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A collection on poetry, poetry readings, and the status of the voice in
poetry has just been published under the direction of Jean-François Puff
entitled _Dire la poésie_.  The collection gathers French and American
scholars and contains essays on Stein, Jackson Mac Low, Cage, Jacques
Roubaud, and many others.  For American scholars interested in how
American poetry is being discussed in France, this will be illuminating.
Authors included: Arnaud Bernadet, Elisa Bricco, Vincent Broqua,
Olivier Gallet, Jean-Marie Gleize, Maud Gouttefangeas, Abigail Lang,
Michel Murat, Carrie Noland, Céline Pardo, Jean-François Puff, Thierry
Roger, Jacques Roubaud, Anne-Christine Royère, Éric Suchère.

Writing the Rising: An international Conference on 1916

Università Roma Tre

14-16 January 2016

Writing the Rising is an international conference organised by CRISIS – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per gli Studi Irlandesi e Scozzesi – at the Università Roma Tre in association with the Irish Embassy to Italy and the College of Saint Isidore in Rome. This interdisciplinary conference will particularly welcome contributions from historians, literary critics, and political scientists. The conference will examine the central importance of the written word both before, during and after the 1916 Rising, firstly as a source of inspiration, then as the container of the main political message of the Rising itself (the Proclamation of the Irish Republic) and finally as the principal means of reportage, witness, and critique.

Paper topics can relate to any aspect of the Revolutionary period of Irish history, from 1913 to 1923. However, participants are encouraged to examine various written forms from letters to journalism, propaganda to poetry, theatre to the novel, produced before, during and in the aftermath of the tumultuous historical events of 1916. Papers dealing with modern literary reappraisals of the Rising are also welcome as are contributions dealing with European aspects of the Rising, the connections with World War One, and journalistic and popular coverage of the Rising both in the Europe of the time and the Europe of today. Discussions of coverage of the Rising in Italy will be particularly encouraged. Papers which investigate the Catholic Church’s response to the Rising will also be welcome.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS: Professor Roy Foster (Oxford University), Dr Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths, University of London). Further plenary speakers will be announced shortly.

Proposals should be sent by 10 September 2015 to: john.mccourt@uniroma3.it

CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE HERE.

BAMS members may wish to note that registration for Raymond Williams Now closes this Friday (15/05).

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)

Register at: http://estore.manchester.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=427

Registration closes 15 May
Further information, including schedule and abstracts for papers, can be found at www.radicalstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com

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14-16 September 2015, University of Leuven

www.writingliteraryhistory.be

INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael North – Marjorie Perloff – Gilles Philippe – Gisèle Sapiro – Ted Underwood

This conference is an initiative of the MDRN research lab at the University of Leuven (www.mdrn.be), which focuses on European literature from the (long) first half of the twentieth century. Recognizing that (modern) literary history is currently one of the main sites of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies, the conference aims to take stock of recent scholarship and to investigate how literary historical research has modified our understanding of writing between 1900 and 1950. We welcome proposals for papers which consider the following overall research questions and perspectives:

–          Many crucial notions in literary studies have been revalued in recent years in the practice of literary history. These include archive, period, book, event, media, genre, generation, objects, style and the senses. How exactly has this conceptual revaluation affected our view of literature’s and writers’ complex dynamics and functions between 1900 and 1950? What aspects and notions of writing require further attention in future literary histories?

–          Recent decades have seen an explosion of new or revised approaches in literary history. These include digital humanities, media archaeology, cognitive approaches, evocriticism and literary Darwinism, ecocriticism, object-oriented theories, affect theory and many more. Which of these are of special value to the history of literature from the modernist period and why?

–          Our understanding of literature’s ‘context’ has gone through drastic changes in the past decades. Once universally understood as the immediate institutional, economic or political constellation surrounding a text, ‘context’ in present-day literary studies means a lot of things, from the ‘brain’ (in cognitive studies) to the ‘universe’ (in so-called Big History). How can these drastic redefinitions help us to reconceive the history of literature between 1900 and 1950?

