MSA 5--Conference Schedule

MODERNIST CULTURES
MSA 5

25--28 September, 2003 :: Birmingham, UK

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 25 September

2:00--5:00	Conference Registration
5:30--7:00	Plenary speaker: Steven Connor
7:00	Welcome Reception

Friday, 26 September

9:00--10:30 Seminars	Modernism and the Culture Concept Chair: Marc Manganaro, Rutgers University Art as a Language of Social Discourse Chair: Jonathan Fineberg, University of Illinois Vorticism: The First English Avant-Garde Chair: Alan Munton, University of Plymouth Space and Place in Modernism Chair: Andrew Thacker, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
9:00--10:30 Panels	Middle-brow Modernism Organiser: Faye Hammill Details tba Time and Its Other Modernism Organiser: Marian Aguiar: Carnegie Mellon University Chair: tba "Gandhi and the Politics of Time", Marian Aguiar "Nehru's Exile on Main Street", Sameer Pandya, Queens College, CUNY "Island Futurism", Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University "Imperial Futurism: Modernizing Air Power", Patrick Deer, New York University Race and Colonialism Chair: tba "Race-ing the Modernist Utopia: DuBois, Schuyler and Citizenship", Jaya N. Kasibhatla, Duke University "Modernist Lessons and the New Racism", Carla Kaplan, University of Southern California "Performing the Culture of the Avant-Garde: Hannah Höch's Weimar Photomontages and the Legacy of German Colonialism", Brett Van Hoesen, University of Iowa Modernism's Everyday Organizer: Ella Ophir, University of Toronto, Canada Chair: tba "The House as Sanctuary: Modernism's Everyday Shrine", Sharon Hirsh, Dickinson College "Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes: Modernism's Everyday and Modernism's Night", Ella Ophir "Beckett, Bourdieu, and the Language of Habit", Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick War, Trauma and Remembrance Chair: tba ""Deep Into His Body": Touch, Intimacy and Knowledge in the First World War Nurses' Memoirs", Santanu Das, St. John's College, University of Cambridge "The Semiotics of Nevinson's Marching Men", Bunty Gotts, University of East Anglia ""We Will Remember Them": The Poetic Rewritings of Lutyens' Cenotaph", Alex Moffett, Northeastern University "Great Unrecorded History": Adventures in the Queer Archives Organizer: Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College Chair: Paul Magrs, University of East Anglia "Queer Patrimony: The Case of George Platt Lynes' Portraits of E. M. Forster", Wendy Moffat "Matthiessen's Secrets", Jay Grossman, Northwestern University "The Find", Jesse Matz, Kenyon College "Archiving Hall: The Psychic Research", Richard Dellamora, Trent University Conservative Modernities Organiser: Deborah Ryan, University of Ulster at Jordanstown Chair: Christopher Breward, London College of Fashion "The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition and Suburban Modernity, 1908-51", Deborah Ryan "'To meet the popular taste by some added decoration': The Council for Art & Industry and its Quest for a Conservative Modernism", Elizabeth Darling, University of Brighton "A Factory of Private Illusions and a Catalogue of Ready-Made Tastes, Values and Ideas: Imagining the Home in British Women'/s Magazines in the 1930s", Fiona Hackney, Falmouth College of Arts 'Out of Key with her Time': Women and Poetry in the New Sense Organiser: Jane Dowson, De Montfort University Chair: Jane Marcus, City University of New York "The Speech of a Silent Woman: Ethel Carnie's Poems of 1914", Kathleen Bell, De Monfort University "Reviving Dramatic Verse by Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair and Anna Wickham", Jane Dowson "'New as Herself: Modernist Inflections in Sheila Wingfield's Beat Drum, Beat Heart", Alice Entwistle, University of the West of England
11:00--12:30 Seminars	Broadcasting Modernism Chairs: Michael Coyle, Colgate University and Jane Alison Lewty, University of Glasgow Modernism, Theatre, Mass Culture Chair: Martin Harries, New York University Visual Poetry and Graphic Design Chair: Jed Rasula, University of Georgia Modernism and Nationalism Chair: Catherine Paul, Clemson University Vision and Gender Chair: Catherine Hobbs, University of Oklahoma
