Modernisms/Modernities Colloquium Event Schedule
Fall 2008 Fall Series on Comparative Modernisms Thursday, October 23 12:00 pm H.C. White 7191 Lecture: Jahan Ramazani (Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia)
Thursday, October 23 2:30 pm H.C. White 7101 Graduate Student Roundtable with Ramazani Thursday, November 2o 4:00 pm H.C. White 7191 Lecture: Natalie Melas (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University) Friday, November 21 12:00 pm H.C. White 7101 Graduate Student Roundtable with Melas
Co-Sponsors for series: Anonymous Fund, the English Department, the Department of Theater and Drama, The Center for European Studies, Global Studies, the History Department, the Border and Transcultural Research Circle, the Middle Modernity Group, the African Diaspora and Atlantic World Research Circle, and the Postcolonial, Migration, and Transnational Studies Group. - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Spring 2008 Thursday, April 17 4:00 pm H.C. White 7191 Lecture: David Chinitz (Loyola University Chicago) "Langston Hughes and the Ethics of Compromise" - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday, April 18 12:30 to 1:30pm H.C. White 7101 Graduate Student Roundtable with David Chinitz Readings available here Space is limited, so please email Sara Phillips to RSVP. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday, April 1 5:30 pm 6191 H.C. White Forum on Langston Hughes and Modernism Featuring faculty respondent Lynn Keller and a number of graduate student respondents. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fall 2007 Friday, November 30 12 to 1pm H.C. White 7101 Graduate Student Roundtable with Jennifer Wicke Reading available here. Space is limited, so please email Sara Phillips to RSVP. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday, November 30th 4:00 pm H.C. White 6191
Jennifer Wicke argues for an interstitial understanding of modernism and modernity, whereby modern culture-- in its art, its politics, its forms of knowledge-- is seen to emerge globally, in the interstices of cultural collision. An interstitial modernism questions the hierarchies of metropole vs.periphery, modernity vs. tradition that inform modernist criticism and postcolonial studies alike, and sets modernism in a global frame that is ineluctably reciprocal. The banana--the first "modern" fruit to be marketed and represented globally--serves as a material metaphor elucidating a frictional model of modern cultural creation, consumption, and circulation. As an iconic object of aesthetic and political modernity in a nexus of global art, literature, and mass culture, and a signal example of the modern commodity in its circuit from plantation to port to produce bin, the banana offers a doubled global arc. Tracing a banana discourse that brings Josephine Baker, Adolf Loos, Claude McKay, Paul Klee, Diego Rivera and John Maynard Keynes, among others, into conjunction, reveals modernism as a dynamic interface, a co-production of the whole world. Sponsors: The Department of English - - - - - - - - - - - - - Previous Events: Fall 2007 Thursday, November 15 4:30pm H.C. White 7191 Forum on "The Global Commodity" Featuring faculty respondent Susan Friedman and a number of graduate student respondents. Spring 2007 Forum on Cinematic Modernity
Screening: Fritz Lang's Metropolis Tuesday, April 17 5:00 pm H.C. White Rm 7191
Forum featuring discussion with Professor Richard Begam (UW-Madison) Thursday, April 19 4:00 pm English Department Library Discussion of film and Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (link to text here, and available in hard copy in the department library)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Thursday, March 22 12:30 pm H.C. White Rm 6191 Graduate Student Roundtable with Christopher Reed "An Aesthetic of Conscientious Objection: Domestic Interiors Against the War" Moderator: Kevin Piper - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thursday, March 22 4:00 pm H.C. White Rm. 7191 Lecture: Christopher Reed (Lake Forest College) “Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics in the Construction of Western Masculinities" Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund, the Middle Modernity Group and the Modernisms/Modernities Colloquium; co-sponsored by the Contemporary Literature Colloquium, Visual Culture, and the Department of Art History. Organizer: Kevin Piper. Fall 2006 Friday, September 15 12:00 pm H.C. White Rm. 7101 re-orienting modernity: How do we think about modernity outside of the North Atlantic? Featured respondents: Susan Standford Friedman (English, UW-Madison) and Marcelo Pellegrini (Spanish, UW-Madison) Tuesday, October 10 4 pm English Department Library Dissertation Workshop with Ray Hsu "Feeling Out Imperialism: Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnography, Haiti, and Comparative Forms of Possession" - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Monday, October 30 6:00 pm H.C. White Rm. 6191 Film Screening: F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) (Forum on Cinematic Modernity) - - - - - - - - - - - - -Tuesday, October 31 4:00 pm H.C. White Rm. 6191 Forum on Cinematic Modernity Organizer: Amy Johnson Thursday, November 30 4:00 pm H.C. White Rm. 7191 Lecture: Jed Esty (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "What's Global about Modernist Interiority? Narratives of Colonialism and Consciousness" Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund, the Contemporary Literature Colloquim, the Modernisms/ Modernity Colloquium, the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop. Organizer: Kevin Piper. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Roundtable with graduate students: “A Shrinking Island” Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund, the Contemporary Literature Colloquium, the Modernisms/Modernity Colloquium, the Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle, the Global Studies program, the Department of History (pending), and the Cosmopolitan Culture, Cosmopolitan Histories Mellon Workshop. Moderator: Mitch Nakaue. |
