The Working-Class Avant-Garde One-day Symposium, London | Friday 22 June, 2018 This symposium seeks to examine contributions to the twentieth-century British avant-garde by artists and writers of working class heritage. The avant-garde is often conceived to be the domain of the elite – those with the financial backing, education, and networks to …
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Maud Ellmann to give the Inaugural Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture at UEA: PG bursaries available
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA is pleased to announce the first annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture, to be given by Professor Maud Ellmann. The lecture will be titled ‘The Salesman Only Rings Once: Julian Maclaren-Ross and the Vacuum Cleaner in the 1930s’ and will take place …
Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style, King’s College London, 1 June 2018
Interwar Women Writers: Politics, Citizenship, Style Organized by Dr Clara Jones (KCL) and Dr Natasha Periyan (Goldsmiths) Description The political activism and social commitments of interwar women writers were extensive and varied. Winifred Holtby was a member of the Six Point Group and Independent Labour Party, Sylvia Townsend Warner was a …
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Mathematics and Modern Literature, University of Manchester, 3–4 May: registration now open
Registration for this conference is now open: Student/Unwaged: £40 Waged: £60 See the website for a full programme. Keynotes include Nina Engelhardt, Emily Howard and Tim Armstrong.
Registration open for PG and ECR training day
Registration is now open for the BAMS Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Training Day: Career/Administration. Reserve your place at the RHUL online shop: (£5 for BAMS members and £10 for non-members). Wed. 28 March 2018, 10.00am (first session at 10.30am) – 5.10pm. Location: Room 104, Senate House, London WC1 7HU (central London) The ninth annual …
Register now: ‘In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism 1940-1980’
Registration is now open for the conference ‘In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism 1940-1980’ (University of St Andrews, 27th and 28th October). About the conference This international conference addresses how categories such as the ‘provincial’, the ‘regional’, and the ‘international’ have operated in relation to American art during …
“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 …
Register now! The City as Modernist Ephemera, London, June 2017
The Call for Papers is now open for “The City as Modernist Ephemera”, a one-day colloquium to be held at London South Bank University on, suitably, 16 June 2017. About the conference The School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University (LSBU) will host a one-day interdisciplinary colloquium on …
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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 …
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Register now for Gothic Modernisms, Amsterdam, June 29-30
Registration is now open for Gothic Modernisms, a two-day conference to be held a the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on June the 29 and 30. About the conference Gothic Modernisms is a two-day international conference discussing the legacies, histories and contested identities of European Gothic/early-modern visual cultures in (global) modernity, in particular in …
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