British Association for Modernist Studies - Website Designed and Developed by Callum LeithPlease consider submitting an abstract to the proposed special session for MLA 2016 in Austin, TX:
John Henry Brookes Building 204, Gipsy Lane Campus
Hosted by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and formulated in part as a more specific response to the 2014 BAMS Conference ‘Modernism Now!’, ‘Avant-Gardes Now!’ will address topics which are relevant both to interdisciplinary and international avant-garde studies and creative practice, and also to the UK research and funding environment.
Speakers:
– Professor David Cottington (Kingston University), ‘The avant-garde’s alternative professionalism’
Oxford Brookes respondents:
Professor Nathalie Aubert, Dr Alex Goody, Professor Paul Whitty
Submission deadline: 30th June 2015
To promote cutting-edge scholarly research, the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust funds a yearly essay prize aimed at scholars working at the forefront of Lewisian studies. Submissions are welcome from anyone working on Lewis in a scholarly context, though please note that the competition is not open to anyone who, on the date of submission, has held a PhD for more than two years. The prize is worth £200, and winning essays are published in The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies (JWLS; ed. Andrzej Gąsiorek). Entries can be on any aspect of Lewis’s life and work, though entries relating Lewis in new ways to his contemporaries or to fresh cultural-historical contexts are encouraged. Those submitting work to be considered for the prize should send their essays to the Assistant Editor of JWLS, Nathan Waddell, by email.
For more information about the prize please visit http://www.wyndhamlewis.org/
For MLA Austin, 7–10 January 2016:
Fiction and the Media Ecology, 1900-2015
We invite 250-word abstracts for papers on fiction as one medium among many, and its relation to the shifting media ecology of the period. Please send by March 8 to Debra Rae Cohen (drc@sc.edu).
Note: this is a guaranteed session, sponsored by the division on LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone.
Durham, NC, November 13 – 15, 2015
This panel welcomes papers concerned with the life and works of T. S. Eliot. Paper proposals addressing Eliot’s many-sided engagement with the extraliterary arts, the SAMLA 87 theme, are especially welcome. By June 1, please submit a 250-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to John Morgenstern, Clemson University, at jmorgen@clemson.edu.
A one day conference co-hosted by the University of Leeds and City University of Hong Kong
Location: School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Date: Monday 22 July 2015
In 1889, the British moral crusading organisation The National Vigilance Association set out its ideological objections to sexually-suggestive fiction. ‘Pernicious literature’, it claimed, was now ‘a ready and abundant feast spread before’ the nation’s youth, in which ‘every draught of wine is drugged, and no true thirst quenched’. Forty years later, The Sunday Express critic James Douglas notoriously damned Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) in similar terms, deeming it ‘palatable poison’. While condemning writing about sexuality, both censors evinced an important element of the cultural construction of fiction in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century: that novelists, and novel-readers, were ‘under the influence’. The provocative correlation between intoxication, desire, and fiction animates the work of writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, the Brontë sisters, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Ian Fleming, and Jean Rhys. In the century from 1850 to 1950, the glamour of intoxication was regularly countered by narratives of abjection and catastrophe, echoing the social, medical, and legal attempts to define and regulate both desire and intemperance.
This one-day conference will consider the connections between intoxication, sexuality and fiction between 1850 and 1950. We seek papers investigating how the act of writing a novel–and the experience of reading it–might be experienced as altered states, by authors, readers, reviewers and censors. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
• intersections between intoxication, desire and creativity
• representations of creative inspiration and exuberance in literary coteries
• constructions of reading as a process modelled on compulsion and craving
• representations of drunkenness and drug-use in fiction
• Orientalism, decadence, and intoxication
• the association between psychoanalysis and psychotropic drugs
• relationships between sexually-frank writing and ‘demoralisation’
• the implications of intoxication on the novel’s aesthetics and form
• the pathologising of overlapping figures: the ‘addict’, the ‘homosexual’, the ‘writer’.
The organisers intend this conference to begin a conversation resulting in the publication of a collection of essays for a journal special edition or book collection. Delegates are invited to consider their conference paper proposal as the beginning of a longer work for publication.
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted by 20 April 2015 to both conference organisers:
Katy Mullin, University of Leeds (k.e.mullin@leeds.ac.uk)
Allan Johnson, City University of Hong Kong (ajohnson@cityu.edu.hk)
Friday 13th March 2015
Hosted by the Dept. of English, University of Hull, with funding from the Roberts Fund
5/5A Derwent Building (University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX)
The sixth annual BAMS postgraduate training day will focus on preparing for a career in modernist studies. This event is open to registered doctoral students working in the field of modernism. Registration (including lunch) is free to members of BAMS, and a limited number of travel bursaries are also available to BAMS members. Registration is £5 for non-members. Places are limited, so please register by emailing Ellen Ricketts (E.A.Ricketts@2008.hull.ac.uk] by Friday 6 March including your year of study and a brief description of your research topic.
To join BAMS (including a subscription to Modernist Cultures) go to https://bams.ac.uk/membership/. Student rate: £32; on-line only £23.
