PhD Researcher (f/m) - ABV201251

This full-time PhD position (max. 4 years), created to study the modernist writer's speech in Germany as a genre, is launched by M.D.R.N. M.D.R.N. is a large-scale K.U.Leuven-based research project (GOA) that focuses on the multifaceted nature of literature during the first half of the twentieth century. M.D.R.N. looks at the many ways in which literature between 1900-1950 defined and legitimized itself in the main Western European traditions (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch) and canvasses literature's multiple functions, histories and mediatizations. The project has a double aim: to further our understanding of writing in the modernist period, and, more generally, to develop a multidimensional and functionalist approach to the dynamic identity of modern Western European literature. For more information, visit: www.mdrn.be.

http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacancies_aapbap/ABV201251_PhD_Researcher_52014949.pdf 

Litteratur, mediehistoria och informationskulturer

Senior and emerging scholars, academics and researchers are invited to apply. This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University (LiU).

The conference w ill take place on 26 - 30 September 2012 in Norrköping, Sweden.

Submission Deadline: 01 April 2012

http://www.avantgardenet.eu/nyhedsbreve/EAM_newsletter_5.pdf 

MATERIALMEANINGS 

Third Biannual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) * 7-9 September 2012 * the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK * 

http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/materialmeanings/index.html  

This conference investigates the avant-garde's reconfiguration of matter and materials in the quest to generate new meanings and effects. Its particular focus will be the manner in which different artistic disciplines adopt strategies, theories and techniques from each other, and how they translate, transform and integrate conceptions and modes of expression from other sign systems. Proposals are invited for contributions which deal with any of the following: the interference or conflict of artistic disciplines; the interaction of disciplines in artistic movements; the combination of media in single artworks or artistic practices; the treatment of sign as matter and matter as sign; the materiality of art and the art of materiality; art and material environment; the world as matter and meaning; text as thing, things as texts; the transfiguration of traditional or found materials; the material effectivity of the avant-garde; the relationship between manifestos and art; technology and the transformation of meaning; the incorporation of the foreign or extraneous. We welcome contributions across all areas of avant-garde activity: art, literature, music, architecture, film, artistic and social movements, lifestyle, television, fashion, drama, performance, activism, design and technology. We especially welcome contributions which explore the combination of different media or practices within a single work or within a given environment. Please subscribe to the conference email list: https://lists.kent.ac.uk/sympa/info/eam-2012-cfp

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International colloquium organised by Centre Interuniversitaire d’Études Hongroises et Finlandaises (CIEH&CIEFi – Paris 3) & l’Institut Finlandais de Paris 

Paris

Septembre / September 23-24, 2011

 The colloquium aims to lay the foundations for an international research program. The colloquium focuses on the functions of avant-gardes as well as on the transfers and appropriations of influences and intertexts in Central and Northern Europe in the period running from 1909 to the end of the Cold War. Avant-garde is here understood according to its two traditional interpretations as an artistic or literary movement that is willing either to take the role of “engaged art” promoting political and social progress or to position itself as a reflective, critical and even destructive element within modernisation.

After three decades of composition, Ron Silliman’s the Alphabet is complete, and published under one cover (University of Alabama Press, 2008). When this twenty-six-sectioned, thousand-plus-page poem was only available in discrete portions, in magazines, chapbooks, limited-run books, what punctuated each was not the poem’s next “new sentence” but concurrent claims and counterclaims on contemporary life.the Alphabet was written during decades when high theory and cultural studies had arrived in the academy to exact formal and mostly progressive social evaluations from culture and the arts, but still often at the expense of poetry’s own theoretical challenges to the academy’s institutional base; when intensified corporate consolidation of the mass media and new technologies were transforming existing paradigms of “the consumer society” (Baudrillard), its “captains of consciousness” (Ewen), and “culture of narcissism” (Lasch); and when, among other factors, manufactured consent (theorized equally by Burawoy for factory work as by Chomsky and Herman for mass media) propelled the US mainstream rightwards into postmodern politics.