CCUE CONFERENCE CIRCULAR April 2nd 2003
CONTENTS
1. Modernist Cultures. Call for papers and announcement. 25-28 September,
Birmingham, UK
2. Northern Modernism Seminar: Inaugural Meeting. Sheffield Hallam
University, Montgomery House, 32 Collegiate Crescent, S10 2BP. Saturday
17th May 2003
3. Call for Papers:: Shakespeare and the Institution (British Shakespeare
Association Conference, De Montfort University 29th -31st August)
4. INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: 'THE MAKE-BELIEVE OF A SETTLEMENT':
NINETEENTH-CENTURY VENICE', 12-13 July 2003 in the School of English,
University of Leeds, UK.
5. Progress In Colour Studies (PICS04) Wednesday 30th June to Friday 2nd
July 2004 Department of English Language: Institute for the Historical,
Study of Language, University of Glasgow, Scotland
6. Announcement and Call for Papers: Religion and the Early Modern Public
Sphere: an international, interdisciplinary conference at Keele University,
UK, 20-22 June 2003.
7. MAKING WAVES: Literary Studies in an Interdisciplinary Frame. 4-5 July
2003. Robinson College Cambridge
8. CULTURE AND THE LITERARY PRIZE. Oxford Brookes University, UK. 4th - 5th
October 2003
9. Translation and 'The Classic' - -Day Colloquium. 7 May 2003
10.Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in
Dialogue. July 11th and 12th 2003 School of Oriental and African Studies,
London WC1
11. WRITING IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: An Interdisciplinary Conference.
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. 9-11 July 2003
12. University of London: Institute of English Studies.School of Advanced
Study. Events from April through July 2003
DETAILS
Modernist Cultures
The fifth annual Modernist Studies Association Conference is the first to
be held in Europe. Hosted by the University of Birmingham and the
University of Sussex, it will take place in the heart of the multicultural
city of Birmingham, a world-renowned conference centre and the UK's second
city, where Victorian architecture mingles with exciting and innovative
redevelopment. The programme will include plenaries, panels, peer seminars,
prose and poetry readings, along with film screenings and book and art
exhibits specifically related to the international and interdisciplinary
study of modernist cultures.
Deadline for panel proposals and individual paper proposals: 11th April
See http://msa.press.jhu.edu for details.
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Northern Modernism Seminar: Inaugural Meeting
Sheffield Hallam University, Montgomery House, 32 Collegiate Crescent, S10
2BP. Saturday 17th May 2003
Programme
11 am Coffee/Introduction
11.30-12.45
Lawrence Rainey (University of York): "Eliot Among the Typists: Writing
The Waste Land"
1pm-2pm Lunch
2.15-3.15
Mary Grover (Sheffield Hallam University): "Modernism and the Middle-Brow"
3.15-30 Tea
3.30-4.45
Keith Williams (University of Dundee): "Short-Cuts of the Hibernian
Metropolis: Cinematic Strategies in Joyce's Dubliners"
5-5.30pm Short business meeting to discuss Northern Modernism Seminar
For further information please contact:
Scott McCracken, English, School of Cultural Studies, Montgomery House, 32
Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S10 2BP tel.
0114 225 2488 [log in to unmask]
OR
Andrew Thacker, Department of English, University of Ulster at Jordanstown,
Newtonabbey, Co Antrim, BT37 0QB tel 028 90 366187; [log in to unmask]
Instructions on how to get to the Collegiate Campus can be found at
http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/tocoll.html
Or enter S10 2BP at www.multimap.com for precise location
Call for Papers:: Shakespeare and the Institution
(British Shakespeare Association Conference, De Montfort University 29th
-31st August)
Unlike any other writer, Shakespeare has become an institution which
variously represents a conservative social order, Englishness, and a guide
to human nature. But how exactly did one Elizabethan/Jacobean writer, who
largely plagiarized other people's plot lines, gain such a hold not just on
the national psyche but on that of Western culture as a whole? This seminar
will explore how Shakespeare the man has become Shakespeare the institution
by focusing on the use that that has been made of his work in the past and
the use that continues to be made of it in schools, universities and the
culture at large. Can Shakespeare simultaneously be the embodiment of
orthodoxy and a means of challenging received opinion?
