Thursday, 9 July

 

From 19.00         Get Together (self-paid), Brauhaus Riegele (Frölichstraße 26, 86150 Augsburg)

 

 

Friday, 10 July

 

08.30-9.00          Registration, Coffee, and Greetings

 

09.00-10.00        Keynote - James Procter (Newcastle): On Air: Tubercular Modernism, Miasma, and Elemental Media

 

10.00-10.30         Coffee Break

 

10.30-12.00         Panel I - Global Modernism (Chair: Nadine Ellinger)    ​​​      

     

    Raghav Verma (Tübingen): "Hollowed Decadence: Imperial Residue and the Sensory Politics of Indian Aesthetic Modernism

    (1905–1947)"

   

    Maria Al-Raes (Cornell/Ithaca): “‘Shut up in Self’: Birthing Allegory in The Story of an African Farm”

   

    Laura Schmitz-Justen (Münster): “A New Dawn? Female Citizenship in E. M. Delafield’s  Some Everyday Folks and Dawn (1909) and

    Allan Reeth’s Legions of the Dawn (1908)”

 

12.00-13.00         Lunch

 

13.00-14.00         Panel II – Black and Indigenous Writing (Chair: Lotte Lange)

     Daria Flockau (Augsburg): “Una Marson and Shakespearean Comedy: Com(ed)ic Resistance in London Calling”    

     

     Atalie Gerhard (Jena): “Noir avant la lettre: Black and Indigenous Masculinities in/as Crisis in Romance in Marseille (2020) and

    The Shagganappi (1913)”

 

14.00-14.30         Coffee Break

 

14.30-16.00         Panel III – Trans* and Queer Voices I (Chair: Linda Heß)

    

    

    Casey Maeve (Birmingham): “Natalie Clifford Barney: A Modern Sappho?” Marlena Tronicke (Cologne): “Reclaiming Desire: 

    Fin-de-Siècle Sexology and Historical Revision in Tom Crewe’s The New Life”

       

    Marcus Lawrence (Nottingham): “Queer Transmission and Aural Architecture: Performative Encoding and Sexual Dissidence in the

    Verbal Portraits of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and Vernon Lee”

 

16.00-16.30         Coffee Break

 

16.30-18.00         Panel IV – Trans* and Queer Voices II (Chair: Marlena Tronicke)

         

     

     Hao-Yu Hu (Edinburgh): “Navigating Decadence, the Queer Child, and Futurity in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis”

       

     Lucinda Janson (London): “Portrait of the Invert as a Child: Trans Autobiographical Fiction in Hungerheart (1915) by

    Christopher St John”
        

    Ciaran Gardner (York): “‘Like a bridge-builder’: Intimacy, Infrastructure, and Transitioning in Lili Elbe’s Man into Woman (1933)”

   

18.15-19.15         Keynote – Juno Richards (Yale): “The Orlando Series: Transgender Art, Colonial Reckoning”

 

19.30                    Dinner (self-paid), IL Porcino (Salomon-Idler-Straße 24B, 86159 Augsburg)

 

 

 

Saturday, 11 July

 

09.00-10.30       Panel V – Body and Mind  (Chair: Laura Schmitz-Justen)

 

    Sofia Murray (Kent): “Gothic Bodies, Eugenic Fears: New Woman Fiction and the Biopolitics of the Fin de Siècle”

 

    Aivaras Ivanauskas (Vilnius): “Sleepless Dreams: Decadence, Modernism and Insomnia”

    

    Clea Butcher (Edinburgh): “The Tubercular Body and Australian Modernity: Dymphna  Cusack’s Say No to Death (1951)”

   

10.30-11.00           Coffee Break

 

11.00-12.30          Panel VI – Music and Art (Chair: James Dowthwaite)

 

 

   Tsung-Han Tsai (Cheng Kung): “‘Might the violin satisfy’: Decadent Music in E. M. Forster’s ‘Dr Woolacott’”

 

   Theodore Leane (Cornell/Ithaca): “‘Born at the opening of the eye’: Nightwood and the Problem of the Modernist Image”

 

   Lilean Buhl (Hannover): “Marginalizing Frances Simpson Stevens: Gender, Migration, Celebrity, and the Submersion of America’s Only

   Futurist”

 

12.30-14:00         Lunch

 

14.00-15.30          Panel VII – Class (Chair: David Kerler)

 

  Johanna Pelikan (Hamburg): “Funding the Fringe: Mina Loy and the Politics of Modernist Sponsorship”

 

  Angelica Belloli (Chieti/Pescara): “The Time of Unemployment: Narrative Temporality and Suspended Adulthood in Walter Greenwood’s

  Love on the Dole (1933)”

 

  Natalia Maliuta (Kyiv/Göttingen): “Future of Ukrainian Modernism in Mykola Khvylovy’s Pamphlets: Class, National Identity and

  Decolonisation”

   

15.30-16.00         Coffee Break

 

16.00-17.30          Panel VIII – Spiritual Margins  (Chair: Melissa Sarikaya)

 

  James Dowthwaite (Mainz): “Ghosts, Patched with Histories: The Occult Image in Pound and Yeats”

 

  Feride Ertural (Mainz): “Conscious Nature: Esotericism and Liminality in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Willows’”

     

  Charlie Kleinschmidt (Mainz): “‘No other sound anywhere’: ‘The Sin Eater’ and Sensing Occult Decadence”

 

17.30-17.45         Closing Remarks and Departure