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CFP: Time and Place in T. S. Eliot and His Contemporaries

International Symposium ‘Time and Place in T. S. Eliot and His Contemporaries’. Promoted by Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, 18-21 January 2015, Florence, Italy

Call for Papers

Time and place have huge symbolic significance in Eliot’s work and that of his contemporaries. Space and time exist as symbolical, religious, philosophical, historical, political and personal ‘nodes’ in Eliot’s writings. This conference wants to explore these ‘nodes’ in greater depth — where they exist, how they interact with other nodes and themes in Eliot’s writing, and how they intersect with the aesthetic and philosophical thinking of Eliot’s contemporaries.

The symposium topic is focused on, but not limited to, T.S. Eliot and Modernism, and may include such topics as:
– Evocations of time and place in Eliot’s writing or that of his contemporaries
– The preoccupation with space, place and (dis)location
– Modernism and the uses of time, ‘time past’, and timelessness
– Eliot, Modernism and history
– Eliot, Modernism and contemporary scientific and philosophical views on space and time
– Eliot’s place in the tradition, the canon, Modernism, and world literature

Papers that explore the connections between England and Florence or England and Italy in the context of Eliot and his contemporaries are also welcome.

Proposals of 100 to 250 words or completed papers may be sent as email attachments to any of the three co-organizers by 1 October 2014:
Prof. Temur Kobakhidze (temur.kobakhidze@cantab.net),
Dr. Wim Van Mierlo (Wim.Van-Mierlo@sas.ac.uk),
Dr. Stefano Maria Casella (stefanomaria.casella@alice.it).

For more information and registration please visit http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/evento/522/International-Symposium-%22Time-and-Place-in-T.-S.-Eliot-and-His-Contemporaries%22%2C-18-21-January-2015%2C-Florence%2C-Italy.

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CFP: Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism

The Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia

29 January 2015

University of New South Wales

Keynote Speaker: Emeritus Professor Angela Smith (Stirling)

 

When Wyndham Lewis described Katherine Mansfield as ‘the famous New Zealand Mag.-story writer’ in September 1922, it was not meant as a compliment. Yet this disparaging remark gives a hint as to what makes her such a fascinating figure today. In the context of the recent scholarly extension of modernism’s borders in terms of geography, gender, class, and time, as well as such diverse new interests as the roles of literary networks, periodicals, and popular and material cultures, Mansfield is more important than ever.

These developments encourage new approaches to Katherine Mansfield, new ways of reading her not only as a short-story writer but as also an editor, a literary critic, a translator, and a poet. Recent criticism has also turned to considering Mansfield as a transnational modernist, whose antipodean origin influenced and affected her even after she emigrated to Europe, and whose legacy continues to inspire succeeding generations of writers and artists in New Zealand and beyond.

This, the third annual Katherine Mansfield Society postgraduate and early career researcher conference, aims to explore the place of this complex literary figure in terms of both modernist and antipodean writing: the ways that she and her works have crossed national, professional, and linguistic boundaries.

Proposals are invited, on these topics or any other topic related to Mansfield, from postgraduate students and early career researchers. Please submit abstracts of 250 words with a brief biography of 50 words to mansfield.unsw@gmail.com by 29 September 2014.

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CFP: Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism – deadline 29 September

Call for Papers
 
Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism
 
The Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference,  held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia
 
29 January 2015
 
University of New South Wales
 
Keynote Speaker: Emeritus Professor Angela Smith (Stirling)
 
 
When Wyndham Lewis described Katherine Mansfield as ‘the famous New Zealand Mag.-story writer’
in September 1922, it was not meant as a compliment. Yet this disparaging remark gives a hint as to
what makes her such a fascinating figure today. In the context of the recent scholarly extension of
modernism’s borders in terms of geography, gender, class, and time, as well as such diverse new
interests as the roles of literary networks, periodicals, and popular and material cultures, Mansfield is
more important than ever.
 
