Past events

The Elephant in the Ivory Tower: The Anti-Disciplinary Animal launch event

Tuesday 14 March 2023

Do you work on animals, or do you have a serious interest in reading and thinking about them? If so, please join us for the launch of a new Centre for Modern Studies research strand "The Elephant in the Ivory Tower: The Anti-Disciplinary Animal."

Representing Homelessness: A Visual Ethics Network group disucssion led by Dr Thomas Morgan Evans

Tuesday 24 January 2023

There has been a shift in recent years from discussions of 'the homeless', a term that eclipses the humanity of the subjects in question, to discussion of 'experiences of homelessness'. How might a more diverse understanding of homelessness experiences be represented? What are the political ramifications and possibilities for these shifts: how might homelessness be reimag(in)ed?

Visual Ethics Network inaugural discussion: “Why Visual Ethics?”

Monday 14 November 2022

By employing the World Café Method for the inaugural session of VEN we will explore how we can define “visual ethics”, the lenses through which it has been approached in different disciplines, the key themes that could be explored in future sessions and explore whether the key questions differ significantly when posed from different disciplinary stances.

(Terra)py: At the Intersection of Care and Anthropocene

Wednesday 5 October 2022

The CModS CounterVoices Annual Conference will be held over two afternoons and will include some talks being released via Twitter as well as in-person and online.

Lost in keigo? The language of diplomacy in Japanese-Iberian encounters around 1600

Thursday 19 May 2022

Politeness in its various forms is considered an important part of Japanese language and society and as stumbling blocks for intercultural learners. What role did politeness and the correct use of it in formalized communication and everyday life affect foreign visitors in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Japan?

Mental Health and the Memoir Research Seminar: The problem of biography: 4.48 Psychosis and the ‘suicidal mind’

Wednesday 18 May 2022

What is the relationship between the experience of an author and the work they create? This question is essential to considering any writing about mental suffering, and especially in the work of Sarah Kane. Kane’s representations of mental suffering clearly transcend the boundaries and diagnostic categories suggested by the mental health system. In these works, theatre itself becomes a tool for sharing experiences of mental suffering without their being reduced to specific pathologies or biographical narratives.

Political Forms reading group meeting: Arendt's "The Human Condition"

Thursday 12 May 2022

If you are interested in critical theory and political philosophy, the political dimensions of art and literature, or interdisciplinary reflections on politics, please do join us. The group aims to connect researchers working across different disciplines once a month to discuss readings in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Removal, Re-interpretation or Re-contextualisation? A Conversation on Contested Statues, Resistance and the Reimagination of Public Spaces

Wednesday 4 May 2022

An interdisciplinary event organised by postgraduate students from the Departments of Archaeology, Politics and History of Art, and in collaboration with the Anti-Racism Working Group (ARWG). at the University of York. The event will consist of four expert speakers discussing the issues around statues, physical heritage structures and remembrance, and aims to consider the work that has, and can be done further, to create more inclusive public environments. The event further aims to consider how heritage structures portray the past and the narratives that they create, how some of these portrayals of the past have been resisted over time, and whether contested heritage structures should be removed, reinterpreted or recontextualised, or whether our public spaces can be reimagined.

Countervoices Summer Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2022

Join our PG forum’s third research seminar of 2022, part of a series of events that offer postgraduate students in the Centre for Modern Studies and beyond the opportunity to present a short piece of work to an interdisciplinary audience. The event consists of a presentation by Rebecca Bevington followed by a Q&A. If you have any questions or queries, please email: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk

Countervoices 2nd Spring Research Seminar

Thursday 10 March 2022

Join our PG forum’s second research seminar of the spring term, part of a series of events that offer postgraduate students in the Centre for Modern Studies and beyond the opportunity to present a short piece of work to an interdisciplinary audience. The event consists of two presentations from Miya Treadwell and Joseph Gascoigne followed by a Q&A. Treadwell will present "Narratives that Bind: Netflix, Black Film and World Cinema" and Gascoigne will present "Manipulating accountability: The political use of inquiries".

CFP Borderlands Conference

Friday 11 February 2022

Date indicates CFP deadline. The Borderlands: postcolonial formations of connection and separation Conference welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics to explore the border as a conceptual site with a diverse array of interdisciplinary meanings and interpretations within postcolonial studies and across the arts and humanities more broadly. We seek to gather researchers from a wide range of disciplines to examine the spatial, technological, and political formations of the border at the intersection of postcolonial studies, political philosophy, feminist theory, literary and linguistic studies, critical environmental and medical humanities, and beyond.

CModS Forum Research Seminar: The potential for language to reflect/affect societal beliefs surrounding gendered violence

Wednesday 9 February 2022

Join our PG forum’s first research seminar of the spring term, part of a series of events that offer postgraduate students in the Centre for Modern Studies and beyond the opportunity to present a short piece of work to an interdisciplinary audience. The event consists of two presentations from Flora Sagers and Sarah Lapacz followed by a Q&A.

Political Forms Reading Group: Grievability and the Politics of Mourning

Thursday 3 February 2022

During this meeting, we will discuss the notions of grievability, nonviolence, and the politics of mourning. We will read three texts by Judith Butler: 'Violence, Mourning, Politics’ from Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004), 'Nonviolence, Grievability and the Critique of Individualism’, from The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethics-Political Bind (2020), and an interview 'Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities’ (2020) published in Truthout. We will consider the dynamic relationship between violence and nonviolence, Butler’s take on modern practices of mourning and its links with the Covid-19 pandemic, and we will discuss what it means for a life to be (un)grievable in the contemporary world.

Political Forms Reading Group: The Politics of Pity

Wednesday 26 January 2022

During this meeting, we will discuss the political frameworks of pity, spectatorship and compassion that govern contemporary representations of suffering. We will read three chapters from Luc Boltanski’s book Distant Suffering, considering Boltanski’s articulation of pity as a relationship which implements distance rather than solidarity.

