Seminars
(Session 1)

"Modernism and the Extreme" Chair: Joyce Wexler

"Modernism's Past" Chair: Anne E. Fernald

"Low Modernism" Chair: Robert Scholes

"Modernist Education: Theories and Institutions" Chair: Mark McGurl

"International Poetics and Expatriate Modernism" Chairs: Matthew R. Hofer and Alec Marsh

"Modernism, Modernity, and the Harlem Renaissance" Chair: Michael Nowlin

"Drama/ Theatre/ Performance at the Scene of Modernism(s)" Chair: Katherine E. Kelly

"Modernism and Mourning" Chair: Patricia Rae

Screening: Dziga Vertov, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (80 min.) - USSR, 1929; DVD

7:45--9:15

Panels
(Session 2)

Uncollective Labor: Film, Modernism and the Second New Deal
Chair: Matthew Sewell
Abigail Cheever, "Situation Quiet: Speech and Seditious Conduct in Postwar American Narrative"
Drayton Nabers, "The Taft-Hartley Act and Social Problem Films of the 1950s"
John D. Rockefeller V, "The Collective Subsumes the Individual: Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges"

Cosmopolitan and Internationalist Modernisms
Chair: Marianne DeKoven
Alexander M. Bain, "Internationalist Thrills: George Schuyler, Anti-Imperialism, and Serial Fiction"
Jessica Berman, "Cosmopolitan Women: Women's Work, Women's Bodies, and European Cosmopolitanism in the 1920s"
Catha Paquette, "Essential Discourses, International Politics: Mexican Art at New York's MoMA During WWII"
Daniel Purdy, "Austro-Hungarian Ethnicity and the Cosmopolitan Dandyism of Adolf Loos"

Modernism Across Continents
Chair: Teresa Cid
Teresa F. A. Alves, "The Self and the Other in Miguéis Modernist Narrative Poetics"
Linda Westervelt, "Created Identity in The Great Gatsby and Passing"
Maria Manuela Araújo, "Poetic Readings of Modernism in Mozambique and Cape Verde"

Countries of Health: Modernism, Separation, and Sanity
Chair: Vincent Sherry
Matthew K. Gold, "Distance Learning: The Place of Space in Modernist Mental Cures"
Douglas Mao, "W. H. Auden, George Auden, and Independent Delight"
Mary Esteve, "Traumatic Separation and Ethno-political Consciousness in Roth's Call It Sleep"

The Symbolist Sources of Modernism in Art
Chair: Michelle Facos
Sharon Hirsh, "From Symbolism to Modernism: Urban Society as Burden and Impetus"
Reinhold Heller, "Wassily Kandinsky: Symbolist and Anti-Symbolist"
Marsha Morton, "Myth, Dreams, and Nature: Max Klinger and the Surrealist Vision"

Reconsidering "Lyric"
Chair: Bonnie Costello
Eileen Gregory, English, "'Of the susceptible being arrived': Susceptibility and the Risks of Lyric Engagement"
Alicia Ostriker, "'If I be you': a Defense of the Lyric 'I'"
Jeanne McGinn, "Bishop's Lyric Moment: Time, Place, Voice"

Resisting Type: the Practice of Double Identity
Chair: Kathleen Fraser
Marjorie Welish, "What is Black and White and Read All Over?"
Fanny Howe,"Conversion Again"
Carla Harryman,"Life off the Street: Site Sampling in the Sub World, part II"

Authenticity, Race, Culture
Chair: TBA
Michael Coyle,"Authenticity and the Modernist Transformation of Jazz"
Suzanne Churchill, "Outing Eliot"
David Chinitz, "Langston Hughes and Racial Authenticity, or 'What Did He Do to Be So Black and Blue?'"

7:45--9:45

Seminars
(Session 2)

"World Modernisms" Chair: Steven G. Yao

"Modernism's American Audience" Chair: Alice Goldfarb Marquis

"Modernism and Religious Experience" Chair: Pericles Lewis

Seminars
(Session 3)

"Class Matters" Chairs: Ann Ardis and Holly A. Laird

"Modernism and Ethics" Chair: Marian Eide

"Modern Practices of Competition/ Diaologue/ Collaboration" Chair: James E. Housefield

"Modernism for Sale" Chair: Kevin J.H. Dettmar

9:00--10:30

Panels
(Session 3)

Modernist Objects
Chair: Eric Hayot
Respondent: Jon Erickson
Christopher Bush, "The Sur-reality Effect: Found Objects and Lost Steps in Surrealist Narrative"
Bonnie Costello, "Still Life and Modern Lyric"
Kelly Klingensmith, "Object Affection: Feeling for Modernist Photography"

