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Three Day Conference

July 12th-14th 2007De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Modernist MagazinesConference

TheModernistAtlantic

Keynote Speakers: Michael North (UCLA)and Laurel Brake (Birkbeck)

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‘The Modernist Atlantic’ is the first of twointernational conferences organised by theModernist Magazines Project(www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/modmags/index.htm),directed by Peter Brooker (University ofNottingham) and Andrew Thacker (DeMontfort University), and funded by the AHRC.Although the study of modernism has beenrevolutionised over the last decade it is onlyrecently been recognised that periodicalpublications made a distinctive contribution tothe modernist movement.

This conference aims to address the role ofmagazines in the construction of modernism,focussing upon magazines in Britain, Irelandand North America. Themes include:

• studies of individual magazines

• studies of individual writers and artists inmagazines

• archives; serialisation

• the short story in magazines

• metropolitan and regional cultures

• coteries and salons

• advertising

• visual culture

• gender and publishing

• race/nationalism/identities

• technologies, typists, typefaces

• circulation, censorship and readership

• patronage

• editors

• manifestoes and movements

• the avant-garde; tradition and the new

• ‘little’ and ‘large’ magazines

• popular and mainstream

• transnationalism and geomodernisms

• small presses and printers.

Conference Highlightsinclude:

Keynote lectures by:• Michael North (UCLA), author of Reading

1922, Camera Works, and The Dialect ofModernism

• Laurel Brake (Birkbeck), author of Print inTransition1850-1910, SubjugatedKnowledges: Journalism, Gender andLiterature, and director of the NineteenthCentury Serials Edition project.

• Roundtable on Modernist Periodicals withSean Latham (Tulsa) and CliffordWulfman (Brown) of the ModernistJournals Project.

Papers on magazinesincluding:The Dial, The New Age, The Egoist, Blast, TheCrisis, Art and Letters, Time and Tide, TheBermondsey Book, Life and Letters, TheCriterion, transition, Migrant, The Smart Set,The Liberator, Art News, The Chapbook, TheDome, The Acorn, and many others.

Speakers include: Julia Briggs, Jane Dowson, Anne Fernihough,Andrzej Gasiorek, Jane Goldman, FayeHammill, Jason Harding, David Peters Corbett,Michael Whitworth and Tim Woods.

Conference Organisers and Directors of the Modernist Magazines Project

Peter Brooker is Professor of Literary and CulturalStudies at the University of Nottingham. His recentpublications include Modernity and Metropolis (2002),Bohemia in London (2004) and as co-editor, TheGeographies of Modernism (2005). He is chair of theRaymond Williams Society and an editor of Key Words.

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth CenturyLiterature at De Montfort University, Leicester. Recentpublications include Moving Through Modernity (2003),The Imagist Poets (2007) and as co-editor, Geographies ofModernism (2005). He is an editor of Literature & History.

REGISTRATION FORM MODERNIST MAGAZINES 12-14 July 2007

Conference Fee (includes lunch, refreshments, notes and a delegate pack)

Full 3 day rate: £100 (including vat) Full 3 day student/unwaged rate: £50 (including vat)

Day rate: £60 (including vat) Day student/unwaged rate: £30 (including vat)

Thursday 12 July Friday 13 July Saturday 14 July

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Halls of Residence (not en-suite): £20 bed and Breakfast per night

Ramada Jarvis: £80 Bed and Breakfast per night

Wednesday 11 July Thursday 12 July Friday 13 July

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