Category: Postgraduate

Imprints of the New Modernist Editing Workshop, Glasgow, 5 Dec 2019 (apply by 14 Nov)

Post author By modernistudies
Post date November 8, 2019

Imprints of the New Modernist Editing

Yapping with Cutbush: A one-day practical workshop on letterpress typography and print, led by Edwin Pickstone (project CoI)

Glasgow School of Art, Thursday 5th December 2019

The early twentieth century saw great waves of reform, standardisation and professionalisation move through the European and American print industries. However, the period is also of great consequence for the breaking down of formal and orthodox barriers, with artists, authors and designers finding new senses of ‘authorship’ in the production of the printed word. In exploring these historical contexts, workshop participants will be able to better appreciate the practical and aesthetic considerations at play in the creation of modernist texts through hands on experience of the technologies which were used in their production, and through the creation of their own new printed material. Held in the Caseroom, Glasgow School of Art this workshop is intended to give participants an experience of how independent printers such as the Hogarth Press found new forms as they grappled to combine language and aesthetics with the practical restrictions of letterpress printing. Over the course of the day each participants will move through the roles of Editor, Designer, Printer and Binder to produce their own unique edition of Virginia Woolf’s currently unprinted short story ‘Ode written partly in prose on seeing the name of Cutbush above a butcher’s shop in Pentonville’.

The Caseroom, Glasgow School of Art, is the largest collection of letterpress printing equipment in a higher education institution in Scotland. Dedicated to the art of moveable type this fully functioning workshop houses a wide range of typefaces in both metal and wood, multiple printing presses and associated machinery, the oldest of which was produced in the mid nineteenth century. Amongst other credits, The Caseroom is a listed member of the International Association of Printing Museums and European Association of Printing Museums.

Edwin Pickstone is Lecturer, Typography Technician and Designer in Residence at The Glasgow School of Art, where since 2005 he has cared for the school’s collection of letterpress printing equipment. Focusing on the material nature of print Pickstone uses letterpress technology, collaborating with artists and designers on a wide range of projects. His work spans academic, artistic and design worlds, with particular interest in the history of typography, graphic design, the nature of print and the book.

Due to limited space at the workshop, we ask those interested in attending to complete and return this form to imprintsnme@gmail.com by 9am on Thursday 14th November. Participants will be informed by Friday 15th November as to whether their application
has been accepted. All expenses for workshop participants, including UK travel, catering, and accommodation if required, will be covered. Please note that due to location and the practical nature of the workshop, some aspects of the event may not be suited to those with limited physical mobility – if you require further information regarding this, please contact imprintsnme@gmail.com .

Please complete the application form available at https://newmodernistediting.glasgow.ac.uk/the-imprints-of-the-new-modernist-editing/ (Imprints of the NME > Activities). You must apply by Thursday 14 November 2019.

CFPs Postgraduate

CfP: Figuring Out Feeling, Paris, 1-2 July 2020 (deadline 31/1/20)

Post author By modernistudies
Post date November 6, 2019

Figuring Out Feeling

International Conference

Université de Paris, 1st-2nd July 2020

Deadline for submissions:

January 31, 2020

Since the affective turn in the early 1990s, the humanities and social sciences have witnessed a profound and renewed interest in how feelings operate; their relationship to both the human, the nonhuman (or more than human), and other feelings. As researchers, teachers and artists, we often struggle with the place and status of emotions in creative processes, institutions, the workplace, classrooms, and in our own research. How do we feel about all of this?

The title of this conference favours the word ‘feeling’, because of its flexibility and ubiquity in everyday speech; we want to allow contributors the freedom to name, explore and redefine slippages and intersections between theoretical frameworks. ‘Figuring out’ suggests an ongoing process, a movement from the inside out, an attempt to image and imagine, to shape and bring into light; but it doesn’t carry the necessity of a resolution. This conference encourages you to stay with the trouble, sit with the discomfort, dwell in the in-between and embrace the slippage in a collective, open-ended process of figuring out feeling.

We welcome papers on feeling across eras, genres and mediums, with a relation to the arts and literature of the anglophone world (19th-21st century).

For more information, please see our conference website.

Topics may include (but needn’t be limited to):

– Thinking about feeling: theories and methodologies of emotions; the semiotics of emotions; emotions and the intellect (or the history thereof). Vague, fuzzy, confusing, ineffable and ungraspable feelings; irrational or ambivalent feelings.

