Dear all,
There are several items for the digest today, including a note from Professor Faye Hammill:
Elizabeth von Arnim Conference, 13th September 2015 -
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, will host a conference on the work of Elizabeth von Arnim on Sunday, 13th September 2015. This exciting conference, aimed at exploring and re-evaluating von Arnim’s work, is already attracting much interest. Registration will remain open until 31st July 2015. Please visit the Lucy Cavendish College website (Events) or https://elizabethvonarnim.wordpress.com/ for details of registration, proposal topics and accommodation booking.
Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS) -
The Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS), a new research initiative set up at Sussex University and Northumbria University, aims to bring together scholars working on American periodicals (magazines, newspapers and other periodical publications) from any historical period. The network will promote and support scholarship and criticism on periodicals. It also aims to provide a forum for discussing the pedagogical opportunities of periodical studies, as well as developing postgraduate and postdoctoral research in this area. If you would like to join NAPS, please send an email to [log in to unmask], providing your contact details and affiliation.
CFP, A Century On: Modernist Studies in Wales, The Inaugural Modernist Network Cymru Conference, deadline 14th June 2015 -
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars to reflect upon the past, present and future of both modernism and modernist studies in Wales. Proposals on any aspect of modernism, as defined in the widest sense are welcome, though proposals relating to Welsh modernist writers and artists, as well as modernist art and writing in Wales are especially welcomed.
Details about this are in the attached Word document.
New Middlebrow Publications -
Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith's new book, Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture, is released this month.
Details can be found here:
http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11&AS1=faye+hammill
As well as this, Rebecca D'Monte's book, British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950, which includes a study of middlebrow drama, was released in February.
Details can be found here:
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/british-theatre-and-performance-1900-1950-9781408165652/
Reading Sheffield Aviva: Please vote for us -
Please see the attached notice from Dr Mary Grover, one of the founders of the Middlebrow Network. Her current community-based project, 'Reading Sheffield', can receive £1000 from Aviva insurance if enough of us vote for it on their website. The process takes about five minutes. If you feel you have benefitted from being part of the Network, then please support Mary, since without her, the Network would never have been set up. (Faye Hammill)
Best wishes,
David
David Rush
MLitt Student in Literature, Culture and Place
University of Strathclyde
Treasurer and Contributor, Quotidian Literary Magazine
http://www.quotidianmag.com
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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