The Aesthetics of Global Modernism
12th July 2021
A one-day online event by the Modernist Studies in Asia network (MSIA) and the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS).
Organisers:
Udith Dematagoda, Assistant Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo (BAMS)
Nan Zhang, Associate Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai (MSIA)
Kevin Riordan, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (MSIA)
Opening Remarks – 18:20 Tokyo / 10:20 London / 5:20 New York
FIRST PARALLEL SESSION
Panel 1 – 18:40 Tokyo / 10:40 London / 5:40 New York (Chair: Udith Dematagoda)
Mohit Abrol (PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) —
“Eliot’s Anti-Fascist Agenda, Anglo-Catholicism, and the Bergsonian Impulse”
Asa Chen Zhang (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan) —
“Possession and (In)Visibility: Articulating Michio Itō’s Performing Body in W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and Beyond”
Geraldine Suter (Lecturer, Bridgewater College) —
“Marxist Aesthetics in Alfred Döblin’s Dramas”
Panel 2 – 18:40 Tokyo / 10:40 London / 5:40 New York (Chair: Adam Guy)
Simona Amăriuței (PhD candidate, University of Manchester) —
“Andrei Bely and Cubism”
Gaultier Roux (Lecturer, Fudan University) —
“Baudelaire Misinterpreted: Thwarted Modernity: A Theoretical Rereading”
Yuxin Zhang (PhD Candidate, University of Sydney) —
“Beyond Ideographic Poetics: Sound, Writing, and the Chinese Texts in Ezra Pounds Later Cantos”
SECOND PARALLEL SESSION
Panel 3 – 20:20 Tokyo / 12:20 London / 7:20 New York (Chair: Kevin Riordan)
Desmond Harding (Professor, Central Michigan University) —
“Yokomitsu Riichi’s Urban Aesthetics”
Andrew Houwen (Associate Professor, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) —
“‘Tokio Takes Over, Where Paris Stopped’: Kitasono Katué’s VOU and Global Modernism”
Sophia Sherry (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago) —
“Self, Genre, Ukigumo: Hayashi Fumiko’s Japanese Modernism in Global Space and Time”
Panel 4 – 20:20 Tokyo / 12:20 London / 7:20 New York (Chair:Nan Zhang)
Gavin Herbertson (PhD Candidate, Oxford University) —
“Derek Walcott, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of Allusion in Epitaph for the Young”
Usha Kishore (PhD Candidate, Edinburgh Napier University) —
“Alter-nation of Modernism: The Metropolitan Sensibility of Kamala Das”
Serena Wong (PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow) —
“Ornamental Modernism: The Decorative Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua”
FINAL SESSION
Panel 5 – 22:00 Tokyo / 14:00 London / 9:00 New York (Chair: Udith Dematagoda)
Maurizia Boscagli (Professor, UC Santa Barbara) —
“Alter Modernism: Eileen Gray’s Queer Orientalism”
Arka Chattopadhyay (Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar) —
“Bengali Modernisms: Political Aesthetics of Avant-Garde World Form”
Adam Guy (Lecturer, Oxford University), —
“C. L. R. James as Theorist of Modernism: Existentialist Doctrines”
Closing Remarks – 23:20 Tokyo / 15:20 London / 10:20 New York
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