As you may know, the Northern Modernism Seminar restarted last year after a period lying fallow. It now has a new website: https://northernmodernismseminar.wordpress.com Do keep an eye on it for updates and further details of coming events. There are already dates to mark in your diary for the next couple of …
CfP: Transatlantic Studies Association, Lisbon, 6-8 July 2020 (deadline 27 Jan)
Transatlantic Studies Association 19th Annual Conference Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon 6-8 July 2020 Call for Papers Submissions are invited for the 2020 Annual Conference KEYNOTE LECTURES Professor Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University) “Why meeting NATO’s 2% target would make Europe (and the West) less secure” AND Professor Anna Brickhouse …
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BAMS Election 2020: Executive Committee candidate statements
Please find below the biographical and candidate statements for election to the BAMS Executive Committee. These candidates have all been elected, as we received only 6 candidates for 8 vacant positions. These are in order by candidate surname. Rebecca Bowler (Keele University) Nominated by Andrew Frayn, Napier University Rebecca Bowler is …
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BAMS Postgrad Rep Election 2020: Candidate Statements
Here are the candidate statements for the three candidates for the open BAMS postgradauate rep positions. Members who are eligible to vote should have received an email with a link. There are two positions available. Candidates are presented in alphabetical order by surname. Members who are eligible to vote should have …
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Juliet McLauchlan Prize, Joseph Conrad Society (deadline 15 May 2020)
Juliet McLauchlan Prize An annual prize is awarded by the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.) for an essay on any aspect of the works and/or life of Joseph Conrad. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Juliet McLauchlan, a much loved Conradian and former Chair of the Society, by encouraging writing …
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Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, London, 25 Jan 2020
21st Annual Virginia Woolf BIRTHDAY LECTURE “Singing Songs of Sixpence? Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth & the languages of music” Claire Davison, Professeur de Literature Moderniste, University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Saturday 25 January 2020, 2.00pm (doors 1.30pm) MAL 532, Main Building, 5th floor, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HX Afterwards, at …
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CfP: Flann O’Brien & the Nonhuman (deadline 1 Feb 2020)
New Flann O’Brien Publication: Call For Papers Flann O’Brien & the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines eds. Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, John Greaney Recent years have seen a remarkable rise in studies dedicated to the nonhuman turn in Irish literary and modernist contexts. Yet this proposed collection posits that the writing of Brian O’Nolan (pseud. …
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CfP: Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction (deadline 31 Jan 2020)
Prospective Modernism/modernity Print+ cluster Edited by Caroline Hovanec and Rachel Murray We are living through the sixth mass extinction – a period of geological history in which species are dying out at up to 1000 times the normal rate. A 2019 UN report warned that as many as one million plant and animal species …
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States of Modernism: Collapse. London, 16 Dec 2019
A One-Day Symposium at King’s College London Date: Monday 16 December Venue: Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04), 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG ‘Collapse’ offers a framework through which to explore literary and cultural production of the long modernist period, whether via the cataclysm of the world wars, the economic collapse of the …
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CfP: Richard Aldington/Imagism Conference, Chavignol, France, 20-22 June 2020 (deadline 5 Jan 2020)
XI INTERNATIONAL ALDINGTON SOCIETY and VII INTERNATIONAL IMAGISM CONFERENCE 20-22 June 2020, Chavignol/Sury-En-Vaux, France The XI International Aldington Society and VII International Imagism Conference will be held in Chavignol, France, near Sancerre and Sury-En-Vaux, the village where Aldington spent the last few years of his life. The International Richard Aldington Society …
