CALL FOR PAPERS: Peripheral Modernisms International Conference<\/p>\n
23 March 2012<\/p>\n
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,
\nSchool of Advanced Study, University of London<\/p>\n
The last decade has witnessed renewed scholarly interest in modernist and avant-garde studies. The study of Modernism as a global phenomenon and the exploration of the links between modernity and postcoloniality constitute some of the distinctive features of this new scholarship. As a fitting end to the decade, the 2010 Modernist Studies Association Conference proposed to appraise Modernism’s ‘claims to globality’ by re-examining transnational ‘Modernist Networks’. However, the resurgence of modernist studies invites a re-examination of the cultural and aesthetic complexities of the early twentieth century that revisits the notions of ‘peripheral modernities’ introduced by Harootunian in 2000. Benita Parry further argued in 2009 that the notion of periphery extends to a larger geo-political expanse than the colonized regions under global capitalism and that Harootunian’s concept should include such regions as Eastern and Middle Europe and the Mediterranean.
\nThis conference proposes to reappraise critical approaches to modernist movements from European regions generally regarded as peripheral, including Eastern and Middle Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as from beyond Europe\u00a0 in both area-centred and comparative cross-cultural frameworks. In doing so, it aims to reassess the contributions made by these peripheral modernisms to a global aesthetic of Modernism that accounts for its geographic variety and cultural diversity. We aim to address the following questions: does Modernism have a more disparate and heterogeneous nature than has been suggested so far? Can we identify likenesses and differences between peripheral modernisms? Do peripheral modernisms evince their ambivalence toward modernity in especially distinctive ways? To what extent does peripheral modernity prefigure postmodernity, as argued by Beatriz Sarlo in 2001?<\/p>\n
Keynote speaker: Benita Parry (University of Warwick)<\/p>\n
We welcome proposals in or around the following research areas:<\/p>\n
*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 modernist routes between the global North and South
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the dialectic of the urban or cosmopolitan and the rural and regional
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the negotiation of global and local encapsulated in Roland Robertson’s ‘glocalization’
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hybrid or migrational identities
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the role of periodicals and ephemera in facilitating exchanges between metropolitan and peripheral modernisms and within the latter
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 issues of translation and reception
\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 issues of synchronicity or simultaneity (or lack of)<\/p>\n
Please send paper proposals of up to 250 words in English by 13 June 2011 to:<\/p>\n
Dr. Patricia Silva McNeill: P.DaSilvaMcNeill@sas.ac.uk<\/a> Dr Katia Pizzi CALL FOR PAPERS: Peripheral Modernisms International Conference 23 March 2012 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The last decade has witnessed renewed scholarly interest in modernist and avant-garde studies. The study of Modernism as a global phenomenon and the exploration of the links between modernity and postcoloniality constitute … <\/p>\n
\nand Dr. Katia Pizzi: Katia.Pizzi@sas.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInstitute of Germanic & Romance Studies
\nSchool of Advanced Study
\nUniversity of London
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