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Technology, Media, Culture in the Space Between, 1914-1945
Seventh annual conference of THE SPACE BETWEEN: LITERATURE ANDCULTURE 1914-1945
McGill University ,Montreal , Quebec
Beginning with themass mechanization of the Great War, the period through World War II catapultedpeople into a new kind of modernity. New technologies and media conjuredup both awesome and frightful fantasies and realities in the creative andcritical imaginations of artists, scientists, producers, consumers, andcritics. Technology and media excited and threatened domestic andinternational politics and challenged members of popular and elite cultures toreconfigure relationships between selfhood, society, and the objectworld.
This interdisciplinary conferencewill explore the manifestations, effects, and representations of the newtechnologies of the 1914-1945 period.Considering this distinct period in twentieth-century history will offercrucial perspectives and insights on the significance of visual and auditorytechnologies, designed and built technologies, technologies of the body,technologies of flight, speed and simultaneity, technologies of production,technologies of social engineering. Weare particularly interested in exploring the cultural relationships that emergeas the roles of the media and technology shape each other in our Space Between.
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Sconce,Associate Professor of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University, on TheWill to Power: Technologies of Influence and Delusion in the Early TwentiethCentury.
Dept. of English
Metropolis in theSpace Between
Sixth annual conference ofTHE SPACE BETWEEN: LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1914-1945
Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio
Theconference will explore the myriad and often conflicting meanings of the cityas expressed in literature, film, photography, theater, creative reportage,history, and art history.Inspired by Fritz Lang's film, we arecalling for papers that examine relationships between the many written andpictorial forms that represent the city and its artistic, rhetorical, and symbolicmeanings, in a given moment or as reflecting cultural and historical change andcrisis.
From LangsWeimar to Mina Loys Paris, from the Harlem Renaissance to Leni ReifenstahlsBerlin, and from Martha Gellhorns Barcelona to Elizabeth Bowens Blitz andMarguerite Duras Hiroshima Mon Amour, and beyond, we will examine theconstruction and deconstruction of such terms as habitat, haven, ghetto, andmuse as well as Metropolis as the center and periphery of civilization, as theinspiration for an idealized Rural, and even as anti-Metropolis.
Keynote Speaker: Janet Ward,Associate Professor of History and Director, Interdisciplinary Studies,
Robin Rissler
Dept. of English
461 Denney Hall
The Work of Art in the Space Between
Fifth AnnualMeeting of THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture 1914 -1945
Kansas State University , Manhattan , Kansas
Framed by thedevastations of total war, the years 1914-1945 were marked by global social,political, economic and cultural upheaval.Amidst the on-going geo-political contestations and conflicts were theskirmishessometimes serious, sometimes playfulfought in the domain of artitself. Advocates for tradition and innovation clashed not only in and over thetraditional arts of literature, threatre, painting, sculpture, dance and music,but also in and over the problematic valorization of new forms of art, many,such as advertising, fashion, film and photography, enabled by developments intechniques of mechanical reproduction.
Keynote speaker:Erika Doss, Professor of Art History and Director of American Studies at theUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs:Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995) and ElvisCulture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999) and other books, will speak onissues of cultural nationalism in New Deal Art.
Christina Hauck
RepresentingRegionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in the Space Between 1914-1945
Fourth AnnualMeeting of THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture 1914 -1945
University of Arkansas ,Fayetteville , Arkansas
Keynote
Debra Rae Cohen
Dept. of English
Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
Third AnnualMeeting of THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture 1914 1945
University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario ,May 18-20, 2000
PatrickDeane, Chair
Department of English
Border Crossings
Second AnnualMeeting of THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture 1914 1945
SUNY New Paltz,New Paltz , New York
KeynoteSpeaker: Rita Felski, Professor of English, University of
Stella Deen
Dept. of English
SUNY-New Paltz
New
Bang, Boom, Bust, and Bang (Again) --THE SPACEBETWEEN: Precursors and Aftermaths, 1914 -1945
FirstAnnual Meeting of THE SPACE BETWEEN: Literature and Culture 1914 -1945
University of Nevada ,Reno , Nevada
Keynotepanelists: Kristin Bluemel,
Linda Holland-Toll
Dept. of English