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Modernism’s Chronic Conditions: Temporality, Medicine, and Disorders of the Self

Xfi Building, University of Exeter
Friday 17 April 2015
Registration is Free

Speakers

  • Dr Marion Coutts, author of The Iceberg (Goldsmiths)
  • Prof Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University)
  • Dr Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck)
  • Prof Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter)
  • Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)
  • Dr Kirsty Martin (University of Exeter)
  • Prof Zoe Playdon (University of London)

Respondents

  • Prof Alan Bleakley (University of Falmouth)
  • Prof Chris Code (University of Exeter)
  • Prof Paul Dieppe (Exeter Medical School)
  • Dr Joanne Winning (Birkbeck)

About the Event

This workshop brings together scholars, creative practitioners, medical educators, and clinicians concerned with disorders of the embodied mind, to consider how artistic modernism might offer specific resources for understanding what it means to live with conditions which resist narrative shapes of closure and completion.

This workshop is the first event organized by the AHRC funded network ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind: Investigating Disorders of the Self’. [Read More]

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 Scotland and Russia: Cultural Perception Since 1900

10-11 April, 2015

This is the second event of the ‘Scotland and Russia: Cultural Encounters since 1900’ project, dedicated to uncovering the history of cultural exchange between the two countries over the last hundred years (www.englit.ed.ac.uk/scotland-and-russia).

The two-day symposium at the University of Aberdeen will feature talks by historians, sociologists and literary scholars from both Scottish and Russian studies.  It will explore the role of travel writing, poetry and art in cultural mediation, the experience of national bridge-building organisations, as well as political perceptions circa 1914 and 2014, in relation to the Great War and Revolution and the Scottish Independence Referendum.  Speakers include Prof Anthony Cross and Lt Cdr Dairmid Gunn

The event is free and open to the public.  Programme attached.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scotland-and-russia-cultural-perception-since-1900-tickets-15802193787

University of Aberdeen
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Humanity Manse
19 College Bounds
Aberdeen AB24 3UG

Contact Organiser: Anna Vaninskaya (anna.vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk)

Sponsored by the University of Aberdeen Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Edinburgh Challenge Investment Fund and the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Scotland Russia Cultural Perceptions Since 1900 Programme

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Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century

Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century

22-24 April 2015

Institute of Historical Research, London

http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/

Join distinguished historians of literature, design and culture exploring how the complex interpretations of science affected the re-creation of what it was to be modern early in the 20th century.  Programme at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/docs/145310.pdf

For those attending the conference there willl a limited number of places for an exciting performance of the  Opera ‘The Three Tales’ by Steve Reich at the Science Museum, London. Performances will take place on the 22nd and on the 24th of April. To claim your free ticket, please write to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk stating your preferred date of attendance. Please note that we are only able to offer one ticket per attendee. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

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Registration now open for ‘Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics’ conference

8th-10th April 2015, University of Nottingham, UK
Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics is a three-day conference aiming to explore interfaces between:

  •     cultural modernism (literary and visual, architectural, musical, and/or philosophical)
  •     music, musicality, and musicology in relation to modernism and literature
  •     and the political implications of art and theories of the aesthetic in the twentieth century

The conference remit is intentionally capacious. ‘Modernism’ is open for all speakers and attendees to interpret as any instance of the experimental strategies that emerged throughout cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century, though papers focusing on new interdisciplinary contexts for literary questions are sought in the first instance.

Likewise, the plural use of ‘musics’ is meant to reflect a variety of musical modernisms, but also the fact that ‘music’ as an idea meant many things to different modernist artists and critics.

Above all, the conference organizers seek interdisciplinary papers that will develop scholarly understandings of the convergences between modernism, music, and politics.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/english/modernist-musics-and-political-aesthetics/index.aspx

Modernist Music and Political Aesthetics is kindly sponsored by the School of English and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham, and by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.

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Registration Open: ‘Digesting Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food’

Just a quick reminder that St Mary’s University is hosting a food conference: ‘Digesting Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food’ on Saturday 18th April 2015.
Although the Call for Papers is now closed, if you would like to come along for the day we have a varied and interesting panel of speakers presenting on Ford Madox Food, the Futurist Cookbook, Joyce, Hardy, Georgia O’Keefe, Virginia Woolf and more.
Registration is via the following link:
http://www.stmarys.ac.uk/news/events/event/st-marys-host-postgraduate-interdisciplinary-food-conference/
The fee includes lunch, strawberry cream tea, coffee and a vin d’honneur.
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Avant-Gardes Now!, Friday 1 May 2015, 1-7pm, Oxford Brookes University

John Henry Brookes Building 204, Gipsy Lane Campus

A poster is attached – please display it where possible!

Hosted by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and formulated in part as a more specific response to the 2014 BAMS Conference ‘Modernism Now!’, ‘Avant-Gardes Now!’ will address topics which are relevant both to interdisciplinary and international avant-garde studies and creative practice, and also to the UK research and funding environment.

Keynote speaker:
– Professor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield), ‘Breton & Soupault’s Les Champs Magnétiques and the First World War’

Speakers:
– Professor David Cottington (Kingston University), ‘The avant-garde’s alternative professionalism’

– Professor Martin Iddon (University of Leeds), ‘Outsourcing Progress: on conceptual music’
– Dr Julia Jordan (University College London), ‘Accidental Narratives: Remaking the 60s Avant-Garde’
– Dr Sam Ladkin (University of Sheffield), ‘Avant-gardes against value’
– Dr Nikolai Lübecker (St. John’s College, University of Oxford), ‘Into the Dead End: Korine’s Trash Humpers (2009)’
– Dr Claire Warden (University of Lincoln), ‘Can the avant-garde be performed?’

Oxford Brookes respondents:
Professor Nathalie Aubert, Dr Alex Goody, Professor Paul Whitty

Featured poetry reading by Peter Manson, followed by a wine reception.
The Symposium is free to attend, but registration is essential. To register your place, e-mail Dr Eric White (ewhite@brookes.ac.uk) no later than Thursday 2 April.
Postgraduate students are warmly encouraged to attend. If you live outside the Oxford/London area and wish to be considered for a travel bursary, please include a short (2-3 sentence) description of your Master’s or Doctoral project with your registration e-mail by the deadline.
The Symposium organizers are Dr Eric White and Dr Niall Munro.
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Registration now open: Aestheticism and Decadence in the Age of Modernism: 1895 to 1945

We are delighted to announce that the programme for Aestheticism and Decadence in the Age of Modernism: 1895 to 1945, 17-18 April, 2015 is now online, and registration is open:

http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ies-conferences/ageofmodernism