Category: Registration open

Dear all,

Registration closes this Friday 11th September for ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’ conference on 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. Keynote speakers are Andrew O’Hagan and Sarah Churchwell.

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 and Oline Eaton

Beckett and Europe
28th – 29th October 2015 – MERL, University of Reading
Keynote Speaker: Dr David Tucker (Chester University)

The Beckett at Reading Postgraduate group is pleased to announce a new postgraduate and Early Careers two-day conference with the theme of Beckett and Europe. We will be hosting two on-site archival workshops on manuscripts and performance during the conference. There will also be a public lecture on Happy Days by Professor James Knowlson. This will be followed by the Beckett International Foundation Seminar on the 30th of October.

We invite postgraduates and Early Career Researchers to submit abstracts under the general theme of ‘Beckett and Europe’. The aim of the conference is to engage postgraduates and ECRs in research exchange with an interdisciplinary and cross-media focus. Born in Ireland in 1906, Beckett wrote in English, French and German and directed his own theatrical work in London, Berlin and Paris. The span and influence of Beckett’s work in 20th Century Europe is essential to many questions that inform Beckett scholarship: How do we frame Beckett nationally/internationally and has this changed? What influence did Beckett have on European artists, writers and thinkers? How has Beckett’s work entered the European tradition?

All disciplines are welcome including philosophy, linguistics, theatre and performance, archival research, art, science, cultural studies, politics, history, music, theology and literature. We also invite submissions that contest and interrogate a Eurocentric focus on Beckett. Issues to consider may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Beckett, History and the Politics of Europe
• Beckett and World War II
• Beckett’s European Legacy
• Beckett and the City
• Beckett and European Theatre: Performance and Practice
• Beckett and the Archive
• Beckett, Nation and Translation
• Beckett and Culture: E.g. Music, Art, Architecture
• Beckett and European Philosophy
• Beckett and Traditions: Prose, Poetry, Drama
• Different modes of Beckett criticism in the various European traditions

Beckett at Reading Postgraduates (BARP): https://barpgroup.wordpress.com/

Registration is open for Rewriting(s): MHRA Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, to be held at the Institute of Modern Language Research 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).

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

Registration closes on the 2nd October.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The International Yeats Society is excited to announce that registration is now available for our inaugural conference, A Writer Young and Old: Yeats at 150, at the University of Limerick from October 15-18.

The conference includes keynote talks by Alexandra Poulain (University of Lille 3), Matthew Campbell (University of York), and Marjorie Howes (Boston College), and a poetry reading by Bernard O’Donoghue (University of Oxford).

To become a member and register for the conference, please visit http://www.internationalyeatssociety.org/conference or contact iwbys@contact.org for more information.

Registration Open: THE UNORTHODOX ORTHODOXY: CATHOLICISM, MODERNISMS AND THE AVANT-GARDE
http://avantgardecatholicism.org/
University of Notre Dame London Centre, 1-4 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG, UK
25 September 2015
Keynote Speakers: Richard Canning, University of Northampton; Paul Robichaud, Albertus Magnus College; Martin Stannard, University of Leicester
To register visit: http://the-unorthodox-orthodox.eventbrite.co.uk ; http://avantgardecatholicism.org/registration/ or contact: avantgardecatholicism@gmail.com

In Jacques Maritain’s endnotes to his ‘Art et Scholastique’, citations from Thomas Aquinas sit side-by-side with extracts from Jean Cocteau, Pierre Reverdy and accounts of Cezanne. Yet, this creative tension has proved difficult to reconcile with existing assumptions about the avant-garde: religion can be construed as one more bourgeois prejudice from which the artist needs to free him or herself; or else artistic productions can be accorded a quasi-religious reverence that circumvents the need for institutional religion. Failing that, and thanks to the unacknowledged influence of various secularisation theories, one might think it impossible to be forward-thinking and yet hold religious views.

The key historical event around which these ideas coalesce is the 1907 Papal Bull, ‘Pascendi Dominici Gregis’ which condemned a range of new intellectual movements under a single heading: ‘modernism’. While apparently inauspicious for the creative tension this conference plans to examine – one recent critical study has suggested that literary modernism took its impetus from a positive appropriation of the term from Catholic discourse – attempts to steer clear of suspicious topics gave rise to wide-ranging discussion of aesthetics within Catholic circles.