Yeats and English

Friday 10 December 2021

Join the Centre for Modern Studies for a conference on W.B. Yeats’s place in ‘English’ literature.

Political Forms Reading Group: Melancholia

Wednesday 24 November 2021

Discussing Sara Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness (2010), and Paul Gilroy's After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2004), we will consider the sociopolitical significance of melancholia: a feeling that may affect individuals as well as the whole nations. We will discuss how melancholia is experienced as an individual and collective affect, how Britain’s colonial past impacts the affective arrangements within society, and who, in contemporary Britain, is a subject to melancholic feelings.

Mental Health and the Memoir Reading Group: Narrative Medicine

Thursday 4 November 2021

We are delighted to invite you to the next reading group meeting for the new CModS Research Strand in Mental Health & the Memoir, at 17:00-18:00 on the 4th of November. In this session, we will read an extract from The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (ed. Rita Charon et al) to explore medical applications of life-writing and the entanglements between narrative and clinical encounters.

Political Forms Reading Group: Necropolitics, Biopolitics, and Sovereingty

Monday 25 October 2021

We will consider Achille Mbembe’s approach to sovereignty and biopolitics in relation to our current political context, and the ways ‘necropolitical’ power resonates with or challenges concepts we have discussed in our previous meetings.

Mental Health and the Memoir Reading Group: Memoir

Thursday 14 October 2021

Our inaugural session will focus on Ann Cvetkovich’s Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) to consider the value of memoir as both a topic of study and as a research method in its own right.

Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World

Thursday 13 May 2021

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum Annual Symposium

Essayisms Reading Group: Essays on Film

Monday 26 April 2021

The Essayisms Reading Group's first meeting of the Summer term

Just Us: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

Thursday 11 March 2021

A conversation with poet, essayist and playwright Claudia Rankine

Essaysisms Reading Group: The Personal Essay 

Monday 8 March 2021

Essaysims reading group meeting

Countervoices March Research Seminar

Thursday 4 March 2021

Join our PG forum’s final research seminar of the spring term

Essayisms Reading Group: The Art Essay

Monday 22 February 2021

Essayisms reading group meeting

Essayisms Reading Group: Modern Poets’ Essays

Monday 8 February 2021

Essayisms reading group meeting

What is an Essay?: A Roundtable 

Thursday 4 February 2021

An event organised by the Contemporary Essay research strand

Countervoices January Research Seminar

Thursday 28 January 2021

The CModS postgraduate forum's first seminar of the Spring term

Countervoices November Research Seminar

Thursday 26 November 2020

Our postgraduate forum’s final research seminar of the autumn term

Countervoices Autumn Research Seminar

Thursday 29 October 2020

The CModS postgraduate forum's first seminar of the Autumn term

Creative Responses to COVID-19

Monday 29 June 2020

Exhibition of creative responses to the pandemic

Pandemic, Crisis, and Modern Studies

Friday 12 June 2020

A Twitter conference organised by Countervoices, the CModS postgraduate forum

Poetic Cinema, Music in Tone Languages, and Baroque Cyberspace

Monday 8 June 2020

The third virtual session of the Countervoices PG Forum Summer Series

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day

Thursday 4 June 2020

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Chat with us and find out more!

Eat the Rich, Sherlock Holmes, and Energy Transitions

Monday 25 May 2020

The second virtual session of the Countervoices PG Forum Summer Series.

Linguistic Landscape, Loving Machine, and Visual Poetry in the Modern Age

Thursday 30 April 2020

The first virtual session in the summer series of the Centre for Modern Studies' Countervoices postgraduate forum

Threshold, Boundary, and Crossover in Fantasy

Thursday 12 March 2020

A two-day, multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to exploring fantasy.

Prisoners of war, diplomacy and international humanitarian law in the Second World War

Thursday 30 January 2020

Part of the War and Captivity in Modern Conflicts research strand

Countervoices Spring Series

Thursday 30 January 2020

The first session in the CModS postgraduate forum Spring series

Reactionary Patriots and European Romance: Aspects of Medievalism in Early Victorian Wales

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand seminar with Huw Pryce (Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University, Wales)

Skipton’s First World War Prisoner-of War Camp

Friday 17 January 2020

Part of the War and Captivity in Modern Conflicts research strand

Writing Together (a workshop)

Thursday 16 January 2020

Workshop exploring ethics and practice of writing collaboration as theatre, fiction, poetry

Memory, Modernity and L’ancien regime: the Swedish Nobility 1866-1974 as a Case Study

Thursday 31 October 2019

Research Seminar by Magnus Bergman (PhD student in History at Malmö University, Sweden, and currently visiting scholar in the Department of History at York)

Art + Research (a workshop)

Wednesday 30 October 2019

With Ugandan photographer JIM JOEL

Public Art - a conversation

Monday 28 October 2019

A discussion about public art and interactive happenings

The society of prisoners: Anglo-French wars and incarceration in the eighteenth century

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Dr Renaud Morieux presents a talk on the detention of prisoners of war in the eighteenth century.

Michael Donkor: Reading and Interview

Friday 21 June 2019

A special reading by British-Ghanain novelist Michael Donkor

Subjectivity and Sovereignty: Tracing the Modern through Time and Space, 1850 - Present.

Tuesday 28 May 2019

CModS postgraduate forum annual symposium

Sam Reese: Reading and Interview

Thursday 9 May 2019

A special reading by Aotearoa/New Zealand-born writer Sam Reese. Part of the Creative Dissonance: Writing Now CModS research strand and the Writers at York programme.

Emergent Environments: Victorian Medievalism, the East, and the Reform of Cities'

Wednesday 1 May 2019

Research Seminar by Corinna Wagner (Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Culture, University of Exeter)

Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralise of the British Press in the Early Twentieth Century

Wednesday 1 May 2019

CModS Modernist Peripheries research strand seminar with Dr Abbie Garrington, Durham University

Historical Memory Culture and the significance of the 1453 Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople

Wednesday 17 April 2019

Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand seminar

A Critique of Medieval Contemporaneity: Temporality and the Medievalization of Nineteenth-Century South America

Thursday 7 March 2019

A Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand event with Nadia Altschul (Hispanic Studies, University of Glasgow).

