MODERNISM AND VISUAL CULTURE
An International Conference
St Cross Building, University of Oxford
1st and 2nd November 2008
Note: The conference will take place across two rooms – Lecture Theatre 2 and Lecture Room 2.
Please check your locations carefully.
Saturday 1st November
9.00 – Registration opens
9.45 – Lecture Theatre 2
Introduction
10.00 – 11.00– Lecture Theatre 2
Keynote
Chair: ELLEKE BOEHMER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
MAGGIE HUMM (UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON)
Virginia Woolf and Visual Cultures: Analogies, Adoptions, Abjection
11.00 – 11.30 – Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 1.00 – Session 1
Lecture Theatre 2
Writing on Film
Chair: MAGGIE HUMM
DEBORAH CARTMELL & IMELDA WHELEHAN (DE
MONTFORT UNIVERSITY)
“Savages of the 20th Century Watching the
Pictures”: Writers on Literature on Screen in the
Early Twentieth Century
STACEY JEAN BIRK (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
IRVINE)
How To: Early Screenwriting Manuals and the
Modernity Thesis Revised
ANTHONY PARASKEVA (UNIVERSITY OF
GREENWICH)
Cinema Fakes in Wyndham Lewis and Vladimir
Nabokov
Lecture Room 2
The Senses
Chair: DAVID TROTTER
FABIO L. VERICAT (COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF
MADRID)
The Pre-Modernist L/Senses of Nineteenth-Century
Modernity: Textual Optics, Daguerreotypes and other
Visual Tricks in the Hawthorne Romance
GILLES CHAMEROIS (UNIVERSITY OF BREST)
“Fronds and Spaces”: Wallpaper and the Hypnagogic
Dimension of Writing in Modernism
ABBIE GARRINGTON (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)
‘The Blind Man’ in a Visual Culture: D. H. Lawrence
and the Haptic Sense
1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 – Session 2
Lecture Theatre 2
Modernity
Chair: DEBORAH CARTMELL
CHRIS KAMERBEEK (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)
The Anarchist and the Elephant: The Edison Film
Company and Two Electrocutions
JEFF WALLACE (UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN)
“‘eart knowledge”: Abstraction, Modernity and
Popular Visual Culture in Robert Tressell’s The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Lecture Room 2
The Avant-Garde and Popular Culture
Chair: PHIL POWRIE
MARIA IONIŢĂ (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
The Rhetoric of Parataxis: Collage and Mass Culture
in the European Avant-garde
EUN Y JUNG (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS)
Modernism and its Others: The Death and
Resurrection of Modernism in Marcel Duchamp’s
Apolinère Enameled and Dan Flavin’s Apollinaire
wounded (to Ward Jackson)
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CAROL L. YANG (NATIONAL CHENGCHI
UNIVERSITY)
The Flâneur, the City, and Virtual Public Life in T.S.
Eliot’s Works
CAROLINE EVANS (CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN)
Mirrors, Magic and Multiplication: Early TwentiethCentury Fashion Shows
3.30 – 4.00 – Tea/Coffee
4.00 – 5.00 – Session 3
Lecture Theatre 2
Equivalence
Chair: ALEX GOODY
VIORICA PATEA (UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA)
Modernist Poetics and Visual Arts
ANDREW SHAIL (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
Time in Film after 1908 and the Emergence of High
Literary Modernism
Lecture Room 2
Qu’est-ce que le cinéma?
Chair: LUCY GALLAGHER
JUSTUS NIELAND (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Cinematopoetics: For a Modernist Psychology of the
Image
IONA PELOVSKA (RYERSON UNIVERSITY)
From Memory to Modernity: The Life and Death of
the Moving Image
5.00 – 6.00 – Lecture Theatre 2
Keynote
Chair: DAVID BRADSHAW (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
LAURA MARCUS (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)
“A hymn to movement”: The ‘City Symphony’ of the 1920s and 1930s
7.00 – Conference Dinner (for those who have booked and paid in advance)
Sunday 2nd November
9.00 – 10.30 – Session 4
Lecture Theatre 2
London
Chair: JUSTUS NIELAND
STAN GREEN (SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY)
Impressionism, Modernism and Visual Culture in
London, 1905-06
BERNARD VERE (SOTHEBY’S INSTITUTE OF ART)
“Smiling insinuatingly”: Wyndham Lewis and the
Mass Media in 1914
Lecture Room 2
The Modernist Visual Arts
Chair: JEFF WALLACE
PHIL POWRIE (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)
L’Herbier’s Feu Mathias Pascal at Modernism’s
Crossroads
KATHERINE WATSON (ROEHAMPTON UNIVERSITY)
“Feminism Has At Last Tinged The Ballet”: Multiple
Modernist Feminisms in the Ballets of Bronislava
Nijinska
SCOTT FREER (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)
Narratives of Modern Paralysis: Jean-Luc Godard
10.30 – 11.00 – Tea/Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 – Session 5
Lecture Theatre 2
Cinematicity
Chair: ANDREW SHAIL
CLEO HANAWAY (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
Visual “sweetmeats” for the brain or “thought
through my eyes”?: Cinematic Ways of Seeing and
Being in Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway
LAUREN CLAIRE MULVEE (UNIVERSITY OF
OXFORD)
Helen in Egypt: Treating the Character as a
Lecture Room 2
Influences
Chair: LUCY GALLAGHER
YIYAN WANG (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
Between the Self and the Nation: The Chinese Agony
over Modernism
JACKY SHIN (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
Still Lives: Virginia Woolf, Yasujiro Ozu, and
Cinematic Elegy
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Hieroglyph
EMILIE CRAPOULET (UNIVERSITY OF SURREY)
Suggesting versus Showing: Virginia Woolf’s Cinema
of the Future
JAKOB LOTHE (UNIVERSITY OF OSLO)
Modernism and the Problem of Narrative
Beginnings: Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
12.30 – 1.30 – Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 – Session 6
Lecture Theatre 2
The Visual in Writing
Chair: EMMA SHORT
DANIELA CASELLI (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)
Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus: Visual Arts in
Ladies Almanack, Ryder, and The Playgoer’s Almanac
Lecture Room 2
Influences U.S.A.
Chair: MARK WHALAN
ANDREW STEPHENSON (UNIVERSITY OF EAST
LONDON)
‘Paris Hollywood’: Masculine Fashionability and
Parisian Modernity in the Photographs of the
Séeberger Brothers, 1909-39
ALEX GOODY (OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY)
Mina Loy and the Hollywood Industry
CATHRYN SETZ (BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF
LONDON)
The “Beast Eye”: Modes of Becoming Between
Freud and Feminism in Max Ernst’s La femme 100
têtes and Djuna Barnes’ Ryder
REBECA HERNÁNDEZ (UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA) THOMAS KARSHAN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
Make it New: Visual Dimensions in Augusto and
Cartoons and Fiction at the New Yorker: John Updike
Haroldo de Campos’ Transcreations of Modernist
and Others
Poetry
3.00 – 3.30 – Tea/Coffee
3.30 – 5.00 – Session 7
Lecture Theatre 2
Woolf
Chair: DANIELA CASELLI
JONATHAN FOLTZ (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
“The Likeness of Thought”: Cinema and
Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf
JANE GOLDMAN (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)
Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Pankhurst, and the Gender
Politics of Solarism, Chiaroscuro and Colourism:
Victorian, Modernist and Suffragist Aesthetics
ELLEN TURNER (NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY)
Virginia Woolf: Resisting the Sovereignty Trap
Lecture Room 2
U.S.A.
Chair: LAUREN MULVEE
MARK WHALAN (UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)
“The Majesty of the Moment”: Photography and
Subjectivity in Paul Strand and Sherwood Anderson
YA’ARA GIL-GLAZER (UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA)
Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free as an
Experimental Political Work of Art
5.00 – 6.00 – Lecture Theatre 2
Keynote
Chair: ANDREW SHAIL (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
DAVID TROTTER (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
e-Modernism: Telephony and the Phobic Picturesque
6.00
Close of Conference
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