Cross-Disciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference on Post/Decolonial and Global Studies 4th – 6th August 2021 University of Glasgow – Online Call for Proposals Website: https://movingcentre2021.wordpress.com Important Dates Deadline for submissions: 5th April 2021 Notification of acceptance: by 14th May 2021 Conference dates: 4th, 5th and 6th August 2021 The climate crisis and …
BAMS Postgraduate Training Day: Pedagogy (9 April 2021)
We’ve already circulated a save the date for this, but here are further details of this year’s BAMS Postgraduate Training Day, which will run online (via Zoom) on Friday 9 April 2021. This year’s topic is pedagogy. In addition to the kinds of questions that we all have when we come …
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BAMS Essay Prize (deadline 16 July 2021)
The British Association for Modernist Studies invites submissions for its annual essay prize for early career scholars. The winning essay will be published in Modernist Cultures, and the winner will also receive £250 of books. The BAMS Essay Prize is open to any member of the British Association for Modernist Studies …
BAMS Executive Steering Committee 2021 (election results)
We’ve already announced this via social media, but we’re pleased to confirm that joining the committee from 2021 for a three-year term will be: Dr Barbara Cooke (Loughborough University)Dr Rob Hawkes (Teeside University)Dr Udith Dematagoda (Waseda University, Japan) The postgraduate rep election was very closely fought – so much so, in …
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CfP: Woolf: Hope and Wonder, panel for MLA 2022 (deadline 15 Mar 21)
International Virginia Woolf Society Panel for MLA 2022 “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.” Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “Woolf’s Darkness,” opens with this quotation from Woolf, and follows with a discussion that celebrates Woolf’s investment in uncertainty and even darkness as a space …
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The Writer as Psychological Warrior, online conference (12-16 July 21; abstracts 19 Mar)
The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict Online conference, hosted by Durham University12-16 July 2021 The tendency of the modern state is to wipe out the freedom of the intellect, and yet at the same time every state, especially under the pressure of war, finds itself more and …
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CfP: Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (abstracts 28/2/21; deadline 26/4)
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We …
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BAMS Elections 2021, running 22/1-28/2/2021
This year, the BAMS Executive Steering Committee is looking to fill three vacant academic positions and two PG Representative positions. At the close of the application period, we received three academic applications, and five PG Representative applications, all of which included nominations from existing BAMS members. Click to download a pdf …
CfP: Collaborations & Networks symposium, 4-5 Sep 2021 (abstract 31 Mar; deadline 31 July)
Virtual Symposium Irish Women’s Writing Network 4-5 September 2021 The period 1880-1940 was marked by the emergence of a diverse range of Irish women writers into both the public sphere and public consciousness. This development was not accidental but was instead fostered by a variety of networks and collaborations that connected …
CfP: Another Revolution: Building Modern Worlds (abstract 28 Feb; deadline 30 June)
For a prospective peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform, we seek proposals for original essays that analyze the role of art and culture in building modern worlds in the aftermath of revolutions. Situated within the discourse of global modernisms, the transdisciplinary cluster probes whether there is something intrinsic to the post-revolutionary reconstructive moment that …
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