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CFP: Katherine Mansfield, New Directions, Birkbeck, June 2018

This international conference celebrates 10 years since the formation of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Since that time there has been a significant resurgence of scholarly interest in Mansfield, driven by the Society’s journal Katherine Mansfield Studies, now published annually as a prestigious yearbook by Edinburgh University Press. The themes covered to date have been wide-ranging: KM and Continental Europe; KM and Modernism; KM and the Arts; KM and the Fantastic; KM and the Postcolonial; KM and World War 1; KM and Translation; KM and Psychology; KM and Russia. The tenth volume (on the theme of KM and Virginia Woolf) will be published in 2018.
In addition to the yearbook, the Society has organised numerous international conferences, in New Zealand, France, the UK, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Australia, all of which have fed into this resurgence of interest in Mansfield. There have also been three major new biographies in the last ten years: Kathleen Jones’s Katherine Mansfield: The Storyteller (2010), Gerri Kimber’s Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (2016), and Redmer Yska’s A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888-1903 (2017).
The time has surely now come, therefore, to reassess Mansfield’s life and reputation ten years on, in the light of so much new research, and to consider new directions for future Mansfield studies.
Suggested topics for papers might include (but are not limited to):
• KM and world literature
• KM, music and art
• KM as an avant-garde writer
• KM and modernist magazines
• KM and material publication contexts
• KM and cultural material studies
• KM and medical humanities.
• KM and queer studies
• KM and her biographers
• KM and her contemporaries
• KM and New Zealand
• KM and World War 1
• KM and cosmopolitanism
• KM and travel writing
• KM and the literary marketplace
• KM and modernity/the modern
• KM and pedagogy
• KM and the colonial world
• KM and critical heritage
• KM and her legacy
Abstracts of 200 words, together with a bio-sketch, should be sent to the conference organisers:
Dr Aimee Gasston, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Dr Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK
Professor Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK
at kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
Submission deadline: 1 February 2018.
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IJJS, 2018: The Art of James Joyce, Antwerp, 11-16 June

Between 11 and 16 June 2018, the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics will host the 26th International James Joyce Symposium in the city that Joyce and his family visited in the summer of 1926. Belgium is small, so much so that all of the sites Joyce toured that year (Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and, most importantly, Waterloo) are within a 100-kilometre radius of the conference venue.

In his earliest prose writings, James Joyce described himself as an artist. His brother Stanislaus’s diary and Richard Ellmann’s 1959 biography reinforced this image of Joyce as the lone and dedicated creator who was prepared to give up everything for his art. We interpret the title of this conference as both an objective and a subjective genitive – from Joyce’s aesthetic or artistry to pictures of Cork in cork frames – and as a reminder of Joyce’s long afterlife in the creative arts.

We want to explore the role of art as a socially constructed commodity in Joyce’s work as well as trace his fortunes in the fine art and rare book marketplace; we invite studies of the ways in which Joyce crafted his oeuvre, in the wake of The Art of James Joyce, A. Walton Litz’s pioneering study of the creation of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake; and we are also interested in contributions that, creatively or critically, address the impact of Joyce’s artistic persona and work on other artists, in various forms and different mediums. Given the increased visibility of the digital humanities in Joyce studies and the proliferation of multimedia responses to his work, we also encourage contributions that do not necessarily conform to the traditional scholarly paper.

The symposium invites proposals for individual papers and fully-formed panels and multimedia/digital exhibitions. Participants are limited to one paper and one non-paper panel appearance (e.g. as panel chair or respondent). Please keep in mind that all participants must be members in good standing of the International James Joyce Foundation: non-members or members whose registration has lapsed will not be scheduled.

To propose an individual contribution, please submit a 250-word abstract that includes the speaker’s name and academic affiliation (if applicable) alongside the paper or project title. To propose a panel, the panel chair should submit a 500-word abstract on the panel as a whole that includes the names, academic affiliations, and email addresses of all participants; the title of the panel as well as the titles of each individual contribution; and the name and affiliation of the panel chair and respondent (if any). Please note that panels should have a maximum of four speakers. The panel chair may also give a paper – but please note that in this case it is customary for the panel chair to be scheduled last. Please note any date restrictions for individual panelists.

The deadline for paper or panel proposals will be 2 February 2018, Joyce’s birthday. Proposals can be sent to joyce2018@uantwerpen.be. For more information on the conference, please visit uahost.uantwerpen.be/joyce2018.

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Registration Open: New Work in Modernist Studies 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: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Modernism, 6-7 April 2018

Conference location: Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester.

Confirmed speakers: Claire Harman and Jan Montefiore.

Today, when political misinformation abounds, nationalism and Fascism have reappeared, and we find ourselves contending with ideology in simple, complex and covert forms, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s writing seems ever more relevant. In turns insightful, comic, cutting, and poignant, her texts ask what art is for, and how we might navigate personal relationships, social change, belief and the past. Warner has an acute sense of the relationship between material conditions and human consciousness, of place and the ordinary. This conference seeks papers that analyse her importance for studies of, among other possibilities, modernism, politics (specifically communism), gender and sexuality.

