{"id":1854,"date":"2016-12-04T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T11:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:45:35","slug":"historical-modernisms-symposium-dec-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Senate House \u2013 12-13 December 2016 \u2013 Institute of English Studies, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Historical Modernisms Symposium<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday 12 \u2013 Tuesday 13 December 2016, Senate House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as ahistorical, there have been recent academic and critical efforts to historicize it. The Historical Modernism Symposium seeks to contribute to this trend by inviting readings of modern\/ist literature and avant-garde art movements in the historical contexts of their production and reception, while assessing their entanglement with history and modernity transnationally.<br \/>\nThe symposium aims to look at the history of modernism and the avant-gardes in relation to and their place in (literary and art) History, addressing questions of their relation with modern times, raised, for example, by colonialism; nationalism; globalisation; economics; politics; tradition; technology; urbanism, classicism; mythology; mysticism; religion; psychology\/psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Importantly, it will examine pertinent philosophies of time, historiographical practices and representations of local and world historical events, such as the two World Wars, the Russian\u00a0 Revolution and the rise of Fascism.<br \/>\nFinally, it will also investigate modernist concepts of the spirit of the times as well as new notions of and approaches to literary history.<br \/>\nA core question posed by the symposium topic is how a modernist aesthetics of innovation transformed history in ways that make modernism not just a history of the present moment but also the history of our present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For further information click here : <a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?http:\/\/www.ies.sas.ac.uk\/events\/conferences\/previous-conferences\/historical-modernisms-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>http:\/\/www.ies.sas.ac.uk\/events\/conferences\/previous-conferences\/historical-modernisms-symposium<\/u><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as ahistorical, there have been recent academic and critical efforts to historicize it. The Historical Modernism Symposium seeks to contribute to this trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenements-modernisme"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}