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.
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Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950
NEW deadline for submissions:
April 2, 2018
17–18 July, 2018 – University of Kent
Keynote Speakers: Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University
This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850-1950. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any aspect of British or American literature, education and/or the sciences of the mind broadly construed.This conference is part of Dr Sara Lyons’ (PI), Dr Michael Collins’ (Co-I) and Dr Fran Bigman’s (Research Associate) AHRC-funded project, Literary Culture, Meritocracy, and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America, 1880–1920. The project is an investigation of how British and American novelists understood and represented intellectual ability in the period, with a particular focus on how they responded to the rise of intelligence testing and the associated concepts of I.Q. and meritocracy. For additional information, please visit our website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/literaryculture/
Possible topics include literature and:
• Teaching and Being Taught; pedagogical theory and practice
• Representations of Places of Learning
• Examinations, grades, scholarships, qualifications
• Inequality, Discrimination, and Exclusion in Education
• Academic Success and Failure
• Literacy and Illiteracy
• Intellectuals, Experts, Professionalism
• Autodidacticism, Informal Education
• Varieties of education: aesthetic, classical, moral, religious, scientific, technical
• Learning Styles and Types of Intelligence
• Intellectual ability and disability
As well as literature and:
• Professionalisation/ Institutionalisation of Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychometrics and personality testing
• Physiology and psychology
• Psychological Schools and Controversies
• Psychology and Philosophy
• Experimental Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Sexology
• Parapsychology
• Eugenics
• Language and Cognition
Please submit an individual proposal of no more than 350 words or an outline for a 3 paper panel proposal to sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com by 2 April 2018. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Please include your name, a short bio, and email address in your proposal.
Corresponding with Beckett
A London Beckett Seminar conference at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1–2 June 2018
Extended deadline call for papers: 31 March 2018
What does it mean to correspond with Beckett? How does Beckett’s correspondence give us insight into the work? In what ways are critical reading and writing a form of correspondence with an author? What would it mean to perform the epistolary? The publication of the fourth and final volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett marks an appropriate moment to take stock of the role of autobiography in research, and the importance of the epistolary in literary studies. A recent review by Cal Revely-Calder cautions that letters “are not propositions, manifestos, or statements of intent”, but rather “rough forays, conducted in private”. Corresponding with Beckett raises issues around the development of the “grey canon” (S.E. Gontarski), the use of digital resources, translation, visual metadata, and the role of corollary correspondence. Given Beckett’s hesitation to render the personal public, the conference will address how we negotiate issues of privacy, permissions, and copyright. The conference will generate new thinking on the letter as artefact, the textual and stylistic aspects of the epistolary, and will explore the legacy of a correspondence project and how the research that underpins it can be deployed for further research. Using literary correspondence and related materials raises older literary questions on authorial intention and reading methodologies that continue to inform literary analysis. In the age of Snapchat and WhatsApp, correspondence is primarily digital: the conference will question the longevity of contemporary digital correspondence, and explore strategies for future engagement with the epistolary in literary research.
Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
- The epistolary.
- The legacy of the archive.
- Digital correspondence.
- Privacy and copyright.
- The “grey canon”.
- Corollary correspondences.
- Visual metadata.
- Location registers.
- Ethics and the epistolary.
- Authorial intentionality.
- Literary criticism as correspondence.
- Performing letters.
Keynote
The Legacy of the Grey Archives
Lois M. Overbeck (Emory University), Director: Letters of Samuel Beckett Project.
AHRC CHASE Doctoral Masterclass
Writing Beckett: Scholarship and the Exigencies of Publication
Jennifer M. Jeffers (Cleveland State University), Editor: New Interpretations of Samuel Beckett in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan; and former Research Assistant: The Letters of Samuel Beckett.
Proposals for 20 min papers should be sent to londonbeckettseminar@gmail.com by 31 March 2018, and should include:
Title of the presentation.
Abstract of approximately 300 words.
Biographical statement of approximately 100 words.
Details of audio-visual requirements.
Indication of any enhanced access requirements.
Organisers
Stefano Rosignoli, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin.
Dr Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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 the work of artist and poet David Jones, the center seeks to:
- foster original scholarship concerning David Jones and associated subjects
- support emerging scholars in the field
- facilitate focused research seminars to be held once per year with the aim of producing a published volume
- organize or support further public lectures, exhibitions, and conferences, as interest and resources permit
The first day of this two-day research seminar will feature presentations outlining the present state of David Jones studies in light of recent publications in the field. Papers (of no more than 2000 words) might use material and themes from the following works as points of departure, critique, wondering or reframing:
Thomas Dilworth, David Jones, Artist, Painter, Engraver, Poet
Erik Tonning, Jamie Callison and Anna Johnson, editors, David Jones: A Christian Modernist?
