[Vwoolf] 2024 conference of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA)

[Virginia Woolf in Türkiye]

Dear colleagues,

Below is an email from MSA regarding the FİMA3 conference. In case you are
interested.

Woolfully yours,
VWSY

Dear MSA members and friends,
The FiMA3 team is extending our deadline for submissions to "Feminist
Provocations" to *January 15, 2024*. Please feel free to submit anytime
before then, but we recognize that the end of semester and (happy and
wonderful) seasonal distractions are upon us.

*Submit proposals to our Google form by January 15, 2024: *
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Looking forward to seeing your proposals!
The FiMA3 Team

On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 5:47:12 AM UTC-7 Sarah Cornish wrote:

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS *




*“Feminist Provocations”*

*Feminist inter/Modernist Association*



*University of Mississippi, Oxford*

*May 16-18, 2024*



The 2024 conference of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
celebrates and problematizes modernism as a cultural provocation. At times
obnoxious and difficult, erudite and primitive, modernist art works and
cultural forms are nothing if not provoking in their apparently cavalier
dismissal of conventional aesthetic, sexual, and cultural standards. This
trolling of conventional middle-class patrons of the arts extended to
conspicuous violations of gender and sexual norms, from Josephine Baker’s
cabaret performances to the gender-bending Eton cut that Laura Doan details
in *Fashioning Sapphism* to the performative fashion and art of
provocateurs like the Baroness Elsa von Freitag-Loringhoven, Katherine
Dunham, Claude Cahun, and Marcel Moore. The sexual liberation claimed by
writers like Djuna Barnes and Radcliffe Hall, and the calling out of racism
and colonialism by writers like Una Marson, Jean Rhys, and Rebecca West,
also provoked and unsettled the patriarchal and imperial establishment,
some well into the postwar years.



We invite explorations of feminist modernism’s many provocations across
poetry, fiction, drama, periodicals, music, art, photography, craft,
performance, fashion, and dance. We encourage feminist examinations of
little magazines, slick magazines, independent presses, and transnational
networks and circulations. We seek reconsiderations of the feminist uses of
space and place inside and out of established cultural venues (pop-up
lectures, public events, and street performances). We invite expansive
investigations of multiple modernisms, especially those centering
intersectional analyses including race, class, colonialism, sexuality,
genders, geographies, and cultural hierarchies, and we encourage proposals
that stretch the boundaries of “modernism,” in period (1870-1970), genre,
style, and discipline.



We invite individual paper, panel, or roundtable proposals that engage with
Provocative and/or Provoking Literary, Artistic, Performative, and other
Cultural Forms situated between 1870-1970, such as:

   - Sexual provocations and liberation
   - “Bad” feminist provocations, both artistically and politically
   - Feminist demands of radicality and revolution
   - Black art forms’ movement from margin to center
   - Climate, Ecology, and the Anthropocene
   - Embodied provocations: health, reproduction, contraception,
   dis/ability, surveillance, imprisonment, technology, pleasure
   - Agent provocateurs: fighting fascism, racism, and cruel capitalism
   - Provocative media: photography, film, radio, documentary, visual and
   plastic arts
   - Provocative collaborations: friendships, intersectional alliances,
   organizations
   - Provoking women: spinsters, witches, lesbians, elders
   - Provoking affects: anger, rage, irritation, anxiety, animatedness
   - Provoking the historical record: Archiving women/women as archivists
   - Provoking literary estates: Archival gate-keeping and literary
   afterlives
   - Provoking cultural institutions and their arbiters
   - Feminist modernist provocations: revising high modernism in light of
   “Me Too” and Black Lives Matter



Part of FiMA’s mission is to mentor and support graduate students at any
level in their professionalization. FiMA encourages graduate students to
propose individual papers and full panels with fellow graduate students
and/or faculty mentors. Please note, this year, the selection committee
will be nominating graduate student proposals for our *“Emergent Voices”
Graduate Student Plenary Session*. Graduate students chosen for this
session will be mentored and offered the opportunity for a practice panel
session pre-conference. If you are a graduate student and would be
interested in being considered for this session, please indicate so on your
individual proposal.



*Individual proposals *should be 250-300 words and include a working title.
Please also include a short bio.



*Panel proposals (3-4 participants) *should be no more than 600 words and
include a panel title and working titles. Please also include short bios
for each participant.



Rather than reading short papers and running out of time, participants on *FiMA
Roundtables* *(5-6 participants) *should *provoke *conversation about a
particular topic and include room for generative audience participation.
Proposals should be no more than 600 words and include a description of the
scope of the roundtable conversation and short bios for each participant.





*Submit proposals to our Google form by January 15, 2024: *
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