Dear BAMS members and friends The election for up to two new Postgraduate Representatives to sit on the BAMS Executive Steering Committee opened on Saturday 10 February. If you have BAMS membership for 2018 you should have received an email from Electionbuddy with a unique link to the online election on Saturday morning. Please …
Women Poets and Myth Colloquium, Madrid, 19–20 April 2018
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 …
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Collaborative doctoral award: The Modernist Home
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
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BAMS essay prize result
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2018 BAMS essay prize: Winner: Ned Hercock (ECR, independent scholar), ‘Hard Objects in George Oppen’s Discrete Series’ Runner up: Eleanor Careless (Sussex), ‘Muriel Rukeyser and the Security of the Imagination: Poetry and Propaganda in 1940s America’ The winner will receive £250 of …
Weekly online Shut Up & Write Session for PGRs and ECRs
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 …
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CFP: Volume 11 of Katherine Mansfield Studies and essay prize: Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
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 …
CFP: Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850–1950, 17–18 July, University of Kent
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 …
BAMS Postgraduate Training Day: Career Administration, 28 March
BAMS Postgraduate Training Day: Career Administration Wednesday 28 March 2018 Venue: Senate House, London (hosted by RHUL) Save the date! The 2018 Postgraduate Training Day on Career Administration will be held on 28 March 2018 at Senate House, London. There will be workshops on applications and interviews, publishing, institutional demands in the …
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BAMS Postgrad Reps: call for nominations
Call for nominations for up to two Postgraduate Representatives to join the BAMS Executive Steering Committee On 31st December 2017, the two-year terms of 2 of our 3 current Postgraduate Representatives came to an end. We now invite nominations for up to 2 new PG Representatives to join the BAMS Executive …
CFP: Reading Walter de la Mare, 1873–1956, 20–21 September 2018, University of Cambridge
Call for Papers Reading Walter de la Mare, 1873–1956: ‘a voice which has no fellow’ 20–21 September 2018, University of Cambridge https://readingwalterdelamare.wordpress.com By whom, and by what means, was this designed? The whispered incantation which allows Free passage to the phantoms of the mind? . . . By the delicate, invisible web …
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