11:00--12:30 Panels	Modernism and Trauma Organiser: Jan Campbell Details tba Modern Glut: Diners, Insomniacs, Exiles, and the Aesthetics of Failure Organiser: Lois Cucullu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Chair: Laura Marcus, University of Sussex "Overeating: Pilgrimage's Dining Mania and Dorothy Richardson's Abject Modernism", Lois Cucullu "Insomnia: Consumption, Spectatorship, and the Talkie", Jani Scandura, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities "Barabara Guest's "Confetti Trees" and the Technicolor Poetics of Memory", Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia Modernist Children Organiser: Daniella Caselli, University of Salford Chair: tba "Hemingway's Peter Pan: Nick Adams and the 'awfully big adventure'", Barry Atkins, Manchester Metropolitan University "Djuna Barnes's Dangerous Children: Unreadable Modernisms", Daniela Caselli "Beckett's 'true donkeys':Modernist Genealogies and the Child", Stephen Thomson, University of Reading Dada and Surrealism Chair: tba "Dada and Dada Films - Surrealism and Surrealist Films", Rudolf Kuenzli, University of Iowa "L'Esprit Nouveau: Modernist Style and the Marketing of Inspiration", Kim Grant, University of Southern Maine "Red Front / Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon", Carrie Noland, University of California, Irvine Modernism and Political Censorship Chair: tba Title to be announced, Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham "Patron and Artist at a Crossroads: The Rockefellers and Diego Rivera at Rockefeller Center in 1933-34", Catha Paquette, University of California, Santa Barbara "Joyce and G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover's Management of Modernity", Claire Culleton, Kent State University Modernism and Philosophy Chair: tba "T S Eliot and G W F Hegel: Influences, Thefts, and Denials", Andrew Hawthorne, King's College, University of London "Not Just Yet, Not Quite Here: Ethicality and Futurity in Stein's Mrs. Reynolds", Sara Crangle, University of Cambridge "Bergsonian Aspects of Katherine Mansfield's The Woman at the Store", Eiko Nakano, University of Stirling "Modernism's Puzzles: The Ethics of Transformative Hermeneutics in Kafka and Wittgenstein", Karen Zumhagen, University of California, Berkeley Modernism and/or Postcolonialism Organiser: Richard Begam, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham "Conrad's Shadow", Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University "A Genealogy of Modernism: the Postcolonial Palimpsest in Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh", Richard Begam "Reluctant Historians: Zoe Wicomb's David and the Modernist Staging of a South African Past", Derek Attridge, York University Cambridge and Modernism Organiser: Jason Harding, National Chi Nan University Chair: tba "I. A. Richards' Instrumentalist Engagement with Modernism", John Constable, Magdalen College, Cambridge "Wings Found Wanting: Experiment Magazine in Cambridge", Kate Price, Homerton College, Cambridge "F. R. Leavis and "Essential English" Modernism", Jason Harding
2:00--3:30 Panels	Modernism, Beasts and Bestiality Chair: tba Title to be announced, Richard Espley, University of Birmingham "Becoming Fox, Becoming-Fascist: D. H. Lawrence and the Great War", Raymond Watkins, University of Iowa "'Here Lie the Beasts': Dylan Thomas, Modernism and Monstrosity", Chris Wigginton, University of Wales Associate College Play it Again: Repetition in Modernist Writing Organiser: Jaime Hovey, The University of Illinois at Chicago Chair: tba "'Her hair turned quite gold with grief, again': Repetition, Inversion and the Making of the Wildean Aphorism, Neville Hoad, University of Texas, Austin "Hypnotic Repetition and Obsession: Identity and Desire in Oscar Wilde's Salome", Sebastien Salbayre, University of Tours "Endless Wanderings: Nightwood's Grotesque Repetition", Anne-Laure Tissut Representing the Revolution: Japanese, Korean and Mexican Modernisms and the Emerging Soviet Union Organiser: Jeffrey Belnap, Zayed University Chair: Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, University of London "Shifting Appraisals: Interactions between Russian and Japanese Artists in the Early Twentieth Century", Amy Sargeant, Birkbeck College "Korean Nationalism, Russian Anarchism: Sin Chae Ho and the Russian Revolutionary Tradition", J. Michael Allen, Brigham Young University - Hawaii Campus "Painting the World Revolution: Diego Riviera and the Comintern in 1928", Jeffrey Belnap Knowing Modernisms Organiser: Rebecca Berne, Yale University Chair: Catherine Paul, Clemson