CFP: [20th] Modernism, Media, and the Transnational Public Sphere - MSA X

Seeking papers for a panel to be proposed for the Modernist Studies
Association's 10th annual conference, Nashville, Nov.13-Nov.16 2008.

Modernism, Media, and the Transnational Public Sphere:

This panel invites proposals which theorize modernism’s relationship to the
public sphere in transnational and diasporic contexts.

Possible questions that a paper might address include, but are not limited
to the following:
1) How have the formal innovations of modernism invited or resisted
publicity? In other words, how does modernist art/literature anticipate
and mediate its own reception beyond national confines?
3) What roles have institutions (e.g. publishing houses, periodicals,
universities, radio/tv/film companies) played in producing, distributing,
and fashioning modernism for various publics?
4) How has modernism commented upon historical or current debates within
the international public sphere (e.g. patriotism during wartime, imperial
decline, postcolonial nation-building, black internationalism, etc.)
5) Do modernism and public intellectualism mix?

This panel welcomes approaches to modernism from all geographic and generic
backgrounds.

Please send a 200-300 word abstract and 2-3 sentence scholarly bio to
Aarthi Vadde (vadde_at_wisc.edu) by May 3.

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