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7th Biennal Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)

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Posted by: University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
Deadline: Sat, February 1st, 2020

EAM 2020: "CRiSiS"
University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, 17-19 September 2020
Keynote speakers: Boris Groys and Christine Poggi.

Call for proposals for roundtables, panels and individual papers
Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism. Throughout their history, avant-gardists and modernists have faced crises, be they economic or political, scientific or technological, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. Modernists and avant-gardists have in turn continually stood accused of instigating crises, whether artistic or cultural, sensorial or conceptual, incidental or intentional, far-reaching or negligible, representational or other. The very concepts of ‘avant-garde’ and ‘modernism’ are time and again subject—or subjected—to conceptual crises, leaving modernism and avant-garde studies as a field on the perpetual brink of a self-effacing theoretical crisis.

The 7th biennial conference of the EAM intends to tackle the different ways in which the avant-garde and modernism in Europe relate to crisi/es, and we welcome panel, roundtable and paper proposals on any aspect of this relationship.

Deadline for roundtable proposals: 1 January 2020
Deadline for proposals for panels and individual papers: 1 February 2020

The official languages of this conference are English, French and German.
More information on the conference theme and the process of submission for proposals as a panel chair, a roundtable chair, or an individual, is available on the conference website at www.eam-europe.be. Please forward any specific questions to eam2020@kuleuven.be.

Organising Committe: Sascha Bru (MDRN research lab), Mark Delaere (Musicology), Leen Engelen (Film Studies), Hilde Heynen (Architecture), Kate Kangaslahti (Art History), Bart Philipsen (Theatre & Performance Studies), Anne Reverseau (UC Louvain, Photography), and Inga Rossi-Schrimpf (curator Royal Museums of Fine Arts Brussels, RMFAB).

Posted on Mon, July 1st, 2019
Expires on Sat, February 1st, 2020

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