– Sounding feeling: emotions in music and poetry; emotional rhythms, echoes, and silences.

– Feelings and the body: feeling, touching and moving; emotionally loaded gestures; emotions and (dis)ability; the place of emotions in sense and perception studies.

– Feelings of intimacy: relationships, communities, social networks, platonic feelings, family feelings and sexual feelings.

– Disturbing feelings: discomfort, disgust, dismell, emotionally troubling texts or images.

– Disordered feelings: mental illness, the pathologisation of emotions, the invention of madness, hysteria, numbness.

– Lingering feelings: emotions through time and space, emotional memories, nostalgia, trauma, grief; persistent or haunting emotions.

– Slippery feelings: the relationship between feelings; layered, multiple, clashing feelings; sympathy, empathy, transfers of emotions; liminal feelings, emotional development; emotions in translation.

– Feelings in style: (anti-)sentimentalism, melodrama, soppiness; dryness, flatness; experimental approaches to feelings.

– Political feelings: emotions in the public sphere and power structures; (un)feminist, queer, intersectional feelings; emotional labour, activism.

– Ecologies of feeling: post-human feelings, animal and more-than-human feelings; emotional objects; emotions and the built or natural environment, eco-anxiety.

We also encourage discussions of:

– Scholarly feelings: the affects of research, critical objectivity and subjectivity, academic communities, the emotional burden of academic precarity.

– Teaching and feeling: collective vs. individual emotions within the classroom, (un)safe spaces, the growing role of expressing feelings in the advisor/advisee relationship.

– Creative & crafty feelings: obstructing, liberating, disturbing or comforting emotions in creative processes.

How to apply

Papers: individual papers should be 15 minutes long. To apply, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short bio (max. 100 words) to figuringoutfeeling@gmail.comby 31st January 2020.

Panels and roundtables: panels should consist of three 15-min paper presentations. To apply, please send a proposal of no more than 400 words along with short bios of participants (max. 100 words) to figuringoutfeeling@gmail.comby 31st January 2020.

Non-traditional formats (performance, screening, small exhibition, workshop): please feel free to contact us ahead of the deadline (31st January 2020) with any thoughts or initial enquiries.

Paper guidelines

Papers should be written in English, with oral delivery in mind, in a clear, easily digestible style. The approximate length of a 15-min paper is 6 to 8 pages (double spaced), or about 2,000-4,000 words. If you would like to see examples of successful abstracts, check out the Modernist Review’s Community Resource Pack. We look forward to reading your work!

Attendance and fees

We welcome contributions from all: students, researchers, artists, activists, academics, and enthusiasts!

Fees for the conference, and details of how to pay, will appear shortly on the conference website.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us or tweet at us @figuringfeeling.

Call for submissions CFPs Essay Prize Featured Past Events Postgraduate Uncategorized

BAMS ESSAY PRIZE 2019

Post author By modernistudies
Post date October 2, 2019

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31 JANUARY 2020

The British Association for Modernist Studies

Essay Prize 2019

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 January 2020. The winner will be announced in March 2020.

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 the MHRA style guide.

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 Tim Armstrong, Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, at T.Armstrong@rhul.ac.uk

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New Work in Modernist Studies, Liverpool, 6 December

Post author By modernistudies
Post date September 17, 2019

About the conference
The ninth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Friday 6 December at the University of Liverpool, 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).

BAMS is dedicated to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. 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 studies who are eager to share their work.

The day, which also marks this semester’s relaunch of the Northern Modernism Seminar, will include a plenary session with Dr Beryl Pong (Sheffield) and will close with a discussion of the ‘new modernism’, for which we’ll be joined by writers and publishers including Chris McCabe (Dedalus, 2018) and Galley Beggar Press. This will be followed by a drinks reception.

Proposals
Proposals are invited, from PhD students registered at British and Irish 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 please also include an estimate of travel costs with your proposal (see below for details).

Proposals should be sent to sophie.oliver@liverpool.ac.uk, to which any other enquiries about the conference can also be addressed.

Deadline: Friday 25 October.

Acceptance decisions will be communicated within seven days.

Applicants and delegates are encouraged to let us know about any access needs they might have, and if we are able to make adjustments to the application or presentation process, we will endeavour to do so.

Registration
Conference registration will open soon. The conference fee is £25 (£15 for BAMS members) and includes lunch, coffee and a wine reception.

