Registration will close at midnight on Friday (3 July) for the one-day conference, ‘”Perfectly phrased and quite as true”: Aphoristic Modernity, 1890-1950’, to be held at King’s Manor, the University of York, on Saturday 4 July 2015.
This one-day conference features 14 speakers, with keynote lectures by Dr Mark Sandy (Durham University) and Dr James Williams (University of York), and a reading of aphorisms and poetry by Professor Peter Robinson (University of Reading). The full programme is available to view at this link: https://aphoristicmodernity.wordpress.com/programme/
Registration is still open for a conference on ‘Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism’ to be held at the Trinity Long Room Hub on 2-3 July. The keynote lecturers are Peter Howarth and Alex Davis. The conference will also feature a screening of To Hell with Culture, a film about Herbert Read directed by Huw Wahl. All are very welcome. Further programme and registration details can be found at: http://collaboratingmuse.wordpress.com/
We are pleased to invite you to the C20 Publishing symposium taking place at the University of Reading’s Archives & Special Collections/the Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, next Friday the 26th June.
The event is free and open to all: if you would like to attend please could you let me know in advance so I can keep a tab on the numbers for catering purposes?
All best,
Nicola
Modernist and Twentieth-Century Publishing Houses
University of Reading
Programme
10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Welcome and Introductions (Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill)
10:35-11:35
Iain Stevenson (University College London) “Grant Richards. The first Modern(ist) Publisher?”
Bradford Haas (Washington Adventist University) “Hand-Crafted Masterpieces: How Private Presses Helped Shape the Modernist Canon”
11:35-12:00 Coffee
12:00-1:00
Mercedes Aguirre (British Library) “Nancy Cunard’s The Hours Press and French Surrealism”
Lise Jaillant (University of East Anglia) “‘Classics behind Plate Glass’: Virginia Woolf and Publishers’ Series”
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00
Adam Guy (University of Oxford) “‘The James Joyces and Virginia Woolfs of the future’: John Calder and the Postwar Question of Modernism”
Matthew Sperling (University of Reading) “From Faber to Fulcrum: Publishing Late-Modernist Poetry in the Long 1960s”
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30
Simon Eliot (School of Advanced Study, University of London) “Ministry of Information Project and Publishing 1939-45”
Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill (University of Reading) “Digitizing the Hogarth Press: Archives, Networks and Bibliography”
Registration is now open for the one-day conference, ‘”Perfectly phrased and quite as true”: Aphoristic Modernity, 1890-1950’, to be held at King’s Manor, the University of York, on Saturday 4 July 2015.
This one-day conference features 14 speakers, with keynote lectures by Dr Mark Sandy (Durham University) and Dr James Williams (University of York), and a reading of aphorisms and poetry by Professor Peter Robinson (University of Reading). The programme is available to view at this link: https://aphoristicmodernity.wordpress.com/programme/
The State of Fiction:
Don DeLillo in the 21st Century
10 June 2015, University of Sussex
Keynote speaker: John N. Duvall (Purdue)
Writing also means trying to advance the art. Fiction hasn’t quite been
filled in or done in or worked out. We make our small leaps.
Don DeLillo, 1982
This one-day conference will address the state of fiction in contemporary
American culture by focusing on the extensive oeuvre of Don DeLillo, from
the 1970s to the present day and beyond. DeLillo commented shortly after
the publication of The Names that fiction had not yet been ‘filled in,’
‘done in,’ or ‘worked out.’ How do we read this thirty years later, in the
shadow of not only DeLillo’s major works but also the events that have
characterised our move into the Twenty-First Century? How have DeLillo’s
small leaps between the New York of Players (1977) and the New York of
Falling Man (2007) ‘filled in’ fiction? Has DeLillo’s pervasive influence
across contemporary American culture ‘done in’ postmodernism? Is the novel
in the Twenty First Century already ‘worked out’?
The Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its ninth annual postgraduate workshop.
‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel
Monday 22nd June 2015
University of Nottingham
Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to emphasise and explore the richness of travel in its multivalent forms, from antiquity to modernity and beyond. We will consider travel in relation to social, political, cultural, and environmental forces, as we ask how it is interpreted across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Papers for the day will cover the following themes:
Home & Displacement
Exploration
Wandering
Border Crossings
Encountering the Supernatural
Sites of Travel
Modes, (E)Motion & Perception
Travel in Print
Further details can be found in the attached programme and poster.
