Applicants sought for Editorial Board of the new academic journal of the ISSS. Deadline: December 15, 2019 or until Editorial Board is named. The International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS) seeks applicants for editorial board members for its new scholarly journal. The term of service is four years. (n.b. Board positions will rotate

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Editor Search: A New Journal of Surrealism Studies for the ISSS: The International Society for the Study of Surrealism Search Schedule: The International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), a 501 c(3) nonprofit association for promoting fellowship and scholarly interaction among researchers, scholars, artists, and independent practitioners of surrealism, considered broadly, seeks an inaugural

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We are looking forward to the second ISSS conference, hosted by the University of Exeter, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2019! Conference information, including a full schedule, is now online! https://surrealismexeter2019.com/

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The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas has a new website and has just released its latest issue, focusing on Max Ernst. https://jsa.asu.edu/index.php/JSA Contents: ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Max Ernst,’ by Samantha Kavky ‘Napoleon in the Wilderness The Transmogrification of a Picture by Max Ernst,’ by Martin Schieder ‘Max Ernst and the Aesthetic

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Surrealisms 2019 is the 2nd conference of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS)  University of Exeter, UK 29th August – 1st September Proposal deadline: March 1st, 2019 The radical imagination and global influence of surrealism continue to inspire and resonate in our contemporary moment across geo-political, disciplinary, and medium-specific boundaries. As a collaborative

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Announcement: On November 30, the exhibition “Variétés (1928-1930) and Photography from the Amsab-ISG Collection” opens at VANDENHOVE – Centre for Architecture and Art in Ghent, Belgium. The exhibition, which runs until 16 February, demonstrates how the Belgian Surrealist journal Variétés (1928-1930) playfully combined works by leading photographers such as Eugène Atget, Berenice Abbott, André Kertész,

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Editor: James W. McManus ‘I am soliciting proposals for the planned volume “Transatlantic Transactions: Dada and Surrealism Between the Great War and the Cold War.” Conversations about this project with Margaret Michniewicz at the Bloomsbury Press have been positive and she has encouraged me to solicit proposals for potential inclusion in a peer reviewed volume

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Oslo, November 30, 2018 Surrealism is without question one of the most influential and mutating intellectual and aesthetic practices emerging from the twentieth century. But “when” was Surrealism and “where” was Surrealism? We wish to probe historical, aesthetic, formal and cultural discourses, – French and Scandinavian, or of other origin for that matter – which

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CFP: Journal of Surrealism and the Americas General Topics Issue, Fall 2018 Deadline: Aug 1, 2018 The actual and fantasized travel of Modern European intellectuals to the “New World”—broadly defined to include not only North America (the U.S., Mexico and Canada), but all of Latin America, the Caribbean, and indigenous cultures—is, along with the surrealist

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CFP: Surrealism in Britain, 1925-1955 (Wakefield, 6 Oct 18) The Hepworth Wakefield, October 06, 2018 Deadline: Jul 15, 2018 Coinciding with the exhibition ‘Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain’ at The Hepworth Wakefield (22 June – 07 October 2018) this one-day symposium aims to rethink Surrealism in Britain through an expanded lens. The deliberately broad

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