Contact details: Deborah Cartmell [log in to unmask]
Gary Day [log in to unmask]
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: 'THE MAKE-BELIEVE OF A SETTLEMENT':
NINETEENTH-CENTURY VENICE', 12-13 July 2003 in the School of English,
University of Leeds, UK.
Provisional programme and booking information is available on
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/Venice.html
or contact Dr Francis O'Gorman, 0113 343
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Progress In Colour Studies (PICS04) Wednesday 30th June to Friday 2nd July
2004
Department of English Language: Institute for the Historical, Study of
Language, University of Glasgow, Scotland
The conference will be multidisciplinary, although of particular
interest to those working in the fields of linguistics, psychology,
anthropology, philosophy, and vision science. The principal
speaker will be Prof. Anna Wierzbicka of the Australian
National University. Abstracts are invited for individual papers
(35 minutes including questions), group sessions (one or two
hours), and poster presentations. They should be 50-100 words
long (including any bibliography) and should reach Carole
Biggam at the address below by 31st May 2003. Acceptances
will be notified in July 2003.
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Dr C. P. Biggam, Dept of English Language, University of
Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.
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http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/
Announcement and Call for Papers: Religion and the Early Modern Public
Sphere: an international, interdisciplinary conference at Keele University,
UK, 20-22 June 2003.
Organised by Peter Lake (Princeton, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at
Keele, Summer 2003) and Roger Pooley (English, Keele)
We invite papers from relevant disciplines (including History, Literature,
Theology, and Sociology) which explore the relationship between religion
and HabermasÕs concept, or some adaptation of it, in the early modern
period. We will also have a round table on the usefulness of the concept,
and invite brief position papers from those who would like to contribute.
Speakers and round table contributors will include Sharon Achinstein,
Alistair Bellany, Elizabeth Clarke, Tom Cogswell, Michael Davies, Ann
Hughes, Judith Maltby, David Norbrook, Steven Pincus, Michael Questier,
Joad Raymond, Ethan Shagan, Nigel Smith, Rachel Weil
Please send abstracts or full papers (about 20 minutes reading time) to
Roger Pooley, School of English & Philosophy, Keele University, Staffs ST5
5BG, U.K., or by email to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
by the end of March.
MAKING WAVES: Literary Studies in an Interdisciplinary Frame
4-5 July 2003. Robinson College Cambridge
A conference under the auspices of the Faculty of English, University of
Cambridge, designed to foreground aspects of contemporary literary studies
in relation to some of the interdisciplinary exchanges exemplified or made
possible by the work of Professor Dame Gillian Beer.
Please see the website page:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/MakingWaves/index.htm
Programme of Speakers
Friday 4 July
Professor Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) What is a Post-Colonial Classic?
Professor Terry Castle (Stanford University) A Jazz Age Belinda
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Oxford) Making Magic
Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University) Peter Walsh's Penknife
Professor Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT) Imitation, Identity, and Difference
Professor Martin Jay (UC, Berkeley) No State of Grace: Violence in the
Garden
Professor Suzanne Raitt (William and Mary) Waste and Repair in Dorian Gray
Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, London) Coetzee's Women
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge) Commons and
Borderlands
Works in Progress, Poetry and Fiction Readings by Writers: Ruth Padel, Jo
Shapcott, Ali Smith, Marina Warner
Saturday 5 July
Professor Malcolm Bowie (University of Cambridge) Freud on Music
Professor Rachel Bowlby (University of York) Recapitulations
Professor Catherine Gallagher (UC, Berkeley) Political Economy, Culture,
and George Eliot
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (UEA) Art in Fiction
Professor Angela Leighton (University of Hull) Just a Word: On Woolf
Professor George Levine (Rutgers University) Reductionism, Positivism,
Darwin, and Us
Dr Christopher Page (University of Cambridge) A Woman's Shirt, a Museum,
and the Rise of European Music
Dr Ato Quayson (University of Cambridge) Africando: On the Multiple
Temporalities of Contemporary Africa
Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT) Discovering the Victorian Environment
Professor David Trotter (University of Cambridge) Virginia Woolf and Cinema
Dr Alison Winter (University of Chicago) Sciences of Identity and
Psychiatric Film
For more information please email: [log in to unmask] or telephone: (01223)
765778.
