ModCon Durham
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Modern & Contemporary Literature Network: an informal, supportive, academic community in Durham for @READEnglish PGRs. Run by: @hm_voss & @ClarksonPoetry.
Durham, England
Joined April 2019
The ModCon group have decided to lean into that Friday feeling and after an extended (and very tasty) lunch break are calling it quits for the day! Thanks to @PilgrimTeresa for a productive morning! #RemoteRetreat
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💪💪💪💯💯 💯 time to grind, folks!!
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We've joined forces with the Medievalists (😲) thanks to Teresa's #RemoteRetreat! We're getting some work done over here but are excited for a break
Okay #RemoteRetreat let’s take our first break. How did everyone get on in S1? I’m making steady progress but I need a cuppa! ☕️
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If anyone is looking for us, we're in what appears to be the chemistry building – send us a PM and we can give directions! For anyone joining remotely, we'll start our first work session in about 15 minutes or so! #RemoteRetreat
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We're hosting a writing retreat IN PERSON in Durham next Friday, 20th January! All Durham PGs welcome – please follow the link below for more info! https://t.co/yiS1W16AmJ
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Pub social for Durham PGs this Thursday at 6PM! DM for location :)
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Don't forget our social today at 3! DM or email for details!
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📢 Very excited to announce that @AnnaLSnaith and I will be co-organising 'Sounding Modernism', an interdisciplinary conference (@KingsCollegeLon, June 22-23, 2023). *The CFP is now open*, deadline Jan 13th: https://t.co/vQxO8KQCaP 📢
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A 2023 interdisciplinary conference on sound and modernism
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Durham people — we'll be having a coffee & cake social next Friday at 3PM, location available on request! DM us here or email Hannah or Rory (contacts available on our website!)
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Durham postgrads and beyond – join us next Friday for a work retreat and happy hour to usher you through the end of the week! Hope to see you there ✨ https://t.co/u7hTTvhsnF
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Friday 28th October 20222–6pmOn Zoom ModCon is back and hosting its virtual work retreat of the new academic year – this is a co-working space on Zoom for postgrads to get some research or writing …
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Durham postgrads — ModCon will be hosting their first social this Thursday at 6PM! DM for location if you'd like to attend: all MAs and PhDs interested in Modern and Contemporary Lit welcome!
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Huge congratulations to @IHickey91 and @DrMagennis on winning his year's BACLS monograph prize, and to @KatieOsha for winning the postgraduate essay prize! 🏆🎉 https://t.co/oXfOF6waKC
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my first article on still-living poets (!) is now out in Textual Practice, part of a Special Issue on Contemporary Style edited by Barry Sheils and Richard Robinson, who are far too sensible to be Twitter regulars
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This essay explores a contemporary mode of ‘flat style’ which is so overloaded – with feeling, language and detail – that it turns counter-intuitively into something numb and detached, which seems ...
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It's our first ModCon Monday of 2022! Join us 7 Feb for a co-working Zoom space with fellow PGRs to get thesis/thesis-adjacent work done with supportive company! Email us if you're not Durham based but keen to join, details here:
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Monday 7th February 20222–5:30pmOn Zoom ModCon is hosting another ModCon Monday virtual work retreat next week – this is a co-working space on Zoom for PGRs to get thesis/thesis-adjacent work done …
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‘With all this luxury going on, what hope was there for a better state of things?’— Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (A reminder that individual paper proposals for @modernistudies’ conference, ‘Hopeful Modernisms’, are due 31 Jan!) https://t.co/OWZ3nLfg9H
@msatweet @FiMAssociation
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Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Blooms Berries’ An international conference organized by the Katherine Mansfield Society, to be held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA 28-30 May 2015 Ke…
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It's time for another ModCon Monday so... Join us 29 Nov for a co-working Zoom space with fellow PGRs to get thesis/thesis-adjacent work done with supportive company! Email us if you're not Durham based but keen to join, details here: https://t.co/ZrkE0I0eDF
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Zoom Work Retreat (06/09/21) Monday 29th November 20212–5:30pmOn Zoom ModCon is hosting another ModCon Monday virtual work retreat next week – this is a co-working space on Zoom for PGRs to g…
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The new academic year is looming, so... Join us 6 Sept for ModCon Monday: a co-working Zoom space with fellow PGRs to get thesis/thesis-adjacent work done with supportive company! Email us if you're not Durham based but keen to join, details here: https://t.co/WPVGRoSpGA
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Monday 6th September 20212–5:30pmOn Zoom The new academic year is looming… and so it’s time for another virtual working session! ModCon Mondays is a co-working space on Zoom for PGRs to…
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It's time for our next PGR Seminar, creating a supportive collaborative space for Durham PGRs to present & discuss work! Roop Majumdar is our next presenter w/ the title “The New York Poets and Buddhism: Embodying a Spectacle” https://t.co/5OQ6TWPWqs
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Roop Majumdar”The New York Poets and Buddhism: Embodying a Spectacle” ModCon is delighted to welcome our PhD researcher Roop Majumdar as the next presenter of our PGR Seminar Series, ru…
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The 4th event in the @BACLS_official online series is happening next Friday (11th). We have @shapirostephen @sharaerua on "Neoliberalism and Contemporary World Literature" with responses from Jenny Bavidge. Tickets Here: https://t.co/A0soH8Mwss Info Here: https://t.co/LqYgf71vir
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