Conference announcement: The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity

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Conference announcement:

The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity

Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 November 2014, 9.30am to 5.00pm
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Convenors:

Dr Santanu Das, King's College London, and Dr Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford

A hundred years after the war's outbreak, this conference brings together some of the world's leading experts and emerging scholars to reassess its literary and cultural impact and explore its vexed relationship to modernity. Was the war a 'crack in the table of history' or did it reinforce deep continuities? What is the relationship between artistic form and historical violence, and between combatant and civilian creative responses? What are the colonial and transnational dimensions of First World War literature? Spanning across literature, the visual arts and music, the conference will adopt an international perspective as it investigates the war's continuing legacies.

Speakers include:

Dr Nadia Atia, Queen Mary, University of London
Professor Fran Brearton, Queen's University, Belfast
Profesor Geert Guelens, University of Utrecht
Professor Sarah Cole, Columbia University
Professor Laura Doan, University of Manchester
Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus, University of Northumbria
Professor Alison Fell, University of Leeds
Professor Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut (Storrs)
Professor Mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge
Professor Tim Kendall, University of Exeter
Professor Dame Hermione Lee, University of Oxford
Professor Edna Longley, Queen's University, Belfast
Professor Laura Marcus, University of Oxford
Dr Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University
Professor Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
Dr Eugene Rogan, University of Oxford
Professor Max Saunders, King's College London
Professor Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St Louis
Dr Claudia Siebrecht, University of Sussex
Dr Trudi Tate, University of Cambridge
Dr Hope Wolf, University of Cambridge

Registration fee

For this two-day conference, a registration fee of £50 is payable in advance at the time of booking.
There is a reduced fee of £20 for the unwaged/retired and for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The registration fees as listed above are payable even if you wish to attend only part of the conference.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations must be sent to events@britac.ac.uk by 1 November 2014. After this date the registration fee will not be refundable, however substitutions will be accepted.

Catering

Refreshments and lunch will be provided on both days. Vegetarian options will be provided for lunch. Please state on the registration form If you have any special dietary requirements; if you are registering after 1 November, please email your dietary requirements to events@britac.ac.uk