Expressionism: Culture and Politics in Central Europe
Chair: Kimberly Smith
Inca Rumold, "The Playwright Else Lasker-Schüler: Outsider in a Male Realm"
Sherwin Simmons, "'To Stand and See Within"': Expressionist Space in Ernst Kirchner¹s Rhine Bridge in Cologne."
Rainer Rumold, "The Nomadic Avant-Garde. Expressionism: From Multilingual 'Borderland' to Metropolis"
Eva Forgács, "Expressionism in the Hungarian Avant-Garde 1915-1919"

Jazz Modernity: Issues of Race and Gender
Chair: Davis Schneiderman
Sherrie Tucker, "Gender, Race, and Brass: Jazzwomen Trumpeting Modernity"
Nichole T. Rustin,"Jazz Moderns and Forms, Emotionality, and Masculine Difference at Mid-Century"
Bernard Gendron, "Free Jazz, the Black Arts Movements, and White Critics"

Nineteenth-century Origins of Literary Modernism
Chair: J.P. Riquelme
Marjorie Howes,"Migration, Maids, and the Modern"
Gregory Castle, "Disrupting Class: The Modernist Bildungsroman"
Dennis Foster, "Deathless Prose: From the Uncanny to the Perverse in Poe and James"
Joseph Valente (Respondent)

The Physics of Modern Literature: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Self-Organization
Chair: Paul Peppis
Sharon Stockton, "Public Space and Private Time: Perspective in To the Lighthouse and in Einstein's Special Theory"
Michael Vanden Heuvel, "'Congregations Rich With Entropy': The (Thermo)Dynamics of Futurist Theatre"
Adalaide Morris,"What Do Dreams Have To Do With It?: Postmodern Poetry and Postclassical Physics"

Disciplining Modernism
Chair: Pamela L. Caughie
Kenneth George,"Ethnographic Art History and the Shadow of Modernism"
Heidi Ardizzone, "Historians and the Languages of Modernism"
Desley Deacon, "Bringing Modernism Back Home: Gender Studies, American Studies, and Practical Modernism"

Locating Modernist Geographies
Chair: John Xiros Cooper
Andrew Thacker, "Mad after foreign notions: Imagism and the Modernist Orient"
Scott McCracken,"Reflecting Dreamworlds: Modernism and the Material World in Walter Benjamin and Dorothy Richardson"
Rebecca Beasley,"Russia and the Invention of the Modernist Intelligentsia"

Modernism and the Archive
Chair: Anne Fernald
Neville Hoad,"Oscar Wilde and the Anecdotal Archive"
Libbie Rifkin, "Archiving Tolson's Gallery: The Library and the Making of an African-American Postmodern"
Lecia Rosenthal, "Haunting Archives: Woolf's Ghosts"
Andrew Rubin, "Modernism, the State and the Politics of Literary Authority"

Keynote Address

W.J.T. Mitchell, "Cloning Terror: Are We Modern Yet?"

1:45--3:15

Panels
(Session 4)

Falling into the State: Poets and the Exigencies of War
Chair: Lauren Proll
Richard Kaye, "Siegfried Sassoon and Modern History"
Nancy Sloan Goldberg, "The War Poetry of Pierre Jean Jouve"
John Whittier-Ferguson, "Randall Jarrell's Wars, Real and Imaginary"

National Aesthetics and the Claims of "Universal Modernity": Negotiating with Imperial Authority in the Philippines, Korea and Mexico between the World Wars
Chair: Sherrie Tucker
Theo Gonzalves, "The Art of the State: Jorge Bacobo and the Invention of Philippine Folkloric Forms"
Michael Allen, "Yi Kwangsu's Literary Life: Naming the Korean Nation in the Framework of Japanese Modernity"
Jeffrey Belnap, "Saving the Mexican Personality from Assimilation into the 'U.S. Machine': Diego Rivera's Early Anti-U.S. Aesthetic (1925)"

Marx, Modernism, and Theatricality
Chair: Caroline Levine
Elin Diamond, "Social Mimesis and 'Second Nature': Performance"
Martin Harries, "Bertolucci's Before the Revolution: Marx's Quotation after Modernism"
Andrew Parker, "Staging Marx"
Martin Puchner (Respondent)

Women Producing Modernism
Chair: Ann Ardis
John K. Young, "Virginia Woolf and the Freedom of the Hogarth Press"
Leslie Lewis, "'Colored' Consciousness: Pauline Hopkins Edits the "Colored American Magazine"
Catherine Hollis, "Do-It-Yourself Modernism: Sylvia Beach and Amateur Publication Practices"

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Poetry 2002: Poetry Reading I
Nathaniel Mackey
Ed Roberson

