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| The Colonnade, Newark, NJ, 1958. Designed by Mies van der Rohe. |
On March 12-13, 2014, the Humanities Division at Essex County College will host its Spring 2014 Conference, "Vortices: From Modernism to Mid-Century." We will explore the many iterations of modernism as well as the interstitial moments preceding the post-modern movement in literature, art, music, theater, dance, media, architecture, and design.
The conference co-chairs, Prof. Sean O'Connell (English) and Prof. Jennifer Wager (Communications) warmly invite scholars from the University Heights academic community of Essex County College, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to participate in this two-day conference.
Situated
in the city of Newark, where modernism has profoundly shaped a rich heritage of
art, culture, and architecture, the conference will especially welcome
presentations which address diverse expressions of modernism in the local
context.
In the
spirit of modernism’s attempts to reinvent, rethink, and rupture the
traditional, we welcome interactive, unorthodox panels, screenings, cultural
performances, exhibits, architectural tours, Peripatetic lectures and other
presentations related to our central theme.
Key
questions will include:
- How have modernism, race, gender, and identity intersected in popular culture and the arts?
- How is modernism rendered in the popular imagination, from pulp literature and film to radio, television and new media?
- What role have visual literary expressions such as graphic novels, comics and posters played in modernist movements?
- How has modernism intersected with architecture, housing policy and demographics in the greater Newark Metropolitan Area?
- How does contemporary nostalgia for mid-century fashion, arts and design speak to the lasting impact of modernist movements?
- How do modernist movements (particularly in literature) change the idea and sense of the self?
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