–          Place and space always have been said to be of significance to the historical development of European literature. What new approaches to space and place (from translation studies and memory studies to post-socialist research and geologically inspired methods working with concepts like deep time) allow us to reread the regional, national and transnational circulation of European writing during this half century?

–          Which new forms of reading to have gained weight in recent years (from distant reading and uncritical reading to non-reading and beyond) are of relevance to the historiography of literature from the modernist period? Similarly, what new or hitherto neglected aspects of the materiality, reception and production of texts can help us to cast new light on the writing in the period?

–          The first half of the twentieth-century saw the rise of many historiographical methods (from Formalism and early structuralism to neo-Marxism and early Critical Theory) that went on to play a crucial role in literary history. What aspects of these methods still hold potential today? Are there perhaps other approaches in literary history developed during the period that have remained largely neglected but still hold promise?

Proposals for 20-minute presentations + a short CV are welcome before 4 May 2015 and can be sent to: mdrn.wlh@gmail.com. Case-based contributions that can help us to revisit the writings from the modernist period will be considered, but our principal aim is to foster methodological and conceptual debate and to enhance the dialogue between the major literary and historiographical research traditions within Europe and beyond. For that reason proposals on general theoretical and methodological topics in the field of literary historiography (always with an emphasis on the period 1900-1950) will be favored. A selection of papers will be published after the conference.

For more information, visit www.writingliteraryhistory.be.

This is a reminder of the CFP for this international event in Lithuania, updated with details of fees and scholarships:

cfp: Everyday politics: Redistributions of the sensible, Druskininkai, Lithuania July 18-25, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS
The summer symposium “Everyday politics: Redistributions of the sensible,” including a seminar “The ‘dailiness’ of everyday life”
Nordic Summer University, Heterologies of the Everyday research circle
18-25 July, 2015, Druskininkai, Lithuania.
Keynote speakers: Ben Highmore and Roberta Mock.

Everyday space is a space of relational practices, where lives unfold within the fluid relationscapes of spaces, things and others around us. These everyday relationscapes are grounded by material and historical circumstances within the ideological landscape of a body-politics. This symposium considers political dimensions of the everyday and aims at imagining a new “aesthetic politics of the ordinary” (Ben Highmore). According to Jacques Rancière, “Human beings are tied together by a certain sensory fabric, a certain distribution of the sensible, which defines their way of being together; and politics is about the transformation of the sensory fabric of ‘being together’.” This symposium will consider new possibilities for political and aesthetic renewal.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to
– sensation and togetherness as the connecting links between small events of the everyday and the life of the polis;
– heterological, differential moments of the everyday;
– everyday aesthetics as a ground for art, but also for politics and social life;
– artistic representations of the everyday in the context of the polis.
– the single day as an entry point to understanding the everyday; dialogues between a single day and the everyday as such.

Please send abstracts (300-500 words) and a short bio to Epp Annus, by 1 May 2015 (annus.1@osu.edu). If you wish to participate without giving a paper, kindly send a short (150-300 word) description of yourself and your interests, also by 1 May 2015. Later submissions may be considered, should there still be available places.

The symposium also includes a seminar “The ‘dailiness’ of everyday life”. Potential participants will be invited to submit a short position paper (2-3,000 words) on the topic in advance of the seminar. These papers will be circulated among participants in advance of the session and will form the basis of the seminar discussion. The seminar will be limited to 12 participants, but auditors will be welcome. Please send abstracts (300-500 words) and a short bio to Bryony Randall, by 15 April 2015 (Bryony.Randall@glasgow.ac.uk). Proposals are invited on any aspect of the single day and the everyday, but participants may wish to consider the following questions as part of their contributions:

What does a focus on the ‘dailiness’ of everyday life, its daily temporality, bring to our understanding of contemporary literature, culture and society? How does this intersect with key issues of class, race, gender and sexuality that underpin experiences of the everyday? Or put another way, how can the data, narratives, experiences and affects captured in a single day be mobilised to help us understand and transform the ‘distribution of the sensible’? And how do recent discoveries and preoccupations that form the epistemology of our times affect the space that dailiness and the day occupy in representations of contemporary life? (for example information surfeit; preoccupation with loss of memory; new understanding of the plasticity of memories).