Diasporic Modernisms: Expanding the Margins of the Harlem Renaissance, Negritude and the Black Atlantic
Chair: Terry Adkins
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, "Afro-Modernism and the Urban Landscape in Jean Toomer's Cane and William Johnson's Paintings"
Ivy Wilson, "Black is the Color of the Cosmos: Visual Culture and Afro-Modernism"
Jennifer Wilks,"Writing Home: Black Modernism and Form in Aimé Césaire and Jean Toomer"

Modernist Synaesthesia
Chair: TBA
Victoria Rosner, "Wilde Sensations"
Laura Frost, "Going to the Feelies: Aldous Huxley and Elinor Glyn"
Michael Thurston, "Mina Loy's Feminist Synaesthesia"

Human Agency at Sites of Modern Architecture
Chair: Marc Silberman
Hans R. Morgenthaler, "Alois Riegl, Neo-Baroque, and the Wittgenstein House"
Rolf J. Goebel, "Recapturing the 'First Gaze': Berlin and (Post)Modern Urban Experience"
Janet Ward, "Social Agency and Will To Power in Modern Urban Planning"

Space, Speed and the Global Local: Cinema in Modernity
Chair: James Housefield
Tom Conley, "Furrows of Fear: Bruno Dumont topographe"
Shawn Van Cour, "Vehicles of Perception: Smart Cars and the Cinema of the Self"
Alex Twu, "City, Chronotope, and Cinematic Modernity: the Flaneuse in Varda's Cleo de 5 à 7"
Keith Cohen, "Cubist Topographies in Germaine Dulac and Marcel L'Herbier"

Avant-garde and Reaction in Czech Modernism, 1918-1938
Chair: Matthew S. Witkovsky
Jonathan Bolton, "Vitezslav Nezval, Eternal Student of the Avant-Garde"
Cynthia Paces, "Cubism and Catholicism: Sacred Architecture in Interwar Prague"
Derek Katz, "An 'Experiment in Modern Music' and its Offspring: Jazz Concertos by George Gershwin and Jaroslav Jezek"

Screenings:
Fernand Leger, BALLET MECANIQUE (18 min.) - France, 1924; 16 mm
Walter Ruttmann, BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (65 min.) - Germany, 1927; DVD

3:30--5:00

Panels
(Session 5)

Modernism and the Global Imagination
Chair: Susan Stanford Friedman
Melba Cuddy-Keane, "Modelling Cultural Globalization in the Modernist Phase"
Amardeep Singh, "The Politics of the Preface: Globalism, Nationalism, and Alterity"
Kurt Koenigsberger, "Writing the Global Image: Yeats's 'Leo Africanus'"

Legacies of Modern Art: Primitivism, Sexuality, and Resistance at Sites of the African Diaspora
Chair: Sandra Adell
Jody Blake,"Dealing with the Demoiselles: Postmodernist Artists and Postcolonial Theory"
LeRonn Brooks, "Beyond Trauma: Paul Robeson (1898-1976) and the Dialect of Modernity in Fine Art and Film"
Freida High (Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis), "Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photographer: Legacy of Modernist Primitivism in Postcolonial Homoerotic-Spiritual Desire"

British Modernism and the Welfare State
Chair: Patricia Rae
Peter Kalliney, "The Pastoral as Political: Brideshead Revisited, Modernism, and the Welfare State"
Robert Caserio, "The Welfare State As Modernist Experiment: the Case of J. B. Priestley"
Lisa Fluet, "My Own Private World State: H. G. Wells and Autobiography"
Milena Radeva, "Women Writers, Philanthropy, and the British Welfare State"

Strange Patterns of Destruction: Modern Warfare and the Making of the Modern Artist
Chair: Dana Arieli
Nancy Brcak and Jack Pavia,"Enduring Executive Order 9066: Culture Defense as a Reaction to Community Destruction"
Denise Rompilla,"The Precisionist in the Minefield: Ralston Crawford's Tour of Inspection"
Sabine Eckmann, "Four Men Around a Table in Wartime Amsterdam"

Wittgenstein & Modernism I: (Drama, Visual Art, Fiction)
Chair: Andrew Osborn
R. M. Berry: "Wittgenstein and Narrative Abstraction in Beckett"
Carolyn Wilde: "Wittgenstein and the Content of Abstract Art"
Jean-Pierre Cometti: "Musil and Wittgenstein as Neighbors"
Marjorie Perloff: "Wittgenstein and OULIPO: Jacques Roubaud's Quelque Chose Nois (Something Black)"

Modernist Women and the Gendered Economies of Work
Chair: Romana Huk
Linda A. Kinnahan, "Labor and the Economists: Marianne Moore, Simon Patten, and Thorstein Veblen"
Debra Mix, "Domestic Economies: Gertrude Stein, Labor,and Money"
Elizabeth Savage, "True Value Expands: Niedecker's Economics"