These developments encourage new approaches to Katherine Mansfield, new ways of reading her not
only as a short-story writer but as also an editor, a literary critic, a translator, and a poet. Recent
criticism has also turned to considering Mansfield as a transnational modernist, whose antipodean
origin influenced and affected her even after she emigrated to Europe, and whose legacy continues to
inspire succeeding generations of writers and artists in New Zealand and beyond.
This, the third annual Katherine Mansfield Society postgraduate and early career researcher conference,
aims to explore the place of this complex literary figure in terms of both modernist and antipodean
writing: the ways that she and her works have crossed national, professional, and linguistic boundaries.
Proposals are invited, on these topics or any other topic related to Mansfield, from postgraduate
students and early career researchers. Please submit abstracts of 250 words with a brief biography of 50
words to mansfield.unsw@gmail.com by 29 September 2014.
KM & Antipodean Modernism CFP
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CFP: Humanity and Animality in 20th and 21st Century Culture

Call for papers:

 

University College London (UCL)

Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies

 

HUMANITY AND ANIMALITY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY CULTURE:

NARRATIVES, THEORIES, HISTORIES. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

 

15 September, 2014

 

This interdisciplinary conference takes up an important debate in a field of growing importance in the humanities, where animal studies, post-humanism, and eco-criticism have surged in recent years. The definition of mankind seems necessarily to pass through an understanding of what constitutes the animal. Philosophically, what distinguishes, or indeed brings together humanity and animality has been the subject of debate from Aristotle’s understanding of man as ‘zôon logon echon’ and from Kant’s view of man’s treatment of animals as an insight into the true nature of humankind, Derrida’s seminars on ‘the beast and the sovereign’, up to Agamben’s recent theory of ‘bare life’ as the breakdown of the barrier between man and animal.

Artists, authors and filmmakers, such as Kafka, Dalí, Borges, Coetzee, Primo Levi, Margaret Atwood, Karl Appel, Paula Rego, Werner Herzog (‘Grizzly Man’), and Benh Zeitlin (‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’) to name but a few, have also grappled with the significance of the divide or symbiosis of humanity and animality. Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Andrew Benjamin are also redefining ways in which humanity and animality can be thought together, or apart. The violent upheavals of the 20th century, with its global wars, unprecedented genocides and totalitarian experiments led to a re-evaluation of notions such as humanism and humanity, which has made way for new hopes and anxieties relating to the subhuman and the post-human.

By hosting a varied programme of papers and debates chaired by high-profile contributors to this emerging field of inquiry, this conference aims to establish a forum for researchers throughout the UK to discuss this important theoretical issue.

 

Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to the following questions/topics:

 

  • Is it possible, or even desirable to distinguish between animality and humanity?
  • In which ways does the dialectic of ‘human’ and ‘animal’ shape our identities, culture and morality?
  • Why is the comparison with animal world so important for our culture?
  • Shame, pride, sorrow, fear, anxiety, fascination, awe: how do emotions acknowledge the relation between humanity and animality?
  • How do literature, art, evolutionary theory, philosophy and other disciplines negotiate the changes undergone by the concept of the ‘human’ in the last century?
  • How have our perceptions of ‘humanity’ and ‘animality’ changed in relation to violent and extreme events such as genocide, widespread atrocity, world war etc.?
  • What does the persistence of the fascination with animals suggest about specific cultural and historical moments?
  • Are we really a Darwinian species, or do technology, morality and creativity separate us from the rest of the natural evolution?
  • How can we rethink the binary opposition between humanity and inhumanity?
  • Have we entered into a post-human era?
  • Evolutionary theory and the human condition
  • Human-Animal studies
  • Humanity and Animality in Art, Literature, Science, Philosophy, Cinema, Religion, etc.

 

 

Deadline for Abstracts: 

 

Please send an abstract (300 words maximum) and a short biography (50 words maximum) to s.bellin.12@ucl.ac.uk byAugust 1st, 2014.

 

A selection of the papers will be published.

 

Confirmed speakers (other speakers will be announced soon):

 

Martin Crowley (Cambridge; University)

Robert S. C. Gordon (Cambridge University)

Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University)

Florian Mussgnug (UCL)

Kevin Inston (UCL)

other speakers will be announced soon

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Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference, ‘Transnational Modernisms’

Call for Papers

 

AMSN2: Transnational Modernisms

Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference

Hosted by the University of Sydney

15-16 December 2014

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Paul Giles (University of Sydney)

Professor Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia)

Professor Sue Thomas (La Trobe University)

 

 

The ‘Transnational turn’ in literary studies has been the focus of intense debate and sustained reflection in recent years, as have critical re-evaluations of Modernism’s transnational scope. Scholarly interventions by Paul Giles (Transnationalism in Practice), Wai Chee Dimock (Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time), Jahan Ramanzani (A Transnational Poetics), and Paul Jay (Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies), among many others, establish the viability of transnationality as a disciplinary focus. Transnational Modernismsaims to provoke fresh thinking about the particular resonances between Transnationalism and Modernism, including the ongoing critical review of Modernism’s traditional Transatlantic focus.