All are welcome to attend this free event, although places are limited. To book your place, please email by Monday 15th June: lsp.pgworkshop@nottingham.ac.uk
Organising Committee: Alexander Harby, Alice Insley, Hollie Johnson, Mark Lambert, Xiaofan Xu & Emma Zimmerman
Registration is now open for a conference on ‘Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism’ to be held at the Trinity Long Room Hub on 2-3 July. The keynote lecturers are Peter Howarth and Alex Davis. The conference will also feature a screening of To Hell with Culture, a film about Herbert Read directed by Huw Wahl. All are very welcome. Further programme and registration details can be found at: http://collaboratingmuse.wordpress.com/
Samuel Beckett’s work across the genres has always shown a keen interest in both the topography and the function of the mind. The experience of interiority in Beckett is complex and it is often on the brink of its own collapse. Beckett undertook a comprehensive self-education of the mind, primarily from the disciplines of philosophy and psychoanalysis, to understand this interiority which he would render poetically. If Beckett is interested in a physics and even a geometry of the psychic space, the recurrent image of the skullscape—from The Trilogy and Endgame to Worstward Ho—is also replete with the minimal and yet necessary possibilities of thinking.
Beckett’s manifold portrayal of the mind is biographically grounded in his interest in psychology in the so-called Psychology Notes as well as his own psychoanalysis with Wilfred Bion. In addition to Bion, Beckett’s emphasis on the mind has been variously approached through psychoanalytic doctrines of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan. If the psychoanalytic readings of Beckett approach the mental question from the perspective of the unconscious, the recent neuro-scientific and cognitivist forays into Beckett have opened up the debate about the proximities of identification between the mind and the brain. Beckett’s work is becoming increasingly important in understanding the subtleties of brain damage. Neurobiologist Antonio Damasio’s reference to Beckett’s Winnie as an illustration of a specific neurological condition is a case in point. Catherine Malabou’s Deleuzean re-reading of Beckettian exhaustion has pushed this further into a ‘literary form of neuropathology’ where it inhabits a critical space between psychoanalysis and the neuro-sciences.
Laura Salisbury is Senior Lecturer in Medicine and English Literature at the University of Exeter. She has published extensively on Beckett, including a monograph entitled Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Kittler Now (Polity, 2015), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950 (Palgrave 2010), and Other Becketts (Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2002). Aphasic Modernism: A Revolution of the Word, on modernism and neurological models of language, is currently being completed, and she is beginning work on her next book, Slow Modernism (Edinburgh University Press). With Ulrika Maude and Elizabeth Barry, she is currently co-investigator on the AHRC-funded network Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind: Investigating Disorders of the Self. This followed on from the AHRC-funded exploratory award: Beckett and Brain Science.
Dirk Van Hulle is professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp (Centre for Manuscript Genetics). His recent publications include the monographs Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing (2014) and (with Shane Weller) The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innommable/The Unnamable (2014). With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP, http://www.beckettarchive.org), author of Samuel Beckett’s Library (CUP, 2013), and editor in chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. He is currently preparing the second edition of the Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge UP).
Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, including the monographs Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett,American Modernism’s Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation, and The Poetry of Jack Spicer. Recent and forthcoming work includes an entry on “Translation” in The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel and another on Jack Spicer in The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry, as well as work on Charles Olson and Peter Gizzi.
The State of Fiction:
Don DeLillo in the 21st Century
10 June 2015, University of Sussex
Keynote speaker: John N. Duvall (Purdue)
Writing also means trying to advance the art. Fiction hasn’t quite been
filled in or done in or worked out. We make our small leaps.
Don DeLillo, 1982
This one-day conference will address the state of fiction in contemporary
American culture by focusing on the extensive oeuvre of Don DeLillo, from
the 1970s to the present day and beyond. DeLillo commented shortly after
the publication of The Names that fiction had not yet been ‘filled in,’
‘done in,’ or ‘worked out.’ How do we read this thirty years later, in the
shadow of not only DeLillo’s major works but also the events that have
characterised our move into the Twenty-First Century? How have DeLillo’s
small leaps between the New York of Players (1977) and the New York of
Falling Man (2007) ‘filled in’ fiction? Has DeLillo’s pervasive influence
across contemporary American culture ‘done in’ postmodernism? Is the novel
in the Twenty First Century already ‘worked out’?
Registration is now open for ‘Sensory Modernism(s): Cultures of Perception’, a one-day conference at the University of Leeds due to be held on Thursday 21 May. ‘Sensory Modernism(s)’ seeks to address the interrelationship of modernism and sensory perception. The spirit of the conference is interdisciplinary, and invokes characterisations of modernism derived from a wide range of discursive domains. Keynote speakers are Dr Richard Brown, Dr Christina Bradstreet and Caro Verbeek.
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