The Jewish Woman in the Text
Chair: Natania Rosenfeld
Amy Feinstein, "Brother Singulars : Gendering the Narrator Jewish in Stein's The Making of Americans"
Marilyn Reizbaum,"The Jewish Woman Outside the Text: Emma Goldman and the Degeneration of Mother Earth"
Maren Linett, "The Authority of the Jewish Storyteller in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer Will Show"

Exhibiting the Modern
Chair: Janine Mileaf
Lewis C. Kachur, "Framing Surrealism in the 1930s: Museum Versus Artists"
Nancy A. Miller, "Building Publicity: The Space of Corporate Modern Art Collections"
Catherine Paul, "Ezra Pound's 'Guide to Kulchur' and the 'Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista'"
Nicholas Sawicki, "Picasso in Retrospect: Sequence, Chronology, and the Shaping of Art History"

Laughing with/Laughing at the Moderns
Chair: Megan Quigley
Andrzej Gasiorek, "'The Mind Sneezing': Modernist Laughter and The Great War"
Justus Nieland, "Dead Pan: Embedded Risibility in Djuna Barnes and Nathanael West"
Edward P. Comentale, "Pix(i/e)lating the Past: The Coen Brothers, Cinema, and Postmodern Laughter"

Making It Now: Visualizing Experience in Modernism, Cinema and Modernity
Chair: Mark Wollaeger
Garry Leonard, "Those Who Have Eyes But Cannot See: The Sublime, The City, The Cinema"
Vicki Callahan, "Stigma and Stigmata: The Cries and Cures of Fantastic Narrative in Feuillade"
Susan McCabe, "H.D.'s Cinematic Image: Written on the Flesh"
Jennifer Hammett, "Cinema and the Masculine Subject of the Postmodern Sublime"

Modern and Postmodern Poetic Geographies
Chair: Jeanne Heuving
Cristanne Miller, "Locating Histories: A Case for Situated (International) Readings of the Modernist Poem"
Nick Selby, "Poem as periplus: Mapping an American Poetics in Ezra Pound and Susan Howe"
Lynn Keller, "Iconoplasmic Spaces in Susan Wheeler's Source Codes"

"The Periodization of Modernism" Chair: Morag Shiach

"Modernism and Anthropology" Chair: Marc Manganaro

"Poetry, Poetics, and Pedagogy" Chairs: Bob Perelman and Alan Golding

5:15--6:45

Panels
(Session 6)

Sciences of Modernism: Psychology, Pharmacology, Ethology
Chair: Jessica Berman
Paul Peppis, "'Mental Cases': Wilfred Owen, William Brown, and the Articulation of Shell Shock"
Lisa Siraganian,"The Pharmacology of William Carlos Williams's Seed-Poems"
Oliver Gaycken, "The Private Life of Le Scorpion Languedocien: Ethology and L'Âge d'or"

War and the Modernist Metaphor: The Arctic, the Ambulance, and the Adolescent
Chair: Denise Rompilla
Meg Albrinck, "Ambulances and Converted Cruisers: Unloading the Metaphorical Motor Car"
Allyson Booth, "'I'm just going outside and may be some time': Polar Exploration, the Great War, and Modernism"
Celia Marshik, "A Different Education: Mapping the School onto Women's War Experience"

Decadent Legacies
Chair and Respondent: Richard Kaye
Vincent Sherry, "Decaying Strengths, or, The Nineties Anew in the Teens: Decadence, Modernism, and The Great War"
David Weir, "Against the American Grain: F. Holland Day and the Boston Decadents"

Modernist Spaces: Between Art and Architecture
Chair: Liz Kotz
Felicity Scott, "Mies van der Rohe's Plane of Immanence"
Jessica Burstein, "Agoraphobia: A User's Guide"
Nico Israel, "Entropic Modernisms"

Film and Modernism: Framing Multiple Modernisms
Chair: Keith Cohen
Lucy Fischer, "Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form"
Saverio Giovacchini, "The Rise of Atlantis: Euro-American Popular Culture After World War Two"
Gayle Rogers, "Lang and Bunuel: Modernist Filmmakers and the Seeds of Totalitarianism"
Sam B. Girgus, "Allen's Fall into Modernism: Mind, Morals, and Meaning in Deconstructing Harry"

Wittgenstein & Modernism, II (Poetry)
Chair: Charles Altieri
John Koethe, "Styles of Temptation and Refusal in Wittgenstein and Stevens"
Andrew Osborn," 'A Little Hard to See': Wittgenstein, Stevens, and the Uses of Unclarity"
James Longenbach, "'The strange unbounded voice': Oppen's Wittgenstein"