University "Possessing the Past: Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Forms of History", Rebecca Berne "Knowledge and the Modernist Archive: Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams", Sarah Cain, Cambridge University "Nella Larsen (and Others) at the 135th Street Library", Karin Roffman, Yale University Modernist Theologies and Modernity's Discourses in Poetry by Women of the Thirties Organiser: Linda A. Kinnahan, Duquesne University Chair: Peter Middleton, University of Southampton "One Cent's Worth of Salvation: Mina Loy's Economic Theology in the Thirties and Forties", Linda A. Kinnahan "From Smith to O'Sullivan: Poetry, Theology, and the Linguistic Turn", Romana Huk, University of Notre Dame "Marianne Moore and Neibuhr", Jennifer Leader, Duquesne University Queer Modernism Organiser: Colleen Lamos, Rice University Chair: Dominique Groeneveld, Brown University "Maurice: A Case Study", Paul Morrison, Brandeis University "Nightwood: Queer Subjectivation", Colleen Lamos "Woolf's Queer Enlightenment", Stephen Barber, University of Rhode Island Recovering Modernism: Negotiating Cultural Legacies in Postwar Germany Organiser: Jeanne Nugent, Free University Berlin Chair: Jeanne Nugent "Negotiating the Past in Cold War Germany: Stephan Hermlin's Warsaw Ghetto Texts", Julia Hell, University of Michigan "Concepts of Collaborative Art in a Divided Germany of the 1960s", Nina Zimmer, Hamburger Kunsthalle "Painting the German Way? Blinky Palermo's Objects", Christine Mehring, Yale University Iris Barry from Birmingham: Modernist, Writer, Bohemian, Cinéaste Organiser: Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Cornell College Chair: tba "Iris Barry in London: Bohemian, Poet and Popular Novelist", Peter Brooker, University College Northampton "Iris Barry, the Film Society and Vogue: Fashioning Film Culture in the 1920s", Leslie Kathleen Hankins "Going to the Movies: Iris Barry and Film-Writing in the 1920s", Laura Marcus, University of Sussex
4:00--5:30 Panels	Beyond the Literary Melting Pot: Jews, Modernism and Other Imagined Diasporas Organisers: Neil Levi and Bryan Cheyette Details tba The Death and the Resurrection of the Modernist Author Organiser: Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent Chair: tba "Modernism, Memory and Metempsychosis", Jürgen Pieters, Ghent University "Death, Resurrection, and the Textual Representation of Otherness in Richard Aldington's War Writings", Caroline Zilboorg, Cambridge University "Epitaph, Memoir, Obituary - How Did the Modernists Bury their Dead?" Marysa Demoor Shaping the Memory of Twentieth-Century War Organiser: Barton Keeton, Duke University Chair: Scott Massey, University of New Hampshire "Housing the Unhomely: The Memorial of the Deportation, Paris" Barton Keeton "Kitsch, Art and the Cultural Negotiation of Memory in the Aftermath of the Great War", Mark Facknitz, James Madison University "Sovereignty and the Disposable Body: Melancholic Remainders and the Nationalist Monumentality", Ranjana Khanna, Duke University Political Modernity, Performativity and Performance: Modernism versus the Avant-Garde Organisers: Sascha Bru and Gunther Martens, University of Ghent Chair: tba "Surrealist Visions of the Political", Karlheinz Barck, University of Berlin "The Historical Avant-Garde versus High Modernism: The Performing of Politics versus Performatives of the Political", Sascha Bru "Framing Literary Speech Acts of Political Modernity", Gunther Martens Varieties of Modernist Consciousness Organiser: Paul Edwards, Bath Spa University College Chair: Peter Brooker, University College, Northampton "Relativity of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis", Paul Edwards "Egotism and Relation: A Structure for Modernism", Alan Munton, University of Plymouth "Towards a "Pathos of Distance"? Wyndham Lewis's Tarr and Nietzsche's Theory of Pity", Michael Nath, University of Hertfordshire Modernism and the Occult Chair: tba "The Survival of Frederick Myers's Human Personality: A Centenary Assessment of Its Impact on Modern Fiction", George M. Johnson, University College of the Cariboo "Yeats' Subversive Occultism", Laura Swartz, Ball State University "The Cross-Correspondences: Modernism and Secrecy", Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster Film, American Modernism, and Democracy Organiser: Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University Chair: tba "A Poetics of Race: Griffith, Eliot and H.D.", Susan McCabe, University of Southern California "Hollywood Heroines and Close Encounters of the Modernist Future", Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Southwest Texas State University "Through the Dark Glass of Fascism: Italian Intellectuals and 1930s Hollywood Modernism", Saverio Giovacchini, University of Maryland "The Making of American Modernism: Film and Culture", Sam B. Girgus The Sapphic Body and Space Organiser: Laura Doan, University of Manchester Chair: Harry Cocks, Birkbeck College "'Woman's Place is in the Home': Conservative Sapphic Modernity", Laura Doan "Deco with a Difference: English Interior Design During the Interwar Years", Bridget Elliott, University of Western Ontario "The Sapphist in the City: Reading Lesbian Modernist Paris through the Frame of Sapphic Modernity", Joanne Winning, Middlesex University
6:00--8:00	Plenary Round Table Modernism/Cultural Studies Convenor: Morag Shiach, Queen Mary, University of London Participants: Bill Schwarz, Goldsmiths' College, University of London Kristin Ross, New York University Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London
8:00	Poetry Reading

Saturday, 27 September

9:00--10:30 Seminars	Modernism and the Authentic Chairs: Elizabeth Outka, Sewanee-University of the South and Jesse Matz, Kenyon College Cruel Modernisms Janine Utell, CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Modernist Cultures Chairs: Steven G. Yao, Hamilton College and Laura Chrisman, University of York Modernisms' Other Geographies Chairs: Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology and JoAnne Mancini, University of Sussex
9:00--10:30 Panels	Modernism and East Asia Chair: tba "Beckett's Encounter with the East: The Allegory of Chinese Music in Dream of Fair to Middling Women", Lidan Lin, Indiana University "Interactions between Environmentalism and Modernism in sustainable architecture - learning from the Modernist experience", P. Shireen Jahnakssim, International Islamic University Malaysia "Modern Chinese Nude as New National Identity in XU Beihong's Figurative Paintings: A Postcolonial Read", ShiPu Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara Questions of Selfhood and Gender Chair: tba "Political Economy of the Self: Orthodox and New Age Constructions 1914-1924, Adam Trexler, Queen Mary College, University of London "The Simultaneous Dress as Self-Portrait: Sonia Delaunay, Sarah Sterne and the Question of Identity", Violet Clark, University of Oregon "Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes: and the Performance of Masculnity", Cyrena N. Pondrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Miriam's Mind, Dorothy's Dendrites: Cognitive Mapping and Richardson's Pilgrimage", Lee Simons, Simon Fraser University Alternative Modernities / Alternative Modernisms? Organiser: Leif Sorensen, New York University Chair: Leif Sorensen "Modernism and the Cameral Mode", Christopher Leslie, CUNY Graduate Center "Modernism in China: Variation as Critique", Sean Macdonald, McGill University "Questioning the Territory of Modernism: Ultraísmo, Creacionismo, and the Aesthetic Perspective of the First Spanish Avant-garde. 1914-1925", Renée M. Silverman, University of Michigan "No Place for History: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Cultural Inquiry", Flannery Burke, California State University at Northridge National / International: Scotland and the Specificities of Modernism Organiser: Nancy K. Gish, University of Southern Maine Chair: Cassandra Laity, Drew University "The Representation of the People: Poetry, Travellers, and Popular Culture", Alan Riach, University of Glasgow "The Different Temporalities of Modernism: Grassic Gibbon and the Case of Scotland", Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University "The Great War and Scottish Memory", Nancy K. Gish The Limits of Modernist Aesthetics Organiser: Diarmuid Costello, Oxford Brookes University Chair: tba "Conviction and Convention: Michael Fried and Clement Greenberg on How Modernism Works", Diarmuid Costello "Materiality and Meaning: Robert Smithson Contra Michael Fried on Minimalism", Dominic Rahtz, Wimbledon School of Art "Art and Meta-Art: Joseph Kosuth on Conceptual Art and the End of Modernism", Jonathan Vickery, University of Warwick Theorizing Black Queer Modernities Organiser: John Keene, Northwestern University