Programme
All panels will be in Lecture Room 8, Arts Building
9.15 Registration
9.45 Introduction
10.00 Keynote Address: Dr Matthew Rubery – ‘Reading on the Move after 1877’
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 PANEL ONE – Travelling through the modern world
(Chair: Dr John Fagg)
v Christopher Phillips (University of Leeds) – Remembering the Third ‘M’
v Gaetan Maret (University of Oxford) – Literary Travels of the Harlem Renaissance
v Fariha Shaikh (King’s College London) – ‘An Imagined Community’? The Social Life of Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Shipboard Newspapers
13.00 Lunch
13.45 PANEL TWO – Visualising modernity and mapping movement
(Chair: Dr Deborah Longworth)
v Harry Gregory (University of York) – Tin Tabernacles and Religious Expansion in the Late Nineteenth-Century
v Helen Kearney (Royal College of Art) – Mapping Modernity: The London Postal Map
v Antonino L. Nielfi (University of Melbourne) – Swirls of Shouts and Rivers of Shapes: Futurism’s Dual Gaze on Early Twentieth-Century Society
15.15 Coffee Break
15.45 PANEL THREE – Re-thinking representations
(Chair: Dr Elizabeth Ludlow)
v Imogen Clarke (University of Roehampton) – Rescuing Newton: The Careful Management of a Revolution in Science
v Katharina Günther (University of Cologne) – Aesthetics of Transparency – Francis Bacon and X-Ray Photography
v Ian Higgins (University of Leicester) – ‘This Strange Disease of Modern Life’: Boredom, Flux and the Making of Modernity
17.15 ‘Getting Published’: Roundtable discussion with Dr Matthew Rubery, Dr Daniel Moore and Dr Jim Mussell
