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Sponsored by the Sussex Centre for Modernist Studies
April 20th 2015
Keynote Speakers: Professor Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. Natalia Cecire (Sussex)
More information available here
Proposals due 1st March 2015
modernismschildconference@gmail.com
The Ezra Pound Society is calling for papers for the panels it is organising for the Conference of the American Literature Association in Boston.
The Ezra Pound Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2015 annual conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2015, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Please send proposals (up to 250 words), along with a brief biography or curriculum vitae, to Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (tryphonopoulosd@BrandonU.CA or demetres@unb.ca). We welcome proposals on any topic that relates to Ezra Pound’s poetry, prose, life, his place in the modernist world, the teaching of his work, his relationship with other writers, and so on.
Submissions must be received no later than January 30, 2015.
Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century
Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015
Registration is now invited. See http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/
For programme and link to the registration page.
Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years around the First World War. Today, historical studies of literature, art, design, lifestyle and consumption as well as of the human sciences are exploring intensively, but frequently separately, on that talk of “science”. Historians of science are exploring the interpenetration of discourse in the public sphere and expert communities. This pioneering interdisciplinary conference is therefore planned to bring together people who do not normally meet in the same space. Scholars from a range of disciplines will come together to explore how the complex interpretations of science affected the re-creation of what it was to be modern.
In association with the conference, the Science Museum and Ensemble BPM are mounting two performances of the modernist opera “Three Tales” by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, and there will be a limited number of free and reduced price tickets for conference attendees on a first come first serve basis. For more information about the opera, please write to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk. The opera will be advertised publically in the very near future.
The next session of the Modernist Magazines Research Seminar will take place at 6pm on Tuesday 27 January, in room G35 (ground floor) of Senate House, London.
Research students Jennifer Cole (Oxford) and Sophie Oliver (Royal Holloway) will jointly lead the session, and will be speaking about The Edison Monthly and Charm magazines respectively. Please see below for further details.
The seminar is open to everyone interested in modernism. For more information, please email modernist.magazines.ies@gmail.com or visit http://modmags.wordpress.com
With best wishes,
Charles Dawkins (University of Oxford)
Aimee Gasston (Birkbeck, University of London)
Chris Mourant (King’s College London)
Natasha Periyan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Magazine Mimicry and The Edison Monthly – Jennifer Cole (University of Oxford)
As the field of periodical studies continues to develop, the question of how to meaningfully characterize and categorize magazines remains problematic. Because magazines have to compete for readers within the market place, there are conflicting pressures toward uniqueness, but also toward imitation of existing successful forms. Mimicry in the world of periodicals can serve a similar function to mimicry in nature by allowing one magazine to pass as something completely different.
In January of 1914, a magazine entitled The Edison Monthly ran an ad in Poetry soliciting for ‘electrical verse’, offering to pay ‘one dollar a seven word line’ for ‘serious verse’. This unusual ad led me to research The Edison Monthly, which turned out to be a monthly twenty-page (or more) advertisement for the New York Edison Company attempting to masquerade as a high quality generalist magazine. Although frustratingly little information about the readership of the magazine is available, the magazine’s disguise must have been somewhat successful according to its publishers’ definition because it continued to be published with illustrations on good quality paper from 1908 until 1928. In this talk, I will draw on Brooker and Thacker’s concept of ‘periodical codes’ to show how imitation of the codes of one type of periodical by another blurs the lines between news, science, art and advertising. Comparing the visual, material, and structural characteristics of The Edison Monthly with other, more respected magazines forces us to question our assumptions about the relationship between form and content in periodicals more generally.
Bio
Jennifer Cole is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. She is a founding member of the editorial committee for the graduate journal Oxford Research in English. Her research interests include periodical studies and the influence of the life sciences on the development of American modernism.
Make It New Jersey! Modernism à la mode in Newark’s Charm Magazine – Sophie Oliver (Royal Holloway)
The little-known magazine Charm was published by the Newark department store Bamberger’s between 1924 and 1932. As a declared ‘home interest’ journal aimed predominantly at the women who shopped in the store, Charm focused on fashion, interiors and domestic management. In its appeal to the modern woman, whose progressive tastes it answered and shaped, the magazine also favoured political content and cultivated a general air of cosmopolitan modernity – including regular contributions from modernist writers and artists, and critics of modern culture, many of whom were based or had lived in Europe. Yet while this modern outlook assumed France – and specifically Paris – as its benchmark, Charm also promoted a confident localism, a sense of pride in New Jersey and its qualities.