Chair: tba "Buscando 'Miss São Paulo': Mário de Andrade, Modernist Week and the Paulicéia Desvairada, circa 1922", John Keene "Blue(s) Ideologies: Transgressive Sexuality and Liberatory Praxis in Houston Baker's Critical Modernisms", Duriel Harris, University of Illinois-Chicago Modernism's Stages Organiser: Katherine E. Kelly, Texas A&M University Chair: tba "Dancers, Puppets and Pan in Ambush: Art Theatre, Dissidence and the Pioneer Players 1911-25", Katharine Cockin, University of Hull "Stage Designs of the Women of the Golden Dawn: Annie Horniman and Pixie Colman-Smith", Viv Gardner, University of Manchester "Alan's Wife (1893): Infanticide and Reciprocal Author(ity)", Katherine E. Kelly Respondent: Maggie B. Gale, The University of Birmingham The Returns of the Dead: Modernism and the Second World War Organiser: John Whittier-Ferguson, University of Michigan Chair: tba "Feeling Our Way Toward History in Gertrude Stein's Brewsie and Willie", Phoebe Stein Davis, Illinois Humanities Council "Storm Jameson: Woman of Peace at War", Elizabeth Maslen, University of London "Memory and the Blitz: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and the Ends of Recollection in Wartime", John Whittier-Ferguson
11:00--12:30 Seminars	Modernism/Modernity and the Everyday Chair: Scott McCracken, Sheffield Hallam University The Legacy of Surrealism Chair: Raymond Spiteri, University of North Dakota Modernism and the Ghosts of Symbolism Chair: Raphael Ingelbein, Université Catholique de Louvain Comparative Modernist Cultures Chairs: Steven G. Yao, Hamilton College and Laura Chrisman, University of York Family Systems Therapy and Modernist Psychological Literary Criticism Chair: John V. Knapp, Northern Illinois University
11:00--12:30 Panels	Modernism and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia Organiser: Sarah Witte, Eastern Oregon University Chair: tba "Reblooding Modernism: Imagism and the Speaking Object", Sarah Witte "Radio, Television, and Historical Traces in Finnegans Wake", Thomas Hofheinz, Eastern Oregon University "Cinematic Depictions of Queens: Configuring Modernist Nostalgia", Marylin Mell Directions of Influence, Relationality and Desire: Women Writers' Friendship Networks Organiser: Catherine Clay, Lancaster University Chair: tba "The Lives and Letters of Stella Venson, Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison: A Trade in Work and Desire", Catherine Clay "How Can the Notion of a 'Counter-Public Sphere' Make Us Reassess Existing Concepts of 'Modernism'"? - H.D.'s Network as a Case Study", Georgina Taylor, previously Oxford University "Networking as a Cultural Model and Bryher as Networking Woman", Marinna Camboni, Università degli Studi di Madcerata Deforming Sentimentalism Organiser: Justine Dymond, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Chair: Lois Cucullu, University of Minnesotta "Queering the Sentimental: Orlando and the Re-formation of Desire", Peter F. Naccarato, Marymount Manhattan College "Modernism at the Margins: Embodying the Sentimental in Cogewea, The Half-Blood", Justine Dymond "Debunking Sentimental Ethnography: D.H. Lawrence's New Mexican Writings", Carey Snyder, Ohio University Queer French Modernism Organiser: Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois Chair: Rachel Luckman, University of Birmingham "Le jeu des identities dans Les enfants terribles de Jean Cocteau", Alessandro Grilli, Pisa University "Genet's Libidinal Band", Lawrence R. Schehr "The Queer Childhood of Violette Leduc", Alex Hughes, University of Birmingham Modernism and Social Criticism Organiser: Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University "Anti-Modernism and the Temptations of the Nation-State: Yeats and the New Ireland", Michael Valdez Moses "Towards a Right Theory of Society: Ford, Hulme, and Early Modernism", Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham "Reforming Decadents: An Ambivalence in Modernist Cultural Criticism", Vincent Sherry, Villanova University Modernism, Sexuality and Censorship Organiser: Rachel Potter, Queen Mary, University of London Chair: tba ""The Cosmopolitan Standard of Virtue": Censorship and Moral Reform in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie", Katy Mullin, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge "Can My Daughter of 18 Read This Book?: Ulysses, obscenity and femininity", Rachel Potter "Anticipating Censorship: James's The Wings of the Dove", Barbara Leckie, Carleton University "James Douglas", David Bradshaw, Oxford University Modernism and Periodicals: Beyond the Little Magazines Organiser: Patrick Collier, Ball State University Chair: tba "'She do The New Age in many voices: Beatrice Hastings' Contributions to The New Age", Ann Ardis, University Delaware "T. E. Hulme, Popular Journalism, and the Grayson Gambit", Lee Garver, Butler University "Consider Carefully the Reviewer", Patrick Collier
