Katherine Mansfield on the French Riviera Menton, France 24–25 September 2020 THIS CONFERENCE IS STILL GOING AHEAD AS PLANNED (03/04/2020) An international symposium organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Hosted by the Town Hall of Menton, and supported by the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship The Symposium …
CfP: Between the Waves: British Women Writers 1930 to 1960 redux, Hull, 12 June 2020 (deadline 17 March)
Fourth international conference at The University of Hull Friday 12th June 2020 Co-organised by Dr Sue Kennedy and Professor Jane Thomas This conference aims to rekindle the energy unleashed at the inaugural conference on British Women’s Writing 1930 to 1960: Revision, Revival, Rediscovery in 2016 at Hull University that was taken …
CfP: Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World, York, 16 May 2020 (deadline 8 March)
CALL FOR PAPERS Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Symposium Centre for Modern Studies, University of York 16 May 2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster University) Since the ‘spatial turn’ in the 1970s, scholars, theorists, scientists, and intellectuals across the globe have been carving out new critical, theoretical, and methodological concepts to expand and redefine the …
CfP: Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts, 16-17 July 2020, London (deadline 29 Feb)
MAPPING SPACE MAPPING TIME MAPPING TEXTS An International Conference 16th and 17th July, 2020. The Knowledge Centre, The British Library, London. This two-day interdisciplinary conference is hosted by the AHRC Funded Chronotopic Cartographies project (Lancaster University) in partnership with The British Library and comes out of the primary research of …
CfP: Telepoetics, London, 27 May 2020 (deadline 10 March)
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 …
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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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