Claire Harman’s 1989 biography began a revival of interest in Warner. Virago published her fiction, Carcanet the Collected Poems, and Literature Compass undertook a special issue in 2015. Her relationship with Valentine Ackland and the queerness of Summer Will Show have attracted critical attention, and Lolly Willowes continues to feature on undergraduate courses on gender and sexuality. Critical discussions of Warner’s work though deserve to be broadened further in terms of themes and the texts addressed – for example her later novels, short stories and non-fiction. She participated in Marxist, musical and artistic communities, and had friends such as composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi; poet, journalist and editor Edgell Rickword; prominent Communist Party member Tom Wintringham; and poet Edith Sitwell. Warner published 6 novels and 11 collections of short stories during a literary career that spanned 5 decades. An expert musicologist, she translated Proust, published widely in the New Yorker, wrote a travel guide to Somerset, a biography of T. H. White, a short book on Jane Austen, six collections of verse, and a wealth of material is to be found in her non-fiction, diaries, letters and essays.

The range of Warner’s work and thought has not yet received its due. We welcome proposals on any aspect of her writing, translation or musicology, especially those committed to taking debate in new directions.

Proposals for 20-minute papers will be considered, including (but not limited to):

  • Modernism
  • The historical novel
  • Critical Theory
  • Postcolonial Warner
  • Marxism
  • Feminism
  • Realism
  • The Communist Party
  • Everyday life
  • Review culture
  • Fascism and the 1930s
  • Lesbian modernism
  • Translation
  • Travel writing
  • Queer Warner
  • Cultures of the left
  • Left Review
  • Relations with particular writers, artists and composers
  • Internationalism
  • Books, magazines and publishers
  • Letters and diaries
  • The New Yorker
  • Warner and Europe
  • Music, musicology and composition
  • Biography

Organisers: Dr Howard J. Booth (University of Manchester) and Dr Gemma Moss (Birmingham City University).

We welcome proposals on any aspect of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s work, especially those committed to taking debate in new directions. 250 word proposals should be sent to stwconference2018@gmail.com by 30 January 2018.

There are two bursaries for graduate students of £100, kindly offered by the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society (http://www.townsendwarner.com/); please write to the conference email address above for information on the application procedure.

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

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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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The British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2017

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 2017. The winner will be announced by 31 January 2018.

 

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 Suzanne Hobson, Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies, at s.hobson@qmul.ac.uk
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“Under the Volcano, 70 Years On”: The registration is now open for the Malcolm Lowry conference

The registration is now open for Under the Volcano, 70 Years On, an international conference to be held at Liverpool John Moores University and Bluecoat, Liverpool from the 28-29 of July, 2017. 

About the conference

2017 marks the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Malcolm Lowry’s great modernist novel Under the Volcano, and the sixtieth anniversary of Lowry’s death. This two-day international conference will explore the legacy of Lowry’s work, his literary status today and his ongoing role as source of inspiration to creative writers and artists across various disciplines.

The conference appropriately takes place in Liverpool, across the Mersey from Lowry’s birthplace on the Wirral. Since 2009, Bluecoat (Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre) has worked with the Firminists, an informal collective of Lowry enthusiasts and academics, to stage an annual ‘Lowry Lounge’ to celebrate the writer in the place of his birth. This programme has included guided walks, film screenings, talks and discussions, archival displays, music and other creative responses to Lowry, and book launches of the University of Ottawa Press critical editions of Swinging the Maelstrom (2013), In Ballast to the White Sea (2014) and the 1940 Under the Volcano (2015). The 2017 Lowry Lounge will take place on Saturday 29 July at Bluecoat and conference delegates will have the opportunity to participate in the programme.

Find out more and register here.

Regular tickets are £40, with students and unwaged attendees paying £10.

Confirmed speakers

Sherrill Grace (Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia); Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL; Paul Tiessen (Professor Emeritus, Wilfred Laurier University); Vik Doyen (Professor Emeritus, KU Leuven); Miguel Mota (University of British Columbia); Chris Ackerley (Professor Emeritus, University of Otago); David Large (University of Otago); Patrick A. McCarthy (University of Miami)

 

Further information

Organising committee

Helen Tookey (Liverpool John Moores University)

Bryan Biggs (Artistic Director, Bluecoat)

Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill University)

Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University)

Mark Goodall (University of Bradford)

Colin Dilnot (Merseyside-based artist and researcher)

Liverpool is on the north-west coast of England and has airport connections via Liverpool John Lennon Airport (20 min from city centre) or Manchester Airport (30 miles) as well as excellent road and rail links (2 hours 15 min from London by train). A former European Capital of Culture, the city has a superb cultural offer of galleries, museums, theatres and other attractions, excellent restaurants, affordable hotels and a vibrant nightlife. It is also within easy reach of coastal walks, the Wirral peninsula and north Wales.

 

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Registration is now open for Movement in/and/of the City, Kent, June 16

The programme is now available for Movement in/and/of the City, a postgraduate conference to be held at the University of Kent on  16 June.

About the conference

The notion of ‘movement’ has particular pertinence to our present cultural moment: across the globe, we live in a period marked both by unprecedented movements of population and by new popular political movements of all types.  Yet the idea of ‘movement’ as a literary preoccupation is as old as the earliest recorded literature itself, defining the quest/journey narratives of the ancient world. Movement can be conceived on the grandest geological or even planetary spatial and temporal scale, but by the same token is also perceived daily and personally in the individual human body.

To find out more and register for the conference, visit the conference website.

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CFP: Come to Montpellier this September for “Ford and the Other”

Proposals are invited for an international conference on Ford Madox Ford and the other to be held at Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, from September 7-9, 2017.

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Bloomsday at Birkbeck: roll up to see James Joyce on television!

This Bloomsday (June 16th), Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image will host a free event, “James Joyce on TV”. Book now!

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