2:00--3:30 Panels	The Personal is Not Political: Tensions in Bloomsburian Modernism Organiser: Jesse Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: tba "The Difference Between Politicians' Poetry and Poets' Poetry in Virginia Woolf's 'The Leaning Tower'", Lisa Shahriari, University of Essex "The Widowhood of the Self: Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent", David Medalie, University of Pretoria "Warriors of Intimacy: Forster's Schlegel Sisters", Jesse Wolfe "D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo and the Political Question of the First World War Veteran", Douglas Higbee, University of California-Irvine Modernists Before Modernism? Organiser: David McWhirter, Texas A&M University Chair: tba "Henry James's Modernism", David McWhirter "Administering Modernism: Sara Jeanette Duncan's Set in Authority", Patricia E. Chu, Brandeis University "At the Margins of Modernism: Edith Wharton's Outsiders and the Changing Discourses of Race", Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College Women Producing Modernism in Berlin: Sexuality, Poetry, and the Visual Arts Organizer: Cristanne Miller, Pomona College Chair: Tag Gronberg, Birkbeck College, University of London "Demon Berlin: City Spaces and the Role of the Feminine in Imperial and Weimar Culture", Dorothy Rowe, Roehampton, University of Surrey "Performing, Mapping and Naming: Jeanne Mammen and Print Culture in Berlin", Marsha Meskimmon, Loughbrough University "Else Lasker-Schüler and Sexual Fluidity: 'Lay my heart in your golden lap'", Cristanne Miller Queer Internationalism Organizer: Lauren M. E. Goodlad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Chair: Christopher Lane, Northwestern University "Where Liberals Fear to Tread: Forster's Queer Internationalism and the Romance of Italy", Lauren M. E. Goodlad "Fear of a Queer Family: Gertrude Stein's Parisian Solution", Gabrielle Dean, University of Washington, Seattle "'A Stranger Tongue': Hart Crane goes International", Tim Dean, University of Buffalo, SUNY Critical Modernisms: Critics as Modernists and Modernists as Critics Organiser: Michael Mirabile, Yale University Chair: tba "The Artist as Scientist: Pound, Imagism and the Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde", Luca Somigli, University of Toronto "Modernist Criticism and Cultural Dissidence", Peter Kalliney, Oberlin College "'Ignoring Athens': Ford's Henry James and Exemplary Modernist Reading", Michael Mirabile Retrospective Modernism Organiser: Rebecca L. Walkowitz Chair: tba "Learning from Modernism", Martin Puchner, Columbia University "Revisiting Rivers", Michèle Barrett, Queen Mary, University of London "The Late Virginia Woolf", Rebecca L. Walkowitz "Anteaus, Verses, "The Hydra": Forms of Recovery at Craiglockhart War Hospital", Meredith Martin, University of Michigan Roundtable: The Auden Generation, Reconfigured Richard Bozorth, Southern Methodist University Marsha Bryant, University of Florida Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, Northwestern University Benjamin Kahan, University of Pennsylvania Gareth Reeves, University of Durham Stan Smith, The Nottingham Trent University Moderator: Douglas Mao, Cornell University
4:00--5:30 Panels	Poetry, Allusion and Translation Chair: tba "Pound, Catullus and Propertius: The Poetics of Bawdry", Jon Elek, Queen Mary, University of London "The Dissident Collage of James Joyce and Kurt Schwitters: Molly Bloom", Jane Goldman "Metaphoric Modernisms: The Transfer of Meaning in Joyce and Proust", Michael O'Sullivan, University College Cork Play it Again: Repetition and Iteration in Modernism (2) Organiser: Jaime Hovey, University of Illinois, Chicago Chair: tba ""Fear No More", Again as Before, the Drop Forming on the Roof of the Soul: Virginia Woolf's Iterations", Judith Roof, Michigan State University ""Lovely Spring Weather Bubonic Plague Raging": Comedy of Repetition