Submissions are invited for the 2019 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference. Plenary guests confirmed include: Professor Brian Ward (Northumbria University) “The Beatles in Miami, 1964: Race, Class and Gender in the Atlantic World” AND Professor Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) “Transatlantic Romanticism and British-Indigenous Relations: 1800-1850” PLUS A Roundtable …
CfP: Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship, Birmingham, 21 February 2019
‘Shifting Notions of Modernity in Modern and Contemporary Scholarship’ University of Birmingham, 21 February 2019 A one day symposium hosted by the Modern and Contemporary Forum and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham. The focus of this one-day symposium is to bring together experienced scholars, …
Dorothy Richardson Project Public Workshop
Dorothy Richardson Editions Project Public Workshop New College, University of Oxford 18 January 2019 11am-5pm This free public workshop will present new findings about Richardson’s life, letters, fiction, and non-fiction. There will be presentations on the implications of publishing a new Pilgrimage, the significance of Richardson’s epistolary networks, and the Dorothy Richardson project’s developing methodology. …
Joyce Without Borders, Mexico City, 12–16 June 2019
Joyce Without Borders, North American James Joyce Symposium, Mexico City, 12–16 June 2019 Website: www.joycewithoutborders.com The 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium will be jointly hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). This will be the first annual gathering of Joyceans in the global south, …
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CfP: Forming the Future, 2–3 Sept 2019, University of Plymouth
Forming the Future, 2–3 Sept 2019, University of Plymouth Confirmed speakers: Amy J. Elias (Tennessee, Knoxville); Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque); Sandra Kemp (Lancaster/Imperial) Thinking about the future often focuses on its ‘content’: what might happen. Similarly, thinking about ‘future studies’ often concentrates on its goals, concepts and methods. But what about the …
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New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 December 2018, Glasgow: registration open
Saturday 1 December 2018, 10–5.30 pm The University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens Plenary Speaker: DR ANOUK LANG (University of Edinburgh) This one-day graduate conference is a joint event hosted by Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (SNoMS) in conjunction with Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, Modernism Studies Ireland …
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CfP: Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology, QMUL, 14–15 June 2019
Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology A major International Conference, 14–15 June 2019 Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Confirmed keynote speakers Prof. Martin Puchner, Harvard University Prof. Karen Kilcup, The University of North Carolina …
CfP: Beastly Modernisms, 12–13 Sept 2019, University of Glasgow
Keynote Speakers Kari Weil, Wesleyan University (US) Derek Ryan, University of Kent (UK) ‘I still do not think La Somnambule the perfect title – Night Beast would be better except for that debased meaning now put on that nice word beast.’ – Djuna Barnes to Emily Holmes Coleman ‘Once again we are …
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Call for Poems: Beastly Modernisms, 12–13 Sept 2019, University of Glasgow
Whether it’s Virginia Woolf crafting a playful biography of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s dog in Flush, Clarice Lispector pondering the metaphysics of chickens in ‘The Egg and the Chicken’, or Marianne Moore with her elegant swans and pigeons, modernism is quite the menagerie of poetic animals. As part of an interdisciplinary conference on Beastly …
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CfP: Queer Modernism(s), 25–26 April 2019, Oxford
‘How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?’ ― Richard Bruce Nugent After the resounding success of the Queer Modernism(s) conferences in 2017 and 2018, we are excited to announce the CfP for the third Queer Modernism(s) conference, Queer Networks, set to be held on April 25th and 26th …
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