Provisional Timetable
Thursday 17 May
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee and Registration
17:00 - 17:30 Welcome. The Historicizing Modernism / Modernist Archives Book Series and the future of archival studies in Modernism (Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning)
17:30 - 18:30 Keynote. Exploring the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project as a Modernist Archive (Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst)
18:30 - 19:30 Wine Reception, with hands-on testing of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
19:45 Pub Meal at the Deramore Arms (Main Street Heslington, York YO10 5EA), thederamorearms.co.uk
After the Wine Reception, any delegates who wish can join the organisers for dinner. This is not covered by the conference fee.
Friday 18 May
9:30 - 10:30 Parallel Panel I
James Joyce (chair: Erik Tonning)
Chrissie Van Mierlo (Nottingham), ‘The Joyce Archive Industry’
Michelle Witen (Basel), ‘James Joyce and the [Musical] Archive’
Virginia Woolf (Chair: David Tucker)
Michèle Barrett (Queen Mary), ‘Preparing “Woolf Notes: Virginia Woolf’s Reading and Research Notes Online”’
Alice Wood (De Montfort), ‘Papers and Politics: Reading and Editing the Woolf Archive’
Samuel Beckett I (Chair: Matthew Feldman)
Jonathan McAllister (Nottingham), ‘The psychotechnographic genesis of Krapp’s Last Tape’
Reza Habibi (Bergen), ‘Samuel Beckett’s ‘Psychology Notes’ and The Unnamable’
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Panel II
W. B. Yeats (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Wayne Chapman (Clemson), ‘Yeats Now and in the Next Generation: The Legacy of the Archives’
Jack Quin (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Art School Confidential: W.B. Yeats’s Language of Sculpture’
Tiana M. Fischer (NUI Galway), ‘The Yeatses in Conversation: Re-visioning Yeats’s Dialogic Aesthetics Through the Vision Papers’
Archives, Modernism, Technology (Chair: Tim Lawrence)
Nicoletta Asciuto (York), ‘Brilliant Modernism: Electric Light and Modernist Poetics’
Anthony Paraskeva (Roehampton), ‘Post-War Cinema and Its Contexts in Beckett’s Letters’
Victoria Bazin (Northumbria), ‘Digitising Marianne Moore’s Archive’
Modernisms and Christianities (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Jonas Kurlberg (Edinburgh), ‘Consulting the Moot Papers’
Henry Mead (Teesside), ‘“A House in the Cinders”: A review of the Hulme archives’
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Panel III
Archives, Editing, and Annotation (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Wim Van Mierlo (Loughborough), ‘New Modernist Editing: The Annotation Game’
Chris Ackerley (Otago), ‘Demented ^annotated^ Particulars: Samuel Beckett's Murphy after the Notebooks’
John Goodby and Adrian Osbourne (Swansea), ‘In search of “Old Scratch”: editing Dylan Thomas’s Fifth Notebook’
Samuel Beckett II (Chair: David Tucker)
Lois Overbeck (Emory), ‘The Legacy of Gray Archives: The Letters of Samuel Beckett’
Iain Bailey (Manchester), ‘Values and validity in Beckett studies’
Helen Bailey and William Davies (Reading), ‘The Political Turn in Beckett Studies and Beyond’
American Modernism (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Isabelle Parkinson (Queen Mary), ‘Gertrude Stein’s contested author status and the discourse of mental capacity in To-day and
To-morrow’
Michelle Moore (College of DuPage), ‘“Showing it As it Is”: American Modernism and the Archive’
Alix Beeston (Cardiff), ‘Looking for John Dos Passos, Finding Anna Held’
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Panel IV
David Jones (chair: Anna Svendsen)
Anne Price-Owen (Trinity St. David), ‘David Jones and the “Mabon” Films, 1971’
Jasmine Hunter Evans (Bath Spa), ‘New Insights from Lost Footage: David Jones’s 1965 Writers World Interview’
Tom Berenato (Virginia), ‘The Uniqueness of David Jones’
Ezra Pound I (chair: Erik Tonning)
Michael Kindellan (Sheffield), ‘Pound’s Doggerel’
Mark Byron (Sydney), ‘“Let Me Be Free of Printers: The Reception of Ezra Pound’s Generative Archive’
Michael Davis (Princeton), ‘“…There can be but the one 'Sordello.' /But Sordello, and my Sordello?”— The Pounds of the Pound
Archives’
Contrasting Archives and Archival Surprises (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Steven Matthews (Reading), ‘The Presence of the Modernist Poet, In and Out of the Archive’
Janet Wilson (Northampton), ‘Broadcasting Katherine Mansfield: the BBC Written Archive Collection’
Alex Howard (Sydney), ‘“The words, a flesh that lives on, as spirit, after we are gone”, or, Charles Henri Ford and the Modernist
Archive’
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner at Jamie’s Italian (26 Lendal, York, YO1 8AA).
