Publication of H.D.’s Trilogy and Beyond edited collection (ed. Helene Aji, Antoine Cazé, Agnès Derail-Imbert, and Clément Oudart)

Segment of Book Cover for H.D.'s Trilogy and BeyondThe second English-language collection of essays from the 2013 H.D. and Modernity Conference in Paris has been released (September 2014). H.D.’s Trilogy and Beyond, edited by Hélène Aji, Antoine Cazé, Agnès Derail-Imbert, and Clément Oudart, includes essays by Hélène Aji, Jane Augustine, Christine Battersby, François Bovier, Annette Debo, Vincent Dussol, Xavier Kalck, Céline Mansanti, Susan McCabe, Fiona McMahon, Sanna Melin Schyllert, Christanne Miller, Cyrena Pondrom, Matte Robinson, and David Ten Eyck. 

A book overview (in French) and complete table of contents (in English) are available at the Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest.

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ALA, May 22-25, 2014: H.D. panels and H.D. Int’l Society Business Meeting

Please note the following H.D.-related programming at the upcoming American Literature Association conference, Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill.

On Friday, May 23,  the H.D. International Society Business Meeting will take place from 11:10 AM to 12:30  PM, Bryce Second Floor (Session 9-L).  All are welcome.

There are two panels of note:

New Approaches to H.D. and/or Her Circle (Session 8-G)

Friday, May 23, 9:40-11:00 AM (in Capitol B, Lobby Level)

Organized by The H.D. International Society
Chair: Rebecca Walsh, North Carolina State University
1. “Exchanging Hours: Tribute to Freud and Queer Time,” Valerie Rohy, University of Vermont
2. “Sea Garden’s Love Poems and Darwin’s Beagle Geology’s Coral-Island ‘Blooms,’” Cassandra
Laity, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
3. “Orphism as Autobiography: Painterly Vision and the New Physics as Structural Motifs in H.D.’s Her,” Chris Townsend, Royal Holloway, University of London
4. “Reading H.D. from the Ground Up: Notes on H.D.’s Notes to The Gift,” Jane Augustine,
Independent Scholar

A second panel that features papers on H.D. and/or her circle:

Ezra Pound and Other World Cultures (Session 4-B)

Thurs, May 22, 1:30-2:50 PM

Organized by the Ezra Pound Society
Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick
1. “Ezra Pound’s Poetics of Chinese Economics,” Kristin Grogan, The University of New South Wales
2. “The Temple is not For Sale: Ideogrammatic History and Citizenship in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos,” Christopher McVey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “Let Them Love Tomorrow: Pound, H.D., and Eliot on the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’,” Miranda Hickman, McGill University
4. “Pound in Dilation: Stepping Through the Poet’s Window into the Language, Ceremony, and
Paradise of the Naxi Tribespeople of Southern Tibet,” Robert Kibler, Minot State University

 

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The French Society of Modernist Studies announces the “Modernist Communities” Conference, April 24-26, 2014, Sorbonne Nouvelle University

The keynote speakers are Jessica Berman (University of Maryland) and Linnell Secomb (University of Greenwich). H.D. is featured in many of the talks, along with other modernist writers.

This event is organized by the new French Society of Modernist Studies.  For more information about the event, click on:

Modernist Communities Conference website

Many thanks to Claire Conilleau for helping to distribute this info.

Web site image for the Modernist Communities Conference in Paris, April 24-26, 2014

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CFP for MSA 2014: “Modernist Women after The Career of that Struggle: New Scholarship on H.D. and Her Circle” (abstracts due Apr 20)

Modernist Studies Association Conference PosterThe H.D. International Society invites paper abstracts for a proposed panel for the Modernist Studies Association conference (Pittsburgh, Nov. 6-9, 2014),  “Modernist Women after The Career of that Struggle: New Scholarship on H.D. and Her Circle.”In recognition of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s position as keynote speaker for the 2014 conference, the H.D. International Society calls for contributions to a panel considering the legacy of her early criticism, H.D.: The Career of that Struggle(1986), and proposing new directions in modernist studies of H.D. and her circle. We are working with Rachel Blau DuPlessis about the possibility of having her respond to the papers in this panel.In her preface, DuPlessis maps women writers on a matrix of authority, including cultural authority, the authority of otherness/marginality, gender authority, and authorities of sexuality/eroticism, noting that achieving these forms of authority necessarily involves struggle. In the nearly three decades since DuPlessis made her argument, H.D. has gained significantly in the struggle for canonical status, and her writing and that of others in her circle has gained centrality, if not authority, within modernist studies. As we reflect both backward and forward on this body of scholarly work, how should scholars today define the career and the struggle of H.D. and/or other modernist women in her circle?

Submit brief bios and 250-word abstracts by April 20 to ckusch@uscupstate.edu and rawalsh@ncsu.edu.

 

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H.D. and Modernity 2013 Paris Conference Collection Released

blue book cover of H.D. and Modernity essay collectionThe first English-language collection of essays from the 2013 H.D. and Modernity Conference in Paris are now available. H.D. and Modernity, edited by Hélène Aji, Antoine Cazé, Agnès Derail-Imbert, and Clément Oudart, includes essays by Marc Porée, Hélène Aji, Marina Camboni, Antoine Cazé, Richard Cole, Claire Connileau, Sara Dunton, Michael Heller, Nicholas Manning, Clément Oudart, Matthias Somers, Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos, and Rebecca Walsh. Order print version or e-book online.

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MLA 15 Panel CFP: Pound’s Presence in H.D. and Bryher’s Writing

CFP: Pound’s Presence in H.D. and Bryher’s Writing

The Ezra Pound Society and the H.D. Society invite abstracts for this non-guaranteed session at MLA 15. Pound’s direct impact upon H.D.’s writing is not limited to their early collaboration as Imagists; whether regarded as nurturing or negative, his presence reverberates. Consider how both H.D. and Bryher’s lives and work engage with Pound’s aesthetic, personal, and political activities throughout their careers.

Evidence of their interaction might be found in critical writing and correspondence; representations of Pound in fiction and memoirs; poetic practices. All aspects welcome: including engagement with visual culture, publishing, politics, the occult.  Please submit brief bio statements, 250-word abstracts by March 14th, 2014 to Susan Mccabe (mccabe@usc.edu) and/or Sara Dunton (sara.dunton@unb.ca). Panelists must be current members of MLA.

 

Conference Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Conference Dates: January 8-11, 2015

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