Thomas Berenato, Anne Price-Owen and Kathleen Staudt, David Jones on Religion, Politics and Culture: Unpublished Writings (forthcoming)
Paul Hills and Ariane Banks, The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory
The second day of the seminar will use reflections and reactions to the material presented on the first day to discuss new possibilities and directions the field of Jones studies might take, and how these directions might inform the future programming of the David Jones Research Center. In addition to papers responding to the recent scholarly works listed above, we welcome papers describing work in progress and new ideas.
Paper proposals (250 words) may be sent to: honorscollege@wau.edu
Deadline: April 7, 2018
For more information please visit: www.wauhonorscollege.org/djcenter/
CFP – Edited Volume: The Modern Short Story and the Magazines: 1880-1950 – eds Elke D’hoker and Chris Mourant
This essay collection aims to bring together and represent the growing body of research into the close ties between the modern short story and magazine culture in the period 1880-1950 in Britain and Ireland.
That the rise of the modern short story in the late-nineteenth-century was made possible by the exponential growth of the magazine market is well-known. Following the famous example of the Strand, more and more magazines made it their policy to publish only self-contained works of short fiction rather than the serialized novels which had been popular for much of the nineteenth century. As a result, the number of stories published rose dramatically and so did the diversity of the short fiction output: different magazines preferred different genres, topics, and styles; writers and agents became adept at pitching their story at the most appropriate – and best-paying – magazine. The end of this “golden age of storytellers”, as Mike Ashley has called it, is similarly bound up with the periodical market. As TV took over as the most popular form of entertainment, the number of magazines that published short fiction declined dramatically around 1950 and this had a major impact on the overall popularity, production and publication of short fiction.
If most critics accept the intertwined fate of the short story and the periodical press, the actual interaction between short stories and the magazines in which they were published has only recently become an object of sustained scholarly attention. Short fiction studies, with its longstanding emphasis on canonical authors and on the modernist short story, is only now beginning to investigate the impact of periodicals on the generic and formal development of the modern short story as well as to take into account middle- and lowbrow forms of short fiction which flourished in particular in the magazine market. Research within periodical studies, on the other hand, is typically focused on the periodical as a single if fragmented textual whole with a specific ideological, political or social dimension rather than on the status of one literary genre within that textual whole.
Situated at the crossroads of these two research domains, this essay collection aims to investigate the presence, status, and functioning of short stories within various magazines – literary, popular and mainstream – from 1880 to 1950, in both Britain and Ireland. The perspective of this investigation will be two-fold: the impact of a given magazine context and co-texts on the production, publication and reception of short stories will be considered, as well as the specific status, positioning, function and role of the short stories within the textual and ideological whole of magazine text.
Specific research questions may be (but are not limited to) the following:
- What opportunities did magazines afford short story writers? And what constraints (financial, formal, ideological) did publication in magazines place on short story writers?
- How are short stories positioned and presented within a magazine, and how does this affect their meaning?
- What is the relation between the ideological and thematic identity of the magazine and the ideological and thematic concerns of the short stories it published?
- How does the periodical context influence the reception of the story?
- How are authors presented in the magazines? How are their stories advertised? When, where and why are stories published anonymously?
- How does a given author pitch his or her stories to a particular magazine?
- How does a magazine set out markers (implicitly or explicitly) for specific genres or styles for the short fiction it publishes?
By addressing these questions, the book as a whole aims to illustrate (a) the impressive variety of short stories published in magazines in the period (from so-called literary stories in avant-garde little magazines or mainstream literary journals, the entertaining yet didactic stories published in women’s or family magazines, to the genre fiction that dominated a host of popular magazines); (b) the different methodological/theoretical concerns that are at stake in the study of periodical short fiction; and (c) the historical developments short fiction and the magazines in which they were published underwent between 1880 and 1950.
We invite chapters that address these issues through case studies and/or more general historical overviews. 500-word proposals for chapters can be sent to the editors (elke.dhoker@kuleuven.be and C.mourant@bham.ac.uk) by 30 March. Upon acceptance, the deadline for the full chapters is 1 September 2018. The editors will submit a book proposal to Edinburgh University Press
Women Poets and Myth (20th and 21st centuries):
Myth, Community and the Environment
Colloquium, 19–20 April 2018
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday February 26, 2018
There is a long tradition of poetry by women in which the engagement of the poem with history and myth gave rise to crucial artistic and social constructions that illuminated an era –from Christine de Pizan (14th c) to Sor Juana Ines, from Gabriela Mistral to Carol Ann Duffy-, re-imagined countries and borders, created community across differences and re-created livable worlds. The consequences of those poetics did not go unnoticed in the grand design of women’s poetry and of poetry at large. Their effects show both in poetic aspects and in wider socio-historical formations. In general terms, their poetries underscore community based change.
In recent years, there has been an increasing concern with the continuous human aggressions to the planet. The hazards of ecological disaster together with natural catastrophes and climate change, have been crucial in the exploration of new avenues for contestation to the current state of degradation of the planet. Some of the best contemporary poetry by women turns to nature renegotiating the relationship of the self under late capitalism and the physical world. The move is certainly a forceful response to an indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources, lethal pollution of the air, ocean, and earth, and irreversible damage to life. Mother Earth is no longer an inexhaustible repository of resources. In traditional anthropomorphic representation, the goddess is no longer a bountiful, protective force for all life on earth.
