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.
Category: Registration open
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 the post-war period, as well as how recent developments in art history might enable us to rethink how artists negotiated these terms at the time.
The conference features papers by: Miguel de Baca (Lake Forest College / University of Oxford); James Boaden (University of York); Lucy Bradnock (University of Nottingham); Anthony Gardner (University of Oxford); Larne Abse Gogarty (Humboldt Universität, Berlin); Charles Green (University of Melbourne); Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (École Normale Supérieure); Ed Krčma (University of East Anglia); David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute of Art); Moran Sheleg (University College London); Alex J. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh); Amy Tobin (University of Cambridge);
Leon Wainwright (Open University) and Molly Warnock (Johns Hopkins University).
More information about speakers, travel, and other details can be found at the conference website.
The conference is free, but please do register by email so that we can estimate numbers: inandoutofamericanart@gmail.com.
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.
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 Friday 16 June 2016, 9am – 6.30pm.
The modernist city emphatically encapsulates the dialectic of the ephemeral and the eternal. Its dynamic flows of goods, people, and commerce at once determine the city’s transitory nature while at the same time reinforce its status as an immutable seat of power and culture attested to by the very materiality built up within and around such dynamic flows.
Amid the fleeting and transient experience of the city, what is it that constitutes an abiding culture? Where is ‘culture’ and in what form does it appear or exist? What are the spaces, moments, events, and cultural artefacts that make up the ephemera that in turn (re)constitute the modernist city?
Prompted by such questions, this colloquium invites proposals that will explore the myriad city-borne arts, objects, practices, and movements that typify the ephemeral and eternal dialectic.
Confirmed speaker: Dr Nathan Waddell, Asst. Professor in Literary Modernism (Nottingham)
Registration details
Conference fee: £45/£10 Students/unwaged
Learn more about the conference, including the full program, here, or register here.
For enquiries, please contact the organiser: Dr Leon Betsworth (LSBU)
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.
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 contexts of new fin-de-siècle cultural modernities, modernism, avant-gardes, nationalisms and cosmopolitanisms.
Learn more about the conference, including the full program here, or go straight ahead and register here!
Further registration details
Conference fee (two days): 125€; 40€ for studentsincludes conference, access to the Rijksmuseum Collections on both days, guided visit to the exhibition
Includes conference, access to the Rijksmuseum Collections on both days, guided visit to the exhibition Small Wonders, coffee, tea, lunch, snacks and drinks.
For enquiries please contact both: Professor Juliet Simpson (Coventry University) at juliet.simpson@coventry.ac.uk and Dr Tessel M. Bauduin (University of Amsterdam) at t.m.bauduin@uva.nl
This conference is the culmination of a trilogy, including ‘Primitive Renaissances’ and ‘Visions of the North’: for earlier events, see ‘Visions of the North’.
Modern Literature, Institutions and Organisations: A Symposium will be held at the University of East Anglia on March 18. View the program now, and contact the organisers if you wish to attend.
Registration is now open for the ‘Historical Modernisms’ conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies-School of Advanced Study, to be held at the Senate House, London on 12-13 December 2016.
You can register here.
Please watch the conference site for updates on the programme and other information.
Professor Tyrus Miller (University of California-Santa Cruz) will give a lecture entitled From Avant-Garde to Architecture (and Back) at the Institute of English Studies, London, at 18:00 on November 21.
About the paper:
This paper considers the complex interactions of the historic avant-gardes with the symbolic idea, theory, and practice of modern architecture. Considering a number of cases including Malevich, Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Lajos Kassák, Moholy-Nagy, and El Lissitzky, I will discuss and assess Reyner Banham’s classic hypothesis that the avant-gardes played a crucial role for modern architecture in providing an “aesthetic discipline,” from outside of the architectural discipline, to make sense of various technical innovations, new materials, and emergent idioms of design. At the same time, for several avant-gardists architecture was invested with the dream of reinventing a totality lost among the multiplicity of incommensurable metropolitan sign-systems and forms: as a kind of utopian meta-art in which the autonomous languages of the various art-media, and even various extra-artistic dialects and functional idiolects, might be subsumed into a new, architectonic metalanguage assuring inter-translatability and social efficacy.
Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (U of California P, 1999); Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern UP, 2009); Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in 20th-Century Theory, History, and Art (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); and Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh UP, 2014). He is the editor of Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context (Central European UP, 2008) and the Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis(Cambridge UP, 2016). He is the translator/editor of György Lukács, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition (Brill, 2012) and series co-editor of Brill’s Lukács Library series.
Event details:
Senate House, Malet St, London, Room 246, 18:00 – 20:00
The event is free, but registration is required to ensure there’s room!
Please register your participation by contacting the Seminar convenor, Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou, Visiting Research Fellow at IES/SAS and Assist. Professor at Peloponnese University at angeliki.spiropoulou@sas.ac.uk
The Beckett at Reading team is happy to announce the following events, which will take place during Beckett Week 2016 at the University of Reading. Please note that registration is necessary for all events.
Lisa Dwan: ‘A Beckett Actor’
The Billie Whitelaw Lecture (Wednesday 2 November, 6pm)
Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, The University of Reading
Student / Unwaged: £2
Waged: £5
Acclaimed Beckett actress, Lisa Dwan, who has performed in Beckett’s plays across the globe, will speak about performing in Beckett and about her mentor Billie Whitelaw, Beckett’s favourite actress. Lisa met Billie when she was preparing for a production of Beckett’s challenging play, Not I, and Billie passed her notes from Beckett on to Lisa. We are delighted to welcome Lisa Dwan back to Reading, following her virtuoso performance of a selection of Beckett’s prose for performance entitled No’s Knife at London’s Old Vic Theatre.
The lecture will be followed by a Wine Reception, and the Launch of the Billie Whitelaw Exhibition, which will for the first time show items from Billie Whitelaw’s Beckett Theatrical Collection, acquired by the Beckett International Foundation last year.
> Registration and Details: http://store.rdg.ac/LisaDwan
Beckett and Politics Conference
(Thursday 3 – Friday 4 November)
Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, The University of Reading
UoR Student: £10 (1 day); £20 (2 days)
Student / Unwaged: £25 (1 day); £40 (2 days)
Waged: £35 (1 day); £50 (2 days)
Organised by the Beckett at Reading Postgraduate Group (BARP), the exciting theme of ‘Beckett and Politics’ will be discussed through panel topics ranging from capitalism and postcolonial Ireland to the politics of gender, sex and violence, and keynotes by Matthew Feldman, Elizabeth Barry and Daniela Caselli. All scholars, students, and enthusiasts are welcome. The provisional schedule and other information can be found here.
> Registration and Details: http://store.rdg.ac/SamuelBeckettandPoliticsConference
The Gerald Finzi Memorial Lecture: ALICE OSWALD
(Friday 4 November, 6.30pm)
L022 Lecture Theatre, London Road Campus, The University of Reading
All delegates: Free entry
As part of the Reading Literature Festival 2016, critically acclaimed poet Alice Oswald will deliver the Gerald Finzi Memorial Lecture and give a reading of her poetry. After the lecture there will be a drinks reception in the Museum of English and Rural Life. This annual lecture was established in memory of the composer Gerald Finzi (1911-56), who lived in Newbury and had a close connection with Reading. His extensive collection of English literature is now held in the University’s archive.
> Registration and Details: http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=1&catid=247&prodid=3059
Mary Bryden Tribute Day
(5 November, 12-7pm)
Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, The University of Reading
All delegates: Free entry
A tribute day for the late, much loved Mary Bryden, Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading, and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, who died a year ago. The day will start (at 12 noon) with a lecture by Emeritus Professor Jim Knowlson on Beckett and Billie Whitelaw. In the afternoon, there will be an academic panel which will reflect on aspects of Mary’s research in French Studies and Beckett Studies. This will be followed by personal and musical tributes from Mary’s colleagues and friends, and readings from Mary’s own creative writing. The event is free and will include lunch and a drinks reception at the end of the day.
> Registration and Details: http://store.rdg.ac/MaryBrydenTributeDayEvent
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