Cold War Modernism
Chair: Maria Farland
Michael Szalay, "The White Oriental: The Manchurian Candidate and Countercultural Nativism"
Sean McCann, "Bringing Home the War: Vietnam and the Politics of
Representation"
Debbie Nelson, "Shock Treatment: The Use of Shock in Cold War Culture"

Modernist Styles: Politics, Art, and Culture in Weimar Germany and Fascist Italy
Chair: Marc Silberman,
Claudio Fogu, "Fascist Style and Post-historic Imaginaries"
Patricia Gaborik, "Massimo Bontempelli's Theatre: Between the Avant-Garde and Fascist Modernism"
Lisa Peschel, "'The Geist in the Machine:' Reconciling Technology and the Spirit in Weimar Film"

Screening:
J. S. Watson & J. Webber, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (14 min.) - U.S., 1928; DVD - Friday, Session 6
Jean Epstein, LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER (63 min.) - France, 1928; DVD

Screening:
Paul Fejös, LONESOME (69 min.) - USA, 1928, 35mm
On the UW-Madison campus, in conjunction with Cinematheque, a UW-Madison coalition of academic departments and student film groups.

Poetry Readings:
1. Kathleen Fraser
2. Marjorie Welish, Pratt Institute and Brown University (Spring 2002)
3. Fanny Howe
4. Leonard Orr, Washington State University
5. Charlotte Mandel, Barnard College Center for Research on Women
6. Kenneth Sherwood, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
7. R. M. Berry, Florida State University

Seminars
(Session 7)

"Modernist Women, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust" Chair: Phyllis Lassner

"Literary Modernism and New Media" Chair: Mark Wollaeger

"Modernist 'Things'" Chair: Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt

"Experiencing the Modernist City" Chair: Richard J. Williams

9:00--10:30

Panels
(Session 7)

Representing Women in Italian Modernism
Chair: Grazia Menechella
Elena Coda, "Laughter, Woman, and the City"
Allison Cooper, "Italian Modernism and the Dissolution of Woman: (En)gendering the Fragmented Self in Early Twentieth-Century Literature"
Jennifer Hirsh, "Fossilized Flesh and a Mournful Maiden: Engendering the Myth of Ariadne in the Painting of Giorgio de Chirico"
Ernesto Livorni, "Mothers, Nurses, and Madre Patria: Familial Politics in Italian Modernist Poetry"

Designing the Danseuse: Modern Artists and the Female Star
Chair: Sally Banes
Sarah Kennel, "Metamorphic Materialism: J.J. Grandville and the Romantic Ballet"
Lynn Garafola,"Ida Rubinstein's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien and the Tradition of the Travesty Dancer"
Juliet Bellow, "Fashioning Cléopâtre: Sonia Delaunay, the Ballets Russes, and the New Woman"

Self-fashioning at the Turn of the Century: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Marketability
Chair: Carol Hamilton
Marysa Demoor, "Constructed Identities of Turn-of-the-Century Writers"
Molly Hite, "Virginia Woolf as Postfeminist"
Laurel Brake, Literature, Birkbeck College, London, "Who is 'We'?" [re: W.T. Stead]

New World Modernisms
Chair: Guido Podesta
Tace Hedrick, "Modernizing the Race: DuBois, Ortiz, and Gamio"
Jeff Karem, "Caribbean-American Crosscurrents in the Works of Richard Wright and George Lamming"
Vera Kutzinski, "Translating Cuba: Nicolas Guillen and Langston Hughes Revisited"

Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Modernism
Chair: Jim English
Sean Latham, "Nameless Shamelesses: Joyce, Rhys, and the Roman a Clef"
Robert Hurd, "Much Ado about 'Nothing': Reading Flaubert with Seinfeld"
Andrew John Miller, "A Rose for Pierre Bourdieu: Faulkner, Flaubert, Sartre, and the French Cultural Field"

George Oppen and Poets After
Chair: Donna K. Hollenberg
Respondent: Burton Hatlen
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "The Rare Poetic of Veracity"
Michael Heller, "This in Which the Poet Resides"
Lyn Hejinian, "George Oppen and the Space of Appearance"

Modernism, Nationalism, and the Art of the African Diaspora
Chair: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Caroline Goeser, "Creating a Usable Past in Harlem Renaissance Illustration"
Jerry Philogene, "Nation Aroused : Edna Manley and the Visuality of Jamaican Cultural Nationalism: 1930-1940"
Diana McClintock,"Aaron Douglas and Fire! Negotiations of African-American Artistic Identity"

Modernism and Deterritorialization
Chair: Robert Seguin
Stephen Ross, Conrad's Empire"
Joseph McLaughlin, "Follow the Flowers: Eliza Doolittle, Japan, and Metropolitan Transplantings"
Glenn Willmott, "The Limits of Deterritorialization"

Keynote Address:

Simon Gikandi, "Africa and the Epiphany of Modernism"

1:45--3:15

Panels
(Session 8)

Whose Modernism?: Relating Modernist Practice to Racial Identity
Chair: John Honerkamp
Eve Dunbar, "Detecting Stories and Identifying Identities in Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem and James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"
Matt Lessig, "Up from Sharecropping: Race, Modernity and the Folk in Two Sharecropper Novels"
Adam McKible, "Introducing The Letters of Davy Carr, by E.C. Williams"
Leif Sorensen, "Ethnographic Authenticity in Zora Neale Hurston"

Modernism and the Ephemeral
Chair: Michael Coyle
David M. Earle, "Ephemeral Texts and the Construction of Modernity"
John D. McIntyre, "A Modern Tourist Trap: Virginia Woolf and the British Empire Exhibition"
Thomas J. Rice, "His Master's Voice"

Modernism and the Arts
Chair: Phillip Herring
Daniel Albright, "Music as an Extension of Literary Modernism"
Mary Ann Caws, "Modernism and the Visual Arts"
Richard Cleary, "The Pen is Mightier than the Board: Meanings of Modernism in Architecture"

(Anti)colonial Hispanism and Modernity in the Philippines
Chair: Epifanio San Juan
Alda Blanco, "Rizal in Spain and Spain in Rizal"
Courtney Johnson, "Political modernismo: Poetry and Power in the Colonial Philippines"
John David Blanco, "Portrait of the Artist as a Hispanist: the Case of Nick Joaquin"

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Poetry 2002: Poetry Reading 2
Cole Swenson
Claudia Rankine

Figures of the Past in Literary Modernisms of China and Taiwan
Chair: Mary Ann Gillies
William Schaefer, "A Landscape of Ruins and Shadows: Surrealist Shanghai"
Nicole Huang, "Travels of a Murder Story from Occupied Shanghai"
Fan Ming-ju, "Modernist Fiction by Taiwanese Women Writers"

Women's Poetry & Popular Culture
Chair: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, "Feminist Ekphrasis: Marianne Moore, the Virgin and the Unicorn"
Susan Rosenbaum, "Mina Loy's Interior Designs"
Marsha Bryant, "Gwendolyn Brooks, Occasional Poetry, and Ebony"
Juliana Chang, "Fantasy, Globalization, and U.S. Popular Culture in Jessica Hagedorn's Poetry"

Crossing Genres in the Russian Avant-Garde
Chair: Anita Kondoyanidi
Adrian Wanner, "Verbal Cubism: Benedikt Livshits' Prose Poem 'People in a Landscape'"
Karen Evans-Romaine, "Symbolism in Music: Song Settings of Konstantin Balmont"
Lynn Mally, "The International Journey of the Living Newspaper"
Karen Petrone, "From Memoirs to Literature: Remembering and Imagining Russia's World War I"

Networking Women. Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America 1890-1950. Towards a Rewriting of Cultural History
Chair: Kathleen Fraser
Marina Camboni, "Networking Women: A Project, a Cultural Model and a Website"
Diana Collecott, "Women around the Poetry Bookshop during World War I: Alida Monro, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, H. D. and Sylvia Beach"
Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani, "Those Men and Women / Brave Setting up Signals / Across Vast Distances"

Assuming the Position: The Politics and Displacements of Modernist Tropes
Chair: Michael Thurston
Kirsten Buick, "'Charles Unchained': The Racialist Performance of Emancipation and Lynching Imagery"
Maureen G. Shanahan, "Floating Body Parts and Floating Signifiers: Léger's Divers (1940)"
Roberto Tejada, "Sidelong Modernism, Related Form: [Modotti | Weston | Mexico]"

Screening:
Alfred Hitchcock, MURDER! (104 min.) - U.K., 1930; DVD

Keynote Address

Rita Felski, "Modernist Studies and Cultural Studies"

"Modernist Fiction as Auto(bio)graphy" Chair: H. Porter Abbott

"Modernist Versions of Pastoral" Chair: Maria Farland

"Post-1960 American Poets" Chair: Charles Altieri

5:15--6:45

Panels
(Session 9)

Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
Chair: Siobhan Somerville
Jeremy Braddock, "The Image of Nancy Cunard as Claude McKay's Ideal Agent"
Jonathan P. Eburne, "Jules Monnerot's Red Surrealism"
Kevin M. Bell, "Irrational Cuts of Distance: Movement-Image in the Work of Chester Himes"

Hitchcock: Murder! and Modernism
Chair: Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Richard Allen, "Murder!, Skepticism, and the Performance of Identity"
Lee Edelman and D. A. Miller, "'Don't you know that he's a half--?'"

