Telepoetics Dana Research Centre, Science Museum, London, 27 May 2020 Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2020 www.crossedlines.co.uk From the ‘waves of sound, transmitted o’er the line’ in Jones Very’s ‘The Telephone’ (1877) to the ‘thin voice speak[ing] / from a drowning world’ in Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Six Rings’ (2018), telephones have been …
CfP: Women Writers and Social/Political Activism (abstract deadline 1 Aug 2020)
Women Writers and Social/Political Activism A special issue of Women: A Cultural Review Call for Abstracts Guest Editors: Lise Shapiro Sanders and Carey Snyder Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2020 The early twentieth century abounded with movements that reshaped women’s lives—including those for women’s suffrage, peace, birth control, and better working conditions, …
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BAMS PGR Training Day: Teaching & Pedagogy, Edinburgh, 3 Apr 2020
CANCELLED Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus Friday 3 April 2020 Register here BAMS runs a rotating three-year series of postgraduate training days which focus on the three key parts of most salaried academic contracts: research, teaching and administration. This year the training day focuses on teaching and pedagogy. The focus will …
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London Modernism Seminar: Science, 8 Feb 2020
The next London Modernism Seminar will the place on Saturday 8 February, 11.00-13.00 at King’s College London, Room S0.12 in the Strand Building. The theme of the seminar is Science and we’re delighted to have Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Rachel Murray as our speakers. More details about their talks can be found …
A celebration of the life and work of Nan Shepherd, Edinburgh, 11 Feb 2020
On the anniversary of her birth, a panel of experts explore the extraordinary life and writings of Nan Shepherd. Dr Scott Lyall will be joined by Dr Kerri Andrews, Erlend Clouston, Professor Alison Lumsden and Dr Samantha Walton to discuss the significance of Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, her novels and poetry, …
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CfP: Clouds, London, 22 May 2020 (deadline 28 Feb)
Call for Papers: A Symposium on Clouds UCL English Annual Graduate Conference Friday 22 May 2020, 9.00-19.00 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Keynotes: Esther Leslie: Professor in Political Aesthetics and Co-Director of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Joanna Walsh: Author and critic whose recent books include Break.up (2018) and Worlds from the Word’s End (2017) “What then …
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Imprints of the New Modernist Editing: Pochoir Printing Workshop, Edinburgh, 21 February 2020 (apply by 27 Jan)
Imprints of the New Modernist Editing: Blue & Green: A one-day practical workshop in pochoir printing, led by Jane Hyslop (project Co-Investigator) Edinburgh College of Art, Friday 21st February 2020 During the modernist period the pochoir printing technique was used extensively in fashion illustration. It offers a unique, liminal space between …
PhD Studentships in Periodical Studies, Nottingham Trent University (deadline 14 February 2020)
Professor Andrew Thacker and Dr Catherine Clay, Co-Directors of a new Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), invite applications for PhD projects in any area of modern periodical studies under NTU’s 2020 PhD Studentship Scheme. Further information about the scheme is available here. The closing dates …
CfP: Hope Mirrlees’s Paris at 100, Paris, 10 June 2020 (deadline 15 Feb)
2020 marks 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 herself, this ground-breaking long poem maps the range of continental avant-garde aesthetics of the 1910s even as it both engages and anticipates the …
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CfP: Crisis: European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), Leuven, 17-19 Sep 2020 (deadline 1 Feb)
The next biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) will be held at the University of Leuven from 17 to 19 September 2020 on the theme of CRISIS. Keynote speakers include Boris Groys, Ken Hirschkop, and Christine Poggi. A call for roundtable proposals (deadline 1 Jan.) …
