A One-Day Symposium at King’s College London Date: Monday 16 December Venue: Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04), 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG ‘Collapse’ offers a framework through which to explore literary and cultural production of the long modernist period, whether via the cataclysm of the world wars, the economic collapse of the …
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CfP: Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age, Gdansk, 24-26 Feb 2020 (deadline 20 Nov 2019)
Call for papers Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age University of Gdańsk (Poland), 24–26 February 2020 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jeff Hearn and Dr Nena Močnik Organizers: Marta Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy We invite scholars, students, practitioners and activists from all fields to take part in the inaugural …
Poetry and Philosophy Colloquium: On Poetic Determination, 4 May, Warwick
Saturday, 4 May 2019 University of Warwick, room MS.05 (Mathematics and Statistics Building) “Determination” is a concept applicable to subjective agency, historical circumstance, and formal particularity. If determinism posits the way things must be, an account of determination is concerned not only with how something is but also how it might …
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‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work, Bletchley Park, 8 March 2019
‘out of the air’: Women, Creativity and Intelligence Work | Bletchley Park | Friday 8 March 2019 This one-day symposium will bring together writers, artists, scholars and technologists to explore the role of women in surveillance, transcription, cryptography, espionage, translation, observation, visualisation and recording. It will consider how this work influenced and …
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New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 December 2018, Glasgow: registration open
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 …
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Summer courses in Cambridge, July 2019
Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, 14–19 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Fictions of Home: Jane Austen to contemporary Refugee Writers, 21–26 July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/home-2019/ Early bird discount for bookings made by 15 November 2018. Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
Registration open: Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance, 22–24 November, Reading
Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation Beckett Week at the University of Reading, 2018 22 – 24 November 2018 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance. We would like to thank …
Registration open: The Working-Class Avant-Garde, London South Bank, 22 June 2018
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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