7-8 October 2010, University of Tampere, Finland

Abstract submission dead line: 2 April 2010

Keynote speakers of the conference include: *Kevin Hart* (Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia) and *Shira Wolosky* (Professor of American Studies and English Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference Literary Transcendences welcomes contributions on the contemporary notions and significance of transcendence, be they reinterpretations of literary, philosophical or theological texts and traditions, or novel theoretical openings.

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We are pleased to announce that a week-long writers' retreat will be held at Hald Hovedgaard's lakeside estate in northern Denmark from May 8 to May 16, 2010. The retreat will bring together five American writers and five Danish writers in a beautiful location where they will be able to work without interruption in a supportive environment. The American writers chosen to participate in the retreat will receive roundtrip airfare from New York to Denmark, room and board throughout their stay, and a travel stipend. The available spots are open to writers who have published, or who are under contract to publish, at least one book of fiction or poetry.

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International Association of Scandinavian Studies (IASS) håller sin 28:e studiekonferens vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Universitetet i Lund, Sverige, 3-7 augusti 2010. Temat är Översättning - adaption, interpretation, transformation. Skandinavister och andra intresserade runtomkring i hela världen är hjärtligt välkomna!

Anmälan kan göras från och med 26 oktober 2009 och senast 15/1 2010 via en särskild registreringsblankett på vår hemsida:

  http://conference.sol.lu.se/iass-2010

Förslag till 20 minuters föredrag och preliminära abstracts (cirka 150 - 200 ord) sänds till samma hemsida, senast 15/1 2010.

På hemsidan ges också  information om de tankar som ligger bakom konferensens tema och som kan ge uppslag till föredrag och papers. Konferensspråket är i första hand något av de skandinaviska språken, i andra hand engelska.

Uppgifter om konferensavgift, utflykter och den avslutande banketten kommer att återfinnas på hemsidan, liksom information om hotell och inkvartering i olika prislägen. Den 1/3 2010 är dead-line för den slutgiltiga utformningen av de abstracts, som kommer att tryckas i programmet inför konferensen.

Fram till 26/10, då anmälan kan göras på hemsidan - och naturligtvis även senare - kan frågor kring tänkta föredrag och praktiska omständigheter ställas till organisationskommittén, som tills vidare består av

Per Erik Ljung  (Per_Erik@Ljung@litt.lu.se)

Claes-Göran Holmberg (Claes-Goran.Holmberg@litt.lu.se)

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Second bi-annual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)

9-11 September 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Call for Participation – Due November 30, 2009

EAM and session chairs invite your participation in one of the selected thematic sessions. The session list can be found below. To find out more about the accepted sessions visit the conference’s website (www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl). 

Proposals for participation in sessions should be sent directly to the appropriate session chair(s), and not to EAM.

Each proposal should include:

1. The paper’s title and a 500-word abstract of the paper

2. The speaker’s name, institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information.

3. The speaker’s CV (one page)

Proposals for participation in sessions must be received by November 30, 2009.

Chairs determine the speakers for their sessions and reply to all applicants by February 1, 2010.

No one may participate in more than one session. Session chairs must be informed if one or more proposals are being submitted to other sessions for consideration. Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to attend that session and participate in person. 

For all queries, please contact the principal organiser: Agata Jakubowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) at: eam2010@amu.edu.pl

www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl

German and French versions below 

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The conference Historizing the Avant-Garde in Copenhagen on November 20-22 2009 marks the completion of the five years of research activity in the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies sponsored by the Nordic Council for Research (NordForsk). It will also be the occasion for the publication of the first of four volumes on The Cultural History of the Nordic Avant-Garde, edited by members of the research network. Volume 1 covers the period 1900-1925,  the three following volumes (1925-50, 1950-75 and 1975-today) will appear during the next three years. 

The concluding conference of the research network will focus on historiographical questions: What are the adequate ways of writing the history of the avant-garde? From the vantage point of the 21st century we can map the cultural geography of the avant-garde movements and traditions of the 20th century. Historical connections severed by war and iron curtain can be reconstructed. And changing global and postcolonial developments throw new light on the question of centres and peripheries, as well as on the relation between nationalism and international exchange. Intensified archival work, republication of historical documents and much recent research present new perspectives on the concepts of the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde. To what extent are these concepts still useful to-day? And what is the significance of the rediscovery and appropriation of figures, concepts and strategies of the historical avant-garde after World War 2? In what ways has the relation between the avant-garde and the art institution changed? And do concrete institutions, for instance within a welfare state, support or subsume avant-garde art? Does avant-garde art still have a critical role to play? Which groups and individual artists should be included as part of the avant-garde? In what ways have the small avant-garde groups contributed to the cultural renewal in the Nordic countries during the 20th century? Do the heterogenous groups and movements of the 20th century form a coherent current which may be termed the avant-garde? And is there an avant-garde to-day? What would be the marks of such an avant-garde? And what is the relation between avant-garde and technology? The Cultural History of the Nordic Avant-Garde is written from the perspective of the avant-garde movements as networks of heterogenous groups, persons and isms – what are the merits and disadvantages of this approach? 

