Centre for Modernist Studies: Events since 2007
2009-2014
Modernist Studies Association 15th Annual Conference: “Everydayness & the Event”
Director: Sara Crangle
Co-hosted by CMS and Queen Mary, University of London, 29 August-1 September, 2013 (msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa15/)
2013
Modernist Intimacies – A Symposium
Keynote: Denis Flannery (University of Leeds)
Director: Ruth Charnock, University of Sussex, 17 May
2012
Low Affects/High Stakes – A Symposium
Keynotes: Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania) and Peter Coviello (Bowdoin College)
Director: Pam Thurschwell, University of Sussex, 9 November
Third Annual Sussex Poetry Festival
Directors: Michael Kindellan, Keston Sutherland, Daniel Kane
University of Sussex and Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 8-9 June, (sussexpoetryfestival.org.uk)
Thinking Feeling: Critical Theory, Culture, and Feeling
Keynotes: Eva Illouz (Hebrew University), Timothy Bewes (Brown), Ben Highmore (Sussex), Alex Düttmann (Goldsmiths)
Director: Doug Haynes, University of Sussex, 18-19 May
B.S. Johnson and the Possibilities of the Avant-Garde Novel
Directors: Julia Jordan and Martin Ryle; co-hosted by CMS and Cardiff University; University of Sussex, 5 May
Guest Lecture: Dame Professor Gillian Beer (Cambridge), “Modernist Alice,” University of Sussex, 8 March
2011—
Hi Zero Poetry Series
CMS sponsorship; coordinated by Sussex graduate student Joe Luna, monthly readings at Brighton’s Hope Pub & journal
2011
Guest Lecture: Professor John Plotz (Brandeis) “The Culture of the Diagram in George Eliot,” University of Sussex, 12 October
Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival
Directors: Sara Crangle, Keston Sutherland, Daniel Kane, University of Sussex & Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 1-2 July (sussexpoetryfestival.org.uk)
Poet and Critic John Wilkinson: A Round Table Discussion
Director: Sussex graduate student Alex Pestell, University of Sussex, 23 June
2010
Anna Mendelssohn/Grace Lake: A Celebration of her Art and Life
Director, Sara Crangle, co-hosted by CMS and Centre for Poetics Research, Birkbeck, Birkbeck College, London, 15 September
“Out of the Welter of Unclassifiable Speech”: Reading Mina Loy – A Symposium
Director: Sara Crangle, University of Sussex, 29 May 2010
First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival
Directors: Sara Crangle, Keston Sutherland, Daniel Kane; University of Sussex & Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 16-17 April
2009-2010
Speakers series - Leigh Wilson (Westminster), Kristin Ewins (Oxford), Peter Gizzi (Massachusetts), Michael Levenson (Virginia)
2009
Simon Jarvis, Poet and Critic – A Roundtable Discussion
Director: Sussex graduate student Michael Kindellan, University of Sussex, 17 December
“A mixture of showing off and suspicion, nearly as bad as sex”: Reading Elizabeth Bowen – A Symposium
Director: Pam Thurschwell, University of Sussex, 30 May
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Larking Up Kicks – A Symposium
Directors: Sara Crangle & Sophie Read; co-hosted by CMS and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, Cambridge, 17 January
“A”-24: A Louis Zukofsky Symposium and Performance
Director: Sussex graduate student, Richard Parker, University of Sussex, 23 January
2008-2009
Speakers series – Jean-Michel Rabaté (Pennsylvania), Steven Connor (Birkbeck), Peter Coviello (Bowdoin), Kasia Boddy (UCL), Gabriel Josipovici
2008
Andrew Crozier: A Celebration
Director: Peter Nicholls, Lewes Arms, 1 May
“How am I to become a legend, my dear?”: Reading Frank O’Hara – A Symposium
Director: Sara Crangle, University of Sussex, 11 April