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CALL FOR PAPERS! Twenty-Five Years of Regeneration: A Pat Barker Symposium
Twenty-Five Years of Regeneration: A Pat Barker Symposium Saturday 15 October 2016, Durham University, 10.30 am – 5.00 pm Twenty-five years after the publication of Regeneration, we invite proposals for papers on Pat Barker’s formative work of First World War historical fiction, as well as on her wider oeuvre. In 1991 Regeneration focused readers’ attention onto a lesser-visited…
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Call for Papers! Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter
The Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX in association with The University of the West of England, Bristol and the Festival of Ideas Monday 9 January 2017 Keynote: Sir Christopher Frayling 2017 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Angela Carter, one of the most important writers of the…
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The Future of the Humanities Day on 4 July
Dear all, Wanted to let you all know about our event on 4 July – The Future of the Humanities at the Tetley, Leeds – with Sarah Churchwell, Eleonora Belfiore and Donald Drakeman. Some of you may have seen it already in other contexts, but please do come if you would like to and also…
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Newcastle Noir 2016 (25th April-1st May)
We’re almost there!!!! In a week’s time the Newcastle Noir 2016 Fringe Events will be underway. On the Friday evening we’ll be celebrating the official launch of the festival in the company of award-winning writer, Ann Cleeves. Then over the weekend we’ll have an amazing array of local, national and international crime writers speaking about…
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Announcing the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist
The Stella Prize 2016 shortlist has been announced. Congratulations to: Tegan Bennett Daylight Peggy Frew Elizabeth Harrower Mireille Juchau Charlotte Wood Fiona Wright
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Call for Papers for Panel on Literature and Medicine for the 2016 ESSE conference
Literature and Medicine for the 2016 ESSE conference Galway, 22nd – 26th August (further details at http://www.esse2016.org/) In her 1930 essay ‘On Being Ill’ Woolf noted how “strange” it was “that illness ha[d] not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.” Does Woolf’s comment still hold? A…
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‘Girls on film’: Visualising Femininities in Contemporary Culture
A postgraduate symposium, as part of the Gendered Subjects Postgraduate Network and in collaboration with the Gendered Subjects Research Hub, Northumbria University. May 23rd 2016, Northumbria University. Keynote speakers: Dr. Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick) Dr. Christina Scharff (King’s College London) The beauty of the woman as object and the screen space coalesce; she is…
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CONSUMING (THE) VICTORIANS (ANNUAL BAVS CONFERENCE 2016)
Cardiff University Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September 2016 Keynotes: Christina Bashford (Illinois) & Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) Neo-Victorian Plenary: Patricia Duncker (Manchester) The Victorian age saw the emergence of ‘modern’ consumer culture: in urban life, commerce, literature, art, science and medicine, entertainment, the leisure and tourist industries. The expansion and proliferation of new mass…
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Review: ‘Legacies and Lifespans: Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century’
Review: ‘Legacies and Lifespans: Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century’ by Dr Rosie White ‘Legacies and Lifespans: Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century’, The 10th Anniversary Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, University of Brighton, 17 October 2015 This conference offered a timely reflection upon work on contemporary women’s writing. It was particularly…
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Reading the Present through the Past From Historical to Neo-Historical Fiction
Call for Papers One-day symposium, 4 March 2016 The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies University of Amsterdam Ever since the turn of the twenty-first century, literary and cultural returns to earlier periods have become increasingly frequent and visible. Novels on past eras dominate the shortlists of literary prizes and the number of historical…