Bursaries
It is anticipated that a subsidised contribution to all travel costs over £20 will be offered to all postgraduates who present a paper at 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.

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CfP: Common Ground: Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society, 20–21 June 2019

Post author By modernistudies
Post date February 12, 2019

Identifying Value(s) in Literature, Culture, and Society

20─21 June 2019

In November 2018, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops along the Mexican border as an “obviously moral and ethical mission”. In doing so, he aligned the enforcement of sovereignty through rigorous policing of borders as a specifically moral value. However, the criticism of the Trump administration’s border policy for violating US and family values provides a contradictory interpretation of what constitutes moral values. Despite the implication that values constitute a set of universally agreed principles, the controversy over the US-Mexican border is only one example that value is anything but ubiquitous. Common Ground invites scholars to Queen’s University Belfast in June 2019 to explore what we value, who we value, and why we value them. We seek to pull apart the concept of value to expose the multifaceted ideologies and rationalities from which competing values are derived. At the most basic level, the nationalist rhetoric deployed by Mattis and by Brexiteers poses the question of who has value to a nation. And often the individual’s value is predicated upon the economic concern of how they can add value to the nation. As such, nationalist rhetoric reveals the tension between the two most prominent understandings of “value” that dominate political and ethical discourse—morality and economics.

We are delighted to confirm Dr Kevin Power of Trinity College Dublin and Professor Margaret Topping of Queen’s University Belfast as keynote speakers.

We seek proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate and early career scholars across a diverse range of disciplines in the humanities to explore the negotiation between different conceptualisations of value and values in literature, culture, and society from the Medieval period to present day, including moral, economic, mathematical, linguistic, environmental, literary, and aesthetic values. We would especially like to encourage papers from MA students. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

What are the identifying values of a society and how are these conveyed, questioned, or challenged through literature and/or culture?
How does economic value influence questions of literary and artistic value?
The tension between economic value and environmental values.
Are values spontaneously generated by people in society or are values created and regulated by the state?
To what extent is the public value of the Humanities under threat? How do we measure literary value, artistic value, value of popular culture, etc?
The value and impact of religious thought and/or religion-derived morality in literary works and an increasingly secular society.
The negotiation of the conflict between artistic value and moral values: reading the work of authors whose behaviour is unacceptable.
The value of natural/artificial landscapes and boundaries as the result of a chain of social, historical and natural processes.
Family values and pedagogical values.
Post-truth and the value, exploitation, or weaponisation of “truth”.
The value and exploitation of emotions.
To what extent is the individual defined by the values of others, or defined by that which others value?
The valuation of gender/sexuality/queerness.
What value is given to identity and how does this change across historical time periods?
To what extent does literature shape moral, social, and individual values.
The value of politeness/manners/political correctness.
Value of progress ─how do we measure “progress” whether social, political or economic?

Please submit all proposals to commonground2019@outlook.com by 31 March 2019.

Submissions should include:

250-word abstract
Brief bio
Contact details (email address)

We aim to respond to all submissions by 12 April.

Please advise us of any technical or accessibility requirements at the time of submission.

Common Ground 2019 Committee

Lillie Arnott, Jaime Harrison, Niall Kennedy, Lee Livingstone, Irene Tenchini

CommonGround2019.wordpress.com/ @Ground2019

Past Events PG Training Day Postgraduate

BAMS Training Day, Bristol, 27 March

Post author By modernistudies
Post date January 21, 2019

British Association for Modernist Studies

Postgraduate and Early Career Training Day: Research and Digital Humanities in Modernist Studies

Hosted by the AHRC South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Programme

University of Bristol, Wednesday 27 March 2019

Southwell Street Training Rooms, 1st floor, New Veterinary School, Southwell Street, Bristol

The 10thannual BAMS training day, in partnership with the South-West and Wales Doctoral Training Programme, will focus on research skills for modernist studies, with a special emphasis upon the Digital Humanities. As in all BAMS training days, the focus will be on practical advice for entry into a career in the field of modernist studies, or for those at an early-career stage. The day will combine talks and workshops presented by visiting speakers and by members of the BAMS Executive Steering Committee. Registration is free for BAMS members, £5 for non-members; travel bursaries will be available for SWW DTP researchers.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgraduate-training-day-research-and-digital-humanities-in-modernist-studies-tickets-56102998579
(registration closes 19 March)

To join BAMS (including a subscription to Modernist Cultures), go to: https://bams.ac.uk/membership/.

