We are pleased to announce that the David Jones Digital Archive (under the auspices of the David Jones Research Center) will be co-hosting a virtual workshop on the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) with the National Library of Wales this coming July 5-9, 2021. Made possible by a grant from the SPIRE scheme at the University of Bergen (Norway), a team of digital humanities experts and Jones scholars will work with 15 participants to learn the basics of the TEI with the focused task of creating a digital edition of Jones’s poetic work 'The Book of Balaam’s Ass' (see the National Library of Wales catalogue entry here: archives.library.wales/index.php/book-of-balaams-ass)

For more information and application submission (due 9 June), see the David Jones Research Center website: https://www.davidjonesresearch.org/workshop-application

Registration open for "Mapping the Artist's Mind: The Grail Mass, Modernism and Inscription," a virtual two-day seminar hosted by the David Jones Research Center (via Zoom) on 29 &30 July 2021. See the poster below for program details. To register, follow this link to the DJRC website: www.davidjonesresearch.org/2021-seminar 

Pleased to announce that Prof. Paul Hills of the Courtauld Institute (London) will be delivering a virtual keynote for the David Jones Research Center (via Zoom) on Sunday 14 March (2:30 pm EST/7:30 pm GMT). To register, follow this link to the Google Form (you will receive a confirmation email upon registration and then the Zoom link a few days before the talk): docs.google.com/forms/d/1e-Om4ZA6Qo2AHsQjUpRRELXhYpy34GG07FEFtN_fE-U/viewform?edit_requested=true

If you have any questions, feel free to write the David Jones Research Center at this address: djresearch@wau.edu 

It is an open event so please pass this info to anyone you think would like to participate. We hope you can join! 

Opportunity possibly of interest to Jones scholars. From the journal website: 

"This Special Issue focuses on relationships between modernist poetry and visual culture. Recent scholarship exploring the emergence of twentieth-century forces of modernity increasingly recognizes the rapid dominance of new technologies and diverse varieties of visual culture infusing the “modern”. How might we think of modernist and avant-garde poetics in relation to the proliferation of visual means of expression, consumerism, information, entertainment, fashion, protest, and other modes of modern existence? How are modernist forms and poetic genres attenuated by visual culture and its technologies, circuits, and values? How are received ideas about modernist poetry enriched, challenged, and/or revised when read through the lens of visual culture?The following questions offer potential directions for essays linking modernist poetry and visual culture, although other topics are welcome.
Modernist Poetry and Visual Culture

• How might collaborations between modernist poetry/poets and visual culture/practitioners be traced, analyzed, and/or recovered as important forms of modernist practice?
• How do modernist poetic forms engage a distinctively visual poetics of the page, typography, etc.?
• How can the historicizing of visual culture provide a lens for reading modernist poetry?
• How have modernist poets been interested in visual culture?
• What representational questions are raised through intersections of poetry and visual culture, and/or through print and visual culture?
• How do visual economies of race, circulating in and by forms of visual culture, place pressure upon and/or inform modernist poetries?
• How does poetry register or contemplate or react to the increasing dominance of the “image” in visual culture?
• How are modernist poets reacting to gendered dynamics particular to forms of visual culture?
• How is modernist poetry shaped in relationship to technologies of visual culture?
• How are modes of perception and representation aligned with aspects of modernity?
• What contexts and processes of a visually attenuated popular culture can be said to activate modernist poetry?
• How might we theorize modern poetry in relation to influences of/intersections with/pressures from visual culture?
• How do visual genres and/or print histories of poetry arise within forces of modernity?
• How does modernist poetry draw upon and/or interact with visual modalities of protest and critique?
• What role do little magazines and periodicals play in shaping relationships of modernist poetry and visual culture?
• What understandings of innovation and experiment emerge in attending to relations of poetry with visual culture—in terms of representational practices, technologies, forms, dissemination, etc.?

Abstracts of 150–200 words, along with 150–200-word bios, should be submitted by 31 August 2021. Completed articles of 5000–7000 words should be submitted by 1 March 2022.  Inquiries welcome and should be directed to Linda Kinnahan <kinnahan@duq.edu>." 

​For more information see the page directly: 

The David Jones Research Center was thrilled to host Dr. Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury) for a special virtual event in honor of David Jones's 125th birthday this past 1 November. You can now view the talk on Vimeo here: vimeo.com/479031322