The symposium “Everyday politics: Redistributions of the sensible” is organized by the research circle Heterologies of the Everyday, which is part of the Nordic Summer University network. This circle aims to address what is most relevant and unavoidably present for every human being: everyday existence. This is an interdisciplinary project that works at the intersection of cultural studies, philosophy, literary criticism, art criticism, film studies, urban studies, anthropology, sociology and human geography.
The 2015 Summer Session of the Nordic Summer University will take place in Druskininkai, Lithuania, in a 19th century spa resort:http://www.groupeuropa.com/europa_royale/hotel_druskininkai/about_hotel_druskininkai/
The total cost of the session (including accommodation and all meals in a four star Hotel Druskininkai) ranges from 368 euro to 536 euro, depending on the kind of the accommodation you choose: http://nsuweb.net/url/?id=261.

NSU will offer scholarships for students and grants for others in need of a subsidy. The application period is from 1st April to 15th April. For more information: http://nsuweb.org/w2014/application.

PhD students are eligible for up to five ECTS points.
Childcare is provided for children starting from age 3.
Questions: annus.1@osu.edu

Friday 1 May 2015, 1-7pm, Oxford Brookes University

Part of the Novel Playwrights Project

Bath Spa University, Corsham Court Campus

3^rd and 4^th July 2015

‘The highest conjoint work of art is the drama: it can only exist in all its potential completeness when there exists in it each separate branch of art in its own utmost completeness.’ Richard Wagner

Keynote Speakers: Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow) and Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Dramatic Influences is an interdisciplinary conference which will explore the connections between the novel, poetry and the stage.

Papers, short performance pieces, works of art, suggestions for literary/artistic workshops inspired by the interactions between drama and other art forms are welcomed as the catalyst for interdisciplinary discussion. Proposals for 20 min papers are invited addressing the work of novelists and poets who also wrote plays or whose forms were significantly influenced by drama and theatre.

Topics or questions may include (but are not limited to):

• the formal influence of drama and theatre on poetry and fiction
• adaptation
• ‘anxieties of influence’ (Harold Bloom)
• the problems and benefits of reclaiming lesser known dramatic works by authors better know for their other creative enterprises
• why have specific novelists and poets failed or succeeded in writing for the stage?
• The Gesamptkunstwerk
• Theatre history and the practical considerations of joining art forms together to produce dramatic productions
• The influence of drama and theatre on specific genres

250 word proposals for individual papers and/or panels due by 1st May 2015.

The proposal should include a title, name, affiliation and short biography of the speaker, and a contact email address. These will be circulated prior to the conference and will appear on the conference website. Please indicate if you do not wish these details to appear. Feel free to submit proposals presenting work in progress as well as completed projects. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome. We also welcome practice-based research examples which demonstrate how the stage has influenced or been influence by fiction and poetry. These may include, but are not limited to performances (dance, drama, music), creative workshops, readings, exhibitions, live art, film.

Please send 250-word abstracts as Word attachments tonovelplaywrights@gmail.com

by 1st May 2015.

Who to contact:
Dr Elizabeth Wright or Annabel Wynne at novelplaywrights@gmail.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Novel-Playwrights/253963081467742?fref=ts

Twitter: @NovelPlaywright

To register for the conference and for further information, please visit our website: http://novelplaywrights.wordpress.com/

Make It New is the digital quarterly magazine of the Ezra Pound Society. It was started last year to serve as a society newsletter, but it seems that Pound scholars did not want one – at 35 pages, the pilot issue  was already too large. The next number doubled in size and the third and fourth settled at around 85 pages.

MIN publishes reviews, travelogues, reports and controversies around Ezra Pound but aims to cover subjects of interest to the wider community of modernists as well.

With the fourth number, Make It New has acquired a new dedicated website at http://makeitnew.ezrapoundsociety.org

Just come and see us, we would be happy for a visit!