ModCon Durham

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

💪💪💪💯💯 💯 time to grind, folks!!

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

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

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

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

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! modcondurham.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/20-…

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

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

📢 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: soundingmodernism.wordpress.com 📢

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!)

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 ✨ modcondurham.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/zoo…

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!

Huge congratulations to @IHickey91 and @DrMagennis on winning his year's BACLS monograph prize, and to @KatieOsha for winning the postgraduate essay prize! 🏆🎉 bacls.org/prizes/2021-wi…

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 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/mod…

‘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!) bams.ac.uk/conference/ @msatweet @FiMAssociation

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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/mod…

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: modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/mod…

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” modcondurham.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/mod…