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 …
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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CfP: Figuring Out Feeling, Paris, 1-2 July 2020 (deadline 31/1/20)
Figuring Out Feeling International Conference Université de Paris, 1st-2nd July 2020 Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2020 Since the affective turn in the early 1990s, the humanities and social sciences have witnessed a profound and renewed interest in how feelings operate; their relationship to both the human, the nonhuman (or more …
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BAMS ESSAY PRIZE 2019
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31 DECEMBER 2019 The British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2019 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. …
ORWELL, POLITICS & JOURNALISM NOW
ORWELL, POLITICS AND JOURNALISM NOW 10th and 11th October 2019, Oxford Organised by Dr David Dwan (Oxford) and Dr Lisa Mullen (Cambridge) FULL SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME AND FREE REGISTRATION https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984-now-tickets-72167110771 All welcome!