An Archaeology of Power: The Use of Fortifications in Desert Spaces since Roman Times

Thursday 28 February 2019

A Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand event with Berny Sèbe (Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Birmingham). Co-organized with the York Asia Research Network.

New Artistic Practices: Instagram as (Plat)Form (Panel Discussion)

Thursday 28 February 2019

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies ‘Creative Dissonance: Writing Now’ research strand.

The Watch-Bitch Now: Reassessing the Natural Woman in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Thursday 28 February 2019

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies ‘Creative Dissonance: Writing Now’ research strand.

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Virtual Open Day

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Join us for a live event where you can chat with academic staff and current students about postgraduate study and life at York.

Masters Taster Day

Friday 15 February 2019

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Meet the convenor and current students at this taster event.

Sam Thompson: Reading and Interview

Friday 25 January 2019

A special reading by Belfast-based writer Sam Thompson, followed by an interview and wine reception. Part of the Creative Dissonance research strand.

Radio’s Vernacular Modernism

Wednesday 23 January 2019

CModS research seminar with Professor Kate Lacey (University of Sussex). Part of the 'Histories of Listening' event.

Histories of Listening

Wednesday 23 January 2019

This event includes a workshop for the ‘Electronic Soundscapes’ WRoCAH network and a research seminar by Professor Kate Lacey (University of Sussex)

Locating Nancy Holt

Wednesday 16 January 2019

Research seminar by Dr James Boaden (History of Art, University of York) as part of the Modernist Peripheries research strand

“We come with passports instead of swords” unpacking the 1926 Mediterranean Pilgrimage of the Order of St John

Wednesday 21 November 2018

Part of the Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand

Projecting Modernism: The Future of Britain in 1930s Documentary Film

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Research seminar with Dr Michael McCluskey as part of the CModS 'Modernist Peripheries: Fringes and Frontiers' research strand

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Open Afternoon

Wednesday 14 November 2018

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Chat to staff and current students at the Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Open Afternoon.

Medievalism and Imperial Modernity: from the “Global Medievalist Moment” to Today

Thursday 8 November 2018

Part of the Medievalism and Imperial Modernity research strand, co-organized with the York Asia Research Network

Who's Afraid of Alice Meynell?: Alice Meynell in the Age of Modernism

Thursday 1 November 2018

Research seminar with Dr Sarah Parker (Loughborough) as part of the CModS 'Modernist Peripheries: Fringes and Frontiers' research strand

The Circumpolar World, 1850-1940: From Scandinavia to North America

Wednesday 17 October 2018

A History of Art and Centre for Modern Studies workshop

Fugitive Ideas: a cerebration for Hugh Haughton

Friday 8 June 2018

In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature is hosting a poetic and scholarly "cerebration"

Eleanor Catton in Conversation

Wednesday 6 June 2018

This is a Creative Dissonance and Writers at York event, part of the York Festival of Ideas.

Political Memory and its Archives: Symposium

Friday 25 May 2018

Part of the 'Political Forms' CModS research strand.

Fifty Years of Revolution: Gender, Race and Resistance 1968-2018

Monday 21 May 2018

A two-day interdisciplinary conference

Atmospheres

Friday 18 May 2018

A half day interdisciplinary symposium to discuss conceptualisations of 'atmosphere'

New Modes of Reading

Friday 11 May 2018

A Creative Dissonance research seminar with Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York) and Doug Battersby (University of Tokyo)

Art and Politics Today

Thursday 3 May 2018

CModS research seminar by Professor David Barnett (School of Arts and Creative Technologies, York) and Ruth Kelly (Centre for Applied Human Rights, York). Part of the ‘Political Forms’ CModS research strand.

POSTPONED Eleanor Catton in Conversation

Wednesday 28 February 2018

This event has been postponed until the Summer Term. Details will be posted soon. If you booked a free ticket for this event, it will be transferred to the new date.

POSTPONED Workshop and Seminar with Anat Pick

Wednesday 21 February 2018

A postgraduate student workshop and a Modern School Research Seminar with Anat Pick (Queen Mary University, London).

Symposium: New Work on Edward Lear

Saturday 17 February 2018

One day seminar for emerging scholars to present and discuss new work on Edward Lear

Postcolonial migration meets European integration: Britain in comparative perspective

Thursday 1 February 2018

Public lecture by Professor Elizabeth Buettner, University of Amsterdam

The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Friday 12 January 2018

A three-day interdisciplinary conference

The Politics of Happiness

Monday 20 November 2017

CModS research seminar by Dr David Dwan (University of Oxford) and Dr Emilie Morin (York). Part of the ‘Political Forms’ CModS research strand

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate open afternoon

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Come along and meet the convenor and current students!

Consolation's Discrepant Forms

Thursday 2 November 2017

The inaugural talk for the Centre for Modern Studies Creative Dissonance: Writing Now research strand

Uses of Criticism in an Era of Postcritique

Thursday 2 November 2017

Postgraduate workshop - part of the CModS research strand Creative Dissonance: Writing Now

Looking at Art-Language

Thursday 12 October 2017

A one-day symposium

Rethinking Albert Moore

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Two study days focusing on the life and work of the artist Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893)

The Future of Freedom

Friday 9 June 2017

Public lecture by Professor Nikolas Rose, part of the CModS Freedom After Neoliberalism research strand

Freedom after Neoliberalism

Friday 9 June 2017

A two-day conference

ACT UP: Thirty Years Fighting AIDS

Thursday 1 June 2017

A conference marking the 30th anniversary of ACT UP, the international advocacy group fighting to end the AIDS crisis

(Re)connecting Dots: Conversations Beyond Art History

Wednesday 31 May 2017

An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the visual turn in imperial studies