Keynotes include Professor Vojtech Lahoda ( University of Prague), Professor Wolfgang Asholt (Universität Osnabrück) and Dr. Malte Hagener (Universität Lüneburg).

We welcome papers which discuss such problems and concepts of the historiography of the avant-garde. Please indicate whether your paper belongs under the heading of - cultural geography - technology - institution and institutions or – general historiography.

Please send 200 word abstracts to Marianne Ping Huang mphuang@hum.ku.dk or Tania Ørum tania@hum.ku.dk by September 1st 2009.

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Conference – 23-25 november 2009, Lodz.

For full invitation, click here.

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Second bi-annual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)

9-11 September 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl

Call for Submissions (Deadline extended!)

Please note that the procedure of application differs from the one applied for the 1st Biannual EAM’s conference in Ghent, May 2008.

EAM invites all interested to participate in the 2nd EAM Conference Poznan 2010 by either chairing a session or presenting a paper at one of sessions. The process of application is two-stage: 1. Call for session proposals and 2. Call for papers

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Visual and Material Culture Research Centre

Kingston University, London.

The concept of the avant-garde is arguably the most important and influential one in the history of modern art, but it is a notion often left unexamined. We are prompted to ask - which avant-garde? In the context of the recent popularity of a return to the issues of modernism within contemporary art and criticism, this conference proposes a critical re-engagement with the theory, histories and politics of the avant-garde.

The conference is intended to make original connections between a range of moments in the history of the artistic avant-garde, and to explore its relevance for contemporary cultural and social issues. It will focus, in particular, on the endurance of avant-garde approaches across the twentieth-century and their contemporary resonances.

We welcome proposals on the theory and politics of the avant-garde, particular moments in its history and its legacies, and how avant-garde artefacts are now collected, preserved, digitized or otherwise kept in existence.

Keynote speakers include Nicholas Bourriaud, Sylvère Lotringer and Franco 'Bifo' Berardi.

Please send 200 word abstracts to G.Grindon@kingston.ac.uk by Wed 18th April 2009.

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Performative sjangere

(Film, teater, performance, happenings, live-arts, dans, musikk etc)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

til avantgardeseminar i Oslo 

Litteraturhuset: Kverneland 24. – 25. april 2009

arrangert av Nettverket Norsk avantgarde

Norsk Avantgarde. Performative sjangere er et 2-dagers seminar, som har til målsetning å sette fokus på avantgarde i Norge og dens performative praksis. Ett særtrekk ved avantgardens praksis er at den legger tonevekt på performative og prosessuelle aspekter ved skapelsen, og mindre vekt ved verket i sig. Dette stiller store utfordringer til analysen av avantgardens kunst, ettersom det sentrale ved den er den prosessuelle skapelsen og ikke verket som oftest er flyktig. Vi ønsker derfor å samle forskere og andre som har med avantgarde å gjøre, på et seminar i Oslo for å diskutere disse vanskelige forhold innom ulike kunstarter, og for å bygge videre på det norske faglige nettverket som har blitt etablert under to tidigere seminarer om tidskrifter og norsk avantgarde i allmennhet. 

Vi ønsker bidrag til seminaret i form av papers som undersøker performative kunstarter i Norge fra et avantgardeperspektiv. Det går også bra å delta i seminaret uten paper, og det kan bli aktuelt med en mindre konferanseavgift. 

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Call for Papers

Session on Avant-garde

Codex and Code. Aesthetics, Language, and Politics in an Age of Digital Media

Norlit Conference, Stockholm, August 6–9, 2009

The interest for avant-garde has been growing during the first decade of the 21th century, and has resulted in the founding of, among others, the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. The continuing mapping out of avant-garde activities in the Nordic countries in relation to the world at large, has made it possible to establish a more nuanced and heterogenic aesthetic history of the 20th century, and to recognize the possibility for an avant-garde aesthetics in the early  21th century as well. The relation between avant-garde, modernism and post-modernism has been disputed, though, and the discussion has to be taken further to clarify the complex aesthetic strategies in the Modern (beginning around 1850). This session welcomes papers on all sorts of subjects and themes that relates to the phenomena of the avant-garde/s, and to the discussion of the avant-garde in relation to – to allude to Matei Calinescus book – ”Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism”, where one is inclined to add the notion of ”realism”. A continued mapping out of avant-garde activities in the  20th and 21th century, archive archeology resulting in the discovery of forgotten artist and writers, and discussions on Nordic, European or global avant-garde activities within single nations, in a Nordic perspective or in a global perspective, are just a few areas which might be covered in this session on the avant-garde – where all papers on the avant-garde are welcome.