Viewed more widely, there are numerous instances in English and French decadence, the artistic communities centred on Eric Gill at Ditchling and Capel-y-ffin and the crop of post-war British Catholic novelists – alongside the work of figures such as Pasolini, Gaudí and Marechal – where artistic experimentation has become manifest as an outpouring of intense Catholic renewal. Recognition of this phenomenon demands a far-reaching revision to the narratives told about twentieth-century artistic endeavour and, indeed, a re-consideration of the way in which Catholicism has come to position itself in relation to society.

This one-day conference will initiate this revisionary process by foregrounding the stimulus Catholic thought has provided for artistic experimentation, across the globe, from the 1890s onwards.

Programme announced and registration open: A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales

We are pleased to launch registration for the inaugural Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) conference, A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales, to be held at Swansea University on Monday 7 September. 

This conference aims to showcase the diverse range of research on modernism, Welsh and otherwise, happening in Wales today. Please see the attached draft programme for details of speakers and paper titles. 

Those wishing to attend can purchase tickets via our Eventbrite page: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-century-on-modernist-studies-in-wales-tickets-17863151166. The deadline for registration is 13 August 2015.

We are also delighted to announce that, due to the generosity of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), we are now able to offer a limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries. Postgraduate speakers should retain their receipts and we will be in touch with details of how to claim following the conference. 

For further information on travel and parking and to stay up to date with all conference updates, please visit the 2015 Conference pages on our website, http://modernistnetworkcymru.org/.

Registration is now open for ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’… featuring panels on Strachey, Stein, the Sitwells, among others. More info, including full programme, here: https://afterimage2015.wordpress.com

I am happy to announce that registration is now available for MSA 17 “Modernism & Revolution” at the Westin Copley Place in Boston (Nov. 19-22).

Before you begin registering, please visit the conference website to learn about the exciting events you might wish to select. The registration information page provides a helpful walkthrough of the process. Registration will be facilitated if you have your MSA login and password available. If you are a new member or your membership has expired (most did in June) you will need become a current member while completing registration for the conference. If you are uncertain of your login information, there is a retrieval tool on the membership page. If you need assistance, you may contact JHUP customer service at: 1-800-548-1784 or jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu.

A few potentially tricky spots: There is no “promo code” for the conference (but an obligatory box appears on the second screen). If you do not wish to sign up for one of the seminars, locate the “skip” button at the bottom of the seminar selection screen to continue checking out.

And a few notes about the exciting conference we are preparing:

This year, we are offering both pre- and post- conference workshops focused on professionalization. As usual, you have the option of joining a seminar  one of the MSA’s most unique and productive conference offerings. Seminar participants circulate position papers and meet for two hours during the conference to discuss their work. Seminars are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. You can also join a “What are You Reading” session simply by naming a book you would like to present in the form provided during registration.

We are offering one off-site event, an excursion to the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Exhibit “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957” on Friday evening, Nov. 20. The cost for the museum and transportation is just $10 for MSA members, but space is limited, so register early! Our website includes more information on the exhibition, ICA’s remarkable collection, and a series of roundtables about Black Mountain College that will be held at the conference venue.

There will be keynote talks by Anne A. Cheng (Princeton University) and Martin Puchner (Harvard University). And a plenary roundtable  on “Modernism & Revolution” featuring Toral Gajarawala (New York University), Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania), Janet Lyon (Penn State University), and Tavia Nyong’o (New York University).

You will be entertained by Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood’s POEMJAZZ on Thursday and a performance of Mary Manning’s Passages from Finnegans Wake: A Free Adaptation for the Theatre by the Here Comes Everybody Players on Saturday evening.

So check out the registration information page. Dust off your MSA login and password. And register! We look forward to welcoming you to Boston in November!

Warmly,

Carrie Preston

for the MSA 17 Host Committee

Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Carrie Preston (Boston University), and Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross)

Graduate Assistants: Linda Martin, Nell Wasserstrom, & Bryan Russo

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