Dear all,

There are several items for the digest today:-

Call for Papers -

Crossroads V: Bodily Modernities, Comparing, Intersecting, Dismembering Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 7-9th October 2016 -

This year's edition of the Crossroads Conference explores the interconnections between concepts of the modern and modernity through an engagement with bodies and related questions of corporeality and embodiment. By investigating the multiple relations between bodies and modernity, it seeks to understand and question the meanings of 'modern' and 'modernity' in different geographical and temporal coordinates both outside and within Europe, before and after the fifteenth century.

Further details about the conference, and the full CFP, can be found here: http://www.umass.edu/crossroads/cfp.html

Deadline for abstracts is 14th June 2016.

Conference Registration -

Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story International Conference, Bandol, France, 10-12th June 2016 -

The Katherine Mansfield Society's next international conference, 'Katherine Mansfield and the Short Story', will be held in the town of Bandol on the French Riviera, where the first draft of Mansfield's "Prelude" was written between January and March 1916. The keynote speakers are Professor Enda Duffy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Professor Ailsa Cox from Edge Hill University, Sussex. 

Registration for this event is now open. Further information about the conference and how to register can be found here: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/bandol-conference-2016/

'Revision, Revival, Rediscovery' ... 'Re’ Words in British Women’s Writing Between 1930 and 1960, University of Hull, 24th June 2016 -

The period of women’s literary history between 1930 and 1960 is beginning to receive the closer attention of literary scholars, feminists and cultural historians. It is a period characterised in many ways by the prefix 're'; emblematic of the persistent impulse for re-evaluation of women’s writing that occupies an uncertain, liminal place in relation to the canon. This one day conference looks at various forms of 're', including, among others, recovery, revival, rediscovery and resistance. The keynote speakers are Professor Mary Joannou and Professor Gill Plain.

Registration for this event is now open. Further details about the conference and how to register can be found here: https://britishwomenwriters1930to1960.wordpress.com/

New Middlebrow Publication -

The latest book in Phyllis Lassner's Northwestern University Press Series, 'Cultural Expressions of World War II', will be released next month. The book, edited by Petra Rau, is entitled Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and Film, and deals with the ways in which books and films respond to the Second World War and how it has been interpreted and remembered through these mediums.

See the attached PDF for further details.

Best wishes,

David

David Rush
PhD Student in English
University of Strathclyde
Treasurer and Contributor, Quotidian Literary Magazine
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