Transculturation: Encounters in the Modern Period, 1830 - Present

Tuesday 30 May 2017

CModS postgraduate forum annual symposium

Traversing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Social Research

Thursday 25 May 2017

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference - call for papers

Bringing Conflict Home

Thursday 11 May 2017

A one-day interdisciplinary conference

Transgender Studies and Art History: The Case of Abstraction

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Interdisciplinary postgraduate seminar with Professor David Getsy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

Merz North 4

Wednesday 22 March 2017

The fourth gathering of MerzNorth to consider the theme of 'Merz. Memory and the Museum'

Consuming Animals

Friday 17 March 2017

A two-day interdisciplinary conference

Archiving the City/ City as Archive

Thursday 16 March 2017

A one-day symposium organised by the Archiving the City research strand

Promoting Potatoes in Peru and Other Tales of the Hispanic Enlightenment

Tuesday 14 March 2017

York Centre for the Americas visiting lecture by Professor Rebecca Earle (Warwick)

The Immorality of Inequality: Weighing Down on Freedom

Tuesday 7 March 2017

A Freedom after Neoliberalism research strand speaker event with Professor Kate Pickett

Masters Taster Day

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Find out more at this event.

Reparative Reading at 21

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposium

Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 2

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Second of two preparatory reading groups in advance of the Reparative Reading at 21 symposium on 14 February.

Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 1

Tuesday 31 January 2017

First of two preparatory reading groups in advance of the Reparative Reading at 21 symposium on 14 February.

Nothing - A User's Manual

Tuesday 31 January 2017

A follow-up to the Nothing research strand

Tracking Poetic Performance from Homer to Shakespeare

Monday 30 January 2017

David Attridge (English and Related Literature). Talk hosted by the Poetry and Poetics reading group.

Europe

Tuesday 17 January 2017

An HRC Lightning Rods event

CModS postgraduate forum wine reception

Monday 16 January 2017

Wine reception organised by the CModS postgraduate forum - postgraduates working in the modern period in all disciplines are cordially invited to attend.

The Leighton Network

Monday 12 December 2016

An interdisciplinary research day organised through the History of Art Department and supported by the Centre for Modern Studies

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate open afternoon

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Interested in the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Come along and meet the convenor and current students!

Truth claims, activism and cultural practice workshop

Friday 4 November 2016

A one-day workshop organised by the CModS Truth Claims, Activism and Cultural Practice research strand

Restarting the Clock of History: Periodicity, Neoliberalism and Contemporary World Literature

Wednesday 2 November 2016

With Dr Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin). Part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Freedom After Neoliberalism' research strand.

Is examination of history useful to 21st century campaigners?

Tuesday 25 October 2016

A talk by Mike Childs, Head of Science, Policy & Research, Friends of the Earth

Ian Watt and the Prison Camp English Department

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Centre for Modern Studies start of year event with guest speaker Dr Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)

Fluxus and the Idea of Nothing

Tuesday 11 October 2016

A follow-up to the Nothing research strand, this event will consist of a paper and a response.

European Screens 2016

Monday 5 September 2016

An International Conference on Film, TV Drama and the Audiovisual Industries in Europe

Death and Culture

Thursday 1 September 2016

A 3 day conference organised by the Department of Sociology and supported by the CModS Death research strand

David Jones: Dialogues with the Past

Thursday 21 July 2016

An international, interdisciplinary conference

Humour, vitality, and the lone togetherness of social media

Monday 6 June 2016

This Centre for Modern Studies lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity to meet Professor Weitz.

Physical Comedy: The theory and practice of joking for bodies

Monday 6 June 2016

This lunchtime workshop for postgraduate students is sponsored by the Centre for Modern Studies.

The Modern Body 1830-present

Friday 3 June 2016

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum sixth annual symposium

Creative Labour

Wednesday 1 June 2016

Two linked events addressing Creative Labour. These events will appeal to those interested in neoliberalism, creativity, contemporary politics, cultural studies and issues including gender, equality, and the theorization of work, or labour.

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) at 20

Monday 23 May 2016

A one-day conference organised by The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) to mark the 20th anniversary of the South African TRC's first public hearings.

Musical Materials

Thursday 19 May 2016

A CModS postgraduate forum event

Connecting Dots: Art History and the British Empire

Wednesday 18 May 2016

An informal workshop of short presentations, exploring the collective intellectual genealogy of British art and empire studies.

Uncommon: Hobbes and Theoliberalism

Tuesday 10 May 2016

This event is part of the Freedom After Neoliberalism research strand.

Sargentology

Thursday 28 April 2016

An innovative interdisciplinary conference, aiming to shed new light on Sargent studies, and to explore fresh avenues of approach to this great man and his work.

MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 taster and information session

Wednesday 27 April 2016

A taster session for offer holders and prospective applicants to the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945

Complexity in the Humanities Workshop 2

Wednesday 20 April 2016

This year's second Complexity in the Humanities workshop centres upon the topic of time and complex systems.

Remapping Place, Space, and Politics: Locality and the Legend of American Isolationism

Wednesday 13 April 2016

York Centre for the Americas public lecture by Professor Kristin Hoganson (Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor at the Rothermore American Institute, Oxford)

Phenomenology and Creativity

Friday 4 March 2016

An inter-disciplinary workshop considering creativity and creative processes from a phenomenological perspective.

Everyday Lives

Tuesday 1 March 2016

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Capturing the Flag: Paris after Terrorism and Global Mourning

Friday 19 February 2016

CModS postgraduate forum Short Talk by Hannah Pinsent - all welcome.

The John Forster Collection at the V&A

Friday 12 February 2016

CModS postgraduate forum short talk by Victoria White

Myths of Homecoming in Monica Ali's 'Brick Lane'

Friday 5 February 2016

CModS postgraduate forum short talk by Lotta Schneidemesser

'Nothing' research strand meeting

Friday 5 February 2016

The Centre for Modern Studies ‘Nothing’ research strand first meeting of the Spring term

Postgraduate virtual open day

Tuesday 2 February 2016

Considering the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945? Visit us online at the Virtual Open Day and we'll answer any questions you may have.

