A symposium to revisit and commemorate the centenary of women's contributions to Year One in High Modernism: 1922
About
This day-long symposium revisits and commemorates those women who boldly “forge[d] the dusk of Chaos” (Mina Loy, “Apology of Genius,” 1922) that was the annus mirabilis of modernism, 1922.
In addition to commemorating the canonical and non-canonical women of modernism alike, within and beyond the “critical mass” of Euro-American modernists who preoccupied the old modernist studies, this symposium aims to address bigger questions about the logic of periodicity, historicity, and linearity that shape our understanding of the modernist project. What can our individual and collective discussions about the feminist conceptions of time that resounded in ’22 across a range of forms and media, tell us about current debates on temporality and periodizing modernity in contemporary modernist studies?
Guest speakers include:
Mark Byron (University of Sydney)
Simon During (University of Melbourne)
Jessica Gildersleeve (University of Southern QLD) Naomi Milthorpe (University of Tasmania) Sascha Morrell (Monash)
Julian Murphet (University of Adelaide)
Sean Pryor (UNSW)
Karin Sellberg (University of QLD)
Lorraine Sim (Western Sydney University)
Ann Vickery (Deakin )
Andrew van der Vlies (University of Adelaide)
This event will also include a poetry recital by distinguished poet Jill Jones, and a virtual keynote by Francesca Wade, acclaimed author of Square Haunting (Faber 2020)
Event Details
Date: Friday 26 August 2022
Time: 9.15am — 5.30pm
Location: The Terrace Room, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14)
Event Zoom link: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/83484975105
Event Program
Time | Event | Speaker | Theme |
9.15— 9.30am | Welcome | Tamlyn Avery | Opening Remarks |
9.30— 10.25am | Keynote | Francesca Wade | Reconstructing the Women of 1922 |
10.25— 11.25am | Panel 1 | Simon During | Mansfield, Heresy, Critique |
Sascha Morrell | Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon and the False Dichotomy between modernism and romanticism | ||
11.25— 11.45am | Morning Tea | ||
11.45— 1pm | Panel 2 | Mark Byron | Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and Baroness Elsa’s Collaborations |
Ann Vickery | Amy Lowell’s A Critical Fable | ||
Sean Pryor | Hope Mirrlees and Charlotte Mew: Poetry and critical discourse | ||
1— 1.30pm | Lunch | ||
1.30pm— 2.30pm | Panel 3 | Andrew van der Vlies | Virginia Woolf, Karel Schoeman, Fiona Melrose: Hauntings and Disappointments |
Karin Selberg | Scandinavian national romanticism: Karin Boye and Sigrid Undset | ||
2.30— 3.00pm | Honours Student Reflections on ‘22 | Jaimie Dwyer; Sam Hammond; Lucy Turner | |
3— 3.15pm | Afternoon Tea Break | ||
3.15— 4.10pm | Panel 4 | Julian Murphet | Gertrude Stein's Georgraphy and Plays |
Lorraine Sim | Virginia Woolf’s Happiness | ||
4.10— 4.40pm | Poetry Reading | Jill Jones | |
4.45— 6pm | Drinks and Networking at St Lucy's UQ | ||