CULTURE AND THE LITERARY PRIZE
Oxford Brookes University, UK. 4th - 5th October 2003
Speakers include:
Pat Barker (Booker Prize Winner)
James English (University of Pennsylvania)
John Frow (University of Edinburgh)
Martyn Goff (Administrator of the Man Booker Prize)
Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
John Sutherland (University College London)
Conference Organisers: Daniel Lea (Department of English) and Claire
Squires (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), Oxford
Brookes University.
Since its inception in 1969, the Booker Prize for Fiction has been at the
forefront of the promotion and reception of literary fiction in the UK, the
Commonwealth and beyond. This major international conference will
interrogate the place of the literary prize in contemporary culture and
coincides with the launch of the Man Booker Prize archive at Oxford Brookes
University. Papers will explore the production, marketing and consumption
of contemporary literature and will examine the dynamics of the literary
prize in relation to the codification of cultural value, the formation of
cosmopolitan reading communities and the construction of national and
trans-national identities. Whilst it is anticipated that the Booker Prize
will be a major focus of critical attention, the conference will address
prize culture in all its manifestations, both in the UK and elsewhere.
Papers are invited on themes including: the impact of literary prizes on
the marketing, promotion and sales of contemporary writing; the
construction of canons and the formation of literary identities; literary
prizes and cultures of elitism; the place of the literary prize in
colonial/postcolonial debates; literary prizes and nationality; literary
prizes and the media; literary prizes and the formation of reading
communities; literary prize judges and judging; literary prizes and the
curriculum; literary prizes and literary development projects.
Please send an abstract (c.250 words) and a brief biographical note by 30
May 2003, or enquiries for further information, to Laura Price, Conference
Administrator, Publishing Department, Oxford Brookes University, The
Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus, Headington Hill, Oxford, OX3
0BP, UK, or by email to [log in to unmask]
Translation and 'The Classic' - -Day Colloquium. 7 May 2003
University of Bristol, Centre for the Classical Tradition, Institute of
Hellenic and Roman Studies
Recent debates over canon-formation, authorship, reception and translation
have sought to redefine the 'classical' by investigating the institutional,
cultural and political processes through which it is constructed.
Translation is one such process. It not only attests to the 'timeless'
value of classical works, it also adapts, transforms and manipulates them
in accordance with changing priorities in taste, culture, morality and
politics. Translations have not merely reproduced a predefined classical
canon, but have actively built this canon, by bestowing on certain works
the status and qualities of a classic.
This colloquium aims to raise some key questions about the relationship
between translation and the classic:
What is the role of translation in the process of classical canon-
formation? · How does translation adapt the classical tradition to the
aesthetic, moral and political models of the receiving society? · What is
the relationship between translation and ideology? · Can translations
provide a means of resistance to dominant interpretations of the classics?
· How can the study of translations help us theorise our understanding of
the idea of the classic?
Venue: Clifton Hill House, Wills Reception Room, University of Bristol
Programme
1.00 - 2.00 Registration and Lunch
2.00 - 2. 50 Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick): Remembering and
Forgetting: Translation and Literary Evolution
2.50 - 3.40 Edith Hall (University of Durham) : Vernacular Translation as
Access Road to the Classics: Some British Examples.
3.40 - 4.30 Lorna Hardwick (Open University): Translated Classics: Vibrant
Hybrids or Fragmented Icons?
