This panel will explore new directions within the field of modernist studies that reconsider the boundary between text and context. The early New Critical reception of modernism often privileged form at the expense of context, whether biographical, socio-political, or historical. More recently, a historicist turn in modernist studies has reintroduced context as crucial to the study of modernist texts. In yet another dialectical swing of the pendulum, "new formalism" has attempted to renovate the concept of form by rethinking its relation to context.

One goal of military basic training is to replace recruits' focus on their own individuality with an unquestioned devotion to group solidarity. No military unit—whether as small as a squad or as large as an army—can survive unless its members subordinate their personal desires to collective action. This "de-individualization" is evident in everything from dress codes to forms of address, from small-arms drill to a reverence for "proper channels" and "chain of command." To be a member of the armed forces is, by definition, to be subordinate not only to those higher in rank but also to a protocols, regulations, and orders designed to ensure the efficient functioning of the whole.

Call for Papers 
A renowned Polish academic journal "The Problems of Literary Genres" (Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich) invites contributions for 59 issue (vol. 1/2016 and 2/2016). We are waiting for critical, original, unpublished and innovative submissions written from any theoretical angle, which can attract both oversees and Polish readers. In 2016, we are especially interested in papers about different aspects of "style of hatred" and "hate speech" in contemporary, especially literary discourses.

The deadline: 30th April 2016

As Europe is currently facing the worst displacement crisis since the Second World War, the dominant public discourse on the issue is characterized by a curious mixture of xenophobia and humanitarianism. What is forgotten in this debate is that, historically speaking, Europe has always been a place of migrations. After all, the rough outlines of today's national composition of the continent is to a very great extent the result of the Great Migration (4–8 century AD). The people who came to Europe at that time met populations, like the Greeks and the Romans, who were themselves the children of earlier migrants.