“James Joyce is quite wrong headed. Anyhow, with his wilfulness, he has made novel reading into a fair imitation of penal servitude…” ARNOLD BENNETT on ULYSSES Keynote Speakers: Professor Patrick Collier (Ball State University), Dr Beci Carver (University of Exeter) CALL FOR PAPERS This one-day conference intends to examine 1922 looking …
Symposium: The Paris Commune at 150, London, 2 Nov 2021
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 9.30-19:00 GMT, at The Royal Foundation of St Katharine (London)We celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune with an in-person symposium. The event brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the literary, political, and artistic legacies of the Paris Commune. The symposium will …
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In Memoriam: Professor Laura Marcus
We were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Laura Marcus on Wednesday 22 September, after a short illness. During the course of her distinguished career, Laura was a friend, teacher, and colleague to many of us. Her work on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, psychoanalysis, and cinema profoundly informed the modernist …
New Work in Modernist Studies 11, online, 10 Dec 2021 (deadline 20 Oct)
About the conference The eleventh one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 10 December 2021, in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Midlands Modernist Network and the British Association …
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Symposium: Avant-Gardes/Contagion/Hygiene (Glasgow, 26 Nov 2021)
Avant-Gardes / Contagion / Hygiene is an interdisciplinary symposium hosted online by the University of Glasgow on 26 November 2021. The event brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections and interactions, dating from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, …
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CfP: Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem at 100 (Online cluster; abstract deadline 1 Oct 2021; article deadline 1 Mar 2022)
Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster Proposal 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of “modernism’s lost masterpiece,” Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem. Published by Hogarth Press in the spring of 1920, and typeset by Virginia Woolf, this ground-breaking long poem maps the range of continental avant-garde aesthetics of the 1910s even as it both …
Aesthetics of Global Modernism conference programme (Mon 12 July)
The Aesthetics of Global Modernism 12th July 2021 A one-day online event by the Modernist Studies in Asia network (MSIA) and the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS). Organisers: Udith Dematagoda, Assistant Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo (BAMS) Nan Zhang, Associate Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai (MSIA) Kevin Riordan, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological …
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Call for nominations in D.H. Lawrence Studies (deadline 6 Sep 2021)
The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to invite nominations for the following awards in Lawrence studies: The Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Encouragement of Lawrence Studies. The Mark Spilka Lectureship. Lecture by a distinguished Lawrence scholar to be delivered at the International Conference. Awarded …
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CfP: Reading in theory and in higher education practice (journal SI; abstracts 15 July 2021; articles 15 Oct)
[Call for Articles] Reading in theoryand in higher education practice Special issue of CLW – Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (2022)ed. by Janine Hauthal & Hannah Van Hove deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2021; deadline for articles: 15 October 2021 Over the past few decades, the field of literary studies has increasingly been interested in …
CfP: Smallness: Myths, frames and avatars of the late modern (26 Nov 2021; deadline 30 June)
Grupo Poéticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Research Seminar Smallness: Myths, frames and avatars of the late modern In an effort to reach beyond the conspicuous, the large and clearly visible, the spectacular and magnified, this seminar is an invitation to read, watch and assess smallness, detail, imperceptibility, following Virginia Woolf’s direction: …
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