Conferences and Summer Schools 2009: Institute of English Studies, University of London
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Registration is open for the following conferences and summer schools at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues, students and other potentially interested parties.
CONFERENCE: 8-9 May 2009: After the War: Post-War Structures of Feeling
Bringing together speakers from a wide range of specialisms to examine the multiple meanings of the idea of the 'post-war'. NB: Low registration fee for MA students.
CONFERENCE: 18-20 June 2009: Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850
Exploring the fluid and unfamiliar contours of predisciplinarity/adisciplinarity in an expansive Romantic Century, 1750-1850.
CONFERENCE: 19-20 June 2009: LOMERS Annual Conference: Studies in the Exeter Book
Scriptorium; Palaeography; Codicology; Patronage; Reception; History and Context; Texts; Authorship(s); Literary Contexts; Textual Editing.
SUMMER SCHOOL: 22-26 June 2009: London Palaeography Summer School
Subject areas include Latin palaeography, mediaeval musical notation, Middle English, Papal diplomatic, reading English title deeds, books of hours, German palaeography, text and image in scientific and philosophical manuscripts, tools and materials of mediaeval manuscript makers, pigments, quills and calligraphy.
CONFERENCE: 25-26 June 2009: Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda
Examining the profound impact of Russian and Soviet culture on British modernism. This conference will trace the transformative effect of Russian and Soviet culture from the first translations of Russian realist novels in the 1880s, to the eve of the Soviet Union's involvement in the Second World War.
SUMMER SCHOOL: 27 June-4 July 2009: T. S. Eliot International Summer School
The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters.
CONFERENCE: 10-11 July 2009: Swinburne Centenary Conference
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), poet, dramatist, novelist and critic. This international centenary conference aims to reclaim Swinburne's position as the pre-eminent late nineteenth-century poet and to assess his impact on those who came after.
CONFERENCE: 14-17 July 2009: Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 3)
Jointly organised with the Linguistics Department at Queen Mary, University of London, and the Survey of English Usage (University College London). Encouraging the cross-fertilisation of ideas between different frameworks and research traditions, all of which address any aspect of the linguistics of English.
CONFERENCE: 20-22 July 2009: Narrative Dominions: On Writing the History of the Novel in English
Addressing the shifting terrains and overlapping dominions of English-language prose fiction from its origins to the present day, bringing together aesthetic, generic, geographical, material, socio-political, and theoretical aspects of literary history.
SUMMER SCHOOL: 20-24 July & 27-31 July 2009: London Rare Books School
A series of intensive five-day courses by internationally renowned scholars using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the University of London Research Library Services.
CONFERENCE: 10-12 September 2009: Victorian Popular Novelists, 1860-1900
In 1899 the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 Best Novels in the World, included works by Ainsworth, Besant & Rice, Braddon, Collins, George Lawrence, Lever, Ouida, Reade and Mrs Henry Wood. Several have re-established themselves within the canon while others are the subject of increasing scholarly interest.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 10 October 2009: Dickens and Science
Organised by Holly Furneaux (University of Leicester) and Ben Winyard (Birkbeck College) in memory of Professor Sally Ledger.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 12 October 2009: B.S.Johnson, his Contemporaries, and the British Literary-Cultural Scene 1949-1979
At the British Library. An International Conference jointly organized by the British Library, the BCCW, the Institute of English Studies, & the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
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Institute of English Studies
University of London
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