Programme for the Metamodernism Conference
3-5 July 2019
Wednesday July 3 – location: Theatre room C, Elinor Ostrom building, Radboud University
7.30 pm – 9.30 pm: Reading Will Self
Moderator: Professor Antony Rowland (Manchester Metropolitian University)
Thursday July 4 – location: EOS 01.150, Elinor Ostrom building, Radboud University
09.00 – 09.30: Registration / refreshments
09.30 – 09.45: Welcome (Antony Rowland, Dennis Kersten, Usha Wilbers)
09.45 – 10.45: Keynote lecture Robin van den Akker – “Forget Metamodernism”
Moderator: Dr Dennis Kersten (Radboud University)
10.45 – 11.15: Break
11.15 – 12.00: Panel – The Metamodernist Novel (I)
Chair: Professor David James (University of Birmingham)
- 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
Chair: Dr Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University)
- 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
Chair: Professor Antony Rowland (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- 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 & Alistair Noon
4.30 – 5.15: Panel – Metamodernist Music
Chair: Professor Odin Dekkers (Radboud University)
- 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, Radboud University
11.00 – 11.30: Refreshments
11.30 – 12.30: Keynote lecture David James – “Uplift: Contemporary Sentimentalism and the Literature of Amelioration”
Moderator: Dr Usha Wilbers (Radboud University)
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 3.00: Panel – The Metamodernist Novel (II)
Chair: Professor Hans Bak (Radboud University)
- 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”
3.00 – 3.30: Break
3.30 – 5.00: Panel – Metamodernist Visual Culture
Chair: Dr Lázsló Munteán (Radboud University)
- 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