in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop", Brian D. Holcomb, Michigan State University "Drowning Rebecca", Jaime Hovey Pathologies of Modernism Chair: tba ""Alcoh alchoho alcoherently" (FW 40): Alcoholism and Doubling in "Counterparts", Vike Martina Plock, University of York "Female Criminality and Popular Culture in The Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate and Jean Rhys's A Voyage in the Dark", Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Swiss Cures: Zelda Fitzgerald in the Modernist Asylum", Deborah Pike, The University of Sydney Modern Authority Organiser: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University Chair and respondent: Bob Perelman, University of Pennsylvania "Authority and Personality in Gertrude Stein's Ida, a Novel about a 'Publicity Saint'", Georgette Fleischer, Columbia University "Scientific Authority as a Model of Authorship", Peter Middleton, University of Southampton "Misinformation and Authority: Mass Poetics after Father Coughlin and Kenneth Fearing", Barrett Watten Transgressing the Lines of World War One Writing: Other Women Challenge History Organiser: Anne Rice, Lehman College Chair: Jane Marcus, City University of New York "Lesbian Politics and World War One", Gay Wachman, SUNY Old Westbury "Troubled Houses: Irish Women Writing the Great War", June Dunn, Southern Connecticut State University "War's Bitter Aftermath: African American Women Writers Confront Lynching" "Across Enemy Lines: An Anti-Canon of Women's War Literature", Barbara Antonucci, University of Rome The Edge of the Metropolis: Race, Space and Displacement in the Language of Modernism Organiser: Urmila Seshagiri, University of Tennessee Chair: Robert Caserio, Pennsylvania State University "Refusing Modernity: Roma Modernism", Janet Lyon, The Pennsylvania State University "Township Modernism", Ian Baucom, Duke University "Scattering Souls: Virginia Woolf's Colony and the Problem of Development", Jed Esty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Anglo-Caribbean Dislocations: Jean Rhys and the Mapping of Modern Fiction", Urmila Seshagiri Modernity and the Decorative Arts, or Where Do I Put This? Chair and Organiser: Gail McDonald "'To be fully modern is to be anti-modern': Craft, Modernism and Ideology in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s", Tanya Harrod, Design Historian "Art Smith, Village Silversmith: Jewelry as Sign of Affiliation", Mark McDonald, Gallery Owner "Late 20th-Century Glass: AClean break, a New Art Form" , Dan Klein, Collector and Writer Special Session: "'Writing the Century: the new "Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature" Chairs: Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls
6:00--8:00	Plenary speaker: Adam Phillips

Sunday, 28 September

9:00--10:30 Seminars	Modernism and Marxism Chair: C. Dan Blanton, Princeton University Modernist Politics and Aesthetics Chairs: Tony Brinkley, University of Maine, Christopher Bush, University of Maine and Laura Cowan, Indiana University Musical Intersections Chair: Bill Friend, University of West Florida
9:00--10:30 Panels	Visions of Modernism Chair: tba "Hodler and Historiography: The Symbolist Sympathies of Expressionist Art History", Kimberley A. Smith, Southwestern University ""The monument of an instant": The Role of Photography in the Work of Italian "Impressionist" Sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928)", Francesca Bacci-Melcher, Rutgers University "Mondrian and the End of Classicism", Charles A. Cramer, Suffolk University "Dwelling in Ruins: Scenarios Creative and Otherwise", Andrew McNamara, Queensland University of Technology Racial Anxieties in Modernist Struggles for Identity Organiser: Tracyann Williams, The New School Chair: James L. de Jongh, City College, CUNY "Revisions of War, Manhood, and Blackness: Gone With the Wind and Absalom, Absalom!", Donna F. Grover, Bard College "Claude McKay's Englishness", Josh Gosciak, City College, CUNY "The Other's Other: The 'Tragic Mulatta', Tracyann Williams "Reading the Repetitions in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight", Linda Camarasana, The Graduate Center, CUNY Pulp Modernism, Racial Cross-Dressing, and the Left Organiser: Alan Wald, University of Michigan Chair: tba "Pulp Queens in A Country Place", Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesotta "Len Zinberg and the Origins of Proletarian