{"id":434,"date":"2017-10-08T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/19cc.org\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-10-08T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:30:11","slug":"9-10-april-midlands-modernist-network-hosts-transitions-bridging-the-victorian-modernist-dive-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2017\/10\/08\/9-10-april-midlands-modernist-network-hosts-transitions-bridging-the-victorian-modernist-dive-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"18 December: Midlands Modernist Network&#8217;s Transitions: Bridging the Victorian-Modernist Divide Conference CFP Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conference is set to be held on 9th and 10th of April 2018 at the University of Birmingham. <em>Transitions <\/em>is an international, interdisciplinary conference seeking to open a dialogue between Victorianist and Modernist scholars. The conference will interrogate the historical, theoretical and thematic divides that have evolved from the artificial critical boundary set at the turn of the century. Panelists are invited to reconsider and discuss the aesthetic, social, political, technological, artistic, scientific, cultural and textual relationship between the Victorian and Modernist periods, in a global context.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to announce that our Keynotes will be Professor John Holmes (University of Birmingham) and Dr Sarah Parker (University of Loughborough). \u00a0 Professor Holmes\u2019 work focuses on the relationship between scientific ideas and cultural forms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including poetry, architecture and the visual arts. Doctor Parker\u2019s work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, with an emphasis on women\u2019s poetry, decadence and aestheticism, gender and sexualities, and visual cultures.<\/p>\n<p>We are further thrilled to announce that <em>Transitions<\/em>\u00a0will include a performance by \u00a0Becky Cullen, who recently succeeded Lord Byron as the poet in residence at Newstead Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and CFP:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/midlandsmodernistnetwork.wordpress.com\/transitions-conference\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference is set to be held on 9th and 10th of April 2018 at the University of Birmingham. Transitions is an international, interdisciplinary conference seeking to open a dialogue between Victorianist and Modernist scholars. The conference will interrogate the historical, theoretical and thematic divides that have evolved from the artificial critical boundary set at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2017\/10\/08\/9-10-april-midlands-modernist-network-hosts-transitions-bridging-the-victorian-modernist-dive-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18 December: Midlands Modernist Network&#8217;s Transitions: Bridging the Victorian-Modernist Divide Conference CFP Deadline&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}