How do these disparate editorial priorities work together? How do they position Charm‘s modernist content? In this paper I will explore the series of satirical articles about expatriate life that Djuna Barnes wrote for the magazine in the mid-1920s in light of these questions. I use Charm‘s fashion coverage as a frame through which to read Barnes’s pieces, whose ambiguous voice itself displays a complex blend of cosmopolitan and local allegiances. This discussion will propose the relevance of fashion as a methodological tool for the modernist critic, not just a thematic concern for the modernist writer. It will also address the ways in which mainstream magazines such as Charm fashioned the modernism that appeared in their pages.
Bio
Sophie Oliver is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is writing a thesis about female modernists, fashion and transatlantic modernity. Her first article, on Djuna Barnes and fashion in the 1910s, was published by Literature Compass in 2014.
CFP: Strata
The organisers invite proposals for papers and presentations on the theme of ‘strata’ in the period 1845-1945 across the arts, humanities and social sciences, for a one-day interdisciplinary conference specifically aimed at postgraduate students. In association with the University of Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity and hosted by the College of Arts and Law, the conference will showcase current research from a variety of critical perspectives and use this to springboard dialogue across disciplines and institutions.
The period 1845-1945 saw the rise of the skyscraper, the development of underground railways in metropolitan centres, landmarks in archaeological discovery including the ancient city of Troy in 1868, the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 and the Sutton Hoo ship-burial in 1939. In the early twentieth century, the radiometric dating of strata revolutionised geology, while psychology moved into a laboratory setting, and pioneers such as Sigmund Freud developed ground-breaking analytical techniques to penetrate the unconscious. Thus, the era was one in which countless varieties of heights and depths were explored, their treasures exposed and their findings made to impact upon the ways in which both the external world and the internal self were perceived.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
The symposium will be held at the University of Birmingham on Friday 8 May 2015. Please submit 200 word abstracts for 20 minute presentations, along with a 50 word biography, to strataconference@gmail.com by Monday 9 March 2015.
Translating Sounds in Proust
International Conference
25-26 June 2015
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, France
Translation is inherent to Proust’s idea of literary creation, and his work develops a rhythmical, musical conception of literary language as foreign in and of itself. What then happens when Proust’s work is itself translated, and, more specifically, how does the practice of translation shed light on his understanding of the relationship between sound and language, between phonè and writing? Bringing together critics and translators, this conference draws on the English-language translations of Proust’s work in order to explore the way sound plays out in his work, disrupting the lines that separate the “original” or source text from its echo in translation. This, in turn, interrogates the distinctions in his work between silence, noise, music and language, and between experience, representation and memory.
PROGRAMME PROVISOIRE/ DRAFT PROGRAMME
Jeudi 25 juin, après-midi / Thursday 25th June, afternoon
Françoise Asso, Université de Lille III
La Traduction chez Proust (titre provisoire)
Margaret Gray, Indiana University, Bloomington
Voices Off: Translating the Sounds of Silence in Proust
Daniel Karlin, Bristol University
Translating “les cris de Paris” in Proust’s La Prisonnière
Vendredi 26 juin (matin et après-midi/ Friday 26th June (morning and afternoon)
Vincent Ferré, Université de Paris Est Créteil
Titre à confirmer / Title to be confirmed
Lydia Davis, Translator, Du côté de chez Swann (Penguin 2002), Author
Hammers and Hoofbeats
James Grieve, Translator, A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Penguin, 2002), Author, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
Voix proustiennes à l’anglaise. L’Idiolecte des personnages de la Recherche en traduction.
Lydia Davis, James Grieve
Translators’ round table / Table ronde des traducteurs
Colloque organisé par le groupe de recherche Confluences du CREA (Centre de recherches anglophones) dans le cadre du séminaire Sounds Foreign, avec le soutien de l’UFR LCE et de l’Ecole Doctorale Langues, Lettres et Spectacles de l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre
APPEL À ARTICLES / CALL FOR ARTICLES
Une publication bilingue est prévue à l’issue du colloque. En plus des contributions des participants, nous accueillons des propositions d’article sur cette question. Un résumé peut être envoyé à Emily Eells dès maintenant (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr)
Papers will appear in a bilingual publication following the conference. Please note that we welcome submissions of additional articles on this question for inclusion in the final volume. Abstracts should be sent to Emily Eells (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr).
