MAPPING MINA LOY STUDIES
4 – 5TH AUGUST 2023
ONLINE SYMPOSIUM
IMAGE CREDIT: Tor Scott
Find the programme for our online symposium & Eventbrite registration below!
Please note:
All times below are in British Summer Time (BST).
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Individual papers should be 10-minutes long.
DAY ONE
| WELCOME 12.00-13.00 | Opening Remarks: Introduction to the event and presentations |
| Jennifer Ashby (European University Institute) ‘Spiritual Loy’ | |
| Julia Heinemann (Leipzig University) ‘Metaphysical Loy’ | |
| Jade French (Loughborough University) ‘Late Loy’ | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Panel 1: Fragments (Chair: Emma Felin) |
| Giuliana Arcidiacono (Academy of Fine Arts of Catania), ‘On Loy and Cornell’ | |
| Tuğba Karabulut (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University), ‘Fragmented Bodies and Psyches in Mina Loy’s “Lions’ Jaws” and Surreal Scene’ | |
| Lilean Buhl (Leibniz University Hannover), ‘Mina Loy’s fragment-à-clef’ | |
| Antonella Francini (Syracuse University Florence), ‘Editing and Translating Mina Loy’s Poetry in Italian’ | |
| 14.00-14.15 | Short Break |
| 14.15-15.15 | Panel 2: Invention and Intermediality (Chair: Diane Drouin) |
| Eric White (Oxford Brookes University): ‘Verrovoil[a]: Mina Loy’s: Inventions and Techno-bathetic Poetics’ | |
| Anne Collins Goodyear (Co-Director Bowdoin College Museum of Art), ‘On the Creative Economies of Mina Loy: Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property’ | |
| Yasna Bozhkova (Université Paris Nanterre), ‘“Chatoyant” Meanings from Mina Loy to Jen Bervin’ | |
| Bowen Wang (Trinity College Dublin), ‘“Experimented in deformations”: The Intermedial Tailoring of Mina Loy’s Mongrels’ | |
| 15.15-15.30 | Short Break |
| 15.30-16.30 | Panel 3: Historicizing Now! (Chair: Amy E. Elkins) |
| Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool), ‘Doing feminist historiography with Mina Loy’ | |
| Sara Crangle (University of Sussex), ‘An Anatomy of Mina Loy’ | |
| Jennifer R. Gross (Independent Art Historian and Curator), ‘Mina Loy’s Transcendence of Negation’ | |
| 16.30-16.45 | Short Break |
| 16.45–17.45 | Panel 4: Philosophy, Spirituality, Religion (Chair: Suzanne Hobson) |
| Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Inward Dimensions: Mina Loy and Psychosynthesis’ | |
| James Dowthwaite (University of Jena), ‘Forging the Dusk of Chaos: on Mina Loy’s anti-Destiny’ | |
| Ann Marie Jakubowski (Washington University in St. Louis), ‘“Obsession prescribed”: Mina Loy among the Modernist Converts’ | |
| Sabrina Lee (University of Illinois), ‘Christian Science and Mina Loy’s Apocalyptic Vision’ | |
| 17.45-18:00 | Short Break |
| 18.00-20.00 | Keynote (Chairs: Jade French, Jennifer Ashby, Julia Heinemann) |
| An interview and creative element with the creators of the award-winning digital humanities platform Navigating the Avant-Garde: Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum. |
Day Two
| 13.00-14.00 | Panel 5: Loy In Between (Chair: Diana Proenza) |
| | Johanna Pelikan (Hamburg University), ‘Conflating Fantastical Lunar and Realist Urban Spaces – The Pragmaticist Nature of Mina Loy’s Worlds’ |
| | Emma Felin (Oxford University), ‘Mina Loy and the Myriad Phenomenality of the Mind’ |
| | Kellie Sargent (University of Western Australia), ‘The Melting Woman: Loy, Bergson and “the nature of duration”’ |
| | Layla Savage (University of Bristol), ‘Marginalisation, exploitation and power-dynamics: A gothic reading of Mina Loy’s Insel’ |
| 14.00-14.15 | Short Break |
| 14.15-15.15 | Panel 6: Expanding Access (Chair: Karla Kelsey) |
| | Rochel Gasson (Duquesne University), ‘Mina Loy and Georgia Douglas Johnson: Women with Voice in the Digital Realm’ |
| | Saskia Barnard (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Performing the unperformable: Mina Loy’s Crystal Pantomime’ |
| Mary Ann Caws (Distinguished Professor Emerita, CUNY), ‘The Poetry of Place’ | |
| 15.15-15.45 | Break |
| 15.45-16.45 | Panel 7: Body Politics (Chair: Joanna Mąkowska) |
| | Neta Kleine (Yale University), ‘“I leave that to my postmortem examination”: Mina Loy’s Crip Poetics’ |
| | Farah R. Paterson-Cisco (CUNY Hunter College), ‘Narrative Prosthesis and Capitalist Critique in Mina Loy’s “Crab-Angel”’ |
| | Diana Proenza (University of Maryland), ‘“Your cities lie digesting in our / stomachs”: Gut-Reading Mina Loy’s Wastelands’ |
| Jennifer Polson Peterson (University of Southern Mississippi), ‘Present and Absent Bodies: Resonances of War and Pandemic in the Poetry of Mina Loy’ | |
| 16.45-17.00 | Short Break |
| 17.00-18.00 | Panel 8: Theorising Form (Chair: Sabrina Lee) |
| | Yasmin Tehrani (Hunter College), ‘The “Extreme Enigma[s]” of Mina Loy’ |
| | Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis), ‘Mina Loy’s “Auto-Facial-Construction”’ |
| | Joanna Mąkowska (University of Warsaw), ‘Mina Loy’s Nomadic Assemblages’ |
| Dawn Ades (Professor Emeritus, University of Essex), ‘From Rogue to Rags’ | |
| 18.00-18.30 | Break |
| 18.30-19.30 | Panel 9: Archives and Editing (Chair: Anca Parvulescu) |
| Karla Kelsey (Susquehanna University), ‘That Transcendental Factory: Editing Loy with Loy’ | |
| Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College), ‘Comparative Inter-Embodiment in the Visual Art of Mina Loy and Berenice Abbott’ | |
| Elise Ottavino (University of Western Ontario), ‘“[B]orn out of disorder”: The Embodied Experience of Mina Loy’s Archives’ | |
| Diane Drouin, (Sorbonne Université), ‘“To Make Sense of Myself”: Reconstructing Mina Loy’s Autobiographies at the Beinecke Library’ | |
| 19.30-20.00 | Closing Remarks & Opportunity for Discussion |
Further info:
Online access:
A Zoom link will be delivered via Eventbrite a day before the event. Please get in touch with any accessibility requirements.
Any queries:
LoySymposium2023@gmail.com
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