2:00 p.m. seminars

A. The Genres of Modernism
Luca Somigli, Italian, University of Toronto
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: University Suite 2–Sheraton
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B. Literature and Economics: An Unholy Alliance?
Leon Surette, English, University of Western Ontario
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Writers House—Room 202
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F. Modernism, Poetry, and Culture
David Chinitz, English, Loyola University of Chicago
No auditors, please.
Location: College Hall 204
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1. Exile, Consciousness, and Style in Conrad, Stein and Nabokov
Chair: Jewel Spears Brooker, Literature, Eckerd College

• Hunt Hawkins, English, Florida State University, "'Homo Duplex': Exile and Double-Consciousness in Conrad"
• Cyrena N. Pondrom, English, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Exile or Travel? The Case of Gertrude Stein"
• Anita Kondoyanidi, English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "(Exploring) Estrangement and Creativity: Nabokov's Pnin"
  

Location: Humanities Forum–3619 Locust Walk

2. The Gender of Modernity: Citizenship, Spectatorship, and the Shifting Terrain of the Public Sphere, 1875-1945
Chair: Ann Ardis, English, University of Delaware

• Francesca Sawaya, English, Portland State University, "The Authority of 'Experience': Jane Addams and Hull-House"
• Katherine Biers, English, Cornell University, "Djuna Barnes Makes a Speciality of Crime: Violence and the Visual in Her Early Journalism"
• Anne Fernald, English, Purdue University, "A Feminist Public Sphere? Virginia Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century"
• Julian Yates, English, University of Delaware, "Shift Work: Observing Women Observing"

Location: Center Suite 1–Sheraton

3. Modernism in the Fifties
Respondent and chair: Bob Perelman, English, University of Pennsylvania

• Al Filreis, English, University of Pennsylvania, "The Modernists Are Coming! The Modernists Are Coming!"
• Ron Silliman, Poet, "The Desert Modernism"

Location: Writers House—Arts Café

4. Now-time: Between Modern and Contemporary
Chair: Joseph Clarke, English, University of Pennsylvania

• Nico Israel, English, Hunter College, "The Return of Affect"
• Ian Baucom, English, Duke University, "After the Present: On Temporal Accumulation"
• Brett Neilson, School of Cultural Histories and Futures, University of Western Sydney - Nepean, "Barbarism and the Space of the Contemporary, or, Thinking Primitivism and Civilization at the Same Time"

Location: Center Suite 2–Sheraton

5. Pedagogy in Performance: Visual Modernisms
Chair: Marjorie Howes, English, Rutgers University

• Jane Niehaus, Art History, University of Pennsylvania, "Subjective Colorings"
• Leslie Kathleen Hankins, English, Cornell College, "Pas de Deux: Bloomsbury and Cinema"
• Patricia Moyer, Women's Studies, University of Exeter, "The H.D. Hieroglyph"
• John Whittier-Ferguson, English, University of Michigan, "Staging Stein"
• Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, English, University of Maryland, "Handling Hughes"
• Helen Sword, English, Indiana University, "Image/isms"
• Joy Castro, English, Wabash College, "Surreal Le Sueur"
• Brian A. Bremen, English, University of Texas, "'The Hollow Men' on the Holodeck"

Location: University Suite 1–Sheraton

6. Sciences of Modernism: Sexology, Geography, Psychology
Chair: Jessica Burstein, English, University of Washington

• Paul Peppis, English, University of Oregon, "Rewriting Sex: Mina Loy, Marie Stopes and Sexology"
• Jessica Berman, English, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, "Steinian Topographies: Mapping Experience"
• Stephen Lewis, Humanities, University of Chicago, "The Refusal of Depth: Psychology, Interwar Liberalism, and Artistic Failure in Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett"

Location: Chestnut Room—Sheraton