Interdisciplinary Modernism

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Willson Center Distinguished Artist Lecture Nora Wendl: "Almost Nothing"
Co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Creative Writing Program, the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and the Mod Squad In this talk, Wendl reveals the twenty-year process she undertook to write her “architectural history as memoir,” Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (University of Illinois Press, 2025). Almost Nothing takes up the history of Dr. Edith Farnsworth, eminent physician…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop: William Wylie
“To Throw a Shadow”  This workshop will focus on the physical and temporal aspects of landscapes. Wylie is motivated by an interest in particular places, and his projects dig beneath the surface to investigate our consumption of space and our movement through it. He will discuss several individuals who have integrated perambulating into their work, as well as his own ideas on why photography and walking go together so well.  William…

James Mulholland, Professor of English and Associate Dean at North Carolina State University
Hosted by the Postcolonial Collective. More details to come.

Lecture by Dr. Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota): “Eastman Kodak, Tennessee Eastman, and Film’s Militant Chemistry in the New South”
We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, cotton, and wood, on which cinema’s play of light and shadow depends. It does so through the early history of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation (Kingsport, Tennessee)—for much of the 20th century, Eastman Kodak’s primary chemical subsidiary. Following…

Film: “Princess Tam Tam”
Princess Tam-Tam (dir. Edmond Greville, 1935) in conjunction with the exhibit “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939"  In the 1930s, Black performers were subjected to stereotypes even as they sought, and often achieved, their own opportunities to show the full range of their talents on the American screen. In pursuit of her artistic ambitions, singer/dancer/comedian Josephine Baker accepted an invitation to work in…

Secret Origins of Superheroes: The Origin Story in Early Superhero Comics and Media

Modern(ist) Mothers in/and the Media: Rhetorical Constructions of Medicalized Maternity across Literary Texts, Popular Magazines, and Hospital Reports
Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop    Heather A. Love, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   Modern(ist) Mothers in/and the Media: Rhetorical Constructions of Medicalized Maternity across Literary Texts, Popular Magazines, and Hospital Reports   The talk will discuss the American Expressionist play Machinal (Sophie Treadwell, 1928) and an essay Prof. Love co-wrote for Feminist Modernist Studies. To access both play and…

Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry 
Please join us for a workshop with Dr. Jonathan P. Eburne, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies at the Pennsylvania State University where he will discuss his forthcoming book: Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). We will pre-circulate two chapters from the book prior to the workshop. To receive this selection, please email Tara Kraft-…

Queering the Archive with Kelli Connell and Melanie Micir
The Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop is pleased to host a special ModSquad Conversation at the intersection of archival research, auto/biography, picturing, and queer lives with renowned photographer Kelli Connell (“Pictures for Charis” currently on view at The High Museum) and award-winning scholar Melanie Micir (Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Washington University). Register at this link. Sponsored by…

"MISCEGENATION NATION" Or the Dream Logics of Racial History in Hardeep Pandahl's Art
ZAHID R. CHAUDHARY, Associate Professor at Princeton University, Department of English. This lecture takes up the work of contemporary artist, Hardeep Pandhal. His artworks investigate the significance of Punjabi traditions in the context of South Asian disaporic experiences in Britain. Working across animation, installations, cut outs, and drawings, Pandhal’s work explores the reinvention of tradition in light of racial diasporic histories,…
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