SHORTNESS - CMCW Research Day Event
- Time:
- 11:00 to 17:00
- Date:
- 2025-04-23 11:00:00
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre B
Event details
We warmly invite you to attend the SHORTNESS research day, hosted by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing (CMCW) in Lecture Theatre B on Wednesday 23rd April, 11am–5pm. Brilliant colleagues will deliver papers, panels, roundtables and performances on the subject of shortness.
Staff, postgraduates and undergraduates are encouraged to be short with us. You may be brief and fleeting. Come and go as you like. Join online, if preferred. There will be coffee, tea and lunch. From 5pm, we'll make the short journey to the Brewhouse. All are welcome.
Agenda
10.30am: Welcome and coffee
11–11.15am: Shortcomings
• A proposal for conference-adjacent conversations led by
Rhys Lawrence
11.15am–12pm: Short-lived suggestions
(Chair: Emily-Rose Baker)
•
Jess Payn
—
Short and sharp, that wounds
•
Khawlah Alkhdar
—
In between
•
Anoushka Alexander-Rose
—
At the foothills of Nabokov’s small alpine form
12.00–12.15pm: A very short fiction workshop
• A participatory performance-presentation devised by
Bob Rimington
12.15–1pm: Lunch
1–1.45pm: Clipped vowels
(Chair: Siddharth Soni)
•
Erin Johnson-Williams
—
Shortness as decolonial sound
•
Heather Mease
—
Benefits and techniques of truncation on durational art music
•
Vanissa Wanick
—
Shortness as play: pressure, joy or frustration
1.45–2pm: ‘Shortcuts’: ‘Home to Zukofsky’; or ‘Homage to Edwin Morgan’
• An abbreviation workshop hosted by
Jess Payn and Isaac Fravashi
2–2.30pm: Break
2.30–4pm: Pathologies of writing
(Chair: Devorah Baum)
• A panel with
Siddharth Soni and Eliza Haughton-Shaw
4–5pm: Mind sweeps
• A keynote presentation by
Kanupriya Dhingra
5pm: Close and postamble
Image credit: Chaïm Soutine, The Idiot (c. 1920) oil on canvas, 36.2 x 25.5in, Calvet Museum, Avignon