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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: ‘Mapping Identities in the Modern World, 1830-present’

Post author By modernistudies
Post date May 6, 2015

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for the University of York Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Symposium ‘Mapping Identities in the Modern World, 1830-present’, taking place on 2nd June.

This interdisciplinary one-day symposium aims to give postgraduate students across the arts and humanities the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary debates and ideas around the concept of identity, questioning the way in which identities are (re)formed, constructed and explored psychically and spatially in the modern world.

Our keynote speaker is poet, essayist and travel writer Marius Kociejowski. He has published four collections of poetry: Coast (Greville Press), Doctor Honoris Causa and Music’s Bride (Anvil Press). So Dance the Lords of Language – Poems 1975-2001 was published in Canada by Porcupine’s Quill in 2003. Most recently he has published God’s Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet Press, 2014), relating a series of encounters with creative artists living in London who are exiled from their cultural and geographical roots.

Registration is free and open to all, with lunch and refreshments provided and a wine reception following the keynote. To register please email cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk with any dietary and access requirements by 25th May 2015.

Full programme here: http://www.york.ac.uk/…/summer-2015/pg-forum-symposium-2015/

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Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’ Conference, 28-30 May 2015, Chicago, Registration reminder

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 27, 2015

Registration is still open for the Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’ conference in Chicago!

An international conference organized by the Katherine Mansfield Society, to be held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA

28-30 May 2015

Keynote Address: Professor Sydney Janet Kaplan, University of Washington

All details are on the Katherine Mansfield Society website:

http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/chicago-conference-2015/

Speakers include:

Christine Darrohn

Galya Diment

Jay Dickson

Janka Kascakova

Gerri Kimber

Patricia Moran

Janet Wilson

Registration includes coffee/tea in the mornings and lunch both days (Friday and Saturday). There is a reduced rate for graduate students.

There will also be an optional conference dinner on Friday evening, which costs $70 and will include an appetizer, entree, desert, a glass of wine, and coffee at Bistro Zinc, a French restaurant near the Newberry Library. You may opt for your choice of main dish when you pay–just below the Registration information. Guests are of course welcome to the dinner; just be sure to make a separate payment for each person in attendance–this will allow us to get a more accurate head count.

Registration will remain open through to Monday 4 May 2015, but please register as soon as you are able.

A tentative conference programme is also now available on the website.

Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions. kmsintheus@gmail.com

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Registration now open: The Languages of Literature: Attridge at 70

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 21, 2015

The Languages of Literature, a three-day conference hosted by the Department of English and Related Literature at York, will celebrate the contribution of Professor Derek Attridge to literary criticism.

Derek Attridge

The conference will take place between 22 and 24 May 2015 in the Berrick Saul Building at the University of York. Speakers will give lectures and papers on topics relating to Professor Attridge and his work. In addition, poets and novelists including Tom McCarthy, Paul Muldoon, Emma Donoghue, Don Paterson, Zoë Wicomb and John Wilkinson will be attending the celebration and reading from their work.

Derek Attridge is one of the foremost critics and theorists of literature working today. He came to York from Rutgers University in the USA in 1998 as Leverhulme Research Professor, and in 2003 became Professor of English. His interests centre on the language of literature, but radiate in many different directions. Derek is the author or editor of twenty-one books on literary theory, poetic form, South African literature, and the writings of James Joyce. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camargo Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

In 2015 Derek will publish The Work of Literature (OUP) and The Craft of Poetry (Routledge, with Henry Staten).

To register for the conference, please go to the registration page and pay via Paypal or card. Further details not covered on this site can be obtained by emailing the organisers at attridge70@gmail.com.

Website: https://attridge70.wordpress.com

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“For a Materialist Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, May 8-9

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 21, 2015

“For a Materialist Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, May 8-9: Final Programme and Exended Registration

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/foramaterialistpsychoanalyis

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Registration Open: Raymond Williams Now

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 21, 2015

BAMS members may wish to note that registration is now open for Raymond Williams Now

RAYMOND WILLIAMS NOW
Saturday 30 May 2015,
Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS
9am-5pm, followed by a drinks reception at the Midland Hotel.

Keynote Speakers
Tony Crowley, ‘Keywords, Then and Now’
Ruth Beale, ‘Performing Keywords’

Papers and panels address topics including: structures of feeling; community; adult education; media; science fiction; global literatures; contemporary cultural materialism; institutions; performance; politics of criticism; Williams and the contemporary Left.

Registration: £30 (waged) / £15 (student/unwaged/part-time/retired)

Registration closes 15 May

For further information please see www.radicalstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com and the attached poster.

RWNreg5

Call for submissions Registration open

Translating Sounds in Proust / Traduire la sonorité dans l’œuvre proustienne

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 21, 2015

Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

25-26 June 2015

Translation is inherent to Proust’s idea of literary creation, and his work develops a rhythmical, musical conception of literary language as foreign in and of itself. What then happens when Proust’s work is translated, and, more specifically, how does the practice of translation shed light on his understanding of the relationship between sound and language, between phonè and writing? Bringing together critics and translators, this conference draws on the English-language translations of Proust’s work in order to explore the way sound plays out in his work, disrupting the lines that separate the “original” or source text from its echo in translation. This, in turn, interrogates the distinctions in his work between silence, noise, music and language, and between experience, representation and memory.

