On Friday May 17th 2019, we were thrilled to welcome an exciting gathering of participants to the National University of Ireland Galway campus for our inaugural MSI conference. The plenary speaker was Dr. Ben Levitas, of Goldsmiths University of London.
Entitled Modernist Legacies and Futures, our 2019 conference explored the grappling over modernism’s aftermath, afterlives, and its perpetual relevance. Given new textualities and ephemera available to scholars today, the call for papers asked contributors to (re)consider how creative figures conceived and constructed their future both within their work and in the material cultures they occupied.
Some of the areas covered included:
- Modernist aesthetics and futurity
- Time and temporality
- Age, ageing, and youth
- Vision and revision
- Collaborative acts and interdisciplinary practice
- Modernist editing and the legacy of ‘the work’
- Periodical and print networks
- Minor’ literatures or non-Anglophone modernisms Modernism in the digital humanities
- Gendered and queer modernisms
- Metamodernism and neomodernism
- Historicising or geo-politicising modernisms and modernities
- Space and representation
- Modernism in and of media
- Transnational and global modernisms
- Modernist afterlives and futures
- Modernist (im-)possibilities, utopias, dystopias
- Pedagogy and modernist studies
- Archives, databases, and digital collections
- Editing and publishing histories
- Canon formation and redefinition
The conference programme is available below:
Modernist Studies Ireland 