**Please note new deadline.**
"Modernism and Internationalism"
Proposed Panel
Modernist Studies Association 4th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin--Madison
I'm looking for papers to complete a 3-4 person panel which would
examine the presence of internationalism, as a mode of cultural and
political practice, in modernisms from a range of disciplines. Modernism
has long been seen in terms of its cosmopolitanism in biographical,
political, and artistic contexts; a recent critical interest in
"cosmopolitics," both historical and contemporary, offers us new ways of
thinking about the transnational contours of modernism's production, the
politics of its figures, and its ongoing centrality to literary and
cultural studies. It's my hope that this panel can extend this line of
inquiry toward a delineation of the many forms of
worldliness--reactionary, state-based, liberal, progressive, radical--in
the modernist period. Papers might consider:
* transnational forms of solidarity in modernist writing, publishing,
artistic circles, etc.;
* representations of forms of world government like the League of
Nations and the modernist Utopia;
* new approaches to the historically contentious relationship between
modernism and international communism and socialism--the role of
the Internationale;
* new approaches to the question of exile and anti-nationalism;
* decolonization and anti-imperialism across boundaries of nation,
race, language, disciplines;
* the politics of translation, exhibition, and patronage;
* the theorization of cosmopolitanism within modernist studies,
especially in relation to that of postcolonialism, nationalism, and
globalization.
Papers welcomed dealing with, for example, literary modernism (fiction,
poetry, drama, nonfiction, manifesto, auto/biography, political
conversion narrative, publishing history); music and sound; visual art
forms such as the mural; propaganda; popular culture; history,
historiography, and political theory of the period.
Email submissions only, please. Send 1-pg. titled abstracts, with
c.v., by 4/20/02, to:
Contact info:
Alex Bain
Dept. of English
Rutgers University
510 George St.
New Brunswick NJ 08901
Panelists must join the MSA.
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