Time and Relative Dimension in Liberty's: The London Department Store in the Colonial and Post Colonial Contexts

Friday 29 January 2016

CModS postgraduate forum short talk by Jiyu Ryu

The Freedom of Each and the Freedom of All? Freedom in a Capitalist Market Economy

Friday 22 January 2016

Lecture by Professor Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin), part of the 'Freedom After Neoliberalism' series.

Complexity in the Humanities Workshop 1

Wednesday 20 January 2016

Centre for Modern Studies Complexity in the Humanities Workshop

CModS postgraduate forum wine reception

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Wine reception organised by the CModS postgraduate forum - postgraduates working in the modern period in all disciplines are cordially invited to attend.

Literary Tourism and Authenticity: From Charles Dickens to Harry Potter

Monday 23 November 2015

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum Seminar

Postgraduate open afternoon

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Meet the MA convenors and find out about postgraduate study in the Centre for Modern Studies

Freedom after Neoliberalism reading group

Monday 16 November 2015

The third meeting of the "Freedom After Neoliberalism" interdisciplinary reading group

The Past and Future of Museums: Questions of Representation and Experience

Friday 13 November 2015

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum Seminar

Workshop on Phenomenology

Wednesday 11 November 2015

Presented by CHiPhi (White Rose Centre for the History of Philosophy), in conjunction with the CModS Research Strand 'Back to the Things Themselves'

Academic Freedom After Neoliberalism

Wednesday 28 October 2015

A lecture by Professor Thomas Docherty (Warwick) in the 'Freedom After Neoliberalism' series, preceded by a drinks reception at 5.30 to kick-start the CModS academic year. All welcome.

'Nothing' research strand meeting

Friday 23 October 2015

The Centre for Modern Studies ‘Nothing’ research strand reconvenes with a presentation by Michael White

Reading and In Conversation: Olive Senior

Monday 12 October 2015

Back in the UK for a rare visit, Olive’s York event will highlight her new collection of short stories 'The Pain Tree'. She will also discuss her award-winning work of non-fiction, 'Dying to Better Themselves'.

Reconciliations: The 2015 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Monday 20 July 2015

This year the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures comes to the University of York and to venues across the city.

Matter

Tuesday 9 June 2015

An interdisciplinary workshop

Scaling the Novel, Scaling the Human: Annual Jacques Berthoud Lecture 2015

Wednesday 3 June 2015

This year's Annual Jacques Berthoud lecture will be given by Professor Mark McGurl (Stanford University).

Freedom After Neoliberalism: The Beauty of a Social Problem

Wednesday 3 June 2015

Professor Mark McGurl will lead a discussion of Walter Benn Michaels' essay 'The Beauty of a Social Problem', which deals with the problem of artistic form in the age of neoliberalism.

Mapping Identities in the Modern World, 1830-present

Tuesday 2 June 2015

The 5th Annual Postgraduate Symposium of the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York

Radical Domesticities

Wednesday 27 May 2015

Centre for Modern studies postgraduate forum seminar with papers by Stephanie Lambert and Amy Tobin

The Languages of Literature: Attridge at 70

Friday 22 May 2015

A three-day conference to celebrate the contribution to literary criticism made by Professor Derek Attridge.

Translating Terrorism

Thursday 21 May 2015

Guest talk by Anas Sareen, University of Lausanne

Salomé: The Modern Body

Tuesday 19 May 2015

A Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar

MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 taster and information session

Wednesday 29 April 2015

A taster session for offer holders and prospective applicants to the MA in Culture and Thought after 1945

One man's freedom fighter, another man's terrorist: Understanding radicalism in political struggles

Tuesday 28 April 2015

A Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar

Movements and Shakers: Complexity to simplicity and back again

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum

Mourning and Morbidity: Death and British Art

Tuesday 10 March 2015

A one-day workshop investigating the relationship of Death and British art

Riding Westward: Geoffrey Hill's Eccentric Resistances

Monday 2 March 2015

A Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar

Resources for International Solidarity: Palestine and South Africa on Camera

Wednesday 25 February 2015

The third event in the Resistant Resources Lecture series with speaker Dr Anna Bernard (King's College, London).

Land, Labour & African Literature

Monday 16 February 2015

Dr James Graham (Middlesex) and Dr Madhu Krishnan (Bristol) give papers at the third event in the Resistant Resources lecture series.

'So-called waste': Forms of Excess in Post-1960 Art, Film, and Literature

Friday 13 February 2015

A day conference

Red Desert screening

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Screening of Antonioni's 1964 film in preparation for the 'So-called waste' workshop

Resistant Resources Lecture Series: Sugar, Coal and Oil

Monday 9 February 2015

This second event in the Resistant Resources Lecture Series will offer exciting papers covering sugar, coal and oil, as they pertain to the General Strike, the Caribbean, and Zombie movies.

The Very Queer Appeal of Japan: Sexuality, Identity and Belonging in Postwar Expatriate Literary Cultures

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Department of History research seminar with Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield

Networks, Systems, Them, Me, Us

Wednesday 28 January 2015

An interdisciplinary Lightning Rods event

The Proposition: Freedom after Neoliberalism

Monday 19 January 2015

Addressing recent debates on neoliberalism in the humanities and social sciences, this session asks what an engagement with freedom might add to those debates.

Enduring Oil: The Resources of Petrofiction

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Graeme MacDonald (Warwick) opens the Resistant Resources lecture series.

Society for the Promotion of Urban Discussion (SPUD)

Monday 15 December 2014

The third meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Urban Discussion (SPUD)

Vegan Theory event

Monday 1 December 2014

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Vegan Society, the Centre for Modern Studies will be hosting a short, lunchtime event.

