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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Sep 1

Abstract submission ddl extended!

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to the official NEMLA submission portal: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S.... Please also send a notice of submission and a brief bio to Ron Granofsky at [email protected].

Ddl = Friday, September 26, 2025.

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Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social · Aug 26

My wonderful colleague Lawrence Jones and I organised a symposium on Modernist Editing at Reading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social!

We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇

Gonna be a fab day!

Rebecca Bowler @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social · Aug 26

Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social

CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing

This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...

research.reading.ac.uk

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Aug 19

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · Aug 19

Now reading. Fascinating to learn of the expert literary criticism readers of Good Housekeeping enjoyed in the 20s, from writers Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, as well as novelist Clemence Dane. And how seriously women's magazines took their role in educating their newly enfranchised readers.

Cover of book 'Clemence Dane and Good Housekeeping' by Stella Deen. Cover features a painting of a woman reading a book on a long sandy beach

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 18

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !

July 2026, Loughborough University.

www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Apr 8

For next March’s #NEMLA convention in Pittsburgh, PA (5-8 March 2026), the D. H. Lawrence Society North America is organising a panel ‘D. H. Lawrence and Class’.

Please check out our cfp for more details - look forward to reading your abstract!

A screenshot of the call for papers of our panel titled ‘D. H. Lawrence and Class’.

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

And this is the end of this #InternationalDHLawrenceConference. Thank you Mexico🇲🇽 and the lovely friends we met here who made this experience so sweet and precious. Look forward to meeting many of you at the next conference!

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

The winner of the Harry T. Moore Award
For Lifetime Achievement in Lawrence Studies is, Dr Andrew Harrison!!!

Huge congratulations Andrew!!!🎉

Picture showing Dr Harrison accepting the award from President Hagen.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Mark Spilka Lectureship, an honorary lectureship established in 2005 and awarded only at the International D.H. Lawrence conferences, goes to Dr Catherine Brown!

Congratulations Catherine!👏

Picture showing Dr Brown receiving this award from President Hagen.

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies goes to Aaron Botwick for his article “The Gospel of the Death Drive,” in The D.H. Lawrence Review 44.2 (2019): 67-87.

Congratulations Aaron!🎉

Picture showing Aaron receiving his award from President Hagen.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

Many congratulations Jamie!!!🎉🥳👏

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Virginia Hyde Memorial Award for the Best Paper at the 2024 Virtual Graduate Student Conference was awarded to Jamie Lewis for her paper ‘THE MECHANICAL MAN: POSTHUMANISM IN D.H. LAWRENCE'S LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER AND WOMEN IN LOVE.’

Congratulations Jamie!!!🎉

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

At the end of the five-day fab #InternationalDHLawrenceConference, as always, we have four awards to announce in recognition of awardees’ achievements and contributions to Lawrence scholarship.

These awards will be announced by our president, Dr Ben Hagen.

Man standing in front of a crowd making announcements.

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 16

After Dr Harrison’s brilliant talk, we had the privilege listening to a concert delivered by UNAM’s faculty of music. Marvellous!!!

Picture showing five musicians on the stage.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

We’re now enjoying the plenary lecture, The Harry T. Moore Lecture, delivered by Dr Andrew Harrison. And the title of this lecture is “‘A hot and piping trinity of rough-stuff primitivism, and freudian hot-sex-stuff’: D. H. Lawrence in Wyndham Lewis’s Paleface (1929)”.

Picture showing Dr Harrison and the first slide of his presentation.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The final speaker of this panel is Pamela Wright, whose paper is titled “Exploring Cultural Dichotomies and Misrepresentation in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Mozo’”.

Picture showing a panel of four people with a slide of the presentation in the background.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

Following Prof Roberts’s wonderful talk, we have Prof Gaku Iwai, whose presentation is titled “D. H. Lawrence and Yiyun Li: Cross-Cultural Influence”.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

For the panel ‘Intercultural Lawrence II’, Prof Neil Roberts is presenting his talk titled ‘Lawrence and Naïveté’.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The third and final speaker of the second panel is Isobel Dixon, whose presentation is titled “Motion, Memory, Anticipation and Innovation: Questioning D.H. Lawrence’s Multifaceted Engagements with Place”.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

After Ben’s brilliant talk, we have Aaron Botwick delivering his talk titled “Moles and Men: ‘Second Best’ and the Hazards of Creative Destruction”.

Picture showing four people and a presentation slide in the background.

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The second panel of today is titled ‘Life, Death and Creation’ and the first speaker is the president of @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social, Ben Hagen, whose presentation is titled “Translating Oblivion, Or Learning to Die in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Last Poems Notebook’”.

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The third speaker is Prof Adam Parkes and his talk is titled ‘Abstraction in Lawrence’s Tortoises’.

Picture showing a panel of three people on the stage.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our second speaker is Samuel Bradley, whose talk is titled ‘Translating the Nonhuman: D.H. Lawrence, Jocelyn Brooke and the Language of Plants’.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The first panel of today is on ‘The Natural World’.

While our first speaker Seungho Lee cannot make it in person, the panel’s chair, Prof Holly Laird, kindly gives a read of the abstract Seungho’s talk titled ‘Mountains and Modernity in D.H. Lawrence’s Work’.

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · Aug 15

The 5th and final day of the #InternationalDHLawrenceConference starts with a round table (not that round though😆) discussion about the reception of Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent!

Picture showing people having a meeting.

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