 

This broader awareness of the sites where Modernism was practiced and transnational connections were initiated (or resisted) prompts a range of compelling questions, including:

 

  •        How might uneven flows of cultural capital between centres of Modernist practice and erstwhile peripheries be understood, accounting for the varieties of geographic and temporal displacement?
  •        Must a global Modernism be co-synchronous, or did it evolve in different phases in different locales and under different socio-economic conditions?
  •        What is to be made of the increasingly intensive scholarly attention given to East Asian Modernism(s) in Western scholarship, and how might this inflect more long-standing work in Asian literary, art historical and musicological studies?
  •        How might an Asian-Pacific Modernism be conceived, and how might this intersect with regional scholarship in literature, visual arts, music, and dance?
  •        How might, for example, Caribbean, South Asian, Brazilian, Latin American, Nigerian or Arab Modernisms be comprised, and reckoned with respect to hegemonic literary and cultural history?

 

This two-day conference will seek to address these and other notions of Transnational Modernisms. Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or panels of three papers examining any relevant aspect of the conference theme across literature, the visual and plastic arts, music, theatre, and related genres. Proposals from postgraduate students are especially encouraged.

 

Please send abstracts of 300 words and a brief biographical note to mark.byron@sydney.edu.au by 31 August. Notification will be forthcoming by 15 September.

 

Registration and other information will be available soon at the AMSN website, at http://amsn.org.au/

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Modernism at War – University of Glasgow, Saturday 18 October 2014

SCOTTISH NETWORK OF MODERNIST STUDIES
Modernism at War 
University of Glasgow, Saturday 18 October 2014
 
Keynote speakers:  
Adam Piette (University of Sheffield), ‘War Modernism as Commemorative Trauma’
Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh),”Hoarse Oaths that Kept Our Courage Straight”: Language and War, Modernism and Silence’
The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies will be holding a one-day symposium entitled ‘Modernism at War’ at the University of Glasgow on 18 October 2014. Proposals are invited from academics and post-graduates for 20-minute presentations on any topic addressing war in modernist writing and art (including film and other media), the aesthetics and politics of commemoration, trauma and reconstruction, war elegy, anti-war and anti-art, war and the avant garde, war and the archive, war and pedagogy, methodologies for studying war and modernism, or any other related issues and approaches.
Short proposals for papers, expressions of interest and queries should be sent to Vassiliki Kolocotroni  (vassiliki.kolocotroni@glasgow.ac.uk) by Friday 5 September 2014.
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CFP: Reading Modernism with Machines

CFP: Reading Modernism with Machines

 

From data mining and visualization to mapping and topic modeling and beyond, digitally enhanced studies of literature and culture offer a series of computational methodologies for use in literary and cultural criticism. Using these approaches, scholars can ask new questions of literature and culture, while also intervening in existing debates. And with the publication of a variety of anthologies, handbooks, and treatises addressing the Digital Humanities in general, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary and cultural history. Reading Modernism with Machines aims to bring together the most rigorous and exciting modernist criticism to have been conducted using computers.

 

Each submission should offer a case study of modernist literary and cultural analysis conducted using a computational approach. While methodologies should be outlined, the majority of each submission should be reserved for humanistic discussions, which should be based on, or supplemented by, any electronic analyses. Submissions will be judged based on 1) the innovation and sophistication of the digital tools used in the analysis, 2) the essay’s broader impact on modernist studies, and 3) the degree to which computational analysis and literary/cultural interpretation merge cohesively.

 

Submissions

 

Initial proposals of ~500 words are due by September 31st, 2014

(Where appropriate, sample graphics, tables, tools, or datasets may also be submitted with proposal.)

 

Final submissions of ~6,000 – 8,000 words are due by January 31st, 2015

Submissions should be sent to James O’Sullivan (jco12@psu.edu) and Shawna Ross (smross3@asu.edu)

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CFP: 21st-century Moore, Houston

21st-century Moore.
March 19-22, 2015, University of Houston
Call for Papers: deadline 15 July

In March 2015 the University of Houston will host the first meeting in a
decade to focus on Marianne Moore. In light of the past decade’s work on
Moore, including variorum editions of her early and middle- period work and
a ground-breaking new biography by Linda Leavell, the conference will
examine Moore’s place in the twenty-first century’s understanding of
modernism. Abstracts of 250 words are invited for scholarly and creative
presentations on any aspect of Moore’s work. Please send abstracts with
brief resumé, and MOORE ABSTRACT in the subject line to egregory@uh.edu by
15 July 2014.