Eborakon launch party

Friday 28 November 2014

Launch party for a new biennial poetry magazine based at the University of York

'What death can join together': Neo-Victorian mortalities in the 21st century

Wednesday 26 November 2014

A multi-disciplinary seminar with speakers including Marie-luise Kohlke (University of Swansea)

A poetry reading by J.T. Welsch

Wednesday 19 November 2014

A Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum event

Postgraduate open afternoon

Wednesday 19 November 2014

An information event for prospective postgraduates in the departments of Archaeology, English and Related Literature, History and Philosophy, and the centres for Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Eighteenth Century Studies and Modern Studies.

Moving Images: Between Photography and Film in Contemporary Art

Monday 17 November 2014

This paper will consider the role of moving images in contemporary art. A CModS event with speaker Dr Lee-Von Kim, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Autobiography in Comparative Perspective (TORCH, University of Oxford).

Modernism: Beyond Representation

Thursday 13 November 2014

A CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Complexity in the Humanities workshop

Monday 3 November 2014

A two-day workshop inaugurating the Complexity in the Humanities research strand in the Centre for Modern Studies, featuring presentations from members of the NarCS network on complex systems and narrative.

Miss Lou, Jamaican Culture & Mervyn Morris

Thursday 23 October 2014

Mervyn Morris, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, speaks on Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture. Professor Morris will also treat us to some of his own highly regarded poetry.

Symbolic Death

Wednesday 15 October 2014

An informal meeting hosted by the Death research strand

Nothing Happening?

Thursday 9 October 2014

The first meeting of the 'Nothing' research strand.

Resources of Resistance: Production, Consumption, Transformation

Thursday 24 July 2014

The Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) Postgraduate and Early Career Conference

Tastes in Practice

Tuesday 15 July 2014

The Research Centre ECCE and the Sociology Department at the University of York are pleased to announce a one-day seminar on tastes at York. The seminar is jointly organised by the Stratification and Culture Research Network

The Sea is Rising: Visualizing Climate Change in the Pacific

Tuesday 1 July 2014

Postgraduate workshop and public lecture by Associate Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)

Death and Domesticity:From Victorian Masculinity to Literary Afterlives

Tuesday 24 June 2014

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

Writing the Living, Writing the Dead: Patrick French in Conversation

Thursday 19 June 2014

Eminent biographer and historian, Patrick French, discusses the art of literary biography, and shows how V. S. Naipaul, born in rural poverty in colonial Trinidad, turned himself into a key figure in contemporary world literature. A Writers at York event in association with York Festival of Ideas.

'It's a Dishonest Con!': Realist Film and Television after Alan Clarke

Wednesday 11 June 2014

Centre for Modern Studies one-day symposium

Nature at War

Thursday 5 June 2014

The annual symposium of the Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum

Reading and Interpretation: Poetry, Memory and Psychoanalysis in Three Works of Adam Phillips

Monday 2 June 2014

Reading and Interpretation reading group seminar with Hugh Haughton

Place, performance, memory: towards an ecology of remembering

Wednesday 28 May 2014

TFTV research seminar with speaker Gay McAuley, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney

Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture

Thursday 22 May 2014

Annual Jacques Berthoud lecture with speaker W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago)

Adil Ray, 'In Conversation', followed by a screening of 'Citizen Khan'

Thursday 15 May 2014

A Writers at York event with speaker Adil Ray, actor, radio and television presenter.

Unconstitutional Writing: Arvind Mehrotra and the Interplay of Languages

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Peter McDonald (Oxford)

Remembering Stuart Hall

Monday 12 May 2014

A commemorative symposium in honour of the contribution made by the late Jamaican cultural theorist and socialist intellectual Stuart Hall

CANCELLED: Melanie Challenger Poetry Seminar

Thursday 8 May 2014

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum event

New books roundtable

Tuesday 6 May 2014

Roundtable on new studies of CLR James and Darcus Howe

Said's 'Secular Criticism'

Monday 5 May 2014

Dr Ziad Elmarsafy will chair the second meeting of the ‘Reading and Interpretation’ reading group, looking at Edward Said’s essay ‘Secular Criticism’ from 'The World, the Text, and the Critic'.

Poetry, Music, and the Sacred

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Alice Goodman and Michael Symmons Roberts in Conversation.

Sketching Home: Soldier Art and Souvenirs of the Crimean War

Thursday 24 April 2014

Department of English and Related Literature Modern School Research Seminar with Holly Furneaux (Leicester)

Economy and Society in the West and Beyond

Thursday 24 April 2014

Centre for Modern Studies workshop

A Double Sorrow

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Lavinia Greenlaw reads her new collection inspired by Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Preceded by a talk on Chaucer by Kenneth Clarke (York). A Writers at York event.

Literary Ethics: Poetic Humour and Narrative Affect

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum seminar

Blade Runner workshop

Friday 11 April 2014

The third and final workshop of the AHRC-funded project 'Cognitive and Aesthetic Values in Cultural Artefacts'

Cross-Currents in Art History: authors in conversation with readers

Wednesday 26 March 2014

History of Art symposium organised by Professor Whitney Davis

Further Dimensions of the Poem: Sylvia Plath's visual imagination and Seamus Heaney's sense of space

Thursday 13 March 2014

A Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum seminar

Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film: Humanitarianism, Paternalism and Imperialism in 20th Century Britain

Tuesday 11 March 2014

Modern British History and Politics Research Seminar with Matthew Hilton, University of Birmingham

Islamisation and Fiction: A Narrative

Friday 7 March 2014

A Writers at York event with speaker Tabish Khair.

Maureen McLane poetry reading

Thursday 6 March 2014

A Writers at York event.

Maureen McLane poetry reading

Thursday 6 March 2014

A Writers at York event.

MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 - taster and information session

Wednesday 26 February 2014

For prospective applicants

If opposition is an art, is Ed Miliband an artist?

Tuesday 25 February 2014

Modern British History and Politics Research Seminar with Tim Bale, Queen Mary, London

Frames of reference: Art, Race, Sexuality and Nationhood

Tuesday 25 February 2014

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar

Eliot Among the Comedians

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Matthew Bevis (Oxford).

