1910 Centenary Conference

In December 2010, two newly formed networks, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and the British Association of Modernist Studies, are hosting their first major international symposium at the University of Glasgow.

Entitled ‘The 1910 Centenary Conference’, this event is based around Virginia Woolf’s famous and controversial statement, in an essay of 1924, that ‘On or about December 1910, human character changed.’ At this point, we are inviting scholars from any discipline to respond to any aspect of this statement by suggesting panels and papers. A formal call for papers will follow later this year. Current panel proposals under consideration include: 1910 films; Scotland 1910; Women in 1910; and 2010: Human Character in the Age of Climate Change. Other areas that have been suggested as possible include: periodization; The Post-impressionist exhibition; 1910 from 1924; the grammar of modernism; 1910 and social/political activism.

Plenary speakers will include Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvia), Susan Manning (Edinburgh University) and David Peters Corbett (University of York).  The conference aims to bring together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, from the UK and beyond. Although the majority of participants are likely to be modernist scholars, we do not want to limit participation to those who regard themselves as modernist scholars, and are keen to include the kind of oppositional and interrogative stances that the tone of the quotation implicitly encourages.

Proposals for panels and papers and expressions of interest should be sent to conference organisers Bryony Randall and Matthew Creasy via email at snms@arts.gla.ac.uk