Saturday 19 May
9:30 - 10:30 Parallel Panel V
Modernist Critics and Oeuvres (chair: David Tucker)
James Fraser (Exeter), 'Joyce in the age of the "Complete Works"'
Miranda Hickman (McGill), ‘“which values are important”: new light on Q.D. Leavis and the “rise of English”’
Ezra Pound II (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Alec Marsh (Muhlenberg), ‘Will this Yowling Never Cease? The Pound/ Agresti correspondence and the changing scope of
Ezra Pound Studies’
Svetlana Ehtee (New Brunswick), ‘“[B]it by dirty jew mania for World Domination”: Ezra Pound, Olivia Rossetti Agresti, and
Graham Seton Hutchison’
Djuna Barnes (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes), ‘Djuna Barnes on the page, on the stage and in the margins’
Julie Taylor (Northumbria), ‘Textual History and Trauma: Djuna Barnes’s The Antiphon
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Panel VI
Modernist Publishing (chair: Anna Svendsen)
JT Welsch (York), ‘Scandalous Materiality: New Directions in Selling the Archive’
Evi Heinz (Independent), ‘From Modernist Small Press Publisher to “Pornographer Royal”: John Rodker’s Ovid Press and Casanova
Society’
Gareth Mills (Reading), ‘Wyndham Lewis and Publisher's Archives — The Limits of Compromise’
Gender and Sexuality (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Stephanie J. Brown (Arizona), ‘20s Feminism in the Archives: Scholarly editions and feminist recovery work today’
David Deutsch (Alabama), ‘Richard Bruce Nugent’s Unpublished Queer Modernism’
Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths), ‘Henry Miller’s Modernism’
Scholarly Editions and Archival Research (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Rebecca Bowler (Keele), ‘May Sinclair’s intertextual (dis)orderly archive’
Gerri Kimber (Northampton), ‘Modernist (dis)location: The Case of Katherine Mansfield’
Natasha Periyan (Goldsmiths), ‘Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Archive: from modernism’s "exquisite flower" to its assiduous
researcher’
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Panel VII (Plenary): New critical Approaches to Modern(ist) Archives (chair: Erik Tonning)
Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway), 'Appeasement and Narratives of Hesitation’
Greg Maertz (St. John’s), ‘Aesthetic Anarchy and the Problem of Representing the New Germany: The Lost Archive of Nazi Art
Criticism’
Archie Henderson (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right), ‘Finding aids and the study of modernist authors’
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Concluding Roundtable (chair: Erik Tonning and Matthew Feldman)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee and Registration
17:00 - 17:30 Welcome. The Historicizing Modernism / Modernist Archives Book Series and the future of archival studies in Modernism (Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning)
17:30 - 18:30 Keynote. Exploring the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project as a Modernist Archive (Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst)
18:30 - 19:30 Wine Reception, with hands-on testing of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
19:45 Pub Meal at the Deramore Arms (Main Street Heslington, York YO10 5EA), thederamorearms.co.uk
After the Wine Reception, any delegates who wish can join the organisers for dinner. This is not covered by the conference fee.
Friday 18 May
9:30 - 10:30 Parallel Panel I
James Joyce (chair: Erik Tonning)
Chrissie Van Mierlo (Nottingham), ‘The Joyce Archive Industry’
Michelle Witen (Basel), ‘James Joyce and the [Musical] Archive’
Virginia Woolf (Chair: David Tucker)
Michèle Barrett (Queen Mary), ‘Preparing “Woolf Notes: Virginia Woolf’s Reading and Research Notes Online”’
Alice Wood (De Montfort), ‘Papers and Politics: Reading and Editing the Woolf Archive’
Samuel Beckett I (Chair: Matthew Feldman)
Jonathan McAllister (Nottingham), ‘The psychotechnographic genesis of Krapp’s Last Tape’
Reza Habibi (Bergen), ‘Samuel Beckett’s ‘Psychology Notes’ and The Unnamable’
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Panel II
W. B. Yeats (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Wayne Chapman (Clemson), ‘Yeats Now and in the Next Generation: The Legacy of the Archives’
Jack Quin (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Art School Confidential: W.B. Yeats’s Language of Sculpture’
Tiana M. Fischer (NUI Galway), ‘The Yeatses in Conversation: Re-visioning Yeats’s Dialogic Aesthetics Through the Vision Papers’
Archives, Modernism, Technology (Chair: Tim Lawrence)
Nicoletta Asciuto (York), ‘Brilliant Modernism: Electric Light and Modernist Poetics’
Anthony Paraskeva (Roehampton), ‘Post-War Cinema and Its Contexts in Beckett’s Letters’
Victoria Bazin (Northumbria), ‘Digitising Marianne Moore’s Archive’
Modernisms and Christianities (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Jonas Kurlberg (Edinburgh), ‘Consulting the Moot Papers’