Fat Art Thin Art: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet

Friday 14 February 2014

To celebrate Queer History month, Valentine's day, and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Fat Art Thin Art, the Centre for Modern Studies is delighted to host an afternoon soiree to discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a poet

A Lovely Dialogue: Critics and Poets, Friends and Fans

Thursday 13 February 2014

A poetry reading to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's 'Fat Art Thin Art'

The (Un)natural World: Anthropomorphic Language and Lenses

Friday 7 February 2014

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum event

W.B. Yeats and the BBC

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Department of English and Related Literature Modern School seminar with Emilie Morin (York)

De-industrialization but not decline? Britain since the 1950s

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Modern British History and Politics Research Seminar with Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow

Nabokov and his Publishers: Authority in the Paratext

Wednesday 29 January 2014

Department of English and Related Literature Modern School seminar with Duncan White (Wellesley College)

London in the independence-era imaginary: Postwar, Cold war and Transnational visitors

Monday 2 December 2013

Distinguished Visitor lecture by Professor Susan Pennybacker, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Against Photographic Exceptionalism

Monday 2 December 2013

History of Art research seminar with Stephen Bann

London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks, 1960-1980

Friday 29 November 2013

A one-day conference

Who “owns” mourning? A discussion of memory, space, and community

Monday 25 November 2013

Seminar hosted by the History Postgraduate Forum and the Centre for Modern Studies (CModS) Postgraduate Forum

Nation, Narration and Exile

Tuesday 19 November 2013

CModS postgraduate forum seminar

The Online Professional: Gender and Digital Culture

Friday 8 November 2013

Afternoon workshop on the intersections between professional life, digital media and gender.

Realignment and Televisual Intellect: From 'The Wire' through 'Occupy' to 'Hemlock Grove'

Tuesday 5 November 2013

What can the 'golden age' of American television tell us about the transformation of social relations in this age of austerity? Modern School guest lecture by Professor Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick.

Amit Chaudhuri: Reading and In Conversation on Words and Music

Wednesday 23 October 2013

A Writers at York event

Ordinary / Everyday / Quotidian

Thursday 26 September 2013

An international two-day conference

Nutritional Guidelines and Standards: Past and Present Perspectives

Wednesday 3 July 2013

One-day conference

Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System

Tuesday 2 July 2013

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the economic and socio-political dynamics of ‘neoliberalism’ in relation to the contemporary ‘crisis’ of capital and set against a foundational concern with the capitalist world system.

Translating Freedom workshop

Monday 1 July 2013

The workshop is the final event linked to an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) network grant on the theme of 'translating freedom', which funded workshops in Rwanda, South Africa, and Egypt during 2012.

Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day

Friday 28 June 2013

This two-day international, interdisciplinary academic conference and arts festival seeks to explore the complex webs of interconnection between the long eighteenth century and the ‘long’ twentieth century, from 1900 to the present.

Synergies: The Role of Collectors, Critics, Curators in Artistic Practice c. 1780-1914

Wednesday 26 June 2013

Afternoon workshop to examine the fraught but often productive relationships between artists, collectors, critics and curators in the long nineteenth century

Anti-Happenings/ Anti-Politics: Experimental Art in Late Socialist Central Europe

Monday 24 June 2013

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar with Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Courtauld Institute of Art

Eccentric Objects: Sculpture in the 1960s

Tuesday 11 June 2013

A talk and roundtable discussion

Representing the Industrial Scene: Lowry in Context 1900-1980

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Symposium examining the art historical context of L.S. Lowry's work

Advertising and Consumer Culture

Friday 31 May 2013

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum third annual symposium

Elizabeth Shove workshop

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Postgraduate workshop as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian research strand

Everyday Life and How It Changes

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Lecture by Elizabeth Shove, University of Lancaster as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian research strand

Feminist Object(ive)s: Writing Art History

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Postgraduate symposium exploring the aims, challenges and complications of writing art histories from a feminist standpoint

Capitalism Without Images

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Professor T J Clark, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and Visiting Professor at York presents this lecture.

Visual Culture in Crisis: Britain c.1800-Present

Friday 10 May 2013

A two-day conference

Cinematic (ab)normality

Monday 6 May 2013

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum seminar

"I Am Changing, And Things Around Me Change": making a revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1916

Thursday 2 May 2013

Department of English Jacques Berthoud lecture by Professor R.F. Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford)

Creative Writing and English Literature: The State of the Disciplines. An interactive panel

Thursday 2 May 2013

Final speaker event in the interdisciplinary research project 'Strange Bedfellows?: Creativity and Analysis in an Age of Austerity'

The Poisoned Gift of Forgiveness in 'Jane Eyre'

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Henry Staten (University of Washington)

Prison Life Writing, Rehabilitation, and the Story of the American Prison System

Monday 29 April 2013

Talk by Dr Simon Rolston

Poetry Reading by John Wilkinson

Thursday 25 April 2013

A Modern School/Writers at York event

Psychoanalytic Animal

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago)

South African Jazz Cultures: indaba / discussion day

Saturday 20 April 2013

An interdisciplinary forum structured around five presentations and a round table

Beyond the Garden Party: Rethinking Edwardian Culture

Saturday 13 April 2013

Two-day conference to be held at the University of Durham and the University of York

Documentary, Photography, Empathy

Wednesday 6 March 2013

A CModS Postgraduate Forum event with speakers Jay James May (English) and Katie Markham (English)

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment

Friday 1 March 2013

Postgraduate workshop supported by the University of York Centre for Modern Studies and AHRC Collaborative Skills Development

Beckett Among Others

Thursday 28 February 2013

Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum White Rose Beckett Seminar

The cultural representation and politics of food in the modern world

Tuesday 26 February 2013

The papers in this seminar showcase some of the exciting and novel work done on the politics and representation of food at the University of York.