Student rates: £40 including print subscription to Modernist Cultures; £30 online-only access to Modernist Cultures.

To find out more about the opportunities offered by the SWW DTP, visit: https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/

Programme

10.00
Registration

10.30
Welcome (Gareth Mills/Jeff Wallace, University of Reading/Cardiff
Metropolitan)

10.40
Introduction: Canon versus Literary History in Modernist Research (Tim
Armstrong, Royal Holloway University)

11.10
Coffee

11.30
Pursuing and presenting your research: application, grants, appointments
(Adam Watt, University of Exeter)

Lunch (not provided)

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

2.00
Keynote speaker 1: Helen Southworth, University of Oregon: On MAPP
(Modernist Archives Publishing Project)

3.00
Coffee

3.15
Workshop: Gabriel Hankins, ‘The Weak Powers of Digital Modernist Studies’ (article, Modernism/modernity 25:3, September 2018, pp.569-585) (Suzanne Hobson and Jeff Wallace)

4.15
Keynote speaker 2: Finn Fordham, Royal Holloway University: Uses and Abuses of ‘The Network’ for Humanities Research

5.15
Concluding reflections; pub

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CfP: Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship, Birmingham, 21 February 2019

Post author By modernistudies
Post date December 13, 2018

‘Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship’

University of Birmingham, 21 February 2019

A one day symposium hosted by the Modern and Contemporary Forum and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham.

The focus of this one-day symposium is to bring together experienced scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students, to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and debate on shifting notions of modernity.

Papers on any aspects of history from the late-eighteenth century to the twenty-first will be considered. To encourage a broad range of papers the invited topics of the conference include, but are by no means limited to, those listed below.

Time and temporalities
Material Culture
Literature and literary influences
Place, space, and architecture
The state and structural hierarchies
Class/gender/race in the global context
Museum studies
Medical humanities
Newspapers and the media
Emotions
Senses
Popular culture, film, TV, music, fashion
Religion, spiritualism and occultism
Art history

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words along with a CV for 15 minute papers, or a 150 word abstract for a poster presentation, to uobmacforum@gmail.com by 14 December 2018.

The MAC forum is part of the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham, and is run by postgraduate researchers from a range of disciplines within the university. The forum encourages discussion and networking across disciplines and institutions, for those who have an interest in modern and contemporary history.

NWIMS Past Events Postgraduate

New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 December 2018, Glasgow: registration open

Post author By modernistudies
Post date November 27, 2018

Saturday 1 December 2018, 10–5.30 pm

The University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens

Plenary Speaker: DR ANOUK LANG (University of Edinburgh)

This one-day graduate conference is a joint event hosted by Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (SNoMS) in conjunction with Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, Modernism Studies Ireland (MSI), the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association of Modernism (BAMS).

All those interested in modernist topics are welcome to attend.

The cost of the conference is £25 (or £15 for BAMS members) and includes lunch, tea, coffee and a Christmas drinks reception. If you are not already a member of BAMS you can join at https://bams.ac.uk/membership/

***REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ***

Please go to register. Payment will be taken on the day. Places are limited and we advise early registration to avoid disappointment.

10–10:30 Coffee, registration, and welcome (Room: Foyer)

10:30–12:15 Parallel Sessions

SESSION ONE: Modernism, Gender and Sexuality

(Chair: Dr Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow) (Room: 5/101)

Rosie Reynolds (University of Westminster) ‘“Have you any aunts?” Virginia Woolf and the Usefulness of Aunts’
Josh Phillips (University of Glasgow) ‘Thoughts on Peace in a Wine Cellar: Finding utopia in the drafts of The Years’
Jessica Widner (University of Edinburgh) ’Animal States: The Transformed Female Body in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood’
Jade French (Queen Mary, London) ‘Embodied Lateness in Djuna Barnes’ “Rite of Spring”’
Hailey Maxwell (University of Glasgow) ‘A Matter of Form: Carl Einstein and Georges Bataille in Collaboration’
Polly Hember (Royal Holloway), ‘Through the Yellow Glass: Modernism, Mass Culture and Gossip’

SESSION TWO: Modernist Identities

(Chair: Dr Maria-Daniella Dick, University of Glasgow) (Room: 5/205)

