Tradition, memory and modernity: The Waste Land as a turning point of reconciling innovation and tradition

Modernist Memories:
1922, Before and After

Monday 23rd
11.30 - 11.45
Welcome/opening remarks
11.45 - 13.00
Plenary Panel 1
My Modernist Self: A Dialogue
Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield)
JT Welsch (University of York)
13.00 - 15.00
Lunch
15.00 - 16.15
Panel 1 - Modernist Afterlives
Proustian Perversions: Modernist Afterlives and the Tidewrack of Twentieth-Century Literature
Ian Ellison (University of Kent)
J. M. Coetzee and the Theory of Modernist Afterlives
John Greaney (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Modernism as a Memory Knot
Justyna Tabaszewska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
16.30 - 17.30
Keynote 1
James Joyce’s Ulysses 1922: Game-changing Homeric Memory
Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt)
18.00
Reception hosted by the Consul General of Ireland to Frankfurt
Tuesday 24th
10.00 - 11.15
Panel 2 – Revisiting Eliot
Mnemonic Bodies of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Jūratė Levina (Vilnius University)
Uncontainable Memories: Epistemology of The Waste Land
Soelve I. Curdts (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Tradition, memory and modernity: The Waste Land as a turning point of reconciling innovation and tradition
Gábor Bednanics (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University)
10.00 - 11.15
Panel 3 – Modernist Legacies
The Fragmentation of Irish Revivalism in Flann O’ Brien’s Early Writings
Francesca Caraceni (Catholic University of Milan)
Digital Media as Pharmakon
Ahenk Yilmaz (Yaşar University)
Avant-Garde Afterlives: Bauhaus in Calcutta (1922) and the Visual Aesthetics of Bengali Little Magazines (post-1950s)
Suchismito Khatua (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
11.45 - 13.00
Plenary Panel 2
Repeating, Repeating and Figuring-Out: On the Recursive Shape of Modernist Memory in Samuel Beckett, Anna Burns and Marion Milner
Julie Walsh (University of Essex)
Barry Sheils (Durham University)
13.00 - 15.00
Lunch
15.00 - 16.15
Panel 4 – Closures, Erasures and the Arts of Memory
Forgetting Modernism: Prunella Clough and Abstraction
Jennifer Johnson (University of Oxford)
‘Singing School’: WB Yeats and the arts of memory
Adrian Paterson (National University of Ireland, Galway)
The Unfinalizability of Modernism
Tamara Radak (University of Vienna)
15.00 - 16.15
Panel 5 – The Lineages of Modernist Forms
Friends and Company: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, and Memorializing the Modernist Bookshop
Matthew Chambers (University of Warsaw)
The Dark Matter of Modernist Afterlives: An ‘Unfinished Conversation’
Sabine Doran (Pennsylvania State University)
Modernist Magazines and the Media Logic of Artistic Afterlives: The Re-emergence of Two Norahs
Magdalena De Gasperi (Goethe University Frankfurt)
16.30 - 17.30
Keynote 2
Modernist Mnemotechnologies via the Book of the Heart
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)
Wednesday 25th
10.00 - 11.15
Panel 6 - Modernist Mnemotechnics
Between the Acts as a Form of Cultural Memory
Demet Karabulut-Dede (Munzur University)
Mediating the tension between stable identity and the ‘transmuting process’ of time in To the Lighthouse
James A. Kearns (University of Plymouth)
The Neural Time Scales of Stein’s Geography and Plays
Tram Nguyen (City University of New York)
10.00 - 11.15
Panel 7 - Modernist Mnemopoetics
Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Forgetting between Proust and Tieck
Benjamin Brewer (Emory University)
The Modernist Mnemopoetics of Miloš Crnjanski Biljana Markovic (University of Vienna)
Women as Agents of History and Memory in Laura Riding’s A Trojan Ending
Svetlana Seibel (Saarland University)
11.45 – 13.00
Panel 8 - Modernist Remediations
The Contemporary Embodiment of Fictional Minds of Modernism
Amalia Cotoi (University of Cluj-Napoca)
An Analysis of Dialogical ‘Relationalities’ with the Past in The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
Erol Gülüm (Bilecik Seyh Edebali University)
Tortious Modernist Memories: Negligence Law and the Contemporary English Novel
Mimi Lu (University of Oxford)
11.45 – 13.00
Panel 9 - Global Modernist Afterlives
The Modern and the Monster: Urban conflicts and the contested memories of socialist modernism in former Yugoslavia
Jovana Janinovic (UPJS Kosice & University of Valladolid)
From H.D. to Sri Dao Ruang and Thailand’s ‘Sita’s Trial by Fire’ Protest:
Translational and Transnational Gynocentric Mythopoesis as Modernism’s Legacy
Verita Sriratana (Chulalongkorn University)
Memories of a Modernist Landscape the Case Study: Atatürk Forest Farm
Nilgün Rengin Sazak (Brandenburg University of Technology)
13.00 - 15.00
Lunch
15.00 - 16.00
Keynote 3
Modernist Futures: Re-Reading 1922
John Brannigan (University College Dublin)
16.30 - 17.30
Closing Roundtable