Henry Mead (Teesside), ‘“A House in the Cinders”: A review of the Hulme archives’
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Panel III
Archives, Editing, and Annotation (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Wim Van Mierlo (Loughborough), ‘New Modernist Editing: The Annotation Game’
Chris Ackerley (Otago), ‘Demented ^annotated^ Particulars: Samuel Beckett's Murphy after the Notebooks’
John Goodby and Adrian Osbourne (Swansea), ‘In search of “Old Scratch”: editing Dylan Thomas’s Fifth Notebook’
Samuel Beckett II (Chair: David Tucker)
Lois Overbeck (Emory), ‘The Legacy of Gray Archives: The Letters of Samuel Beckett’
Iain Bailey (Manchester), ‘Values and validity in Beckett studies’
Helen Bailey and William Davies (Reading), ‘The Political Turn in Beckett Studies and Beyond’
American Modernism (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Isabelle Parkinson (Queen Mary), ‘Gertrude Stein’s contested author status and the discourse of mental capacity in To-day and
To-morrow’
Michelle Moore (College of DuPage), ‘“Showing it As it Is”: American Modernism and the Archive’
Alix Beeston (Cardiff), ‘Looking for John Dos Passos, Finding Anna Held’
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Panel IV
David Jones (chair: Anna Svendsen)
Anne Price-Owen (Trinity St. David), ‘David Jones and the “Mabon” Films, 1971’
Jasmine Hunter Evans (Bath Spa), ‘New Insights from Lost Footage: David Jones’s 1965 Writers World Interview’
Tom Berenato (Virginia), ‘The Uniqueness of David Jones’
Ezra Pound I (chair: Erik Tonning)
Michael Kindellan (Sheffield), ‘Pound’s Doggerel’
Mark Byron (Sydney), ‘“Let Me Be Free of Printers: The Reception of Ezra Pound’s Generative Archive’
Michael Davis (Princeton), ‘“…There can be but the one 'Sordello.' /But Sordello, and my Sordello?”— The Pounds of the Pound
Archives’
Contrasting Archives and Archival Surprises (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Steven Matthews (Reading), ‘The Presence of the Modernist Poet, In and Out of the Archive’
Janet Wilson (Northampton), ‘Broadcasting Katherine Mansfield: the BBC Written Archive Collection’
Alex Howard (Sydney), ‘“The words, a flesh that lives on, as spirit, after we are gone”, or, Charles Henri Ford and the Modernist
Archive’
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner at Jamie’s Italian (26 Lendal, York, YO1 8AA).
Saturday 19 May
9:30 - 10:30 Parallel Panel V
Modernist Critics and Oeuvres (chair: David Tucker)
James Fraser (Exeter), 'Joyce in the age of the "Complete Works"'
Miranda Hickman (McGill), ‘“which values are important”: new light on Q.D. Leavis and the “rise of English”’
Ezra Pound II (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Alec Marsh (Muhlenberg), ‘Will this Yowling Never Cease? The Pound/ Agresti correspondence and the changing scope of
Ezra Pound Studies’
Svetlana Ehtee (New Brunswick), ‘“[B]it by dirty jew mania for World Domination”: Ezra Pound, Olivia Rossetti Agresti, and
Graham Seton Hutchison’
Djuna Barnes (Chair: Anna Svendsen)
Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes), ‘Djuna Barnes on the page, on the stage and in the margins’
Julie Taylor (Northumbria), ‘Textual History and Trauma: Djuna Barnes’s The Antiphon
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Panel VI
Modernist Publishing (chair: Anna Svendsen)
JT Welsch (York), ‘Scandalous Materiality: New Directions in Selling the Archive’
Evi Heinz (Independent), ‘From Modernist Small Press Publisher to “Pornographer Royal”: John Rodker’s Ovid Press and Casanova
Society’
Gareth Mills (Reading), ‘Wyndham Lewis and Publisher's Archives — The Limits of Compromise’
Gender and Sexuality (chair: Matthew Feldman)
Stephanie J. Brown (Arizona), ‘20s Feminism in the Archives: Scholarly editions and feminist recovery work today’
David Deutsch (Alabama), ‘Richard Bruce Nugent’s Unpublished Queer Modernism’
Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths), ‘Henry Miller’s Modernism’
Scholarly Editions and Archival Research (Chair: Erik Tonning)
Rebecca Bowler (Keele), ‘May Sinclair’s intertextual (dis)orderly archive’
Gerri Kimber (Northampton), ‘Modernist (dis)location: The Case of Katherine Mansfield’
Natasha Periyan (Goldsmiths), ‘Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Archive: from modernism’s "exquisite flower" to its assiduous
researcher’
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Panel VII (Plenary): New critical Approaches to Modern(ist) Archives (chair: Erik Tonning)
Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway), 'Appeasement and Narratives of Hesitation’
Greg Maertz (St. John’s), ‘Aesthetic Anarchy and the Problem of Representing the New Germany: The Lost Archive of Nazi Art
Criticism’
Archie Henderson (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right), ‘Finding aids and the study of modernist authors’
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Concluding Roundtable (chair: Erik Tonning and Matthew Feldman)