Northern Modernism Seminar: BLAST 1915-2015: Celebrating the ‘War Number’ of BLAST

Because the event takes place the day after the General Election, we are starting a little later than usual at 12.00.

Friday 8 May 2015

University of Nottingham

12.00 Nathan Waddell (University of Nottingham): Welcome

12.15 Kate Armond (University of East Anglia): ‘BLAST 2: Vorticism and Unofficial Germany’

13.15 Lunch

14.30 Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire): ‘A Vital Little BLAST: The War Number as a Key to Wyndham Lewis’s Thought’

15.30 Rob Spence (Edge Hill University): ‘“To show modernity its face in an honest glass”: Lewis as Self-Conscious Innovator’

16.30 Tea/Coffee

17.00 David Wragg (Independent Scholar): ‘The Reflexive Turn: Hermeneutic In/Consistency and the War Number ofBLAST’

18.00 Close