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Petition to Save the National Library of Wales

1/25/2021

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The National Library of Wales (home to the most extensive collection of David Jones's papers, including several important paintings and his entire annotated library) is in danger of closing. You can find out more from this article in Nation Cymru: nation.cymru/opinion/are-we-going-to-lose-the-national-library-of-wales/?fbclid=IwAR31MM-9T3QCBUyk3NoTbzMVQc6U8crNi0xxw2umi0RabxmTmwYiSiRFxqQ 

If you are so inclined, please consider signing this petition to save the NLW: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/244641

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CFP for Special Issue: Modernist Poetry and Visual Culture

1/11/2021

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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: 


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Christmas Greetings from the DJS!

12/26/2020

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View Rowan Williams' Talk from 1 November

12/26/2020

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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
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Virtual Event with Rowan Williams

10/26/2020

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The David Jones Research Center (in conjunction with Washington Adventist University) is proud to present a special address by Dr. Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury and Honorary President of the David Jones Society) on the occasion of David Jones's 125th birthday. The event will be transmitted via the virtual Zoom platform this coming Sunday, 1 November 2020 at 2 pm EST (7 pm GMT). The event is FREE, but registration is required. To register, follow the link below, and "Click to Register," which will take you to a Google Form that you can fill out. Once you have submitted this form, you will receive the Zoom links to join the session on Sunday. If you have any questions at all, please email the David Jones Research Center: djresearch@wau.edu 

Link to registration page: myemail.constantcontact.com/David-Jones-Research-Center-Presents--Rowan-Williams---Nov-1--2020---2pm-EST.html?soid=1103223012346&aid=LEOm9XS6H7w 
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Requiem Mass for David Jones, 28 October

10/5/2020

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Fr. John Scott will say a Latin Requiem Mass for David Jones on 28 October 2020 (46th anniversary of Jones's death) in Westminster Cathedral, 10:30 am. All are welcome. 
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SAVE THE DATE: Rowan Williams on David Jones at the DJRC, 1 November

10/2/2020

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The David Jones Research Center is pleased to announce that Rowan Williams will be giving the keynote address of a virtual event in honor of David Jones' 125th birthday, Sunday, 1 November 2020 (2:00-3:30 pm EST). An official announcement with details and registration information will be available soon. ​

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Letters of Jones to Valerie Wynne-Williams

8/19/2020

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A collection of letters from David Jones to Valerie Wynne-Williams were on auction at Bonham's, London. Information and some images are still available to see here: 

www.bonhams.com/auctions/26014/lot/232/
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Rowan Williams on David Jones (from June)

8/17/2020

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, discusses Jones' theology of art in an article for the Catholic Herald (from June 2020) titled "David Jones Saw the in the Mass the Divine Foundation of All Art" 

​See below: 
catholicherald.co.uk/david-jones-saw-in-the-mass-the-divine-foundation-of-all-art/

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Article on Jones's Anathemata and Sacramentality

8/11/2020

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An article in the Church Life Journal from the University of Notre Dame ("The Mark of a Sacramentalist," by Scott Beauchamp) features a discussion of sacramentality in Jones' The Anathemata. 

Read it here: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-mark-of-a-sacramentalist/​
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