4.30 - 4.50 Tea Break
4.50 - 5.40 Lawrence Venuti (Temple University): Translation, Canon
Formation, Censorship.
5.40 - 6.30 Stuart Gillespie (University of Glasgow): Translating the
Classics, 1550-1800: New Research Towards a History.
6.30 - 7.00 Panel Discussion
A subsidised colloquium fee of £9.00 (£4.00 for students/unwaged) includes
lunch, coffee/tea and wine reception.
All those who would like to attend the colloquium are encouraged to send
the booking form to the organiser (enclosing a cheque made payable to 'The
University of Bristol' by 20 April 2003.
There will be an informal dinner after the colloquium. If you wish to come
to it, please fill in the appropriate section in the booking form.
A limited number of student bursaries are available (to contribute towards
the colloquium fee and travelling costs to Bristol). Applicants for
bursaries should send a covering letter and brief c.v. to the colloquium
organiser, by 15 April 2003.
If you need information about accommodation in Bristol, or have any other
queries,please contact the colloquium organiser.
Colloquium organiser: Dr. Alexandra Lianeri
Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies, University of Bristol,
11 Woodland Rd.
Bristol BS8 1TB
E-mail: [log in to unmask] FAX: 0117 928 8678.
Colloquium address:
Clifton Hill House, Wills Reception Room, Lower Clifton Hill , Bristol, BS8
1BX
webpage: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Classics
Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, Artists and Academics in
Dialogue
July 11th and 12th 2003
School of Oriental and African Studies, London WC1
Jointly organised by the British Psychoanalytic Society, the Tavistock
Clinic and the University of East London
Confirmed Keynote Speakers Include:
Eva Hoffmann, author of Lost in Translation
Nicholas Wright, award-winning playwright - Van Gogh in Brixton
onald Britton, psychoanalyst, President of the British Psychoanalytical
Society
Helen Taylor Robinson, psychoanalyst
David Bell, psychoanalyst
Outline of Conference: Psychoanalysis has always wandered beyond the
consulting room. Alongside clinical texts, Freud and his followers wrote
speculatively on art and artists, politics, war and civilisation, and this
cultural engagement has been fully sustained by later analytic generations.
The creative arts and literature have been widely admired by
psychoanalysts, many of whom believe that creative artists have conveyed
the deepest of all understandings of unconscious mental life. More
recently, psychoanalysis in many hues has permeated cultural criticism and
the universities, influencing studies of film, television, the visual arts,
biography, fiction, theatre and poetry, and other art forms. Although
psychoanalysts and academics are often drawn to the same painting, film or
play, their approaches commonly use psychoanalysis differently and address
different audiences.
Until now, conversations between these three worlds of psychoanalysis, the
academy, and the creative arts have rarely taken place. Such conversations
will form the basis of Culture and the Unconscious, an international
interdisciplinary conference that will bring together psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, artists and academics to discuss such fields as film and
television, literature, drama and poetry, the visual arts, and biography.
Through these conversations, Culture and the Unconscious will bring
together the worlds of psychoanalysis, academia, and the creative arts. It
will produce a lively, illuminating and thought-provoking event that should
be of interest to all those interested in psychoanalysis and culture.
For Registration Information contact Paula Taylor at The Institute of
Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, W9 2EQ Tel: 020
7563 5000 Fax 020 7563 50001 Email [log in to unmask]
WRITING IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Manchester
Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. 9-11 July 2003
The conference is intended to stimulate discussion of a wide range of
topics relating to the writing of manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England, both
in Latin and in the vernacular.
For further information and booking form contact:
Dr Alexander Rumble, Deputy Director
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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University of London: Institute of English Studies.School of Advanced
Study. Events from April through July 2003
APRIL 2003
Thursday,
3 April 2003
Seminar: Gender and Sexuality
6pm (Room 265)
Dr Laurel Brake (Birkbeck College)
"Pater's Progress: Writing Gender (And Sexuality) in the Public Prints
1867-93."