INSCRIPTION/REGISTRATION
Inscription gratuite et obligatoire auprès d’Emily Eells and Naomi Toth (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr, ntoth@u-paris10.fr)
There is no fee for attending the conference, however participants should register beforehand by sending an email to Emily Eells and Naomi Toth (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr, ntoth@u-paris10.fr)
AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1
The Arts & Humanities Research Institute at King’s, in conjunction with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, is staging a major international conference on the Cultural Legacies of World War I, to be held at King’s from 21-23 May 2015.
The conference will cover a wide range of aspects of how the First World War changed the world, such as its geopolitical aftermath (and its current repercussions in the Middle East); how people thought about future wars; the war’s impact on social history, the arts and popular cultures, and on science, technology, nursing and medicine.
Confirmed Keynote speakers include:
Dr Santanu Das, Department of English, King’s College London
Prof. David Edgerton, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, KCL
Dr Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford
Anne Marie Rafferty, Professor of Nursing Policy at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery,KCL
Dr Eugene Rogan, Director, The Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford
Prof. Sir Simon Wessely, Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, KCL
Please send proposals (not more than 300 words) for papers of 20-25 minutes to:
max.saunders@kcl.ac.uk and laura.douglas@kcl.ac.uk
by 1 February 2015.
Postgraduate Conference ‒ Announcement and Call for Papers
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London
will host a one-day Postgraduate Conference entitled
‘Digesting Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food’
on
Saturday 18th April 2015
Food sustains a discussion about historical, sociological, anthropological and political changes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both in Britain and abroad. Throughout the nineteenth century food production in England declined and the importation of foodstuffs from the colonies increased. This change in what and how food was eaten created anxieties about the role of women, inherent attitudes towards other races and the European perception of itself as the bastion of civilization. One unforeseen extension of importing food from distant lands was the growing problem of cannibalism through the shipwreck of merchant ships, a phenomenon which questioned societal codes of conduct and Victorian perceptions of morality. Food was used as a tool through which to examine political anxieties such as anarchy and capitalism, liberty and revolution. Food changed the status of women throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, establishing them as moral agents of good cooking. Food crosses boundaries not just of race, class, nationality and gender, but across academic disciplines. This conference aims to bring together new and established views on how food can contribute to Modernist Studies.
Outline of the Conference
The conference will take the form of an interdisciplinary programme reflecting the diversity of current postgraduate work in food studies; it encourages contributions from new and established scholars working in the field of modernism who are eager to share their thoughts and research.
Papers considering food in literature, art, history, film, theatre or theological studies are welcome. Conference panels might include:
‘Food and Film’: Food as a cinematic motif, occasions of eating in film
‘The Politics of Food’: Vegetarianism/Veganism/Cannibalism
‘Economies of Food’: Famine/Gluttony
‘Aesthetics of Food’: Metaphorical eating, the art of food
‘Theology of Food’: The Eucharist, sacred food, sacrifice, religious symbolism of food
‘Food and Modern Literature’: Woolf, Joyce, Conrad, Zola, Hardy, Orwell, James
‘Food in the Media’: Journalism, advertising, cook books
Call for Papers
The School of Arts and Humanities invites proposals for papers for a Postgraduate Conference on ‘Digesting Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food’ to be held at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes and for panels on all topics related to the representation of food in Modernism are invited.
Abstracts of about 300 words should be sent no later than 30th January 2015 in MS Word format to the conference organizer: kim.salmons@btinternet.com.
Confirmation of acceptance will be communicated within one week of the closing date.
Cost: The conference fee is £25 and includes lunch, tea and coffee.
Payment details: to be advised.
Raymond Williams Society
Registration is now open for the international conference, Evelyn Waugh and his Circle. This conference is a celebration and integral part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project, which is based at the University of Leicester. From the 24-26 April we will be welcoming Waugh scholars from around the world, who will present research alongside many of the project’s own editors. We are delighted to host Selina Hastings, Paula Byrne and William Boyd as our keynote speakers, and the project will be introduced by Evelyn Waugh’s grandson, Alexander Waugh.
For more information and to register please visit:http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/waughconf
Please email waughconf@le.ac.uk with any queries.
Registration is open until Saturday 28th February 2015.
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