ModCon Durham

Modern & Contemporary Literature Network: an informal, supportive, academic community in Durham for @READEnglish PGRs. Run by: @hm_voss & @ClarksonPoetry.

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

💪💪💪💯💯 💯 time to grind, folks!!

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

@PilgrimTeresa ooooh that sounds very cool! will have to investigate further 🔍

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

And we're off! See you at 11 for our first coffee break and check-in! #RemoteRetreat

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

Pub social for Durham PGs this Thursday at 6PM! DM for location :)

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

Don't forget our social today at 3! DM or email for details!

[Dr Imogen Free @ImogenFree]

📢 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 📢

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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!)

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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!

[bacls @BACLS_official]

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

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

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 https://t.co/WF0hH2Mqtv

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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: https://t.co/LlN4e90hv9

[Beryl Pong @berylpong]

‘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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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

[ModCon Durham @ModConDurham]

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