At present, women’s poetry dramatizes the urge for conservation and sustainability as well as a communal sense of interaction between the human and the natural. Language, geography, history and nature are no longer understood as separate categories, they come together as part of our complete lived experience.
In our colloquium, we would like to raise a series of questions for discussion such as, why myth still holds such attraction –in the 20th and 21st centuries– for the woman poet? To what extent the engagement with myth contributes to the transformation of society? Is myth still a cohesive element in our societies, or should we understand its persistence as a sign of the past? To what extent does myth assist in raising awareness to an endangered planet at risk? Does myth, still alive, exhibit the vigour and energy in the work of women poets it used to do before? Does myth have pedagogical value? And, finally, is myth –with special reference to community and the environment– still a crucial referent in poetry and intellectual production at present?
Deadline for submission of abstracts and short bios for brief position papers:
NEW DEADLINE: Monday February 26, 2018
Venue:
Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Contact:
poeticsgroupucm@gmail.com
https://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/article/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-award-modernist-home
Applications are invited for a new AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award on ‘The Modernist Home’, offered jointly by the University of Oxford and the National Trust (2 Willow Road, Hampstead).
Deadline 9 March 2018
Informal enquiries can be made to Rebecca Beasley rebecca.beasley@ell.ox.ac.uk
Weekly Shut Up & Write Session for PGRs and ECRs
Following the fantastic discussion at our BAMS careers and support panel at New Work in Modernist Studies, we are setting up a weekly ‘Shut Up & Write’ Session for postgraduate and early career researchers.
Many of our PGR and ECR members have said that they struggle with work precarity and workload pressures, often struggling to find the time to write in between a changeable routine and new teaching commitments. They also told us that writing can be a challenge when they are working alone or in institutions where there are few peers working on a similar area.
That’s why we’re setting up our Shut Up & Write session. For three hours a week, we will run the session virtually via Twitter. Follow us @modernistudies to join in, and use the hashtag #modwrite to set your goals, encourage others, chat about your work, and post your progress.
The first session will run Monday 12th February, 2–5pm GMT, and will continue every Monday afternoon thereafter.
For more information on the concept of Shut Up & Write, see this blog post by The Thesis Whisperer https://thesiswhisperer.com/shut-up-and-write/
Call for Papers for Volume 11 of Katherine Mansfield Studies (the annual yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press), and the associated Essay Prize, on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim. The Guest Editor for the volume will be Dr Isobel Maddison, Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, and Chair of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society, who will join the permanent editorial team: Dr Gerri Kimber, Professor Todd Martin, and Dr Aimee Gasston.
The distinguished panel of judges for the essay prize will comprise:
PROFESSOR DAVID TROTTER
University of Cambridge, Chair of the Judging Panel
CLAIRE TOMALIN
Renowned biographer and author of Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
PROFESSOR SUSAN SELLERS
University of St Andrews
DR ISOBEL MADDISON
Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
All essay submissions for the Call for Papers will be automatically entered into the Essay Prize Competition (unless authors indicate at the time of submission that they would prefer not to be included).
Full details can also be found on our website, including detailed style guides:
Submissions should be emailed to the editors: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 31 August 2018
Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850–1950
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2018
Contact email:
sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com
17–18 July 2018 – University of Kent
Keynote Speakers: Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University
This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850–1950. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any aspect of British or American literature, education and/or the sciences of the mind broadly construed. This conference is part of Dr Sara Lyons’ (PI), Dr Michael Collins’ (Co-I) and Dr Fran Bigman’s (Research Associate) AHRC-funded project, Literary Culture, Meritocracy, and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America, 1880–1920. The project is an investigation of how British and American novelists understood and represented intellectual ability in the period, with a particular focus on how they responded to the rise of intelligence testing and the associated concepts of I.Q. and meritocracy. For additional information, please visit our website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/literaryculture/ Possible topics include literature and:
• Teaching and Being Taught; pedagogical theory and practice
• Representations of Places of Learning
• Examinations, grades, scholarships, qualifications
• Inequality, Discrimination, and Exclusion in Education
• Academic Success and Failure
• Literacy and Illiteracy
• Intellectuals, Experts, Professionalism
• Autodidacticism, Informal Education
• Varieties of education: aesthetic, classical, moral, religious, scientific, technical
• Learning Styles and Types of Intelligence
• Intellectual ability and disability
As well as literature and:
• Professionalisation/ Institutionalisation of Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychometrics and personality testing
• Physiology and psychology
• Psychological Schools and Controversies
• Psychology and Philosophy
• Experimental Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Sexology
• Parapsychology
• Eugenics
• Language and Cognition
Please submit an individual proposal of no more than 350 words or an outline for a 3 paper panel proposal to sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com by 1 March 2018. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Please include your name, a short bio, and email address in your proposal.
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