This unique initiative for 2020 brings City University of London and the University of Kent into collaboration with Routledge and Intellect Books on two conferences and associated publications. THEMES: Heritage, Preservation, Digital histories, Digital design, Art and Architectural History. Social history, Cultural industries, Urban design, Community Heritage, Architectural History. The University …
CfP: Artefact, Aesthetic and Critical Represenation, Paris, 23-24 Apr 2020 (deadline 15 Jan)
Artefact, Aesthetic and Critical Representation: Experiment and Innovation in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction Call for papers for an international conference to take place at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée (research group LISAA (Literatures, Critical Thought and the Arts), subgroup SEA (English studies)): Thursday 23rd April and Friday 24th April 2020. Due date for …
CfP: Asking Big Questions Again, Venice, 24-25 Jan 2020 (deadline 5 Dec 2019)
CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th Forum of Critical Studies Asking Big Questions Again 24 – 25 January 2020 Venice, Italy Deadline for Paper Proposals: 5th of December 2019 The 8th Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies aims to bring into an open floor the reflexive and questioning interaction among academics, …
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CfP: Poetry & Painting: Conversations, Oxford, 23 Mar 2020 (deadline 30 Nov 2019)
You know how I feel about painters. I sometimes think poetry only describes. Frank O’Hara, ‘John Button Birthday’ (1957) The supposed similarity between poetry and painting was famously characterized in Horace’s ‘Ars Poetica’ by the dictum ‘ut pictura poesis’ (‘as is painting, so is poetry’). Yet in 1766, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing …
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CfP: British Society for Literature and Science, Sheffield, 15-17 Apr 2020 (deadline 12 Dec 2019)
The fifteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Sheffield from Wednesday 15 April until Friday 17 April 2020. Keynote speakers will be Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford), Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff), and Professor Angela Wright (Sheffield). The BSLS invites proposals …
Call for Nominations: BAMS Executive Steering Committee (nominations by 1 Jan 2020)
Nominations are sought for the 2020 Election of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) Executive Steering Committee. On 31st December 2019, the three-year terms of eight members of the BAMS Executive Steering Committee will come to an end. We now invite nominations for membership of the Steering Committee, along with …
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CfP: Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age, Gdansk, 24-26 Feb 2020 (deadline 20 Nov 2019)
Call for papers Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age University of Gdańsk (Poland), 24–26 February 2020 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jeff Hearn and Dr Nena Močnik Organizers: Marta Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy We invite scholars, students, practitioners and activists from all fields to take part in the inaugural …
New Work in Modernist Studies, Liverpool, 6 Dec 2019 (register by 25 Nov)
NWiMS 2019 draft programme Registration is now open for the ninth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies, which will take place on Friday 6 December 2019 at the University of Liverpool, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist …
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Imprints of the New Modernist Editing Workshop, Glasgow, 5 Dec 2019 (apply by 14 Nov)
Imprints of the New Modernist Editing Yapping with Cutbush: A one-day practical workshop on letterpress typography and print, led by Edwin Pickstone (project CoI) Glasgow School of Art, Thursday 5th December 2019 The early twentieth century saw great waves of reform, standardisation and professionalisation move through the European and American print …
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CFP: Politics and Desire in a Decadent Age: 1860 to the Present
A one-day symposium — Call for Proposals Hosted by the Department of English and the Sexual Cultures Research Group Queen Mary University of London Friday 15 May 2020 Keynote Speaker: Dennis Denisoff (McFarlin Chair of English, University of Tulsa, author of Aestheticism and Sexual Parody and Sexual Visuality from Literature to …
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