Henry Mead’s chapter on Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos (‘Canto 76’; green access) will appear this spring in Readings in the Cantos vol. II, ed. Richard Parker (Clemson University Press, 2022).
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CARR Yearbook 2020
Henry Mead published a chapter in the CARR Yearbook 2019-2020 (Ibidem Verlag / Columbia University Press, 2020), entitled ‘The Death of Liberalism has been Proclaimed Before’ (green access).
Daniele Monticelli on Juri Lotman
Daniele Monticelli has published a new article entitled ‘Thinking the new after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Juri Lotman’s dialogism of history’ in The Journal of Theory and Practice 24.2 (Sep 2020), 84-208, DOI:10.1080/13642529.2020.1813932 (open access).
Intellectual History Seminar at Tartu University
Henry Mead gave a paper on ‘Modernism, Heresy and Temporalities’ at Tartu University, Intellectual History Seminar, Jacobi 2-336, on Monday 9 November at 16.15.
Funded PhD Opportunity
The University of Stavanger is recruiting a full time, fully funded, doctoral researcher to work on ideas of progress in liberal democracy from the 19th century onwards. The doctoral researcher will be working with Dr. Tyson Retz, a past visiting fellow at the Between the Times project. More information is available here:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/193754/phd-fellow-in-history
Open Philosophy Seminar, 02.10.20
Henry Mead will give a paper in the Open Philosophy seminar series at Tallinn University on 02.10.20 (Room S-240). Title and Abstract below:
Modernist Temporalities: Fictions, Myths, and the ‘Religious Attitude’
This paper first considers Frank Kermode’s account of modernist apocalyptic thinking in The Sense of an Ending (1967) as a reference point for temporality studies, noting its distinctions between secular chronicity, epiphanic kairos, and intermediate forms identifiable in modern literature. Using this theory as a frame, the paper focuses on T.E. Hulme, whose essays capture a type of modernist ‘clerical scepticism’, as Kermode puts it, in treating assertions about progress or historical crisis as humanly-constructed ‘fictions’. The paper then traces Hulme’s analysis of early 20th century thought, moving from forms of positivist progress to a vitalist perspectivism – and considers his ‘religious attitude’ in his late writing, in relation to Kermode’s categories of ‘myth’ and ‘supreme fiction’.
Henry Mead on Modernist Anti-Humanism
Henry Mead has published an article, ‘The typewriter mind: modernism, populism and antihumanism’, in Textual Practice, 34.9 (Sep 2020), 1549-1573, DOI 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1808293 (open access here).
Tommaso Giordani on presentism
Tommaso Giordani has published an extended book review of Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier’s book “Rethinking Historical Time” in the European Review of History. The review is available here.
Intellectual History Seminar at Tartu University
Henry Mead will present a paper on ‘Modernism, Heresy and Temporalities’ at Tartu University, Jacobi 2-336, on Monday 9 November at 16.15.
Revolution in the 20th century podcast
Between the Times researchers Tommaso Giordani and Ksenia Shmydkaya spoke to Enriko Mäsak for the podcast Filotsoon. The topic of conversation was revolution and violence in the 20th century, and the discussion focussed on Georges Sorel, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, and their relation to the memory and heritage of 1789.
The podcast is available here: