Small Things: A Roundtable and Lecture

Tim Armstrong, of Royal Holloway University and Bedford College, is the author of Micromodernism: Rethinking Literary Renewal in the Long 1930s. Published in February, it is a book about small groups of artists in Europe, the US and the Antipodes, struggling in the wake of the High Modernism of the 1920s to articulate their avant-garde ambitions in terms of politics, personal values, and aesthetic categories.

Tim will be visiting us to lecture on 27 March. His lecture will be prefaced by a roundtable comprised of three researchers from the Centre for Modern Studies – Lola Boorman, Duncan Petrie and Michael White – who will be offering small talks on small things, American, British and French, in literature, television and art.

4pm - 5.30pm, Roundtable

Lola Boorman, English and Related Literature, York:

Minor, Marginal, Minimal, Miniature (on Lydia Davis)

Duncan Petrie, School of Arts and Creative Technologies, York:

Small Resources as Creative Enabler: The Case of Inside No. 9

Michael White, History of Art, York:

Sizing up Duchamp's Readymades

6pm - 7.30pm Lecture

Tim Armstrong:

From the Canon to the Archive: The Melancholy of Literary History?

• For further information, view the Small Things programme (PDF , 444kb)

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