PROGRAMME

Thursday 25 June (afternoon)

Salle des colloques, bâtiment B, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Françoise Asso, Université de Lille III

Traduire “Zut, zut, zut, zut”

Margaret Gray, Indiana University, Bloomington

Voices Off: Translating the Sounds of Silence in Proust

Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge, editor, In Search of Lost Time (Penguin 2002)

Bells Across the Water: The Place of Sound in the Recherche

Stéphane Heuet, Illustrator

Title to be confirmed

Friday 26 June (all day)

Institut d’Etudes Avancées, Hôtel de Lauzun, 17 quai d’Anjou, Paris (75004)

Daniel Karlin, Bristol University

Translating “les cris de Paris” in Proust’s La Prisonnière

Lydia Davis, translator, Du côté de chez Swann (Penguin 2002), Author

Hammers and Hoofbeats

James Grieve, translator, Du côté de chez Swann (Canberra, 1982), À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Penguin, 2002), Visiting Fellow, Australian National University

Voix proustiennes à l’anglaise : l’idiolecte des personnages de la Recherche selon treize traducteur

William C. Carter, translator, Du côté de chez Swann, University of Alabama at Birmingham

“Le Devoir et la tâche” : Proust, Montcrieff et nous (paper read by Elyane Dezon-Jones)

Translators’ round table with Lydia Davis, James Grieve, Ian Patterson (Cambridge University), translator, Le Temps retrouvé (Penguin 2002), and Christopher Prendergast

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Papers will appear in a publication (in French) following the conference. Please note that we welcome submissions of additional articles on this question for inclusion in the final volume. Abstracts should be sent to Emily Eells (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr).

REGISTRATION

There is no fee for attending the conference, however participants should register beforehand by sending an email to Emily Eells and Naomi Toth (emily.eells@u-paris10.fr, ntoth@u-paris10.fr)

This conference is organized by Emily Eells and Naomi Toth for CREA’s Confluences research group, as part of the Sounds Foreign seminar, with the support of the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures and the Doctoral College of Languages, Literature and Performing Arts at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, and the Institut d’études avancées de Paris.

For further details, please consult the conference website: http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article2199

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Registration open: AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 21, 2015

Registration is now open for the three-day conference, AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1, to be held at King’s College London from 21-23 May 2015, featuring eight keynotes from world-leading scholars across a range of disciplines.

For the draft programme and further details, please see:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/WW1.aspx

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THE CHURCH AND BRITISH POLITICS SINCE 1900

Post author By modernistudies
Post date April 14, 2015

17 August 2015

Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham University

The established Church’s involvement in politics has become an issue of increasing contemporary interest. The rhetoric and realities of economic austerity have inspired sustained and collective criticism from senior Anglican clergy of government policy of a kind unseen since the 1980s. Simultaneously, developments in ordination and in secular marriage legislation have revived anxieties around the relative balance of compromises and privileges in the Church’s establishment. The question of the Church’s place in British politics has rarely in recent times commanded such popular attention, whether it be critical or complimentary.

This one day conference will contextualise the contemporary debate by considering the developing facets of the Church’s relationship with British politics over the course of the twentieth century. Papers will reflect on the junctures of this relationship and that forces which shaped their profile. Please find attached a copy of the day’s programme.

Attendance at this one day conference will be free and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please email Thomas Rodger at the below address. Early expressions of interest would be appreciated as the number of delegate we can accept will be limited.

t.m.rodger@durham.ac.uk

Church and British politics since 1900 – programme

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Registration now open: For a Materialist Psychoanalysis Conference

Post author By modernistudies
Post date March 31, 2015

Registration is now open for the conference “For a Materialist Psychoanalysis,” University of Warwick, May 8-9.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/foramaterialistpsychoanalyis/

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Registration now open: The Languages of Literature: Attridge at 70

Post author By modernistudies
Post date March 22, 2015

The Languages of Literature, a three-day conference hosted by the Department of English and Related Literature at York, will celebrate the contribution of Professor Derek Attridge to literary criticism.

The conference will take place between 22 and 24 May 2015 in the Berrick Saul Building at the University of York. Speakers will give lectures and papers on topics relating to Professor Attridge and his work. In addition, poets and novelists including Emma Donoghue, Tom McCarthy, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Zoë Wicomb and John Wilkinson will be attending the celebration and reading from their work.

Derek Attridge is one of the foremost critics and theorists of literature working today. He came to York from Rutgers University in the USA in 1998 as Leverhulme Research Professor, and in 2003 became Professor of English. His interests centre on the language of literature, but radiate in many different directions. Derek is the author or editor of twenty-one books on literary theory, poetic form, South African literature, and the writings of James Joyce. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camargo Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2015 Derek will publish The Work of Literature (OUP) and The Craft of Poetry (Routledge, with Henry Staten).