Category: Registration open

Exploring queer cultures and lifestyles in the creative arts in Britain c.1885-1967.

The London College of Fashion, UAL, on Saturday 12th March 2016

Schedule: 

9.30 Registration and coffee

10.00-10.15: Welcome Reina Lewis

10.15-11.15 Keynote 1: chair: Reina Lewis

Laura Doan, Queer History / Queer Memory / The Case of Alan Turing.

11.15 -1.00: Session 1: chair: Shaun Cole

1 Alice Friedman, Domesticity and its Discontents: Queer Paris and the Varieties of Lesbian Life.

2 Fay Brauer, Virilizing Homosexuality: Queering Art and Body Cultures after the Wilde Trials.

3 Kristin Franseen,The Secret Lives of Music Critics: Translating Queer Musical Identities in Early Twentieth-century British Music Appreciation.

2.00-3.00: Keynote 2: chair: Andrew Stephenson.

Christopher Breward, Closets and Wardrobes.

3.00-4.45: Session 2: chair: Fionna Barber

1. Dominic Janes, Early Twentieth-century ‘Vogue’, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’.
2. Jenna Allsopp, Negotiating Female Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century: the Case of Vera ‘Jack’ Holme (1881-1969).
3. Jack Smurthwaite, Francis Bacon’s Private Wrestling Match.

4.45-5.00 Break

5.00-6.00 Plenary panel: Clare Barlow, Michael Hatt and Elizabeth Wilson

6.00-7.00 Drinks reception and launch celebration of special issue of Journal of Fashion, Style, Popular Culture on Queer Fashion, edited by Shaun Cole and Reina Lewis.

Website: http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2016/3/12/Exploring-queer-cultures-lifestyles-in-the-creative-arts-in-Britain-c1885-1967/

[REGISTRATION NOW OPEN] Translation and Modernism: Twentieth-Century Crises and Traumas

This two-day conference (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism), due to be held at the University of Warwick on 22-23 January 2016, seeks to explore the role of translation in the development of literary, religious, and philosophical responses to the new realities of the twentieth century, in particular, the disappearance of a stable religious framework and the traumas of totalitarianism, the World Wars, and the Holocaust.

The programme for the conference can be found at: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism/programme

To register, please follow this link: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/translationandmodernism/registration/. Registration is open until 7 January 2016.

This is a final reminder about the 2-day Beckett & Europe PGR and ECR Conference, which will take place at the University of Reading next Wednesday and Thursday (28-29 October). All are welcome from any career stage. Advanced registration is available until Monday 26 October. There will also be some limited booking during the event itself, but we won’t be able to guarantee places in the workshops. For the conference programme and details of how to register, please visit: https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/registration/.

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to the symposium Intimate Modernism, which will take place at Uppsala University, Thursday 29 to Saturday 31 October. The programme is now available on the symposium website: http://www.engelska.uu.se/Research/intimate-modernism.

Intimacy has become a key term in the academic discourse of this century. Across various disciplines, it has proved to be crucial in accounts of affective, political and ethical relations. Intimacy can no longer be seen as a merely private sphere of human life independent of socio-political realities; it is, rather, the very nexus in which private and public converge. Many of these intersections can be traced back to the first decades of the twentieth century, and the symposium Intimate Modernism provides a forum for inquiry into intimacy as a yet understudied dimension of modernist aesthetic and social practices. In attending to the radically new forms of intimate relations problematised in modernist writing, the symposium also explores the resonance of modernist intimacies in our own time.

If you would like to attend the symposium, which is free of charge, please register via the following link: https://www.akademikonferens.se/Intimatemodernism. Deadline for registration is Wednesday 21 October. There is a performance of Johannes Brahms’s Requiem in Uppsala Cathedral on Saturday 31 October, which some of the speakers will be attending. Tickets can be bought at

http://www.ticnet.se/event/johannes-brahms-requiem-biljetter/388665.

The symposium is hosted by the Department of English, Uppsala University, and forms part of a collaboration with the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. It is sponsored by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and LILAe. For further information, please see the symposium website, or contact me at elsa.hogberg@engelska.uu.se.

All best wishes,

Elsa Högberg

Intimate Modernism, programme

Intimate Modernism, poster

There is one week left to register for Rewriting(s), the MHRA Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, to be held at the Institute of Modern Language Research at Senate House in London on the 16th October 2015.

Keynote and MHRA Presidential Address: Professor Martin McLaughlin (Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford/ Fellow of Magdalen College).

Registration ends on the 2nd October.

For the programme and registration form please see the IMLR’s listing below:

http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/18464/Rewriting(s).+MHRA+Postgraduate+and+Early+Career+Conference

We look forward to seeing you there!
Sophie Corser and Lucy Russell

Postgraduate Representatives

Modern Humanities Research Association

There are still some spots left and registration is extended until Monday 14th September for ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’ conference on Saturday 19 September 2015 in Oxford.

Through this conference we will be considering the interplay between celebrity and life-writing. The conference will explore ideas of image, persona and self-fashioning in an historical as well as a contemporary context and the role these concepts play in the writing of lives.

Our website and links to registration can be found here: https://afterimage2015.wordpress.com

With funding from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London (CLWR)

With best wishes,

Nanette O’Brien (Wolfson College, Oxford) and Oline Eaton (King’s College London)

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Beckett & Europe PGR and ECR Conference. All are welcome from any career stage.

For a provisional schedule and details of how to register, please visit: https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/registration/.

Beckett and Europe
28th – 29th October 2015 
Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

This 2-day conference aims to explore Beckett’s life and work in the broad context of 20th Century Europe. It will consider the ways his works are framed both nationally and internationally, asking what ‘European tradition’ is and how Beckett may have entered or subverted it. For instance, is there such a thing as a ‘European identity’, and if so, how do Beckett’s works express that identity or respond to it? Where does ‘cosmopolitan Beckett’ fit in to broader critical debates around his work? As part of these deliberations, the conference will explore the multi-directional vectors of influence between Beckett and other European writers, artists and thinkers from before, during and after his time, as well as the effect of political and historical Europe on his work.

It promises to be an intellectually rich and thought-provoking event, bringing together an international group of PGR and ECR researchers to explore an area of Beckett Studies that is by nature fragmentary, cross-cultural, multilingual, and therefore often inaccessible.

Panels are organised around the following themes:

• French influences on the work of Samuel Beckett
• Beckett’s media
• Beckett and the politics and history of Europe
• European mind(s)
• Narrative tradition / narrative theory
• Following Beckett

In addition, there will be a choice of 3 workshops: ‘Prose / Poetry’, ‘Theatre / Production’ and ‘Teaching Beckett’, as well as a final round table discussion on the conference theme. Dr David Tucker will give the keynote lecture.

For further details and to book your place, please visit the conference website at:
https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/registration/.

For enquiries, please email barpconference@gmail.com.

Organising committee:

• Niamh Bowe
• Will Davies
• Michela Bariselli
• Helen Bailey