Australian Modernist Studies Network Conference 2014

AMSN2: TRANSNATIONA L MODERNISMS

15-17 December University of Sydney 2 General Information

All sessions of the conference will be held in the New Law School Building, Level 0, with the exception of the Conference Opening and Keynote Lecture on the morning of Tuesday 16 December (9.00- 10.30am) and the same day’s closing keynote lecture (5.15-6.30pm), which will be held in the Old Geology Lecture Theatre, between the Macleay Museum and the Holme Building.

Public Transport

Buses stop at the footbridge on Parramatta Road. The M10, 412, 413, 436, 438, 439, 440, 461, 480, and 483 can all be caught on George St and all stop at the footbridge. City Road buses stop at the footbridge on City Road. The 422, 423, 426, and 428 all travel from the city to the University.

The Old Geology Lecture Theatre is near the Parramatta Road footbridge, and the New Law School Building is on Eastern Avenue, next to the University Library, close to the City Road footbridge.

The conference venue is a 25-minute walk from Redfern train station. Further maps and timetables can be found at: http://www.transportnsw.info

Taxis can be hailed from the street but availability is variable across the 3pm shift change.

Paid parking is available in the Shepherd Street Carpark (near the Seymour Centre) and limited metered parking is available along City Road. Parramatta Road is a no parking zone before 10am and after 3pm. Whilst free parking is available in the surrounding streets of Forest Lodge it is generally limited to one or two hours. Paid parking is also available in Broadway Shopping Centre. Only the first two hours are free. AMSN2: Transnational Modernisms University of Sydney, 15-17 December Conference Schedule

MONDAY 15 DECEMBER

4-7pm, New Law School LT101

Catered Reception (4pm) and Public Lecture (5pm) Professor Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia Modernism, Postcolonialism, and the Transnational Migrations of Poetry Chair: Mark Byron

TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER

8.30-9am, Old Geology LT

Registration

9-9.15am, Old Geology LT

Conference Launch Welcome to Country: Peter Minter Dean’s Welcome: Professor Duncan Ivison, Dean of FASS Convenor’s Opening Remarks: Mark Byron

9.15-10.30am, Old Geology LT

Keynote Lecture 1 Professor Paul Giles, University of Sydney Antipodean Modernisms: The Retrodynamic Arts of Time Management Chair: Peter Marks

10.30-11.00am, New Law School Level 0

Coffee Break

11am-12.30pm, New Law School Level 0

Panel Session 1

Panel 1A: New Law School Seminar Room 022

Michael Titlestad, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg I have been in an Earthquake’: epistemic upheaval in Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica

Arka Chattopadhyay, University of Western Sydney The Psychotic Eagle with Golden Wings: Fantasy, Metamorphosis and Belief in the Horizons of the Trans-national Alexandra Smith, University of Sydney Teju Cole and the fait divers

Panel 1B: New Law School LT024

Caitlin Vandertop, University of Hong Kong Architectures of the invisible hand: Joseph Conrad in colonial Singapore

Anuparna Mukherjee, Australian National University Envisioning the City: The Bengali Modernist Poets and their Urban Imagination

Emily Ridge, Hong Kong Institute of Education Displacing the House: Portable Visions for Transnational Modernist Fictions

Panel 1C: New Law School LT 026

Alys Moody, University of Waikato Towards a Literature of World Hunger: Aimé Césaire and Global Modernist Poverty

Sascha Morrell, University of New England The Wandering Australian? Willa Cather, Jewish Australians and Frontier Modernism

Sam Matthews, University of Sydney “Threads of the mesh”: narrative simultaneity, temporality, and place in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney and Jean-Paul Sartre’s Trilogy

12.30-1.30pm, New Law School Level 0

1.30-3pm, New Law School Level 0

Panel Session 2

Michael Hooper, University of NSW Australian composers and European Modernist musicians

Sarah Collins, University of NSW The Composer as ‘Good European’: Musical Modernism, Amor fati and the Cosmopolitanism of Frederick Delius

Peter Kirkpatrick, University of Sydney In Xanadu: Patrick White’s Featurist Modernism

Nathanael Pree, University of Sydney Shoring Up the Liminal Polis: Erosion and Recovery and Recreation in The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson Kevin Riordan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore The Spectacular Failure of Orson Welles’s Post-War Worlding

Melissa Hardie, University of Sydney Cinematic Nightwood: Djuna Barnes’s Cosmopolitan Style

Hyunjung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Contradictory Tides: The Korean Musical Theatre in the Context of National Cultural Development

