Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
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This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
I'm organising a Remembrance Lecture on Mon 9 November at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart Campus- as a War Hospital, this was where Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon met. This year David Goldie will talk about Scottish Poetry of the First World War. Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MTEHXf41Mf
What are you working on, reading, or thinking about this #ModWrite Monday? Let us know using the hashtag! 🌞
Edit MSA's incredible journal!!!
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · last mo.Modernism/modernity is looking for a new co-editor! Could this be you? If you're interested, applications are due Nov. 16. It's a four-year term, and you'll be working with one of the current editors. More info about how to apply here: @mmodernity.bsky.social
Modernism/modernity is looking for a new co-editor! Could this be you? If you're interested, applications are due Nov. 16. It's a four-year term, and you'll be working with one of the current editors. More info about how to apply here: @mmodernity.bsky.social
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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✨ New Essay! ✨ Why are climate justice & public services always labeled "unaffordable" while the status quo gets a blank check? In this brief meditation, @robbhawkes.bsky.social argues that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than we've been taught. Please read & share! 👩💻 🙌
Money Is Weird
by Rob Hawkes Isn’t it strange that social inclusion and climate justice appear unaffordable, but not the status quo? In July, I presented at the Weird Modernisms conference at Loughborou…
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One last reminder to publish a shortened version of your Weird Modernisms conference paper, organized by BAMS!
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinal reminder, our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Expressions of interest are due tomorrow, 31 July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk, submissions due 31 August 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Modernism and Environment enthusiasts! Check out the TWO latest installments of our “Letters from the Field" blog series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print+ "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog! Do read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Letters from the Field: #2 and #3 | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I write from Tampa, Florida, where last year’s back-to-back hurricanes have subsided into this year’s drought, and where I have been thinking obsessively about the university as environmental infrastructure. Like Virginia Woolf’s narrator Mary Beton in A Room of One’s Own, I have “sat down on the banks of a river” on a university campus. I’ve thought about how this place
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A gentle #CFP reminder 🕰️📣 Our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Deadline 31st July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk with proposals, doubts, and/or submissions! 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social
#WeirdModernisms (@modernistudies.bsky.social / @moderniststudies.bsky.social) “demands to be recognised not just as an expression of the weird obsessions of weird scholars, but as academia fulfilling […] its ‘governing purpose’, that of ‘extending human understanding through open-ended enquiry’.”
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2mo agoIsn’t Money Weird?
Had a gorgeous time at #WeirdModernisms! I think this appropriately weird accidental rainbow pic of Lessing says it all 🌈 Thank you @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Back from my first @modernistudies.bsky.social & @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference in Loughborough – what a busy yet generative four days on the topic of #WeirdModernisms ! Highlights included the seminar discussions and the physical objects presenters handed round in the sessions:
Please spread the word on this - it’s an incredible initiative! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Dr. Megan Faragher@meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨🚨🚨 SCHOLARLY RESOURCE MUTUAL AID ALERT She said she would make the humanities resource mutual aid relay device herself. Hosting it because I've got the hosting capacity for now and it was the easy button. Presenting: The Resource Exchange! www.meganfaragher.com/resourceexch...
This was inspired by @chollis.bsky.social and @nissaren.bsky.social wonderful mutual aid workshop @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social so may you all break my device first! If you are smarter than me, you can do this better I’m sure! But you probably see the vision, coders!
Some of the team presented on the 'Weirding Lesbian Modernism' panel at Weird Modernisms @lborouniversity.bsky.social last week, with papers on Radclyffe Hall and reincarnation, queer femininities and the ever-glorious Tinkle the Cat! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
The English Department @lborouniversity.bsky.social recently welcomed 400 academics from around the globe to explore works of Weird Modernism, bringing together @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social and led by our own Emily Bell, Jade French & @profsarahparker.bsky.social.
English Department hosts major international conference on Weird Modernisms
Loughborough University recently welcomed over four hundred academics from around the globe to explore, celebrate and study works of Weird Modernism.
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If you're looking for more modernist conferences, here's another one forthcoming!
Tamlyn Avery@tamlynavery.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre Aussies weird? The modernists thought so. Uncertain we dispelled the rumours in AMSN’s panel at BAMS/MSA26, but good fun to talk about it w/ Ryan & Ben. Now, we shift from the weird to the intoxicating for AMSN/MSIA26 in Nov. Still time to submit yr abstracts, folks! See you in Adelaide! 😎
Thank you @modernistudies.bsky.social for this wonderful collaboration!
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐
It was a great pleasure to be part of the roundtable, ‘Weird Campuses: Modernism and the University’, at the BAMS/MSA Joint Conference at Loughborough University on 1 July. I'm still buzzing with conference excitement. #WeirdModernisms @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
What a wonderful final seminar-style send-off in the #WeirdModernisms conference! This one was *weirdly* special in a lot of ways 🫶🏼 - Scenes from "Unsettling Multilingualism in Global Modernism" workshop #multilingualism #globalmodernisms @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
I had a wonderfully weird time at the joint BAMS/MSA #WeirdModernisms conference at Loughborough University. I’m sad to be missing day 4, but days 1-3 were fantastic. 1/
Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
Thank you so much to everyone from the @modernistudies.bsky.social, @moderniststudies.bsky.social, and Loughborough teams who have worked for months and months to make this happen! 2/
Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture is an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Visit our stand in person at #MSA2026 or find us online ⬇️ buff.ly/mZlouqU @modernistudies.bsky.social
Day 3: and the wonderful sessions and panels at #WeirdModernisms continue! This morning, we took part in a workshop on "Mapping Religion in the Global Anglophone Novel" - exploring methods and pedagogies of reading religion within fiction! @moderniststudies.bsky.social #religionstudies #workshop
Don't miss out! It's our final day at the joint BAMS/MSA #WeirdModernisms conference! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Be sure to browse @hopkinspress.bsky.social's display of #modernist books & journals today and take advantage of our conference discount!
From the premiere screening of the world's first WEIRD MODERNISMS FILM FESTIVAL: Feminist Fever Dreams!!!! We broke some plates, celebrated Léontine, and all had the same collective dream last night! 😍😵💫🎞️📽️🎊 @karenpearlman.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
We are here today attending the BAMS/MSA 2026 (@moderniststudies.bsky.social) joint conference! Please stop by the stand for a special conference discount on Liverpool, Clemson (@cupress.bsky.social), and LDS (@lupdistribution.bsky.social) titles. #MSA #BAMS
