanalysis, Evolution and the Cinema’

Adam Cuthbert (Dundee), ‘Cinematicity and the Spectacle of Memory in Modernist Fiction’.

4. European Connections

Chair: Scott McCracken

Abigail Richards (RHUL), ‘The Marvellous in Leonora Carrington’s and Gisèle Prassinos’s writings’

Eirini Apanomeritaki (Essex), ‘Insect transformations in the short fiction of Franz Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov; an exploration of human-animal subjectivity’

Frances Reading (Kent), ‘Olive Garnett and Anglo-Russian Cultural Relations from the Crimean War to the Russian Revolutions’

Natalia Ciofu (Essex), ‘Hybrid Modernism in Ciuleandra by Liviu Rebreanu’

13:00-14:00 Lunch and BAMS AGM

14:00-15:15 Panels

5. Bodies, Affect, Aging

Chair: Helen Saunders

Imola Nagy-Seres (Exeter), ‘”[A]nd there is a sort of peace”: moments of delight in D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love ‘

Eret Talviste (Northumbria), ‘Affect and its relation to ethics, aesthetics and politics in modernist fiction’

Yasutaka Kabuto (RHUL), ‘Aesthetics of Reduction: Falling Fertility and Aging Society in Virginia Woolf’s Novels’

Rosie Barron (Glasgow), ‘Embodied Travelling: Samuel Beckett and the Incarnation of Motion’

6. Intermedial Modernism

Chair: Morag Shiach

Sue Ash (Oxford Brookes), ‘Kinaesthetic Empathy in Isadora Duncan’s dance and in artists’ responses to her dance’

Charlotte Whalen (QMUL), ‘”Anglo-Mongrels and the Rogue”: Mina Loy’s decorative modernism’

Lara Ehrenfried (Durham), ‘Early Sound Film and the Late Modernist Novel: Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square (1941)’

Christopher Gerrard (Dundee), ‘Méliès to Man Ray: The Cinema of Attraction as Precursor to the Cinema of the Avant Garde’

15:15-15:30 Coffee

15:30-16:30 Panels

7. Mathematical Modernism

Chair: Tim Armstrong

Daniel Cartwright (Westminster), ‘The Oulipo and Mathematical Form in Literary Composition’

Zoe Gosling (Manchester), ‘Modernism and Mathematics’

Catriona Livingstone (KCL), ‘Eye-Beams and Interference Patterns: Quantum Physical Experiments in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ‘

8. The Politics of Fiction / the 1930s

Chair: David Ayers

Chris Doyle (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Literary Criticism and Genre Fiction in the 1930s: The Left Review Perspective’

Amy Olivia Hurle (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘Woolf and the Middle-Brow’

Teresa Sanders, ‘Alternative Forums, Subversive Identities: Education and Pedagogy in the Works of Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1926-1954.’

16:30-17:30 Keynote

Sascha Bru (MDRN, University of Leuven), ‘Are we Modernists Yet? Avant-Garde,

Temporality, History’

17:30-18:30 Reception

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Last day: register for New Work in Modernist Studies now!

Post author By modernistudies
Post date December 5, 2016

Today is the last day to register for New Work in Modernist Studies, BAMS’ postgraduate conference.

About the conference

NWiMS 2016 will be the sixth one-day graduate conference organised, this year, by the London Modernism Seminar in conjunction with Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS). The provisional programme is attached to this email, and includes a keynote lecture by Sascha Bru (MDRN, University of Leuven), ‘Are we Modernists Yet? Avant-Garde, Temporality, History.’

There is a conference registration fee of £15 for BAMS members and £25 for non-BAMS members, including lunch, coffee and a wine reception at the end of the day. Membership of BAMS is now available for 2017 and will entitle you to discounted rate for NWiMS 2016 (2016 members will also qualify for the discount). Memberships cost £45 (£32 student rate) per annum (including hard copies of Modernist Cultures) and £28 (£23 student rate) per annum (online access to the journal only).

As well as the discounted rate for NWiMS, new and renewing members of BAMs will receive:

• A print subscription to Modernist Cultures which is published three times a year

• Online access to Modernist Cultures

• Free or reduced access to all BAMS events including postgraduate training days, conferences, and the ‘New Work in Modernist Studies’ graduate symposia

• Access to members-only content on the BAMS website, including training resources and publisher discounts

• Eligibility for entry to the new BAMS essay prize for early career researchers

Please contact Suzanne and Jade at nwims2016@gmail.com if you have any questions about the conference.

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CFP: New Work in Modernist Studies, 10 December 2016.

Post author By modernistudies
Post date October 12, 2016

About the conference

The sixth one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Saturday 10th December at Queen Mary University of London (Francis Bancroft Building), in conjunction with theModernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS).

The day will close with a plenary lecture by Sascha Bru who is an Associate Professor in the department of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, at KU Leuven and co-director of MDRN http://mdrn.be/node/1 He has published widely on the poetics and politics of avant-garde and modernist writing and his books include: The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol III: Europe 1890-1940, edited with Peter Brooker & Andrew Thacker (2013); Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture, ed. with Peter Nicholls et al. (2012); Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (2009); and Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent, edited with Peter Nicholls et al (2009).

Proposals

Deadline: 5pm Tuesday 1 November 2016. Acceptance decisions will be communicated within 1 week.

Registration

Registration: delegates (those speaking and those simply attending) must register online via the link:

http://eshop.qmul.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=34&catid=1&prodid=662

Registration must be completed by 30 November at the latest. The conference fee is £25 (£15 for BAMS members) and includes lunch, coffee and a wine reception. The day will run 10am – 6pm.

Bursaries

Travel costs: It is anticipated that a subsidized contribution to all travel costs over £20 will be offered to all postgraduates who contribute to the conference. Further details will be forthcoming, but please include a separate indication of your estimated travel costs with your proposal. This will not be taken into account when assessing your proposal.

Conference Organizer

Dr Suzanne Hobson, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London

Call for submissions Essay Prize Past Events Postgraduate

The British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2016

Post author By modernistudies
Post date June 30, 2016

The British Association for Modernist Studies invites submissions for its annual essay prize for early career scholars. The winning essay will be published in Modernist Cultures, and the winner will also receive £250 of books.

The BAMS Essay Prize is open to any member of the British Association for Modernist Studies who is studying for a doctoral degree, or is within five years of receiving their doctoral award. You can join BAMS by following the link on our membership pages: https://bams.ac.uk/membership

Essays are to be 7-9,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and references.

The closing date for entries is 31 October 2016. The winner will be announced by 31 January 2017.

Essays can be on any subject in modernist studies (including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, ethnography, film studies, history, literature, musicology, philosophy, sociology, urban studies, and visual culture). Please see the editorial statement of Modernist Cultures for further information: http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/mod.

In the event that, in the judges’ opinion, the material submitted is not of a suitable standard for publication, no prize will be awarded.

Instructions to Entrants

Entries must be submitted electronically in Word or rtf format to modernistcultures@gmail.com and conform to Chicago style.

Entrants should include a title page detailing their name, affiliation, e-mail address, and their doctoral status/ date of award; they should also make clear that the essay is a submission for the BAMS Essay Prize.

It is the responsibility of the entrant to secure permission for the reproduction of illustrations and quotation from copyrighted material.

Essays must not be under consideration elsewhere.

Enquiries about the prize may be directed to Jeff Wallace, Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, at jwallace@cardiffmet.ac.uk.