Keynote Speakers: Stefano Evangelista, Patricia Pulham, and Sam Rose This three-day online conference, co-organized by Thomas Hughes and Will Parker, in conjunction with the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths and the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS), will explore how art writing from the Romantic period to the present registers the body, its sensations, and …
The BCLA is pleased to announce that the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) Research Seminar, will take place online each Monday at 5.00 pm (UK time) in Michaelmas (Autumn) Term. The series is co-organised with TORCH: The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities and the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and with the support …
The latest issue of Comparative Critical Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the British Comparative Literature Association, is now available online: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/18/1 It features three articles, two of the winning entries from the 2020 BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Competition, and seven reviews. Access to the journal is one of the benefits of membership! …
This was meant to be a conference year. However, as the conditions aren’t yet right for international travel and face-to-face meetings of large groups of modernist scholars, the British Association of Modernist Studies has put together a programme of online events that will take place for a month from 16 June – Bloomsday, famously the …
On behalf of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow, we’re pleased to share the programme for ‘Regeneration’: the sixth annual postgraduate conference in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. Organised in collaboration with the Writing in Transit research cluster, the event will take place online on Friday 14 May 2021. …
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Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s WritingOnline Workshop, Friday, 30 April 2021 Covid and the Woman Writer The sudden change to human life as a result of the current pandemic has yet to be understood, and it will no doubt take years to comprehend its impact upon the human subject. Women in particular may …
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You are warmly invited to Comparative Literature Research Seminars at Kings College London this spring term. All sessions take place on Wednesday afternoons at 4.30pm on MS Teams unless otherwise specified. All are welcome to join! The programme poster is here, with links to attend each seminar, or can be found in text format below: 27 January 2021 – Dr Rosa …
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Professor Matthew Reynolds, University of OxfordDr Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow As Spring 2021 approaches, there is hope that the season we associate with growth, re-emergence and new life will bring much-anticipated positive change. With vaccines expected to offer widespread medical protection and emotional relief, human life might return to something resembling ‘normality’. However, we …
You are warmly invited to attend a seminar on Women Writing China: Female Authors and Chinese Literature, hosted by Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing and Sinoist Books. The event will take place on 5th February 2021 at 13:00: register for your tickets here or by using the Eventbrite link below. Featuring Li Juan, an acclaimed Chinese essayist writing from the extreme …
