This document announces an international conference that will explore alternative and neglected forms of modernism through submissions across various disciplines like art, literature, and music. The three-day event at Cardiff University features keynote speakers from the University of Pennsylvania, Leeds, and Iceland and aims to both examine alternative modernist movements and discuss how modernism itself can be viewed as alternative.
This document announces an international conference that will explore alternative and neglected forms of modernism through submissions across various disciplines like art, literature, and music. The three-day event at Cardiff University features keynote speakers from the University of Pennsylvania, Leeds, and Iceland and aims to both examine alternative modernist movements and discuss how modernism itself can be viewed as alternative.
This document announces an international conference that will explore alternative and neglected forms of modernism through submissions across various disciplines like art, literature, and music. The three-day event at Cardiff University features keynote speakers from the University of Pennsylvania, Leeds, and Iceland and aims to both examine alternative modernist movements and discuss how modernism itself can be viewed as alternative.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Jean-Michel Rabat (U. Penn.) Professor Griselda Pollock (Leeds) Professor strur Eysteinsson (Iceland) This three-day, international, and interdisciplinary conference aims to draw attention to critically neglected modernist forms, movements and texts. It aims to bring together scholars from across Europe and beyond both to explore these alternative modernisms and to consider the extent to which modernism(s) can itself be seen as (an) alternative. Submissions are invited on all aspects of the title and across all disciplines and fields, including art, fashion, design, literature, history, architecture, music, cultural studies and critical theory.
Cardiff University 16-18 May 2013
To download the full call for papers, please visit: www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/modernisms
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