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We are delighted to announce that the sixteenth conference on New Work in Modernist Studies (NWiMS) will be taking place in person on Friday 11th December 2026, location TBC.
NWiMS is the annual, one-day conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), aimed at postgraduates and early career researchers, to provide an opportunity for these scholars to share their work in a supportive and inclusive environment, as well as to meet researchers from other institutions working on related topics.
Proposals
We welcome proposals from current postgraduate and early career researchers for short (10 minutes maximum) research papers, on any aspect of modernist culture, broadly conceived, and from any disciplinary perspective. Proposals should be no more than 250 words. Please also include a short biography of no more than 50 words.
The conference is open to international delegates. All attendees must be members of BAMS.
Proposals for and questions about the event should be sent to nwims@bams.ac.uk with NWiMS in the subject line.
Deadline for Proposals: 5pm UK time, Friday 30th October 2026
Acceptance decisions will be communicated within seven days.
Applicants and delegates are encouraged to let us know about any access needs they might have, and if we are able to make adjustments to the application or presentation process, we will endeavour to do so.
BAMS is dedicated to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. As in previous years, this conference will take the form of an interdisciplinary programme reflecting the full diversity of current graduate work in modernist studies; it encourages the contributions both from those already involved in the existing networks and from students new to modernist studies who are eager to share their work. We particularly encourage proposals from students from global majority ethnic background, who we recognise are underrepresented in the field.
