[Vwoolf] Historical Modernisms

Angeliki Spiropoulou angelikispiropoulou at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 20 10:02:18 EDT 2016


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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON-SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY





















CALL
FOR PAPERS




SYMPOSIUM                                                          12 
December 2016

 

 Historical Modernisms




 

Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as
ahistorical, there have been recent academic and critical efforts to
historicise it. The Historical Modernism
Symposium seeks to contribute to
this  trend by inviting readings of
modern/ist literature and avant-garde art movements in the historical contexts
of their production and reception, while assessing their entanglement with
history and modernity transnationally. 

The symposium aims to look at the history of
modernism and the avant-gardes in relation to and their place in (literary and
art) History, addressing questions of their relation with modern times, raised,
for example, by colonialism; nationalism; globalisation; economics; politics; tradition;
technology; urbanism, classicism; mythology; mysticism; religion;
psychology/psychoanalysis. 

Moreover, and importantly, it will examine
pertinent philosophies of time, historiographical practices and representations
of local and world historical events, such as the two World Wars, the
Russian  Revolution and the rise of
Fascism. 

Finally, it will also investigate modernist
concepts of the spirit of the times as well as new notions of and approaches to
literary history. 

A core question posed by the symposium topic
is how a modernist aesthetics of 
innovation transformed history in ways that make modernism not just a
history of the present moment but also the history of our present.

 

Confirmed Featured Speakers:  

Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of
Pennsylvania 

Laura
Marcus, University of Oxford

Roundtable Speakers:

Sascha
Bru, Louven University

Scott
McCracken, Queen Mary-University of London

Andrew
Thacker, Nottingham Trent University

*More featured speakers and
plenary events to be announced soon.

 

Possible topics
include:

 

·     
Modernism/Avant-garde, Time and Memory

·     
Modern Technologies, Modernism/Avant-garde and New Temporalities

·     
History/ies of Modernism and Modern Times

·     
Modernism Making History

·     
Modern/ist Philosophies of History

·     
Modernists as Historians

·     
Modern Historiography and Literature/Culture

·     
Modernist Historiographical Theories and Practices
(Subjects/Objects, Methods, Sources)

·     
Modernism and Bio-Historiographical Canons

·     
The Everyday and the Historic

·     
Issues of Periodisation 

·     
Novelty and Tradition

·     
The Classic and the Modern

·     
The Modernist Event

 

 

Please send abstracts
of  approximately 200 words and a short
paragraph of biographical information to    Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou at  angeliki.spiropoulou at sas.ac.uk  by 20
September 2016. 

 

Proposals for special panels and workshops, accompanied by
topic description and full list of participants, are  also welcome by the same date. 

For general enquiries, please send email to the above-mentioned
address.

 

The  ‘Historical
Modernisms’ Symposium  will be held at
the Senate House, School of Advanced Studies, University of London and is part
of the Comparative
Modernisms seminar series at the Institute of English Studies, convened
by Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou, IES/SAS Visiting Research Fellow and Assist. Professor
at Peloponnese University.



___Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou (MA; PhD Sussex University)Assistant Professor of European Literature and Theory-The University of the Peloponnese;Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study-The University of LondonRegional Managing Editor for TheTheatreTimes.comEmail: aspirop at uop.gr; angeliki.spiropoulou at sas.ac.ukhttps://uop-gr.academia.edu/AngelikiSpiropoulou

 		 	   		  
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