Programme
11:00 Registration
11:30 Welcome and introduction
11:35 Publishing and Modernist Studies
Panel discussion with Katharine Cockin (series editor of Pickering and Chatto book series, Dramatic Lives), Andrew Thacker (co-editor of Literature and History) and Jeff Wallace (former editor of Keywords) about publishing from editors of journals and book series in the field of modernism. Topics to be covered include: putting a proposal together for a book; crafting an article out of a thesis chapter; reviewing for journals; editing a collection of essays.
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Building a (Modernist’s) CV and Beyond
Workshop on writing a CV and applying for posts in modernist studies. Short talks by early career academics. Please prepare and bring along a draft CV and covering letter designed for application to a teaching post.
3:30 Coffee/ tea
4.00 Alex Thomson (University of Edinburgh) ‘On “Culture and Administration”
In preparation, you may want to read Theodor Adorno, ‘Culture and Administration’, in The Culture Industry (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 107-31.
5:00 Roundtable Q&A
5:30-7:00 Reception
7:00 Optional dinner (to be arranged)
Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance
This panel seeks to explore the ways in which bodies are figured and disfigured in Beckett’s work. On their own constituting an expansive “body of work,” Beckett’s prose texts, poems, plays, radio, television, and film works posit human, non-human, and inhuman bodies in different and often surprising forms. What kinds of bodies are incorporated, disembodied, or stripped bare in Beckett’s work? How can we trace the life, vulnerability, and survival of the body in single texts and across works? Are Beckettian physical and textual bodies susceptible to or immune from affect? Which bodies, metaphorical or otherwise, are excluded from consideration and care in a quite prolific archive of Beckett criticism? How does the body function and dysfunction across genre and media, prose and performance? The purpose of this panel is to provide a multidisciplinary platform for thinking about the body in Beckett’s work through emerging reading practices, which could engender new connections and ideas for such an extensively critiqued range of texts. In keeping with SAMLA’s theme for the 2015 conference, “In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts,” emphasis placed on thinking across genre, media, and theoretical approaches is encouraged, and will be a significant part of our conversation at this panel.
Possible approaches and topics may include, but are not limited to:
Queer bodies in Beckett’s work
Beckett and disability studies
Bodily capacity and its limits in performance
Affect and its embodied forms
Gendered bodies and feminist approaches to Beckett
Abject and aging bodies, dead bodies, and animal bodies
Material bodies and the life of the object
Beckett’s body of work and its sustained life in/through/as Beckett criticism
The precarious body, vulnerability, and the pains of survival
Ill-sensing: perception and the phenomenological body in Beckett
Food studies, consuming bodies, oral fixations, sucking stones
Sex and reproduction in Beckett
Adaptations of Beckett and the political, gendered, and racialized body
Dance, stage directions, choreography, and demands on the performing body
Please send a 250-300 word abstract, a brief bio, and any questions to: michelle_rada@brown.edu by June 1st, 2015.
ASAP/7: Arts & the Public
September 24-27, 2015
Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC
Call for Papers
ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and museums to monuments, performances, and protests, the public encompasses less a specific domain than a varying set of political institutions, community spaces, and cultural objects. Whether construed as virtual or bureaucratic, as utopian or ecological, the public can be both a catalyst for artistic production and an object of cultural critique. Although we gladly accept outstanding proposals on any topic relating to the contemporary arts, we encourage participants to think inventively about the intersections between and among the public, its manifestations and conceptualizations, and the arts of the present.
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE:
The program committee will consider papers on these or any other topic relating to the contemporary arts. In keeping with our mission, we are especially interested in sessions that feature more than one artistic medium and more than one national tradition. The program committee will give preference to panels and roundtables that feature papers by scholars and artists working across and between disciplines.
SESSION FORMATS:
We welcome and encourage creative and alternative presentational styles, alongside traditional papers and panels. Seminars, workshops, panel debates, artist discussions, films, installations, visual displays, and PechaKucha sessions will all be considered. Seminar leaders are asked to propose topics by the deadline and to submit the full roster of participants by 3.15.2015. Seminars normally meet for a single session, and papers are circulated among participants in advance of the conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Abstracts and session submissions should include the following information:
1. Title of paper or session
2. Author(s): name and contact information (including email address)
3. Format and style of presentation
4. Abstract or session description:
• 300-word abstracts for individual papers; or
• 700-word abstracts for:
Panels (3-4 participants)
Roundtables (5-9 participants)
Seminars (8-10 participants)
Other formats
5. Brief descriptions (up to 150 words) of work and publications for each participant
6. Optional: up to two jpeg images, each under 2MB, to complement your proposal
Proposed sessions should include speakers from more than one institution. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, academic ranks, and institutional positions, as well as from practicing artists in any medium.
PLEASE SEND PROPOSALS TO: asap7.greenville@gmail.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 03.01.2015
For more information, see:
ASAP/7 Conference: www.clemson.edu/asap7
ASAP home page: www.artsofthepresent.org
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