Thinking historically about Neoliberalism

Monday 25 February 2013

Public lecture by Nicholas Gane, Department of Sociology

'Our Lives, Mrs Dalloway': A Creative-Critical Talk

Wednesday 20 February 2013

A creative-critical talk by Professor John Schad, University of Lancaster

Contemporary Fiction and Everyday Life

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Lecture by Neal Alexander (Nottingham) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

Tendencies at Twenty

Thursday 14 February 2013

Interdisciplinary symposium to celebrate Queer History Month, Valentine's Day and the 20th anniversary of the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's 'Tendencies'.

Queering National Mythologies: Anandamath, The Mahabharata, and the Gendering of Resistance

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Shamira Meghani (Leeds)

Identity: a CModS Postgraduate Forum event

Tuesday 5 February 2013

In this interdisciplinary seminar, Eoin Martin and Daniel Molto will explore issues surrounding identity and its applications in the humanities.

There Is Nothing Other than Ordinary Language

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Lecture by Dr Rupert Read (UEA) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

Ideas that Bind: Approaches to Modernist Groups and Networks

Friday 25 January 2013

Two of the foremost scholars of modernism, Professor Linda Dalrymple Henderson (University of Texas) and Professor Patricia Leighten (Duke University), will be taking part in this afternoon workshop highlighting new research on the ways in which artistic groups were formed, the role of networks in the dissemination of artistic practices and their intersection with varieties of political radicalism.

Modernism and the Art of Typing Up

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Hannah Sullivan (Oxford)

The Academy Just Isn’t Funny Enough

Tuesday 22 January 2013

A 'Lightning Rods' event

Willed Passivity, Furious Martyrdom

Tuesday 15 January 2013

CModS postgraduate forum event with speaker Dr Sara Crangle (Sussex)

Twentieth century music: transmissions and fragments

Tuesday 11 December 2012

CMods postgraduate forum seminar with Martin Scheuregger (Department of Music) and Tim Smith-Laing (Jesus College, Oxford)

Contemporary Aesthetic Education in the UK

Monday 10 December 2012

Interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop

Modernizing the Mikado: Japan, Japanism, and the Limitations of the Avant-garde

Friday 7 December 2012

Department of History of Art research seminar with Christopher Reed, Professor of English and Visual Studies at Penn State University in Philadelphia

The Cultural Representation and Politics of Food in the Modern World

Tuesday 27 November 2012

The first seminar of the new CModS research strand.

Popular culture, digital archives and the new social life of data

Monday 26 November 2012

CModS postgraduate forum event with Dr David Beer, Department of Sociology

Alltagsgeschichte: Writing the History of Modernity

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies' 'Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian' series, with speaker Holger Nehring (Sheffield)

Theory Has Never Been Secular

Tuesday 20 November 2012

A 'Lightning Rods' seminar

The Ethics of Narrative Non-Fiction: writing about the living, the wounded and the ill-at-ease

Friday 16 November 2012

Lecture by South African writer Jonny Steinberg

How to tell tales about tales: writing about the stories South African prisoners' tell

Friday 16 November 2012

Informal discussion with South African writer Jonny Steinberg about his work with South African prisoners

The Holocaust on Film: Symposium and Screenings

Friday 9 November 2012

Postgraduate symposium with key speakers Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman and Sue Vice

Things that Matter

Wednesday 7 November 2012

New Poetry and Performances by James Nash, David Tait, and Izzy Isgate

Music and Meaning: a symposium

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Department of Sociology event

Would the Real Modernism Please Stand Up?

Tuesday 6 November 2012

A Modern School lecture by Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway)

Holocaust on Film screening

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Screening of 'Nuit et Brouillard' and excerpts of 'Shoah' in preparation for the symposium on 9 November

Democracy Needs the Humanities

Tuesday 30 October 2012

A 'Lightning Rods' seminar

Holocaust on Film Screening

Sunday 28 October 2012

Screening of Claude Lanzmann's documentary 'Shoah' (1985)

The Everyday and the Archive

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Workshop with Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford, following the lecture on 23 October.

The Everyday and the Archive

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Lecture by Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford. The first in a series of talks organised by the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian research strand.

Neuroscience and the Novel: Strange Bedfellows?

Thursday 18 October 2012

Dr Charles Fernyhough, Reader in Psychology, University of Durham

A Taste of Spain: The Reception of Spanish Art in Britain, 1850-1920

Monday 15 October 2012

Modern Research Seminar with Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn

Visible and invisible authorships

Thursday 27 September 2012

The 7th Annual Conference of The Association of Adaptation Studies

Contested histories and the parameters of resistance

Tuesday 3 July 2012

One-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference

World-Systems Research Day

Friday 29 June 2012

Following on from Professor Wallerstein’s public lecture on 28th June, there will be an exciting world systems research day that responds to his work on capitalist modernity and the structural crisis of capitalism.

Structural crisis of the capitalist world-system: How serious? How long? Endpoint?

Thursday 28 June 2012

Professor Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale)

Prison Fictions and Writing Imprisonment

Thursday 21 June 2012

Exploring a variety of approaches to writing about incarceration and the experience of imprisonment from a range of different perspectives

Pakistani Women's Writing: Generational Influences and Literary Examples

Tuesday 19 June 2012

A Writers at York event with Kamila Shamsie, the Department of English Writer in Residence, in conversation.

Everyday Cities and Ordinary Lives: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Cities

Friday 15 June 2012

One-day conference organised by the Centre for Modern Studies and the Centre for Urban Research

Queer/Animal

Friday 8 June 2012

A one-day symposium exploring the dialogue between queer studies and animal studies, organised by the Centre for Modern Studies and King's College London

Black box workshop with Tanya Gerstle

Thursday 7 June 2012

A unique, informal, experimental, and interdisciplinary ‘black-box’ workshop, exploring issues of affect and embodiment, especially designed for Modern humanities students at York.

Authenticity

Thursday 31 May 2012

CModS postgraduate forum second annual symposium

A Willfulness Archive

Thursday 24 May 2012

Lecture by Professor Sara Ahmed, co-hosted by the Postcolonial Perspectives Reading Group and the CModS Postgraduate Forum

Interview with Tanya Gerstle

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Interview with one of Australia's leading directors and actor trainers