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FEBRUARY 2011

«After we have discussed some Chambertin and a few ortolans,
we will pass on to the question of the critic considered in the light of the interpreter»

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Arts and Crafts
André Gide
Katherine Mansfield
Marcel Proust
Social History
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
The Society for Textual Scholarship
Symbolism & Modernism

FEBRUARY 2011

At time of readying for upload we have not learnt the details of any Conferences planned for February.

MARCH

Proust’s Court of Love

Seminar at the City University of New York, Thursday, 10th March backed by a Theatrical Concert, Thursday, 24th March.

In voluntary exile for the last decade of his life, immersed in a tangled knot of neuroses, eccentricities, anxieties, and doubts, Marcel Proust recaptured his experiences and immortalized the loves of his real and fictional lives in his sweeping novel À la recherche du temps perdu, a breathtaking voyage through the unconscious. ERC's theatrical concert features a script that draws upon Proust's novel, his letters, and the reminiscences of his faithful housekeeper, Céleste Albaret, the only person who witnessed the creation of his masterpiece. Focusing on the perpetual conflict between love and jealousy, the script dramatizes these emotions in tandem with a selection of musical works that emulate the modernity of Proust's superbly calibrated language. The author's stream-of-consciousness technique and his detailed depiction of the fluctuations of human behavior will be mirrored in music of comparable complexity, richness of texture, and sensorial beauty. Works include Ravel's String Quartet, Piano Trio in A minor, and the unusual and groundbreaking Sonata for Violin and Cello; Jean Cras's mysterious Cinq Robaïyats for voice and piano; and a selection of songs by Reynaldo Hahn, Proust's lifelong lover.

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY. Thursday 24th March, 8:00 pm. 7:00 pm pre-concert lecture $47 General Admission $16 Students (with ID). Handicapped Accessible.

Actualités d’André Gide

Palais Neptune – Toulon 10th & 11th March 2011 ; 12 Mars 2011 Villa Noailles, Hyères Les Palmiers, en présence de Catherine Gide, invitée d’honneur’

http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article38780.php

The Society for Textual Scholarship

Sixteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference

Penn State University 16th–18th March 2011

After many years of successful meetings in New York City, the Society for Textual Scholarship is inaugurating a new venue for its biennial conference: Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. This new venue will accommodate the STS in a state of the art conference center with up-to-date technology support and other amenities <http://www.pshs.psu.edu/pennstater/pshome.asp>, which will in turn facilitate the introduction of several new session formats. The new formats, new venue, and stellar line-up of confirmed keynote speakers--addressing textual and media scholarship and theory, conservation and archival practices, and relevant aspects of computer science--promises to make the 2011 conference an especially invigorating and important one for the STS.

As always, the conference is particularly open to considerations of the role of digital tools and technologies in textual theory and practice. Papers addressing newer developments such as forensic computing, born-digital materials, stand-off markup, cloud computing, and the sustainability of electronic scholarship are especially encouraged. Papers addressing aspects of archival theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing are also especially welcome.

Inquiries should be submitted electronically, as plain text, to: Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum mkirschenbaum -at- gmail -dot- com. Additional contact information: Department of English, 2119 Tawes Hall, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740. Phone: 301-405-8505 Fax: 301-314-7111 (marked clearly to Kirschenbaum's attention).

All participants in the STS 2011 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at <mroland@marylhurst.edu> or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page. For conference updates and information, see the STS website at <http://www.textual.org>.

Shaping Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries

A two-day Conference in association with the Katherine Mansfield Society

25th-26th March 2011, University of Cambridge

‘I was only thinking last night people have hardly begun to write yet. Put poetry out of it for a moment & leave out Shakespeare – now I mean prose. Take the very best of it. Aren’t they still cutting up sections rather than tackling the whole of a mind?’ (Katherine Mansfield, 1921)

This conference explores new research concerning notions of modernism(s), with a particular focus on Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield was hugely influential on, and influenced by, writers including John Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, A. R. Orage, T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley. Woolf’s statement that Mansfield created ‘the only writing I have ever been jealous of’, highlights her significance within modernism and emphasises that her complex, experimental, satirical and humorous writing deserves further attention.