Pulp", Alan Wald "V. F. Calverton and the Sociological Gothic Novel", Graham Barnfield, University of East London Geographies of the Great War Organiser: Eve Sorum, University of Michigan Chair: John Whittier-Ferguson "The Hollow Wood: Edward Thomas, the Great War, and the Dislocation of Place", William Hogan, Providence College "Mapping No Man's Land: Ordering the War in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End", Eve Sorum "Beyond Baedeker: Rewriting Touristic Space in American Women's Great War Fiction", Debra Rae Cohen, University of Arkansas Modernist Poetry: The Syntax of Entropy Organiser: Hélène Aji, Université de Paris-Sorbonnne Chair: Steven G. Yao, Hamilton College "By this I mean this: Stein on Paper", Tony Lopez, University of Plymouth at Exmouth "Perspectives on the archive as a catalyst for voice in modern American Poetry", Fiona McMahon, Université de Bourgogne "Susan Howe's Scatter: The Visual Activity of Syntax", Cole Swensen, Iowa Writer's Workshop "Syntax Then, Syntax Now", Keith Tuma, Miami University Birmingham's Modernist Heritage Chair: tba Deborah Parsons "Concrete Dreams: the Creative Destruction of Birmingham", Liam Kennedy and Maria Balshaw, University of Birmingham "Birmingham: Building the Modern City", Andrew Higgott, University of East London Special Session: The Gender of Modernism
11:00--12:30 Seminars	Modernist Poetry and Prosody: The Ezra Pound - William Carlos Williams Tradition Chairs: Ellen Stauder, Reed College and Demetres Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick
11:00--12:30 Panels	Creativity and Eros Chair: tba "The Paradox of the Gift: Gift-Giving as a Disruptive Force in Woolf's Writing", Kathryn Simpson, University of Birmingham "Roses of the World: Erotic Authenticity in Stein and Lawrence", Joshua Corey, Cornell University "D. H. Lawrence and the stickiness of the uncanny", Anneleen Masschelein, K.U. Leuven Modernist Publishing Chair: tba "D.I.Y. Modernism: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius and the Little Blue Books", Jo-Ann Wallace, University of Alberta "Modernism in the Popular Text", Liam Connell, University of Hertfordshire "John Rodker (1894-1955)", Peter Lawson, University of Southampton Modernism Against the Metropolis Chair: tba "'A Savage from the Cannibal Islands': Jean Rhys and London", Anna Snaith, Anglia Polytechnic University ""The Sublime Moves…": Women, The Alps and Winter-Sports Tourism", Melinda Harvey, University of Sydney "A World to Perceive: Seeing City Rhythms in Crane's Maggie", Paul D. Young, University of Missouri-Columbia Modernist Cultures of War Organiser: Caroline Zilboorg, University of Cambridge Chair: Caroline Zilboorg "The Empowering of Individuals: Feminism, Art and War in The Egoist", Angela Kay Smith, University of Plymouth "Verses of a V. A. D.: Feminist Modernism in Vera Brittain's War Poetry", Andrea Peterson, University of Birmingham ""A Book of Verse - and Thou': Private Publications in Wartime by Richard Aldington and H. D.", Gemma Bristow, University of Cambridge Modernism and Cannibalism Organiser: Bonnie Roos, Austin College Chair: tba "'The rattle of the bones': Cannibalism from T. S. Eliot's Bolo Poems to Fragment of an Agon", John Xiros Cooper, University of British Columbia "Literary Cannibalism in the Modernist Milieu, or Eating Bookshops is Wrong", Margaret Finney, University of Otago "Devouring Art: Cannibalism and Colonialism in a Modernist World", Bonnie Roos Coinage, Circuitry, and Switch-backs: Modernism's Cunning Passages of Exchange Organiser: Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville Chair: Morag Shiach, Queen Mary, University of London "'A Rich New Circuitry': D. H. Lawrence and the Electric Affinities of Modernism", Edward P. Comentale, Indiana University "Circus Circuits: Marsden Hartley, the Brothers James, and the Problem of Public Intimacy", Justus Nieland, Michigan State University "Word Coins: Symbolic Economies and Modernist Reputation", Aaron Jaffe Shaping Seeing 1919-39 Chair: tba "Charles Sheeler's (Im)-Precisionist New York and American Modernity", Mark Rawlinson, University of Nottingham "Circles, Squares and Erasures: American Modernism and the Fate of Geometric Abstraction in the 1930s", Jody Patterson, Concordia University "The Sympathetic Magic of FDR: Producing the Imagi-Nation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Timothy Raphael, Rutgers University