This is an archived copy of the KMS website from April 2021. To view the current website, click here.
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KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND RUSSIA
The Katherine Mansfield Society and the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society are delighted to announce their first joint conference. For details of next year's conference to be held at Huntington, USA, click here.
The Katherine Mansfield Society's Online Essay Series and Online Creative Works Series are each now recognized as an official online series, with their own ISSN numbers.
This year’s Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture will be in the form of a dialogue between words and music, as cellist Joseph Spooner and Professor Claire Davison explore the musical setting and musical imagination of Katherine Mansfield during the years of her literary apprenticeship. Click here to find out more!
Over in the shop, we are selling copies of Jennifer Walker's biography of KM's cousin Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth of the German Garden – A Literary Journey
The Katherine Mansfield Society is delighted to announce details of its next international conference, ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story’, to be held in the town of Bandol on the French Riviera, 10-12 June 2016. The keynote speakers will be Professor Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Professor Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK.
PRESS RELEASE Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize Competition Winner 2015
The deadline for registration, accommodation and conference dinner bookings is now 31 August; forms are available on the Lucy Cavendish College website (Events).
Traces of Katherine Mansfield, Sierre, Switzerland, 11-16 August 2015
A huge Macrocarpa on the school grounds above the Katherine Mansfield Courts/Memorial is the last remaining of a strand of conifers that would have been a significant feature of the school when Katherine Mansfield attended. This tree is due to be felled to make way for a cheap transportable classroom which would a tragic loss of such a historically significant tree where generations of our children, including Katherine Mansfield, have, and will continue to, "hold court".
Further to our recent news item regarding the above conference, available here, please note that the deadline for abstracts for this conference on KM’s cousin has been extended to 2 March 2015.
We're delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Elizabeth von Arnim conference that will be held at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, on Sept 13th 2015. Von Arnim's work has recently attracted greater scholarly attention and, as the literary cousin of Katherine Mansfield, the conference is sure to be of interest to KM members.
Registration is now open for Katherine Mansfield and Antipodean Modernism, the 2015 Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher conference, to be held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia on 29 January 2015.
An international conference organized by the Katherine Mansfield Society, to be held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Find out more at https://elizabethvonarnim.wordpress.com
There are currently funding opportunities for students wishing to pursue PhD studies at the University of Brighton. These are the Doctoral Training Partnership studentships (TECHNE), which require students to work with partner organisations during the writing of their thesis, and the University of Brighton studentships, which focus students on the thesis alone. Both schemes offer fully-funded doctoral studies (stipend and fee waiver). The deadline for applications to the TECHNE scheme is 23 January 2015 and successful applicants will commence study in October 2015.
KMS member Rogério Bettoni from Brazil is currently working on a major new translation of KM’s stories into Portuguese. He hopes to write a report on this for the April newsletter next year. In the meantime he has set up a blog to accompany this undertaking, which hopefully will be fascinating for those members who speak Portuguese!
We are delighted to publish Jennifer Walker’s groundbreaking article on the history of the Beauchamp family, which will be of great interest to Mansfield scholars worldwide.
We'd like to remind you all that tickets for this year's annual Birthday Lecture are now available. To purchase tickets, please go to our Eventbrite page.
The latest issue of the KMS newsletter is available now to KMS members, produced by Dr Jenny McDonnell, the KMS Newsletter editor.
The Katherine Mansfield Society Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, held in conjunction with the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia
This study focuses on the considerable but neglected body of works translated by S. S. Koteliansky in collaboration with Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. It provides close-readings and broad cross-cultural contextualisations to assess the influence that translating from Russian had on the individual writers, as well as its resonance within the dynamics of modernist writing. Claire Davison shows that, read as an oeuvre, their various co-translations shed light on how their own creative vision was evolving, particularly through explorations of voice, consciousness, gender and polyidentity. And their co-translating ventures enriched their responses to the great classics but also invited innovative dialogues with other genres: critical essays, biography and early-twentieth-century writing from Russia.
Click here to find out more, or download a PDF with all the details.
This is just to remind those of you who are yet to register for the Katherine Mansfield conference in Paris or who are still deciding whether to attend, that registration closes on 6 June.
Click here to find out more about the event.
Registration for the above conference is now open. Click here to find out more and to make a booking.
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the winner of its fifth international essay competition, on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and World War One’. The judges, Professor Sydney Janet Kaplan (Professor of English, University of Washington, Seattle), Dr Santanu Das (Reader in English Literature, King’s College London) and Professor Margaret Higonnet (Professor of English, University of Connecticut), agreed on the winner unanimously, from a wide field of excellent entries.
Revelations: Works-in-Progress in Mansfield Studies represents a revolution in academic conversation and the dissemination of works in progress by postgraduate students, early career researchers, and even more established academics. It takes the academic conference as its model, but it employs the open accessibility and availability of the blog format to introduce the global reach and continuation of these conversations, thereby increasing the impact of Mansfield studies beyond the university.
Martin Griffiths: cello Eleanor Carter: piano & Fiona Oliver: recitation