This half-day symposium brings together UEA scholars working on aspects of twentieth-century British artistic and literary culture, and marks the arrival of Professor Paul Edwards (a renowned expert on the British painter and writer Wyndham Lewis) as a member of faculty in both the School of Art History and World Art Studies, and the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

16th of January 2013 1.00 to 6.30 pm

Sainsbury Centre Lecture Theatre (SCVA 01.10)

Download the Symposium Poster [PDF 391kb]

Directions to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

(Image: Lawrence Atkinson - © Trustees of the British Museum]

 

PROGRAMME:

1.00 Sarah Monks (ART), Welcome and Introduction
 
1.15 Matthew Taunton (LIT), 'British Modernism, Feminism and the Russian Revolution: Dorothy Richardson and Rebecca West'
 
2.00 Greg Salter (ART), 'Keith Vaughan: Domesticity, Kinship and the Second World War'
 
2.45 Petra Rau (LIT), 'To Heil! or not to Heil!?: Modernist Encounters with Fascist Germany'
 
3.30 tea and coffee
 
4.00 Kate Armond (LIT), ‘Wyndham Lewis and the Parables of German Expressionist Architecture’
 
Followed by the ART research seminar:
 
5.00 Paul Edwards (ART and LIT), 'Blast and the Moment of Vorticism'
 
6.30 end