‘Sensory Modernism(s)’, seeks to address the interrelationship of modernism with sensory perception. The spirit of the conference is interdisciplinary, and invokes characterisations of modernism derived from a wide range of discursive domains. The one-day conference will be held at the University of Leeds on Thursday May 21.
Keynote Speakers: Dr Richard Brown, Dr Christina Bradstreet, Caro Verbeek
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers which address the theme of modernism and the senses. Papers may address, but are in no way limited to, the following topics and their relevance to the general scope of the conference:
- Philosophy
- Psychoanalysis
- Cinematography
- Radio
- Medicine
- Anthropology
- Aesthetics
- Linguistics
- Literature and the marketplace
- Animals
- Sexuality
Abstracts of 200-300 words, with a brief bio of no more than 200 words, should be emailed by 15 April 2015.
To celebrate the centenary of Mary Braddon’s death, we are inviting entrants to submit a witness statement based on any aspect of Braddon’s best known text, Lady Audley’s Secret.
These can take any form, so, for example, they could be a section from a police officer’s notebook, a newspaper cutting or a calling card etc. They can also take the form of a tweet about a specific event in the story.
Entries should be a maximum of 200 words and the competition is open to all – undergraduate, postgraduate students and staff, as well as external senior-school aged entrants.
All entries will be published on this blog and we’ll also be previewing some of them via the ICVWW Facebook page and Twitter (@ICVWW).
You can also download a poster for it via this link
The closing date for entries is April 30th.