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2018/19

27 June 2019, 18:30-20:30, Modernist Summer Party and award of the Ivan Juritz Prize-giving. Council Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Join us to celebrate this year’s shortlist and hear the judges announce this year’s winner. Extracts from all five shortlisted entries will be performed or showcased. The winners will be announced by this year’s judges (Rachel Cusk, Richard Scott, Gillian Wearing, Silvina Milstein, and Ryan Wigglesworth). http://www.ivanjuritzprize.co.uk/

21 June 2019, 18:30-20:00, A Modernist Revue. Chapel, King’s Building, Strand. An evening of music, dance and poetry.

12 March 2019, 18:30-19:30Should we still make things up? Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building. The Centre for Modern Literature & Culture and The White Review present Nadeem Aslam, Rachel Cusk and Jessie Greengrass in conversation with Lara Feigel. What is fiction for and how fictional should it be? What do we want from literary characters and how do we experience them? Here three acclaimed novelists will consider these questions, ranging across centuries and continents.

2017/18

25 June 2018, 18:30-20:30, 2018 Modernist Summer Party and award of the Ivan Juritz Prize – Council Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Join us to celebrate this year’s shortlist and hear the judges announce this year’s winner. Extracts from all five shortlisted entries will be performed or showcased.

13 November 2017, 18:30-20:00, Guido van der Werve in conversation with John-Paul Stonard - Screening Room (Somerset House) Strand London WC2R 1LA. Free discussion and screening. The Dutch artist Guido Van der Werve makes films based on his personal interests, including extreme sports. For Nummer Vierteen: Home (exhibited in the Melancholia exhibition), he completed an epic 1000-mile triathlon between the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, where Chopin's heart is preserved, and the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris, where the composer's body was laid to rest. Here Van der Werve will discuss this film and his other more recent work, alongside a screening.

8 November 2017, 18:30-20:00, John Banville and Brian Dillon in conversation with Lara FeigelGreat Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Free discussion followed by a drinks reception. Is melancholy, as Freud thought, an indulgent, unproductive form of mourning? Or can it be a form of sadness that is ultimately uplifting for the consciousness it brings of life and its more startling possibilities? John Banville and Brian Dillon, both melancholic writers with an interest in Sebald, will use the Melancholia exhibition (Inigo Rooms Sept 21-Dec 10) as a springboard to reflect on the theme of melancholia.

2016/17

6 March, 19:00-20:30, The Art of Non-Fiction: Lara Feigel, Olivia Laing and Hisham Matar in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi. The British Library. As non-fiction writers become more innovative in finding new structures and voices with which to tell their stories, how do they decide on their approach? What are the literary models on which they draw? Join our panel of authors as they discuss the art of non-fiction today. This event is a collaboration between the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture and the Royal Society of Literature.

16 November, 18:30-20:00, Can we keep making it new? Launch of the 2017 Ivan Juritz Prize: Celebrating Creative Experiement. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. How important or possible is it for the contemporary artist or writer to keep breaking formal boundaries? Is this compatible with the demands of the marketplace and how does this differ in the art world and the literary world?

18 October, 18:30-20:00, Playing and Reality: Winnicott, Creativity & Play. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. The Centre for the Humanities & Health and the Centre for Modern Literature & Culture join forces to bring together a novelist, visual artist, and psychoanalyst to discuss Winnicott’s ideas.

2015/16

23 June, 18:30-20:30, 2016 Modernist Summer Party and award of the Ivan Juritz Prize for creative responses to modernism. Council Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus. On the evening of the European referendum, CMLC will be celebrating a shortlist (a film, a performance, and a musical composition) that shows British art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to be joyfully and proudly European.

17 February, 18:30-20:00, Inventing the modern play: Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Leo Butler in conversation. Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand. A number of contemporary writers of fiction see themselves as interacting with. Or even extending, modernism. But what about contemporary playwrighting? Acclaimed playwrights Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Leo Butler will discuss their work and its relationship to modernism.

9 November, 18:30-20:00, Inventing the modern novel: Ali Smith and Vesna Goldsworthy in conversation with Lara Feigel. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand. This discussion launces our 2016 Ivan Juritz Prize for creative responses to modernism, open to postgraduates from throughout the UK.

16 October,18:30-20:30, A&H Festival: Strung with Poets’ Sinews. Chapel, King’s Building, Strand. A song recital and discussion. The Centre for Modern Literature and Culture has commissioned three composers to set words by contemporary poets, to be performed by the renowned Greek mezzo-soprano Angelica Cathariou.

19 September, 09:00-19:30, Literature at War: H.G Wells, Ford Madox Ford and their contemporaries in and around the First World War Conference. Rooms 1.16/1.17, Waterloo Campus, SE1.

2014/15

23 June, Prize for Creative Responses to Modernism. The prizes will be awarded by members of this year’s judging panel (Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Berkeley, Rachel Cusk, Juliet Gardener, Jeremy Harding, Michael Holroyd, Deborah Levy, Stephen Romer, Fiona Shaw).

27 April, Visualising Fascism. K0.16, King’s Building, Strand. A workshop hosted by the Centre for Modern Literature & Culture and the Department of German.

18 March, The Voyage Out (1915): a centenary event. S-3.20, Strand Building, Strand. Reflections by distinguished Woolf Scholars Michèle Barratt, Rachel Bowlby, Anna Snaith and Emma Sutton. Supported by the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture.

6 March, Visualising Capitalism. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. A panel discussion with T.J. Clark and Isaac Julien, chaired by Erica Carter (King’s College London).

19 November, Inventing the Modern Novel. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Rachel Cusk and Will Self in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi.

21 October, Notes from Underground: on Marx & belatedness in Alexander Kluge. Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand. Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground.

20 October, Modernism Underground. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground.

15 October, Sheltering in London in the Second World War. Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus. Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground.