The Global Modernism Symposium is a two-day academic event hosted by the Ithaca College English Department. The GMS is distinguished by its structure and organization, which relies on the direction of junior scholars in the broadly-conceived field of Global Modernisms. Taking David James's question of why global writers "have chosen--creatively yet purposively-- to extend modernist resources in representing sociocultural environments and conflicts" as a jumping off point, the GMS's organizers seek to address Modernism's belated recognition of its global inheritance and inheritors. The GMS faculty group selected six junior faculty from around the country to design panels on a topic central to their research and integral to the development of this relatively new branch of modernist studies. The panels take up issues of ethics and aesthetics, internationalism and nationalism, genre and form, center and periphery, and colonialism and authoritarianism, and do so in a manner that both historicizes the traditionally understood definition of Modernism, while making room for critical interventions once thought to be outside the bounds of modernist thought. The panels will be framed by two keynote papers by leading figures in the field, Professors Paul Saint-Amour (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary University of London). The writer Patrick Flanery, author of the novels Absolution (2012) and Fallen Land (2013), will offer a reading from his recent work, fiction that both in its material circulation and textual preoccupations is expressly global. The Global Modernism Symposium will take place at Ithaca College, April 3-4, 2014. All events are free and open to the public. Registration is suggested to ensure a seat at the keynote addresses and Patrick Flanery's reading, and can be completed for free at this webpage.
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Ithaca, NY14850
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY14850