About the conferenceThe tenth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 11 December 2020, 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 for …
CfP: Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism (book; abstract 1 March; essays 3 Aug 2021)
Discontent with the prevailing culture, modernist artists sought to break the world apart in order to remake it, calling into question long-held assumptions about ethics and consciousness, identity, religion, responsibility and accountability. Further, the scientific discoveries and technological innovations that took place during this period resulted in a culture that was …
Essay prize: The Emerging Beardsley Scholar Prize (deadline 31 Dec 2020)
To mark the foundation of the Aubrey Beardsley Society, a prize for the best short essay on any aspect of Beardsley’s work, life, and reception will be awarded to an outstanding emerging scholar. The Society aims to encourage new work that is intellectually adventurous and stylistically accomplished, and seeks submissions that …
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New Work in Modernist Studies, online 11 Dec 2020 (CfP deadline 19 Oct)
About the conference The tenth one-day graduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 11 December 2020, 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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Publicising your call for papers and/or event via BAMS
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CfP: Telepoetics, edited collection (deadline 25 Sep 2020)
Edited by Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams Call for Papers 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 calling in and across literary …
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CfP: The Body Politic in Pain: A Modernism/Modernity Print+ Cluster (deadline 10 September 2020)
Editor: Jeremy Colangelo (jcolang2@uwo.ca) Abstracts due: September 10, 2020 Full papers due: February 1, 2021 This article cluster seeks thoughtful, theoretically engaged essays on the subject of pain and pain expression in modernism and modernist literature for a proposed cluster of peer reviewed articles on Modernism/Modernity’s Print Plus platform. Bodily experience …
CfP: A New Poetics of Space: Literary Walks in times of Pandemics and Climate Change, 7 December 2020 (deadline 1 October)
Online conference: 7 December 2020 Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden Keynote Speakers: Professor Anne D. Wallace (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Professor Jon Hegglund (Washington State University) Organisers: Dr Lucy Jeffery & Professor Vicky Angelaki In the Exeter Book (c. 975), the speaker in an Anglo-Saxon lament entitled ‘The …
CfP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, 15-16 Dec 2020 (deadline 28 June)
CFP: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/sound-instruments-and-sonic-cultures-interdisciplinary-conference This interdisciplinary conference will take place on 15–16 December 2020 at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. Keynote speakers: Mara Mills (NYU Steinhardt) Trevor Pinch (Cornell University) COVID-19 NOTICE: In view of the unpredictability of the current pandemic situation, while we …
BAMS statement on Black Lives Matter
We at BAMS recognise that more needs to be done to counter the whiteness of academia and of modernism studies, and that we need to do more. In February 2020, The Higher Education Statistics Agency reported that fewer than 1% of professors employed at UK universities are black, whilst 85% are …
