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1912-2012: A Time to Reason and Compare

1912-2012: A Time to Reason and Compare

Publié le par Arnaud Welfringer (Source : Joana Matos Frias)

1912-2012: A Time to Reason and Compare

An International Conference on Modernism

Dates: 01-03 March 2012

Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto | Portugal

The purpose of this conference is to commemorate the centenary of important events in the history of Modernism in several cultural domains, such as the first issues of the journals Poetry and Georgian Poetry, the publication of the first imagist poems and the first futurist exhibition outside Italy, in Paris. Also to be noted the revelation of the Russian cubo-futurist manifesto «A Slap in the Face of Public Taste» and of the «Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature», the Der Blaue Reiter exhibitions and the publication of Der Blaue Reiter Almanach, Oswald de Andrade’s decisive trip to Europe and, obviously, the beginning of Fernando Pessoa’s acquaintance with Mário de Sá-Carneiro, as well as other well-known publishing and artistic events of decisive impact. Our chief aim is to organize a critical conference with a broad horizon, with an international and inter-artistic focus, which will bring together the work of scholars from several disciplines in a productive manner.

Papers may be presented in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Daniel Albright (Harvard Univ.)

Fernando Cabral Martins (Univ. Nova Lisboa)

Gualter Cunha (Univ. Porto)

 

Paper proposals (20 mins.) should be e-mailed to modernism@letras.up.pt, with the following data:

- title of the paper;

- abstract (ca. 250 words);

- name and contact information (email, phone number and postal address);

- institutional affiliation;

- short curriculum vitae.

 

Proposals should be sent until 16 December 2011.

Notification of acceptance: 31 December 2011.

Deadline for registration: 31 January 2011. 

 

Registration fee: 80 euros / Students: 40 euros

Late registration: 100 euros / Students: 50 euros

 

Registration should be made by means of the form on the conference webpage http://web.letras.up.pt/modernism.

Registration will be considered valid after confirmation of payment.

 

 

The Organizing Committee,

Joana Matos Frias

Jorge Bastos da Silva