Interdisciplinary Modernism

To learn more about the Interdisciplinary Modernism Workshop events, please see https://willson.uga.edu/research/research-clusters/international-modernism/


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,…

Articulations: Dancing Across Modernities

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop
Please join us for a workshop with Dr. Amy Elkins, Associate Professor of English at Macalester College, where she will discuss her recent book, Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Oxford University Press, 2022).   In the first half of the workshop Dr. Elkins will discuss her book, and in the second half she will lead the attendees in a hands-on crafts workshop, creating eco-printed artists' books (all…

Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop presents “Militarized Visualities" with Dr. Noemi Quagliati
Dr. Quagliati (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) will be on campus through the UGA Franklin-LMU faculty research exchange program. The Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop is delighted to host her for a presentation and discussion of her forthcoming book, Militarized Visualities. The workshop will address photographic modes of vision in the First World War, illuminating how the military conflict influenced well-established canons of…

"Strike-Time: The Strike as World Cinema Form"
As a pivotal tool of twentieth- and twenty-first century labor resistance, the strike has long been a vital topic for political cinema, even as it pushes the limits of filmic representation. How can filmmakers capture the unpredictable unfolding of collective resistance when they are often positioned outside the community of striking workers? How does one depict the withholding of labor, which might seem to institute a “dead time” in which “…

ModSquad Workshop with Prof. Andrew Zawacki
Dr. Andrew Zawacki will give a faculty workshop on his project Paris Photo Graff on Wednesday, Dec. 7th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (reading day) in the Lamar Dodd 3rd Floor Conference Room. A prose-photography hybrid, Paris Photo Graff interlaces its author’s black and white images of wall scrawl from the French capital with episodic meditations on open-source literary communities and semi-hidden subcultures, the …
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