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Conference dates: 3 – 5 July 2019
Wednesday July 3 – location: Theatre room C, Elinor Ostrom building
7.30 pm – 9.30 pm: Reading by Will Self
Thursday July 4 – location: EOS 01.150, Elinor Ostrom building
09.00 – 09.30: Registration / refreshments
09.30 – 09.45: Welcome (Antony Rowland, Dennis Kersten and Usha Wilbers)
09.45 – 10.45: Keynote lecture – Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker
10.45 – 11.15: Break
11.15 – 12.00: Panel – The Metamodernist Novel (I)
- Katherine Burn – “Dwelling in Shame: A Heideggerian conceptualisation of place in Fiona Mozley’s Elmet”
- Kasimir Sandbacka –“ Metamodern utopianism in Emma Puikkonen’s Eurooppalaiset unet”
12.00 – 12.45: Panel – Global Ethics
- Alison Gibbons – “Metamodernist Futures or ‘a future that had never arrived’: Climate Change and Temporality in 10:04”
- Andrew Corsa – “Grand Narratives, Metamodernism, and Global Ethics”
12.45 – 1.45: Lunch
1:45 – 3.15: Panel – Metamodernist poetry
- Janien Linde – “Relational performatism as metamodern practice: a case study of the poetry of Marlene van Niekerk”
- Diya Nadkarni – “’Poetic autonomy, poetic engagement: metamodernism and the politics of contemporary poetry’”
- Anna Helle – “Metamodernism in Contemporary Finnish Literature”
3.15 – 3.45: Break
3.45 – 4.30: Poetry Reading – Antony Rowland and Alistair Noon
4.30 – 5.15: Panel – Metamodernist Music
- Niels van Poecke – “Pure Taste in Popular Music: On Poly-Purism as Metamodern Consumption”
- Greg Dember – “‘Punk Rock for Sissies’ – The Return of Affect in Early 21st Century American Indie Rock”
7:30: Conference Dinner at De Hemel (http://www.brouwerijdehemel.nl/)
Friday July 5 – location: EOS 01.610, Elinor Ostrom building
09.00 – 09:30: Refreshments
09:30 – 10:30: Keynote lecture David James – “Uplift: Contemporary Sentimentalism and the Literature of Amelioration”
10:30 – 11.00: Break
11.00 – 12:30: Panel – After Modernism / The Avant Garde
- Wit Pietrzak – “Has Literature Run Out of Steam? Experimental Prose and Reified Monomania”
- Alexandra Dumitrescu – “Is the Metamodern the Last Frontier?”
- Liam Harrison – “Make it Late: Metamodernism After Samuel Beckett”
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 3.00: Panel – The Metamodernist Novel (II)
- Arya Aryan – “’The Novel in the Age of Risk Society: Metamodernism as an Alternative”
- Mika Hallila – “The Ethics and Poetics of Oscillation in Asko Sahlberg’s The Brothers”
- Michaela Beck – “The ‘New Sincere’ Master of the ‘Great Art of Telling the Truth’: Tracing Authorship from Wallace to Emerson in Ed Park’s Personal Days”
3.00 – 3.30: Break
3.30 – 5:00: Panel – Metamodernist Visual Culture
- Tom Drayton – “Hope/Less: The Politics of Metamodern Theatre”
- Jeroen Boom – “Mapping the Metamodern City: Urban Representations in Indie Cinema”
- Chantal Hassard – “Performative Painting in Metamodernity”
5:00 – 5:30: Closing remarks and drinks.
The conference fee is 50 EURO for students / PhD candidates and 100 EURO for senior scholars. You can either pay this beforehand (see bank account information below) or during the conference. Please include the words “Registration Metamodernism Conference / Budgetnummer 2380555” as a subject when you pay before attending.
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