modernist studies

Abstracts for session C will reflect any theme related to Peninsular Literature and/or Culture from 1700 to the present. This session will explore a wide range of topics from different periods. Session C is part of a quadruple session with a maximum of three presenters per session, with presentations not to exceed 20 minutes. Presenters must be SAMLA members to attend and may read only one paper at the convention. Interested participants may send a 250-word abstract in Spanish or English, a short academic bio (approximately 100 words), and contact information via email in a single Word document at their earliest convenience. Deadline for abstract submission: June 15, 2023. Please send materials and/or questions via e-mail to Dr.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.

    Writers and critics have in recent years hailed for a “return” of realism to the literary arena with revised notions of what constitutes realist representation to take account of the experiences that are unique to our new era, e.g. “speculative realism”, “metonymic realism”, “ecocritical realism”, and “quantum realism”, to name just a few. Indeed, realism has neverbeen away from the academic limelight despite its accused naivety in aspiring to represent reality objectively, unabashed interpellation of readers into dominant ideologies or as a symptom of the waning of affect in late capitalism.

CFP: The Annual Victoria Bloomsday Symposium and Celebration (15/3/2023; 16/6/2023)

We seek proposals for brief (~18 minutes) critical and/or creative presentations on any aspect of Joyce studies, from any perspective. We especially encourage work that approaches Joyce and his works from non-traditional (or traditionally marginalized) angles. Topics may include, but are not limited to considerations of Joyce and

• sex, gender, and sexuality
• race
• class
• Indigeneity
• the law
• translation
• cryptids
• the paranormal

The editors of Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society are seeking to publish a special edition of the journal for 2023 as the centenary of the writer’s death. We welcome proposals for essays that will celebrate Mansfield’s life and contribution to literature as one of the most highly regarded short story writers of the twentieth century. We welcome all approaches to Mansfield’s work to celebrate her centenary as a writer who continues to resonate with readers and invite critical attention in the twenty-first century. We would also be interested in articles that examine Mansfield’s contribution to modernist practice and its legacy.

CFP: Therapeutic Modernisms

Fifth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies

Université Grenoble Alpes, France

19-21 June 2024

Organizers: Hélène Aji, Nicholas Manning, Benoît Tadié

This Fifth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies will focus on the ties between therapeutic discourses and practices and modernist arts and literature.

Dear Colleagues,

We are organising an international conference on Logic and Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne, from September 14-15, 2023, and would be delighted to receive your abstracts by April 16.

The conference will address a range of historical, epistemological and interdisciplinary questions about literature and logic from c.1800 to the present. 

Keynote speakers:  

Open Call for WSA Volume 30 (2024)

Deadline: 15 October 2023

Launched in 1995, Woolf Studies Annual will publish its thirtieth volume in the spring of 2024. The editor invites submissions for this important milestone volume. 

Of particular interest would be articles that make use of the WSA Index (see vol. 28 and 29) to return to and expand/revise the insights of the scholarship and archival material published in the journal’s first 15 years. Of particular interest might be 

• Vara Neverow and Merry M. Pawlowski’s preliminary bibliography to Three Guineas’s notes (vol. 3), 

Dear Conradians/Colleagues/ Scholars/Academics

This panel will seek to understand the draw of Weimar Germany for the many British and American modernist writers who spent time there.  In keeping with the theme of this year's MSA, papers that consider the attraction of Weimar street life, in all its varieties, are particularly encouraged.

Please send a 250 word abstract and short biography by 3/31/2023.

Modernism & Writing Pedagogy Roundtable

Call for Abstracts – 100-150 words

Deadline: May 24, 2023, 11.59 EST, to lhartm13@jhu.edu

Organizer: Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Johns Hopkins University

3-4 slots available

In the spirit of the roundtable organized and chaired by Nissa Ren Cannon in MSA Portland entitled, “Modernism in the Writing Classroom,” this roundtable recognizes the suitability of modernist texts for writing classrooms of all sorts. This roundtable seeks to share pedagogical approaches at the intersection of modernism and writing. The call is purposefully broad.  

Some topics to consider:

DEADLINE EXTENDED - deadline for submissions: March 24 2023

Contemporary Modernisms - Call for Papers 

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Goethe University Frankfurt

25th–27th May 2023 

Confirmed Speakers:

John Brannigan (University College Dublin)

Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University)

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Barry Sheils (Durham University)

The Irish Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum invites proposals for a guaranteed roundtable at MLA 2024 (4-7 January) in Philadelphia, PA. 

This roundtable considers points of collision, comparison, and friction in the diasporic literary and cultural histories of the Global South and Ireland. How have different legacies of conquest, occupation, and resistance determined understandings of belonging to knowable communities? In turn, how have distinct practices and experiences of diaspora helped to effect specific forms of identity, affiliation, and tendency? And how have literary and cultural works served to articulate these relations into the fraught present? 

Memory and Poiesis between Aesthetics and Rhetoric

Edited by Amalia Salvestrini and Fosca Mariani Zini

Among the various fields that have historically contributed to the constitution of Aesthetics as an autonomous discipline in the 18th century is rhetoric, from which Aesthetics has taken terms, concepts and problems that it later develops and transforms (Saint Girons; Franzini; etc.). One of the themes with which the relationship between Aesthetics and Rhetoric can be investigated is memory, understood in its poietic dimension that concerns various fields of human productive and artistic activity.