Modes of Modernism. Vienna 1900 and Beyond, London
INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE
at the
INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES
Booking now open at: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/modes-modernism-vienna-1900-and-beyond
Modes of Modernism. Vienna 1900 and Beyond
Thursday, 8 and Friday, 9 May 2025
In-person conference
at the University of London Senate House, WC1E 7HU
Programme
Thursday, 8 May 2025
9:45 Welcome: Andrea Capovilla (Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, ILCS, University of London) and Alexander Carpenter (Wirth Institute, University of Alberta)
10:00–11:00
Florian Lippert (University of Groningen): Of Truth and Off-Truth. Kafka’s ‘Alternative Facts’ from an Off-Modern Perspective
Tom Derose (Freud Museum, London): Elementary my dear Freud! Psychoanalysis and Detective Fiction
11:00–11:30 Coffee
11:30–12:30
Helmut Grugger (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick): Hermann Broch’s Concept of the Modernist Novel
Ritwik Gajendragadkar (Gujarat University): Über die Moderne hinaus: Hermann Brochs Die Schlafwandler zwischen Klassischer Moderne und Postmoderne
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:00
Daichi Shigemoto (Independent Scholar): Influences of Otto Wagner and the Vienna Secession on Modern Japanese Architecture: From 1903 to 1928
Alyssa Bryl (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Modernism for the Proletariat: The Interwar Wiener Gemeindebau
15:00–15:30 Tea
15:30–16:30
Lila Fabro (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore): Oygnblik: The Intimacy of Estrangement in Argentine Yiddish Miniatures
Martina Morabito (University of Siena): Epigraphs: Echoes, Evolution, and Early Modernist Experimentation
16:30-16:45 Short Break
16:45–17:45
Cristina Fernández Lacueva (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona): Three Paths to Vienna. Ingeborg Bachmann and the Viennese fin de siècle
Piet Defraeye: Hofmannsthal’s ‘Prolog’ zu ‘Lysistrata’ von Aristophanes (Performance)
Friday, 9 May 2025
9:30–10:30
Tom Hedley (Université libre de Bruxelles): Untaught Topologists: Mathematical Modernism and Wiener Moderne in Vicki Baum’s Menschen im Hotel and Mela Hartwig’s Bin ich ein überflüssiger Mensch?
Niccola Shearman (Independent Researcher): Another Angle on Authenticity: The Woodcut Practice of Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:30
Vera Eβl (University of Vienna): Karl Kraus’ ‘omnivorous’ Drama Form. Epoch-theoretical and genre-aesthetic Reflections on Die letzten Tage der Menschheit
Hanno Biber (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften): When Karl Kraus noticed the rotten Emphasis of Modernity ‘und “modern” nur eine falsche Betonung war’
Burkhardt Wolf (University of Vienna): Herzmanovsky-Orlandos groteske Bürokratie
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30
Laura Castillo Bel (Jean Nicod Institute, Paris): The Interplay between Music and Literature in Arthur Schnitzler's Work
Paris Reid (Independent Researcher): Desperate Measures: Representing Reality in Fräulein Else
Leena Eilittä (University of Helsinki): Stefan Zweig's ‘Unmodern Modernity’
15:30 Plenary Discussion
All are welcome to attend. No registration fee payable, but advance online registration is essential:
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/modes-modernism-vienna-1900-and-beyond
This conference is jointly organised by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature & Culture at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (formerly IMLR)
School of Advanced Study |University of London
Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU
Website: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Contact Information
Jane Lewin
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Contact Email
jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
URL
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/modes-modernism-vienna-1900-and-beyond