Virtual Symposium Irish Women’s Writing Network 4-5 September 2021 The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected …
Category: Seminars
Publicising your call for papers and/or event via BAMS
A quick reminder on the different ways you can communicate with the BAMS community to promote your call for papers and/or event. 1: Use the JISCMail list If you join the BAMS jiscmail list you can post directly to it. 2: Tweet @ us If you mention us @modernistudies in a twitter post …
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Northern Modernism Seminar
As you may know, the Northern Modernism Seminar restarted last year after a period lying fallow. It now has a new website: https://northernmodernismseminar.wordpress.com Do keep an eye on it for updates and further details of coming events. There are already dates to mark in your diary for the next couple of …
Société d’Etudes Modernistes, Friday 12 October 2018, Paris
Biannual seminar of the Société d’Etudes Modernistes Friday 12 October 2018 (5–7pm) Institut du Monde Anglophone (Room 16) 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6th, France. Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg): Proletarian Modernism Respondent: Benoît Tadié (University Rennes 2). Abstract: This paper identifies a neglected tradition of twentieth-century literary, cultural, and theoretical …
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Summer courses in Cambridge
Virginia Woolf and Politics summer course, Wolfson College, Cambridge 1–6 July 2018 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/2018/ Women Writers: Emily Bronte to Elizabeth Bowen, Homerton College, Cambridge 8–13 July https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2018/Lectures, seminars, tutorials, excursions, with leading scholars. Looking ahead to 2019: Woolf’s Gardens, July 2019 https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-2019/ Literature Cambridge www.literaturecambridge.co.uk
CFP: New Directions in David Jones Research
Call for Papers: New Directions in David Jones Research Inaugural Research Seminar of the David Jones Research Center 7–8 June 2018 Join us this June to inaugurate the David Jones Research Center, housed within the Honors College at Washington Adventist University. Designed to be a collaborative space for scholars interested in …
Roll up for Craft Modernism: an assembly at the University of Sussex, 15 June
What is “craft modernism” – and how do you enact it in a group? See below for a message from Dr Annabel Haynes and Dr Hope Wolf on their June 15 “assembly”.
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Register now for “Dockland Encounters”, Dún Laoghaire, 22 June
Registration is now open for “Dockland Encounters”, a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held at Ireland’s National Maritime Musem, Dún Laoghaire, on June 22.
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Join the Black Artists & Modernism project at “Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings”, December 2017
The Black Artists & Modernism research project is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference, Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum. The conference will take place from Friday 8th December to Saturday 9th December 2017 at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Register now for the 2017 BAMS postgraduate training day!
Registration is now live for the 2017 BAMS postgraduate training day, to be held at De Montfort University, Leicester on April 5. Read the full program and sign up below. Please note: the day will be held in VPPD 2.02 (Vijay Patel Building). A PDF map is attached below.
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