CFP: David Jones: Dialogues with the Past

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An International, Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of York, U.K. 21-23 July, 2016.

As 2016 marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme which profoundly shaped David Jones’s imagination and thought, it provides an ideal moment to reconsider the entirety of Jones’s engagement with the many, various, elusive and intertwined ‘pasts’ through which he conceived history and culture. It will be an opportunity to explore Jones’s own style, subject matter, allusive practice and intellectual questions including the role of ‘memory’, ‘inheritance’ and ‘history’ in art and life, while also reflecting upon Jones’s own past and contemporary moment.

We welcome papers from scholars and postgraduates of multiple disciplines, including but not limited to: English, History of Art, History, Philosophy, Theology and any others that may offer relevant perspectives to the study of David Jones.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to: davidjonesdialogues@gmail.com

The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January, 2016.

Further information: http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/blog/post.php?s=2015-10-27-cfp-david-jones-dialogues-with-the-past
Conference website: http://www.davidjonesdialogues.com/

CfP: GLGW graduate conference, March 2016

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‘Stories, Spaces, and Societies’
Globalising and Localising the Great War Graduate Conference, University of Oxford
17th and 18th March 2016

Call for Papers

Proposals are invited on the theme of ‘Stories, Spaces, and Societies’. Papers falling under the stories category can look to establish new narratives, or revisit our understanding of old tales. Spaces can be real or imagined, and focus on the lived experience of the First World War, both at the front and at home. And papers focussing on societies should take the opportunity to adopt local, national, transnational, or global approaches, seeking to enhance our understandings of how societies were disrupted by the war, and how they interacted with each other to shape experiences of the conflict. Naturally some crossover will occur, and any paper that touches on one or more of these broad themes is invited. When submitting proposals for consideration, it would be helpful to indicate which broad area you anticipate your paper would cover, as well as the field in which you study.

Papers should be designed to be approximately 20 minutes in length. We particularly invite submissions from postgraduate students and early career researchers.

To apply, please send a 200 word abstract with your approach in the subject line to glgw.gradconference@history.ox.ac.uk by Friday 18 December 2015.

Job: one year teaching and research post-doctoral fellow for 2016-2017

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The University of California School of Humanities invites applications for a one year teaching and research post-doctoral fellow for 2016-2017. The postdoctoral fellow will take a leading role in “Documenting War,” a John E. Sawyer Seminar funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellow will be affiliated with the Humanities Commons, UCI’s humanities institute, as well as the appropriate academic department. While in residence at UCI, the Mellon Fellow will participate in all activities associated with the Sawyer Seminar, have limited teaching duties, and have the opportunity for scholarly work. The successful candidate will have a research agenda on documenting war (broadly defined) in the 20th century in the United States.

Closing date: 1 December 2015.

Contact:
Amanda Jeanne Swain, PhD
Associate Director, Humanities Commons
UCI School of Humanities
ajswain@uci.edu

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF03096

Further details here.

CFP: Connected Histories, Mirrored Empires British and French Imperialism from the 17th through 20th centuries

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How were the British and French empires formed in relation, contrast or in spite of the other? How was each complicit in shaping the other—as opponent, ally, or frère ennemi? How were they connected? This conference encourages historians to conceive of the French and British empires together, as each empire endured as a point of reference and connection for the other. This conference addresses connections and shared experiences of the French and English/British empires from their emergence in the early modern period through decolonization.

Venue: University of Hong Kong, 27-29 May 2016

Proposals are invited for individual papers of about 20 minutes, and for panels including three such papers. Address questions to James Fichter at britfran@hku.hk.

To apply, send abstract of 200 words (maximum) and one-page c.v. by 1 December 2015 to britfran@hku.hk

Further information here.

CFP: Russia as a Field of Experiment? Scientific, Technological and Financial Investments and the Interaction of European Countries in the Russian Empire in the Decades before World War I

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For historians, the scientific, technological and financial investments and the interactions of European countries in the Russian Empire are an ideal field for the investigation of historical processes of transfer. Parallel to the military alliances formed before the First World War (Triple Alliance, Franco-Russian Alliance, and Triple Entente) the decades before 1914 were marked by vivid and rich scientific and economic contacts between the Russian Empire, the other European powers, and the United States of America. In the course of time the latter invested in the Russian Empire and transferred their know-how and capital. At the same time they increased their knowledge about this more or less unexplored country and expanded their influence in many aspects. Also Russia benefited from these ideological, scientific and economic interventions, such as in the fields of infrastructure or the professionalization of the sciences. In any case there was a mutual transfer.

Organizers: Kerstin S. Jobst (University of Vienna / Institute for East European History), Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan (Centre Roland Mousnier, Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Meeting dates: 9th-10th of June 2016
Place: Paris, Fondation Singer-Poligniac
Conference languages: French and English.

Deadline: 20 December 2015

Please send an abstract (max. 2000 characters incl. spaces) and a short CV in English or French to both organizers:
Kerstin Susanne Jobst : kerstin.susanne.jobst@univie.ac.at
F.-D. Liechtenhan : francine-dominique.liechtenhan@paris-sorbonne.fr

The conference will take place after the necessary funding has been received.

Further information here.

CfP: Cultures of War in Graphic Novels

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War has long been a central issue in graphic novels. Based on real wars, conflicts, and rebellions, graphic novels by such emerging or already established authors as David Axe, Garth Ennis, Archie Goodwin, Larry Hama, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Doug Murray, George Pratt, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, and Art Spiegelman tackle the issue of war, placing various war-related complexities at the heart of narration: from ethical questions, to problems of psychological and moral hardships, to political ambivalence, and beyond. A popular medium and powerful cultural agent, the graphic war-novel has, thus, served scholars as a tool to explore war as part of human experience.

Please send a 250-500 word abstract and a short biographical note (up to 100 words), including contact information to Nimrod Tal (talnimrod@gmail.com) and Tatiana Prorokova (tatiana.prorokova@gmx.de) by February 1, 2016.

The selected contributors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by March 1, 2016. Full articles between 5,000-7,000 words in length should be submitted by September 1, 2016.

Further information here.

TORCH seminar: Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 – 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road

Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. A sandwich lunch is provided from 12:45, with discussion from 13:00 to 13:45.

Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford) will discuss her book Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire with:
Megan Robb (Junior Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford)
Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford)
Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature, Kings College London)

About the book

Elleke Boehmer’s book Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and life-writing. The book’s four decade-based case studies, leading from 1870 and the opening of the Suez Canal, to the first years of the Great War, investigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central place of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively early stage for Indian migration. Focussing on a range of remarkable Indian ‘arrivants’ — scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore — Indian Arrivals examines the take-up in the metropolis of the influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement, including concepts of the west and of cultural decadence, of urban modernity and of cosmopolitan exchange.