![]()
Mobility/Stasis/Modernity
in theSpace Between, 1914-1945
The Eighth AnnualConference
Bucknell University
June 9-10, 2006
Sponsoredby the Department of Art and Art History
Bucknell University
8:00 - 8:30 Welcome and Registration (Walls Lounge, second floor)
8:30 - 9:45 SESSIONI
A. Gender Mobility (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
KristinBluemel, Monmouth University
Spitfiresand the Beauty Shop: Immobility, Masculinity, and the Problem of the Popular inRichard Hillarys The Last Enemy
Natalya Lusty, University of Sydney
Sexingthe Manifesto: Loy, Futurism and Feminism
Rebecca Cameron, Depaul University
The Speed of Modern Youth on the West End Stage
B. Mobile Subjects (Room 241)
Chair: TBA
J. J. Butts, Syracuse University
SeenAbout Town: Accident and Spectacularization in
JohnDos Passoss Manhattan Transfer
Nathan Guss, Clemson University
Planesand Pedestrians: Flying, Walking, and Proustian Aesthetics
Andy Vogel, Ohio State University
LookingOut From Above: Subjectivity and Geography in
GertrudeSteins The Geographical History ofAmerica
10:00-12:00 SESSIONII
A. Movement in America (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
Jeremiah Crotser, State Universityof New York, Buffalo
Class Traversal: Ethics and the Road in George Oppen'searly work
Julian Murphet, University of Sydney
Mobilizing immobilities: Zukofskys re-animations ofdead labor
Robin Rissler, Ohio State University
Absolute Zero: Iteration and Stasis in Elmer Rices
The Adding Machine
CarissaTurner Smith, Pennsylvania State University
Geographical Expatriation and Spiritual Re-Matriationin
H. D.s The Gift
B. Mobilityand the Avant-Garde (Room241)
Chair: TBA
Juliet Bellow, University of Pennsylvania
Motion Pictures: Paradeand the Cinematic Body
Artur Golczewski, University of Northern Iowa
BerlinDada: a (Re)Cognition of Art and Creativity
Anahit Ter-Stepanian, Sacred Heart University
Forward, Comrades! Speed and Motion in
Post-Revolutionary Russian Culture
Ricarda Vidal, The London Consortium
Chaos with Systemin a Two-Dimensional Universe:
Fordism as aPractical Realization of Futurism
12:00 1:30 LUNCH (Walls Lounge, secondfloor)
1:30-2:45 SESSIONIII
A. Nationality in Flux (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
Jessica Gildersleeve, University of Queensland
The Frozen Feminine: Elizabeth Bowens The Last September
John Hunter, Bucknell University
The Paradoxes of Travel and English NationalIdentity; or,
Why American Women Over Forty Make the BestEnglishmen
John S. Rickard, Bucknell University
Outdancing Thought: Stasis and Modernism in W. B.Yeatss
The Wild Swans at Coole
B. Mobility and World War II, part 1 (Room 241)
Chair: TBA
Larry A. Gray, Jacksonville State University
The Displaced Intellectual: War-Time Novels of C. S.Lewis
Rochelle Rives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Art, Loot, or Portable Property?: The Meaning of Mobility in
Janet Flanners Wartime Writings
Judy Suh, Duquesne University
Fleeting Impressions of the 1930s: Critiques ofFascism in the Travel Diaries of Christopher Isherwood and Virginia Woolf
3:00-4:15 SESSIONIV
A. Woolfs Mobility (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
Rohanna Green, University of Toronto
Body Parts and Itineraries: Spatial Perception and
Narrative Technique in Virginia Woolfs Shorter Works
Michael Payne, Bucknell University
History and Art in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
Margaret C. Rennix, University of Virginia
Divisions and Reconciliations: Gendered Visions ofStasis
and Mobility in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
B. Mobility and World War II, part 2 (Room 241)
Chair: TBA
Nathan Leahy, NorthwesternUniversity
Dark Bandages:Louis MacNeice, The City, and the LondonBlitz
Ann Rea,University of Pittsburgh
Blunt Ideals:Anthony Blunt, the CambridgeSpy Ring
and the Bulwark Against Fascism
Janine Utell, Widener University
The Caught Self: Movement and Stasis in Henry Greens Blitz
4:15-4:45 Refreshment Break (Walls Lounge, secondfloor)
5:00 6:15 KEYNOTEADDRESS (GalleryTheatre, third floor)
RobertoDainotto
Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
Swing/Syncope/Race, orthe Note Between:
Jazz in the Age ofFascist Modernity
Bornin the United States of Fordism and skyscrapers, formed from the experience ofglobal circulation, grown out of the development of mass media, andcharacterized by a restless internationalism, jazz arrived in Italy during the years of fascistrule as the very symbol of modernity. The Italian response to this new andsomewhat exotic music was therefore in tune, so to speak, with fascism's ownambiguous relation with modernism tout court. This paper looks at the ways inwhich jazz was quickly transformed and adapted in Italy to become a much neededform of mass ideology presenting and re-presenting a new and swinging Italywhich was, at the same time, modern and traditional, internationalist andautarchic.
6:15-7:30 RECEPTION(ArchesLounge, third floor)
8:00-8:30 Refreshments(Walls Lounge, second floor)
8:30-9:45 SESSIONV
A: Middlebrow Movements (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
David A. Boxwell, United States Naval Academy
Motion Sickness: the Queasy Comedy of AlfredHitchcocks
Rich andStrange
Leigh Anne Duck, University of Memphis
Moving Passions in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Melissa Sullivan, University of Delaware
Writing Against the Brows: Traveling Between Highand Middlebrow Spheres in Rose Macaulay's KeepingUp Appearances
B. Colonialism and National Transformations (Room 241)
Chair: TBA
Donna Coates, University of Calgary
The Enemy Within: Joseph Boydens Three Day Road
Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University
Migration, Transformation, Zionism, and the Formationof Palestinian National Identity in the Interwar Period
Michael Pesek, Humboldt University, Berlin
The Colonial Order Upside-Down: German East Africa
and the First World War
10:00-11:15 SESSIONVI
A. Womenin the City (Room256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
GeneviveBrassard, University of Portland
Fast and Loose in Interwar London: Locomotion and
Sexuality in Bowens To the North
Emily M.Hinnov, Bowling Green State University,Firelands College
Primitive Exotic, or Quiet Buddha?: The Quicksand of
Fragmented Female Identity in the New NegroRenaissance
Angela E.Runciman, Binghamton University
Die neue Frau ist da: Georg Simmel's Stranger and
Irmgard Keun's TheArtificial Silk Girl
B. Battlefield Movements (Room 241)
Chair: TBA
Claire Buck,Wheaton College
The colonial soldier on the Western Front: Racialized
Spaces in British Memoirs of the 1914-1918 World War
Kamaal Haque,Washington University in St. Louis
And Goes and Goes and Goesand Goes: Movement and
Circulation in the War Poemsof August Stramm
Michael Wallo, Pennsylvania State University
Technology, Movement, and the Rebirth of Men in
Ernst Jngers Early Writings
11:30-1:30 BUSINESSLUNCH (Walls Lounge, second floor)
*Provided for all Registered Participants*
The Space Between invites all participants to join in the discussionover lunch of the current work of the society, including the location and themeof next years scholarly meeting and the business of the societys journal.This is a great opportunity to get more involved with The Space Between.
1:30-2:45 SESSIONVII
A. TheHolocaust and the Exile (Room 256Center Room)
Chair: TBA
Raquel Franklin, Universidad Anahuac
From Tower to Circus: DerNisters Under a Fence