Below are the audio recordings of the AHRC Metamodernism Network Conference held at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, in July 2019.
Plenary Speaker
Will Self – Reading
Keynote Lecture
Robin van den Akker – “Forget Metamodernism”
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”
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”
Panel – Metamodernist Poetry
Janien Linde – “Relational performatism as metamodern practice: a case study of the poetry of Marlene van Niekerk”
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”
Keynote Lecture
David James – “Uplift: Contemporary Sentimentalism and the Literature of Amelioration”
Panel – The Metamodernist Novel (II)
Liam Harrison – “Make it Late: Metamodernism After Samuel Beckett”
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”
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”