Northern Modernism Seminar

BLAST 1915-2015: Celebrating the ‘War Number’ of BLAST

Friday 8 May 2015

Room A46

School of English, Trent Building, University Park Campus).

University of Nottingham



12.00     Nathan Waddell (University of Nottingham): Welcome

12.15     Kate Armond (University of East Anglia): ‘BLAST 2: Vorticism and Unofficial Germany’

13.15     Lunch

14.30     Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire): ‘A Vital Little BLAST: The War Number as a Key to Wyndham Lewis’s Thought’

15.30     Rob Spence (Edge Hill University): ‘“To show modernity its face in an honest glass”: Lewis as Self-Conscious Innovator’

16.30     Tea/Coffee

17.00     David Wragg (Independent Scholar): ‘The Reflexive Turn: Hermeneutic In/Consistency and the War Number of BLAST’

18.00     Close