BrANCA 5th Biennial Symposium:
Opening Up
Friday 13th - Saturday 14th May 2022
King's College London and online
The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists is pleased to announce dates for its much-delayed biennial symposium on Friday May 13th and Saturday May 14th 2022, 12:30-6.30pm.
This will be a hybrid event held online and at King’s College London to allow participation for those who may not wish to travel. By starting at 12:30pm London time we hope to allow for virtual attendance from colleagues around the world. For those who wish to attend in-person there will be a full Covid risk assessment in advance.
Opening Up
Friday 13th - Saturday 14th May 2022
King's College London and online
The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists is pleased to announce dates for its much-delayed biennial symposium on Friday May 13th and Saturday May 14th 2022, 12:30-6.30pm.
This will be a hybrid event held online and at King’s College London to allow participation for those who may not wish to travel. By starting at 12:30pm London time we hope to allow for virtual attendance from colleagues around the world. For those who wish to attend in-person there will be a full Covid risk assessment in advance.
The theme of the conference is “Opening Up”. We will likely not have seen many of our friends and colleagues for a sustained period of time. As such, the symposium aims to let everyone open up: about new projects, about plans abandoned then refound, about speculative scraps that might benefit from peer discussion, and about research trajectories over the past two years.
The more conventional conference element of the symposium will take place on the Saturday afternoon. On Friday afternoon we will be hosting a reading group and a pedagogy workshop. These reading groups were previously a staple of BrANCA but have, of course, been hard to run recently. During these we discuss, close read, and theorise about a single text that seems particularly significant for whoever leads the session: this year we will be reading Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Earthen Pitchers', led by Prof Janet Floyd, King's College.
A provisional programme is now available.
Registration
Registration is now open, and closes on 5 May: https://store.nottingham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/schools-and-departments/cultures-languages-area-studies/british-association-of-nineteenthcentury-americanists-5th-biennial-symposium-opening-up
Registration costs £20 for salaried faculty and is free for all others. If you are not presenting and would like to attend online, registration is also free. In addition, some travel grants might be available for postgraduate students but we are waiting for confirmation.
Please get in touch with Ed Sugden [email protected] if you have any dietary or accessibility requirements.
Travel
In-person activities will take place in the Department of English, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London. In-person attendees will need to sign in as visitors to the Virginia Woolf Building on arrival.
The nearest tube station to VWB is Holborn (Piccadilly Line), 5 minutes walk away. If you are travelling into central London, King's Cross-St Pancras is 5 minutes from Holborn on the Piccadilly Line, and Charing Cross is a 10 minute walk from VWB.
The more conventional conference element of the symposium will take place on the Saturday afternoon. On Friday afternoon we will be hosting a reading group and a pedagogy workshop. These reading groups were previously a staple of BrANCA but have, of course, been hard to run recently. During these we discuss, close read, and theorise about a single text that seems particularly significant for whoever leads the session: this year we will be reading Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Earthen Pitchers', led by Prof Janet Floyd, King's College.
A provisional programme is now available.
Registration
Registration is now open, and closes on 5 May: https://store.nottingham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/schools-and-departments/cultures-languages-area-studies/british-association-of-nineteenthcentury-americanists-5th-biennial-symposium-opening-up
Registration costs £20 for salaried faculty and is free for all others. If you are not presenting and would like to attend online, registration is also free. In addition, some travel grants might be available for postgraduate students but we are waiting for confirmation.
Please get in touch with Ed Sugden [email protected] if you have any dietary or accessibility requirements.
Travel
In-person activities will take place in the Department of English, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London. In-person attendees will need to sign in as visitors to the Virginia Woolf Building on arrival.
The nearest tube station to VWB is Holborn (Piccadilly Line), 5 minutes walk away. If you are travelling into central London, King's Cross-St Pancras is 5 minutes from Holborn on the Piccadilly Line, and Charing Cross is a 10 minute walk from VWB.
