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Interdisciplinary Modernism

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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,…
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…
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…
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 “…
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 …
ModSquad Workshop Graduate Student Workshop with Kaitlin Thurlow, English Department and Tara Kraft, Art History. Thurlow and Kraft-Ainsworth will present in-progress articles for workshop discussion and feedback ahead of publication. Their papers will be pre-circulated 2 weeks prior to the workshop. Contact Dr. Susan Rosenbaum for copies of the papers srosenb@uga.edu    
A workshop with Dr. Ian Afflerbach, about his book Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition (Hopkins Studies in Modernism, 2021). Dr. Afflerbach presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion and a reception.  Location: Willson Center House, 1260 Lumpkin St.
The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures. Like the art cinema it promotes, cinephilia has long been viewed as a mostly Euro-American phenomenon, a perception that has obscured rich traditions of film appreciation in Africa, Asia, and…
 Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop Graduate Student Work-in-Progress Wed. March 16th, 5;00 – 6:30 p.m., Zack Anderson and Nate Dixon, Ph.D. students in English & Creative Writing, will discuss some work in progress. We will pre-circulate their essays and email the Zoom link for the Workshop by March 1st. Contact Susan Rosenbaum (srosenb@uga.edu) for further details.

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