Don Johnston, University of NSW Satire as Symptomatology in Pepetela’s “Jaime Bunda” Novels

Verita Sriratana, Department of English, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Particular Modernity/Transnational Modernism: The Czech and Slovak Case [from a Thai perspective]

3-3.30pm, New Law School Level 0

Afternoon Tea

Panel Session 3

Russell Smith, Australian National University Modernism, Extinction and Sexual Difference: From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Julia Leigh’s The Hunter

Prudence Black, University of Sydney The Speed of Decolonisation: Travel, Modernisation and the 1955 Bandung Conference

Diana Chester, New York University, Abu Dhabi and Heidi Stalla, Yale–National University of Singapore Composition as Appropriation: Claim and Resist, Resist and Claim

John Attridge, University of NSW Postwar Europeanism at La Revue européene (1923-1931)

Jessica Gildersleeve, University of Southern Queensland Anglo-Irish Gothic and Transnational Modernism

Anthony Cordingley, University of Paris VIII Transhistorical Transnationalism: Beckett’s Shifting Modernism Panel 3C: New Law School LT 026

Mathew Abbott, Federation University Modernism and Absorption in Kiarostami’s Shirin: Michael Fried and Film-Philosophy

Crisia Miroiu, University of Sydney What Five Photographs Can Reveal on Transnational Modernism?

Patricia Juliana Smith, Hofstra University, New York “Ugh, Signora”: Configurations of Gender, Race, and Cultural Hybridity in Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West

5.15-6.30, Old Geology LT

Keynote Lecture 2 Professor Sue Thomas, La Trobe University Jean Rhys: Piecing the Local and the Transnational Chair: Sophia Barnes

6.30-7.30pm, Holme Courtyard Café

Drinks and Book Launch

WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER

8.30-9am, New Law School Level 0

Registration

9-10.15am, New Law School LT101

Keynote Lecture 3 Professor Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia Oriental Woolf Chair: Mark Byron

10.15-10.45am, New Law School Level 0

Coffee Break

10.45am-12.15pm, New Law School Level 0

Panel Session 4

Mark Steven, University of NSW Slouching Over Distant Mountains: Reactionary Modernism and Transnational Communism Emmett Stinson, University of Newcastle Cosmopolis of the Dead: Transnationalism and Aesthetic Inhumanism in Wyndham Lewis’s The Childermass

Lindsay Barrett, University of Technology, Sydney Superman v Stakhanov

Juliane Römhild, La Trobe University “A trashy novel with some depth” – New Realist literature and Intermodernism

Barrie Sherwood, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado

Rodney Taveira, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney “I’m a world citizen with a New York set of balls”: Pain and time in Nam Le’s “Meeting Elise” and Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

Helen Rydstrand, University of NSW Escaping the Nation in DHL’s Late Stories: Rananim and the Transnational Impulse

Niklas Fischer, University of Sydney Only Reflect: Virtual Parataxis in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Bradley Wells, University of Sydney “Get Martin Browne over here!”: A case study in transnational performative discourse within the Modern Verse Drama Revival Movement

Australian Modernist Studies Network AGM New Law School Seminar Room 020

1-2.30pm, New Law School LT101

Panel Session 5

Chair: Mark Byron

Sudesh Mishra, Maebh Long, and Matthew Hayward University of the South Pacific, Fiji Oceanic Modernism

Afternoon Tea 3-4.30pm, New Law School Level 0

Panel Session 6

David Ewick, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University Intertextuality, the Invention of China, and the Scholarship of Elision: Ezra Pound and a Chap Named Waley

Alex Howard, University of NSW Curving Back to Meet | The Ever Widening Circle of the Infinite: Charles Henri Ford and Late Modernist Transnational Poetics

Sean Pryor, University of NSW Contact: The Contents of a Transnational Modernist Moment

Tiffany Fajardo, Florida International University The Discovery of Bloom’s Misreading: Metaphysics, Mysticism, and the Role of the Unconscious in ‘Calypso’

Jasmin Kelaita, University of NSW Radical Contingencies: Home and Exile in the work of Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen

Panel 6C: New Law School LT026

Sam Reese, University of Sydney Tennessee Williams and the New School of Decadence

Michael Lynch, University of Western Sydney Pinter and Periodizing Modernism

4.45-6pm, New Law School LT101

Keynote Roundtable Transnationalisms and Modernisms Chair: Mark Byron

6-6.15pm, New Law School LT101

Conference Wrap

6.30pm-7.15pm, Holme Courtyard Café

Drinks

7.30pm- Glebe Point Road

Conference Dinner