Second Conference of the Modernist Magazines Project (Sussex, 15-17 Jul
09)

Call for Papers

Modernism, Cultural Exchange and Transnationality: The Second Conference
of the Modernist Magazines Project

Sussex, 15-17 July 2009

Deadline: 15 February 2009

The interest in much current critical debate in questions of national
and transnational identities has helped restore and enliven the
conception of modernism and the avant-garde as twin international
formations across the arts. Magazines were instrumental in publicizing
the new movements and frequently did so, singly or in the company of
others, with an ambition to intervene in the public or international
sphere.
The second conference of the Modernist Magazines Project invites
proposals for papers which explore the role magazines have played in the
broad networks of modernist art, ideas and politics in shaping and
re-articulating regional, national, and cross-national identities. The
conference will concentrate on but not be limited to the period
1880-1960 in Britain, Europe and the USA. Papers which fall outside
these parameters but illuminate the conference themes are welcome.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length and may be on individual magazines
or the place of magazines in groups and movements. Possible panel themes
which explore magazines in relation to Modernism, Cultural Exchange and
Transnationality will include: Design and Production; Editors and
Readers; Feminism; Communism; Fascism; Manifestoes; Futurism;
Surrealism; Migrant modernists; Expressionism; Dada; Image and Text;
Film; Drama; New Media; Patronage and Public; Modernity and Mass
Society; Technologies and Gender; English Traditions; Nationalist
positions; Being American; Cosmopolitanism; A New Europe; Why Paris, why
Berlin?

Key Note Speakers:

Mark Morrisson (Penn State University, author of The Public Face of
Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences and Reception, 1905 -1920)

Tim Benson (Rifkind Center, LA County Museum of Modern Art, editor of
Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation 1910-1930)

The conference will be held at the University of Sussex from 15th to
17th July 2009.

The deadline for the submission of proposals (200-250 words) is the 15th
February 2009.
Proposals for papers should be sent to Christian Weikop
(C.Weikopsussex.ac.uk)

Dr Christian Weikop
School of Humanities, Arts B229
University of Sussex
Falmer Brighton BN1 9QN
Email: c.weikopsussex.ac.uk

Visit the website at http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/exist/mod_mag/index.htm