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We are excited to join forces with the Australasian Modernist Studies Network for:
"Toxic Modernism / Modernist Intoxication"
Hosted at U Adelaide, Nov 19-21; proposals due 24 July. Please spread the word and join us!
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Edited by Kaitlin Staudt, our latest cluster on "Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires" expands on the understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global.
Read: modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
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I *listened* to @annakornbluh.bsky.social's book (because with a wee one can't find the time to read), and wouldn't have known of its audiobook version...
Call for Applications: CSEAS Fellowship 2026
CSEAS Fellowship for Visiting Research Scholars, 2026
kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/education...
The deadline for applications is August 31, 2025.
Reading Meghan O'Rourke's NYT essay on ChatGPT, in between ads for ChatGPT.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
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Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
“Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History” takes place at University of Tokyo, Komaba campus, 13-14 March. Please see here for details: www.gsi.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/6110/
Delighted to learn more about Luka Lei Zhang’s latest work on Working Class Literature from Asia in Asymptote -
Andy Houwen recently has written about Egypt in WBY's plays, with some interesting broader correspondences along the way:
www.academia.edu/99035037/_Th...
Image shows a poster for the symposium "Japanese Cinema: What Is It?", to be held online on January 13 from 10 am to 5 pm.
Come check out this online symposium on Japanese cinema! I'll be giving one of two keynotes and look forward to a group of really fascinating papers. Contact Motonori Sato at motsato@keio.jp for a Zoom link.
About a month left to propose something for next summer in Seoul...
MSIA4 - Modernism and Language
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea
June 26 - 27, 2025
Keynotes: Rebecca Walkowitz and Janet Poole
Proposals due: January 15, 2025
Spread the word! @natewolff.bsky.social and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century. New date is Jan. 2nd.
azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0
We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a ‘Modernism and Data’ special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...