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Poetry 2002: A Discussion
Chair: Fred Moten
Nathaniel Mackey
Claudia Rankine
Ed Roberson
Cole Swenson

Modernism and Its Discontents: The Place of Surrealism
Chair: Mary Ann Caws
Raymond Spiteri, "A Debacle of the Intellect? Reviewing the Breton-Bataille Polemic"
Robin Greeley, "For An Independent Revolutionary Art: Breton, Trotsky and Cardenas' Mexico"
Don LaCoss, "Surrealo-Trotskyism in Cairo, 1938-46"
Becky Conekin, "Lee Miller: A Surrealistic Hostess in Postwar Britain"

Modernist Personality
Chair: Shannon McRae
Jaime Hovey, "Logorrhea"
Melissa Bradshaw, "Affectation"
Judith Roof,"The Quirk"

Only Disconnect? Mathematics, Computing, and Modernism
Chair: Jay Clayton
Jo Ann Oravec, "Destruction by Bits: Philosophical and Historical Approaches to Digitization and the Notion of Binary Representation"
William R. Everdell, "Weierstrass to Russell, 1872-1901: Mathematical Modernism as the Appeal to the Discrete, the Countable, and the Logic of Sets of Sets"
Thomas M. Drucker, "The Russellian Dream: What Foundations of Mathematics Did to the Notion of Truth Inside and Outside Mathematics"

Unlikely (?) Encounters with "Nature" in Modernity: Selected British and American Woman Writers
Chair: Barbara T. Gates
Bonnie Kime Scott, "Bugs, Birds and Virginia Woolf"
Marianne DeKoven, "Gertrude Stein's Landscapes"
Robin G. Schulze, "Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism"
Anne Raine, "Embodying the Modern: Stein and Cather's Vitalist Rewriting of Nature"

Modernism, Dissidence, and State Power
Chair: Richard Begam
Michael Valdez Moses, "Anti-Modern Modernism and the Cultural Critique of the Nation-State"
C. D. Blanton, "Culture-Struggle Skirmishes: Late Modernism and the Horizon of Liberalism"
Jennifer Wicke, "Insurgent Modernism: Between State and Nation"

Chinese and Anglo-American Modernisms: More than an intersection of East meets West
Chair: John Cooper
Mary Ann Gillies, "T.S. Eliot and Chinese Culture
Terry Siu-han Yip, "Site of Consciousness: The Dis/location of the Self in Chinese and Western Literature"
Stuart Christie, "Pound on the Margin: China and Modernist Translation"

Screening:
Jacques Tati, MON ONCLE (110 min.) - France, 1958; DVD

Screening:
Marcel L'Herbier, L'INHUMAINE (135 min.) - France, 1924, 35mm
On the UW-Madison campus, in conjunction with Cinematheque, a UW-Madison coalition of academic departments and student film groups.

Poetry Readings:
1. Michael Heller, New York University
2. Lyn Hejinian, University of California at Berkeley
3. Vinay Dharwadker
4. Bill Kupinse, University of Tulsa
5. Carol V. Hamilton, Carnegie Mellon University
6. Garry Leonard, University of Toronto

8:30--10:30

Seminars
(Session 10)

"The Limits of Global Modernist Studies" Chairs: Eric Keeneghan and Deborah Parsons

"Regionalism and the Modern" Chair: Marjorie Pryse

"The Modernist Poem at Mid-Century America" Chair: Timothy J. Materer

 

Roundtable: Is There a Future for Feminist Criticism in Modernist Studies?
Jessica Burstein, English, University of Washington, Seattle
Marina Camboni, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Moderne, University of
Macerata, Italy
Thadious Davis, English, Vanderbilt University
Christine Froula, English, Northwestern University
Cassandra Laity, English, Drew University
Susan McCabe, English, University of California, Los Angeles
Fan Ming-ju, Chinese Literature, Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taiwan
Sonita Sarker, English and Women's Studies, Macalester

Panels
(Session 10)

Philosophies of Modernism
Chair: Daniel Albright
Nigel Alderman, "Eliot, Cambridge Philosophy and Cambridge English"
Richard Begam, "Philosophy in the Bedroom: de Sade, Schopenhauer and Beckett"
Richard Lane, "Just Gaming: Benjamin, B.S. Johnson and Wittgenstein"
Martin Puchner, "Philosophy and the Theater"

Balancing the Books: Profit and Loss in African American and Native American Modernism
Chair: John Marx
Richard Pearce, "Plains Indian Ledger Art: a Modernist Form of Negotiation, Resistance, and Historical Recovery"
Erik Dussere, "Faulkner's Ledger: The Return of the Unaccounted in Absalom, Absalom!"
Sondra Guttman, "'I might pick, but I ain't no picker': Language, Labor, and the Economic Logic of Class in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Modernism and Competition
Chair and Discussant: Robert Scholes
James F. English, "The Competitive Paradigm and its Institutions, 1880-1930"
Sara Blair, "Competing for Modernism: Yiddishkeit, the Avant-Garde, and the Lower East Side"
Hilary Schor, "Writing Standing Up: Virginia Woolf Takes on the Victorians"

