ModCon Durham @ModConDurham
Modern & Contemporary Literature Network: an informal, supportive, academic community in Durham for @READEnglish PGRs. Run by: @hm_voss & @ClarksonPoetry. modcondurham.wordpress.com Durham, England Joined April 2019-
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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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@PilgrimTeresa ooooh that sounds very cool! will have to investigate further 🔍
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
And we're off! See you at 11 for our first coffee break and check-in! #RemoteRetreat
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
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! modcondurham.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/20-…
Pub social for Durham PGs this Thursday at 6PM! DM for location :)
Don't forget our social today at 3! DM or email for details!
ModCon Durham retweeted
📢 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: soundingmodernism.wordpress.com 📢
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!)
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 ✨ modcondurham.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/zoo…
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! 🏆🎉 bacls.org/prizes/2021-wi…
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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 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/mod…
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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!) bams.ac.uk/conference/ @msatweet @FiMAssociation
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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/mod…
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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/mod…
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” modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/mod…
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