3 - 5 April 2003
Conference: 'Moving Forward, Looking Back: Thinking about Progress
1800-1850
Keynote speakers:
Professor Anne Janowitz, Professor James Chandler, Professor Isobel
Armstrong, Professor Peter Bowler
Sessions include: New Inventions, Debating Progress, Fictions of Progress,
India, Chartism, New and Old Music, Malthus, Carlyle, Poetry of Progress,
Women and Progress, Time, Progress of Society.
Tuesday,
8 April 2003
John Coffin Memorial Reading by Les A. Murray
6pm (venue to be confirmed)
This poetry reading is free and open to the public
Friday,
25 April 2003
Seminar: Gender and Sexuality
6 - 8pm - Room 349
Professor Juliet Mitchell (University of Cambridge)
"Gender and Reproduction"
Wednesday,
30 April 2003
Symposium: LOMERS
Room 349
Graduate Seminar
Three papers from Research Students
MAY 2003
Thursday,
8 May 2003
Seminar: Jewish Textualities
6pm (Room 248)
Abigail Wood (Southampton University)
(De)constructing Yiddishland: Solomon and SoCalled's Hip Hop Khasene
Wednesday,
7 May 2003
Seminar: Irish Studies
6pm (Room 349)
Pat Palmer (University of York)
Language and Colonisation
Wednesday,
14 May 2003
Seminar: Literary Aesthetics
2pm (Room 265)
Simon Jarvis (Cambridge)
The Critique of Pure Noise
Thursday,
15 May 2003
Seminar: Medieval Manuscripts
6pm (Seng T Lee Room, University of London Library)
Professor Ralph Hanna (Keble College, Oxford)
The Real and Imagined End of Anglo-Norman
Wednesday,
28 May 2003
Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture: by Hilary Fraser
6pm (Beveridge Hall)
"Possession and Dispossession: Owning the Story of Harriet Taylor and John
Stuart Mill"
This lecture is free and open to members of the public
JUNE 2003
Wednesday,
4 June 2003
Seminar: Literary Aesthetics
2pm (Room 265)
Alison Ross (Monash University)
The Aesthetic Anomaly: Philosophy, Criticism and Art
Tuesday,
10 June 2003
Conference: Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant
Keynote Speakers: Angela Leighton, Hilary Fraser, Vineta Colby and Martha
Vicinus
Sessions include: History and Decadence, Hauntings and other Tales, Italy,
Literary Connections, The Sisters Arts, Sexualties, Controversies,
Hellenisms and Economics, Culture and Consumption
Friday,
20 June 2003
Conference: "Rigid Boundaries of Space and Time" : Writing, Editing and
Reading Periodicals
Call for papers: Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
* Theoretical approaches (e.g., Bakhtinian, Foucauldian, semiotic,
feminist); * Analyses of the role of editor, reader, publisher; *
Serialization and time Visual culture and contexts. Presentations should be
15-20 minutes in length.
Saturday,
21 June 2003
Symposium: LOMERS - Medieval Lyric
Call for papers: Speakers include Julia Boffey, Peter Orton, Lucy Lewis
and Simon Meecham-Jones
Saturday,
28 June 2003
Conference: George Orwell
details to be announced
JULY 2003
Thursday
10 July 2003
Symposium: Caine Prize for African Writing
Details to be announced
Thursday, 17 July - Saturday 19 July 2003
Conference: English: the Condition of the Subject
Plenary Speakers: Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey, Ronald Carter, Ato
Quayson and Elaine Showalter
Thursday, 24 July - Saturday 26 July 2003
Conference: Gissing and the City: the Centenary Conference
This international conference focuses on the work and cultural significance
of the novelist George Gissing and issues raised by his work.
Monday, 28 July - Wednesday 30 July 2003
Conference: Towards a Gower Hypertext
Sessions include: Language, Editing and Hypertext; Illustrating Gower;
Hypertexts and Hyperlinks; Ethics and Morality; Texts and Intertextuality;
Readers, Rulers and Archaeology and Gower in Angl- Norman
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