victorian

University of Portsmouth, UK, 26 June 2020

Keynote speaker – Dr Katharina Rein, Bauhaus University Weimar

RCL — Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens / Journal of Communication and Languages

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly – RCL n. 53 (Autumn/Winter)

Editors:

José Bértolo (CEC, U. Lisbon)

Margarida Medeiros (ICNOVA — NOVA U. Lisbon)

Reflecting/Reflected Modernity: Sites of Interface between the Occidental and the Oriental

Call for Papers

‘Modernity’ tends to be used, within the humanities, to refer to something seemingly exclusively Western. Within the canonical histories of modernity, especially in literature studies and the discipline of history of art, ‘Western’ countries are seen as the instigators of what we now see as artistic and cultural modernism. ‘Modernity’, however, was not created in isolation within Western spheres. It came into existence through an intercultural exchange and reciprocal relationship between ‘East’ and ‘West’.

FIN du GLOBE:

Decadence, Catastrophe, Late Style

Call for Papers: Abstracts by March 1, 2020

The 3rd Annual Conference of the 

British Association of Decadence Studies

and the journal VOLUPTÉ

and the Aestheticism and Decadence Network, NAVSA

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2020 

Conference Committee:  Ellis Hanson, Elisha Cohn, Jane Desmarais, Kate Hext, 

Caroline Levine, Kristin Mahoney, Alex Murray

Vergil’s Aeneid is, of course, a longtime standard of the liberal arts curriculum. However, it has seen revived interest outside the academy. Since 2017, Vergil’s epic has featured in articles in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. All three articles argue that the Aeneid speaks as much to modernity as it does to antiquity. Mendelsohn’s New Yorker piece put it best, writing,