The Long Twentieth Century (1885-2008):
Literature, Politics, Aesthetics
th
September 18 2013
Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Goldsmiths, University of London
9.00-9.15 Coffee and registration
9.15 Welcome
9.20-11.00 KEYNOTE, PROFESSOR JOSH COHEN, (Goldsmiths):
‘A Dark and Truncated Language’,
Chair: Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths)
11.00-12.30
PANEL 1: The Space of Literature as Resistance
Chair: Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths)
Yasmine Shamma, (Oxford): ‘Resisting Conspicuous Consumption: The New York School’s Strategies.’
Basil Chiasson, (Memorial, Newfoundland): ‘Instrumental reason, the politics of speeding up in the long twentieth century
and the possibility of literary ‘decelerations.’
Maria Kalantzopoulou, (Paris): ‘Literature as Democracy and Its Limits: Literature as Politics and the Politics of
Literature.’
12.30-1.30 LUNCH
1.30-3.00
PANEL 2: Fin de siècle to modernism
Chair: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths)
Mercedes Aguirre, (UCL): ‘In Defence of Culture’: The 1937 International Congress of Writers’
Meredith Miller, (Falmouth): ‘”In a Purely Scientific Journal”: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and the Retreat from the Real’.
Raluca Goleșteanu (Tadeusz Manteuffel Intitute, Warsaw: ‘Central and Eastern European Instances of the Concept of
L’art pour l’art` in the Fin-de-Siècle’
3.15 tea/coffee break
PANEL 3: Gender, aesthetics, politics
Chair: Maria Lauret (Sussex)
Vicky Sparrow, (Birkbeck): ‘The Angry Brigade: Anna Mendelssohn’s poetics of the political’.
Frith Taylor, (independent scholar):‘Narrative Style as Subversion: The Politics of Aesthetics in Kate Chopin’s The
Awakening.’
Marketá Gebhartová (Tokyo and Prague)” “I have to live somewhere else I feel my othernesses”: women writers in
1970s and 1980s Czechoslovakia’.
4.30—6.00 KEYNOTE, PROFESSOR PAUL HAMILTON, (Queen Mary): ‘Exceptions’,
Chair: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths)
6.15-7.30 WINE RECEPTION
This is a free event but you are required to register by emailing c.sweeney@gold.ac.uk.