WWI, Modernism, and the Paradox of Form
Panel Chair: Marjorie Perloff
Cyrena Pondrom, "War is a thing that decides how it is to be when it is to be done": The Paradoxical Impacts of War in e e cummings and Gertrude Stein"
Jewel Spears Brooker, "Sweeney Goes to War: Violence and Desire in Eliot's Sweeney Poems"
Nancy K. Gish, "The War, The Waste Land, and Consciousness: Eliot's Turning Point"

Collage as History in Late Modernity
Chair: Pat Smith
Stephen A. Fredman, "Modernist Collage as Documentary History: The Examples of Charles Reznikoff and Harry Smith"
Scarlett B. Higgins, "Intertextual Memories in the Films of Bruce Conner and Joseph Cornell"
Brian Reed, "Assemblage and the Return of Narrative: Jasper Johns's Passage"

Rethinking Modernism and Mass Culture For the New Millennium
Chair: Sean Latham
Christopher Breu, "Theorizing the Pulp Avant-Garde: Renegotiating the Frankfurt School/Cultural Studies Antinomy"
Alyson Tischler, "Modernism at the Microphone: Theorizing the Public Lecture"
Madeleine Vala, "Haunting Modernism: The Ghost Story and the Modernist Canon"

Comparative Studies in Print Culture: Artists, Promotion & Propaganda
Chair: Cara Finnegan
Discussant: Jeffrey Schnapp
Maria Gough, "Blinded by the Din: Lissitzky Reading Mendelsohn's Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten"
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Modernist Marketing: An Exploration of Japanese Commercial Photography"
Jordana Mendelson, "A Public Viewing: Magazines as 'Propaganda Laboratories' in Spain, 1936-1939"

 

10:45--12:15

Panels
(Session 11)

Modernism Re-viewed: European Interwar Journals and the Formation of a Transnational Esthetic
Chair: Stephen Ross
Katharine Conley, "Minotaure's Modernist Ethnography"
Kimberley Healey, "Toward an International Modernism? Contributions by Broom and Secession to the New Esthetics"
Laurie Monahan, "An Archaeology of the Irritating: Challenges by Vu and Documents to the High/Low culture Distinction"
Michele Richman, "For an Ethnography of Art: Documents [1929-31]"

Theorizing Early Cinema as Modernism
Chair: Mary Leonard
Jared F. Green, "Primal Scenes: Early Cinema, Primitive Spectators and the Framing of the Modern"
David T. Johnson, "Early Cinema and the Accidental Extra"
James Cantarella, "Early Cinema, Modernity and Aesthetics: Alternative Genealogies"

Hispanic/American Modernisms
Chair: Rebecca E. Biron
Carl Good, "Vallejo and the Trauma of Free Verse"
Maarten Van Delden, "Modernism and Motherhood in Miguel Angel Asturias"
Susan Kirkpatrick, "Rosa Chacel and Maruja Mallo: Situating the Woman Modernist in the Nation and in the World"

The Other Modernism
Chair: William Everdell
Catherine Hobbs, "Enlightenment (Counter)Modernity"
Elizabeth A. Flynn, "Aesthetic Modernism and Enlightenment Modernism"
Suzanne Clark, "Situating Science"

An ABC of Reading Queer Modernity: The Problem of Received Forms in Twentieth-Century International Art and Culture
Chair: Eric Keenaghan
Renee Allen, "The Queer Paternity of the Modernist Artist"
Victor Bascara, " 'Everybody Wants to Be Farrah': Reverse-Engineering Queer Modernity in R.Z. Linmark's Rolling the R's"
T. Scott Herring, "Cosmopolitan Slumming, Sexuality, and Twenty Years at Hull-House"

Modernism's Ordinariness
Chair: Rita Felski,
David Rosen, "Auden, MacNeice and the Politics of Banality"
Graham Foust, "Days pass like papers from a press": Williams, Stevens, and the Newspaper"
Liesl M. Olson, "Virginia Woolf and the 'cotton wool of daily life'"

Seeing Power: Visual and Performative Traditions in Black Vernacular Aesthetics
PANEL CANCELLED

The Thing of It: Language and Materiality in the Modern Imagination
Chair: Craig Dworkin
Margaret Bruzelius, "An Other Sense: Zukofsky and Catullus"
Langdon Hammer, "James Merrill: The Alphabet, Anagrams, and Alchemy"
Jessica Prinz, "The Word Become Flesh: Jennie Holzer's "Lustmord"