Proposals for papers are invited on topics that address Mansfield’s relation to other writers and artists, as well as the broader lines of influence and exchange within modernist networks and between different disciplines. We particularly welcome papers specifically concerning Mansfield, but are happy to consider submissions from researchers working in related fields of modernist study. Submissions from postgraduate students are encouraged.

Papers were invited on topics that address, but ot limited to:

Mansfield and ‘high modernism’ — Rhythm and modernist magazines — Modernist literary form: tradition, innovation and experimentation — Modernism and the short story — The influence of the First World War on modernism — Notions of avant-garde and marginal modernisms — Modernist literature and music — Modernism, politics and social class — Mansfield and cinema — Mansfield and queer modernisms — Notions of the modernist canon and its revisions — Expatriate, displaced and colonial modernisms — Gendered modernisms

Conference organisers: Alice Kelly (ark40@cam.ac.uk) and Dr. Kate Kennedy (kma23@cam.ac.uk).

Reassessing the Symbolist Roots of Modernism

Panel at the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians,

31st March – 2nd April 2011, University of Warwick.

The Symbolist movement has often been framed as the final, often decadent, stage of Renaissance humanism in which the art work functioned as a means of communication. Symbolism continues to be referred to in a language of decline and expiration, associated with an end - fin-de-siècle - rather than a beginning or even part of a continuum.  Yet several key figures of Modernism - Picasso, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Kupka, inter alia - had roots in Symbolism. Did early twentieth-century modernists reject their Symbolist roots? Did they outgrow them? Were there aspects of the Symbolist agenda that helped to shape emerging Modernism? Did Symbolism have a role to play in the new aesthetics of Modernism? This session invites papers that explore the relationship between Symbolism and Modernism in the work of particular artists, in specific art works, or from a theoretical point of view.

Inquiries to the convenors, Michelle Facos, Indiana University, Bloomington (mfacos@indiana.edu); and Thor J. Mednick, Missouri Southern State University (tmednick@hotmail.com).

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Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

The programme and registration form for the ninth annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (University of Birmingham, 7th-9th April 2011) are now available online at www.sdn.ac.uk. The programme is enormous, but we single out for special mention Frederic Canovas (Arizona State University) : ‘L’affaire Oscar Wilde vue par la presse’.

Please be advised that the deadline for registrations is 1st February 2011.

Arts and Crafts

Craftsman Farms 1st Annual Symposium for Emerging Scholars

Transcending the role of furniture maker, Gustav Stickley used The Craftsman to position himself as a spokesman for the Arts and Crafts movement’s aesthetic concerns and theoretical basis.  Throughout its fifteen-year history, the movement’s fundamental issues were documented and debated in the magazine’s columns, illustrations, and advertisements.  In celebration of the centennial of Stickley’s home in Morris Plains, New Jersey, Craftsman Farms will host a day-long conference on 15th April 2011 for emerging scholars.  We invite current graduate students and recently graduated scholars to submit proposals that critically address the thought, intention, and production of objects in the Arts and Crafts movement.  Papers that use The Craftsman as a starting point for critical inquiry are particularly encouraged.

Please direct all inquiries to: Jonathan Clancy, j.clancy@sothebysinstitute.com

Social History

The 2011 annual conference of the Social History Society will take place at the University of Manchester
Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th April 2011.

The Society's conference has no single theme. It is organised in six strands (full details on the website)

· Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion

· Life-cycles and Life-styles

· Markets, Culture and Society

· Political Cultures, Policy and Citizenship

· Narratives, Emotions and the Self

· Spaces and Places

We encourage submissions of panels of up to 4 speakers. Proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes are, of course, also welcome. Details of each strand are available on the conference website.

Papers presented at the conference can be submitted to the Society’s journal, Cultural and Social History, to be considered for publication. For details, see http://www.socialhistory.gellius.net/Journal.php.

General enquiries should be sent to: Mrs. Linda Persson, Administrative Secretary, Social History Society, Furness College, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YG (01524 592547; l.persson@lancaster.ac.uk).

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