Steering committee: Elizabeth Gregory, Fiona Green, Stacy Hubbard,
Cristanne Miller, Heather White.

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Announcement for Sussex Quadrophenia symposium

A reminder that registration is open for our conference:

Here by the Sea and Sand: A symposium on the album and film Quadrophenia

Brighton and the University of Sussex, 10-11th July 2014

Thursday 10th  July:  Franc Roddam (director of Quadrophenia) will discuss Quadrophenia at a showing at the Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton.

Friday 11th July:  Conference at University of Sussex including talks by James Wood (Harvard University, the New Yorker) and Paolo Hewitt.

Register in advance and the film showing is included in the conference price:http://herebytheseaandsand.wordpress.com/

Read about us in Rolling Stone!: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/quadrophenia-hits-the-quad-20140422

Our line-up of participants include:

Franc Roddam’s numerous films include Quadrophenia, K2, Aria, Lords of Discipline and War Party. He created the phenomenally successful Masterchef . He has won awards for his tv drama Dummy, and his BBC documentaries, Mini and The Family. He will be answering questions after the showing of the film at the Duke of York’s on Thursday the 10th of July.

James Wood is one of our foremost literary critics. His reviews and essays have appeared frequently in the The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He judged the Booker Prize in 1994, and is a professor of the practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He has published four books of essays and a novel. His collection, The Fun Stuff and other essays includes a killer homage to Keith Moon.

Paolo Hewitt has written, co-written, and edited numerous books on music, style, and Mod culture including The Soul Stylists: Six Decades of Modernism, Small Faces: The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story, My Favourite Shirt: A History of Ben Sherman Style, and The Sharper Image: A Mod Anthology.

Simon Wells has written on film and music for numerous magazines and newspapers including The Guardian; The Times and The Independent. His numerous  books on film and music include Your Face Here- British Cult Movies Since the 1960 , The Beatles: 365 Days and Butterfly On A Wheel, the story of the infamous trial of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1967. His book on Quadrophenia is published with Countdown in June.

Alan Fletcher channelled his obsession with 60s mods into a screenplay based on his own life which found its way to Pete Townshend’s door and led to his involvement with the film, and to his writing Quadrophenia-the novel. The script formed the basis of Brummell’s Last Riff, the first novel in his Mod Crop Trilogy. He has contributed to symposiums on youth culture at Derby, Nottingham and Keele.

Dr. Pamela Thurschwell
Senior Lecturer
Co-director, Centre for Modernist Studies
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/modernist/
School of English
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9QN
UK

Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia
10-11 July 2014, University of Sussex
http://herebytheseaandsand.wordpress.com/

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David Jones: Christian Modernist?” FINAL DEADLINE 15 JUNE

“DAVID JONES: CHRISTIAN MODERNIST?”
A conference in Regent’s Park College and St Anne’s College, Oxford
10–13 September 2014

David Jones’s (1895-1974) rich career as visual artist, poet and critic yokes together two terms, ‘Christian’ and ‘modernist’, which are sometimes considered incompatible. This conference examines the paradoxes of a Catholic artist committed to ‘making it new’ through formal experiment and a large-scale theory of sign, sacrament and civilization. Jones’s case demands an interdisciplinary approach drawing on theology, philosophy and history, as well as a wider rethinking of the critical vocabulary of Modernist Studies. We specially welcome a broad range of contributions from fields beyond Jones Studies, to widen the conversation about his work.

Full CFP and registration: http://modernismchristianity.org/david-jones-conference/
(Please note: Only those registering for college accommodation are guaranteed a place at the conference at this stage. If you need to register without accommodation please contact erik.tonning@if.uib.no in advance.)

The final deadline for registration is 15 June, but early registration is strongly encouraged. Please contact the organisers as soon as possible if you intend to register.

Papers are 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion.

Keynote speakers:
Thomas Dilworth (University of Windsor)
Paul Fiddes (University of Oxford)
Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham)
Micheal O’Siadhail (Poet, critic and linguist)
Anne Price-Owen (University of Wales)

Organised by the Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford and the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ project, University of Bergen, Norway.
Organisers: Paul Fiddes, Anna Johnson and Erik Tonning.
Contact: erik.tonning@if.uib.no