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Codex and Code. Aesthetics, Language, and Politics in an Age of Digital Media, Norlit Conference, Stockholm, August 6–9, 2009

For some time, not the least in a Nordic context, the concept of “language materialism” has circulated in the debate and discussion of literature (most notably, poetry). The term might refer to a number of things, and it has served both as a kind of schibboleth and as a derogatory designation. The aim of this session is to disentangle both the actual uses and the potential meanings of the concept, tracing its genealogy to the materiality of the linguistic sign (sound, visual constellation, typography, etcetera), but also to the media-technological materiality of literary practice and the social materiality of language. 

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Call For Proposals:

Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering

CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2009

In celebration of its tenth year, Belladonna*/** will join with The CUNY Graduate Center's Women's Studies Certificate Program, Center for Research on Women and Society, Center for Humanities, Poetics Group, and English Department to present a conference aimed at advancing and broadcasting the life of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetics and Activism Today. The conference will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center on September 24 and 25, 2009.

Our goals for this conference are the following:

1)    To support the study of the Feminist Avant-Garde

2)    To encourage collaboration between radical feminist artists/thinkers/activists.

3)    To provide a space to think about relevant activism in these times, in this place.

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Session on Language Materialism

Codex and Code. Aesthetics, Language, and Politics in an Age of Digital Media, Norlit Conference, Stockholm, August 6–9, 2009

For some time, not the least in a Nordic context, the concept of “language materialism” has circulated in the discussion of literature (most notably, poetry). The term might refer to a number of things, and it has served both as a kind of schibboleth and as a derogatory designation. The aim of this session is to disentangle the actual uses and the potential meanings of the concept, tracing its genealogy to the materiality of the linguistic sign (sound, visual constellation, typography, etcetera), but also to the media-technological materiality of literary practice and the social materiality of language. As digital media during the last decades have generated ideas about disembodiment and dematerialization, materiality as such has become an urgent issue to investigate, and its position and relevance in the context of literature none the less so. What does, for example, “poetic materiality” imply in a digital environment where language and image are the surface effects of code? And if the materiality of language often has been evoked as a form of resistance to notions of linguistic transparency, and to accompanying ideas about immediacy and direct communication, how can such a resistance be mobilized by literature today? The aim of the session is to address such and similar questions from different viewpoints and from within the framework of different genres and media (book, audiotape, digital media, etcetera). Possible topics can range from visual poetry to invented languages in literature, from book machines to cyberpoetics, from artist’s books to sound poetry to the triangulation between conceptuality, materiality, and code in contemporary literature.

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Conference, 2-4 July 2009

At Queen Mary University of London

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 

2009 marks the centenary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, published on 20 February 1909 in the Paris daily Le Figaro. Organised at Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009 is an international conference called with the aim of reassessing the contribution of Futurism to Modernism and tracking its enduring legacy in cultural movements around the world.

The conference is timed to coincide with the major Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern (12 June – 13 September). As Le Futurisme à Paris. Une Avant-Garde Explosive, the exhibition opens in Paris at the Centre Pompidou (15 October 2008 to 26 January 2009), before moving to the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (20 February to 24 May 2009). The conference will focus on verbal, visual, musical, ideological, sociological and other manifestations of Futurism and its successor movements from the birth of the notion of avant-garde to the present day.

Besides re-evaluations of futurist literature, painting, sculpture and architecture, possible conference strands include:

Milan-Paris-Berlin-Moscow; Futurism and Cubism; Futurism and Expressionism; Futurism and Vorticism; Futurism and politics; Futurist architecture; Futurism in music; Futurism and fashion; Futurism and photography; Futurism and cinema; Futurist journals; Apollinaire, Futurism and the French avant-garde; parole in libertà; the wireless imagination; digital art; centre and periphery; concrete poetry; avant-garde/neo-avant-garde; machine aesthetics; avant-garde and mass culture; the legacy of Futurism.

Proposals for papers: please email a 300-400 word abstract to Professor Elza Adamowicz by 15 January 2009

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Public Disorder: Post-World War II European Art and Its Publics

AAH 2009 : Intersections

Manchester Metropolitan University

April 2-4, 2009

Following the end of WWII, artists across Europe, both east and west,

sought to re-imagine the identity of the public. The internationalist

utopia of the historical avant-garde had not come to pass, the populism

of the national socialist model had been discredited by Fascism and

Nazism, and it was yet unclear what shape the burgeoning commercial

public would take in either soviet block or western nations.

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Public Disorder: Post-World War II European Art and Its Publics

AAH 2009 : Intersections

Manchester Metropolitan University

April 2-4, 2009

Following the end of WWII, artists across Europe, both east and west,

sought to re-imagine the identity of the public. The internationalist

utopia of the historical avant-garde had not come to pass, the populism

of the national socialist model had been discredited by Fascism and

Nazism, and it was yet unclear what shape the burgeoning commercial

public would take in either soviet block or western nations.

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