Adam James Cuthbert (University of Dundee) ‘James Joyce: “Camera-Eye” and the Stream of Consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.’
Wei Zhou (University of Leeds) ‘Why False Teeth Matter: Deterritorialising Economy, Desire and the Return of the Soldier in The Waste Land’
Emon Keshvaraz (Durham University) ‘Colonel Connie: how Domestic Heterosexuality Masks the Trauma of Homosocial Loss in Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
Helena Roots (Edinburgh Napier University) ‘Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural Modernity’
Gaby Fletcher (NUI Galway) ‘Margaret Sanger: Displaying the female body’

12.15–1.15: Lunch (Room: Foyer) & BAMS AGM

1.15–3.00: Parallel Sessions

SESSION THREE: Transatlantic Modernisms

(Chair: Dr Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary, London) (Room: 5/101)

Jaime Ellen Church (University of Wolverhampton) ‘Zelda Fitzgerald, the Belle, and the Performance of Ballet in Save Me the Waltz’
Nicola John (University of St Andrews) ‘Art and Authorship: between Modern(ist) and National(ist) in Southeast Asian Art’
Aija Oksman (University of Edinburgh) ‘Black Women Writers and Hooverite Counterliterary Activities’
Ahmed Honeini (Royal Holloway) ‘Saying No to Death?: Mortality, Voice, and the Work of William Faulkner’
Laura Ryan (University of Manchester) ‘“You are white – yet a part of me” : D. H. Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance’

SESSION FOUR: Modernism Across Media

(Chair: Dr Andrew Frayn, Edinburgh Napier University) (Room: 5/205)

William Carroll (University of Birmingham) ‘Main Streets and Dark Rooms: The legacy of modernist American photography in the work of Walker Evans and David Plowden’
Tiana Fischer (NUI Galway) ‘Media avant la théorie, mais après la lettre: “Waking” Modernist Literature’s Media Theory’
Joseph Owen (University of Southampton) ‘Degenerate Decisions: Art, Schmitt and Endless Chattering’
Sofie Behluli (Lincoln College, Oxford) ‘The Figure of the Artist in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: Chevalier, Messud, Tartt’
Shalini Sengupta (University of Sussex) ‘Objects and Difficulty in Twentieth-Century Poetry’

3.00–3.30: Coffee (Room: Foyer)

3.30–4.30 Keynote Lecture:

Dr Anouk Lang (University of Edinburgh), ‘From Markov Chains to Vector Space: Digital Approaches to Modelling Modernism’

(Chair: Professor Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow) (5/205)

4.30–5.30 Christmas Drinks Reception (Foyer)

CFPs NWIMS Past Events Postgraduate

New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 December 2018

Post author By modernistudies
Post date October 8, 2018

The Eighth Annual BAMS Postgraduate Conference: New Work in Modernist Studies

1 December 2018

About the conference
The eighth one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Saturday 1 December at the University of Glasgow (English Literature, School of Critical Studies), in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (SNoMS), Modernism Studies Ireland (MSI), the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS).

As in previous years, the 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 studies who are eager to share their research.

The day will close with a plenary lecture by Dr Anouk Lang. Dr Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where she teaches in the areas of modernism, postcolonialism and twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Her research centres around investigating modernism as a global and transnational cultural phenomenon, and finding ways to understand its global flows and developments using methods from digital humanities and data science. She is the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (U Mass P, 2012) and co-editor of Patrick White: Beyond the Grave (Anthem, 2015), and has published articles in Canadian Literature, English Language Notes, Postcolonial Text and others. She has directed digital humanities projects funded by the AHRC, the British Academy and the Carnegie Trust. Her most recent project uses word embedding models to explore discourses of spatiality in a 33 million word corpus, and is forthcoming in a special forum on Modernism/Modernity‘s Print Plus platform in 2019.

Proposals
Proposals are invited, from PhD research students registered at British and Irish 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 nwims2018@gmail.com to which any other enquiries about the conference should also be addressed.

Deadline: 5pm Monday 29 October 2018. 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 subsidised contribution to all travel costs over £20 will be offered to all postgraduates who contribute to the conference. 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
Maria-Daniella Dick, Matthew Creasy & Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow, and Alex Thomson (University of Edinburgh).

Call for submissions Essay Prize Past Events Postgraduate

BAMS Essay Prize 2018

Post author By modernistudies
Post date July 31, 2018

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

The closing date for entries is 31 October 2018. The winner will be announced by 31 January 2019.

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 the MHRA style guide.

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 Suzanne Hobson, Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, at s.hobson@qmul.ac.uk