Events

International conferences

Seminars

International conferences

Upcoming

William Carlos Williams in Paris (October 23-24, 2026). École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Past conferences

Modernist sex (June 24-26, 2026). Université Paris Nanterre / Université Paris-Cité.
Therapeutic Modernisms (June 19-21, 2024), Université Grenoble-Alpes, organized by Nicholas Manning, Benoît Tadié & Hélène Aji.
Program
Modernist Structures (15-18 June 2022), Université de Caen. Program

Modernist Objects (14-16 June 2018)
Publication: Modernist Objects, eds Noëlle Cuny and Xavier Kalk, Clemson University Press, 2020.
Modernist Emotions (22-24 June 2016)
Modernist Communities (24-26 April 2014)
Publication: Modernist Communities across Culture and Media, eds Caroline Pollentier and Sarah Wilson, Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2019

Seminars

Some of our previous seminars may be watched on our WebTV.

Upcoming

Past seminars

Zakir Paul (NYU): “Henry James’ Moral Calculus“, Friday, November 14th, 2025, 5pm, Ecole normale supérieure (Celan).
Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins, Visiting Professor at ENS Paris): “Misanthropy and Transcendence: T. S. Eliot and Julien Benda.” Friday, March 21st, 2025, 5p, Ecole Normale Supérieure, room: Celan. Respondent: Hélène Aji.
Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg): “Dense Networks: Patronage, Peer Review, and the Rise of Modernism,” Friday, April 11th, 2025, 5p.
Frances Dickey (U. of Missouri), “Prelude in St. Louis: T. S. Eliot’s First City”, Friday, October 4th, 2024, 5pm, Ecole Normale Supérieure, salle Celan. Abstract and bio.
Colette Colligan (U. Angers): “Oscar Wilde and scandal”, Friday, May 17th, 2024, 5pm, Ecole Normale Supérieure (room: Celan). Respondent: Emily Eells.
Stephen Fredman (U. of Notre Dame): “Robert Duncan’s Genealogies (Dante and Whitman)”, Friday, October 20th, 6pm, on Zoom. Respondent: Clément Oudart.
Louise Kane (U. of Central Florida): “Forging a Global Avant-garde: Magazines and their Audiences”, March 31, 2023, 5pm, Ecole Normale Supérieure (room: Borel, 29 rue d’Ulm, Paris).
Brooks Hefner (2 December 22, 6pm): “Beneath the Harlem Renaissance: Black Pulp and the Politics of Genre”. Respondent: Céline Mansanti.
Rachel Murray (25 March, 2022, 6pm): “Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in T. S. Eliot”, Ecole Normale Supérieure, salle Celan, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris.
Respondent: Olivier Hercend.
Marjorie Perloff (8 October 2021)
“Lost and found in translation: foreign language citations in The Waste Land“.
Allan Hepburn (16 April 2021)
“Future and Past: Atomic Policy, Extinction, and The Inheritors“.
Laura Marcus (11 december 2020)
Rhythmical Subjects
Derek Ryan (15 november 2019)
Beastly Bloomsbury
Sascha Bru (29 mars 2019)
The Formless Infant. The Avant-garde, Children, Play
Benjamin Kohlmann (12 octobre 2018)
Proletarian Modernism
Vassiliki Kolocotroni (23 mars 2018)
Rethinking the Modernist Moment: Potentiality, Crisis and Kairos
Rudolph Glitz (10 novembre 2017)
“Generation” in the Humanities: Adapting Mannheim’s Modernist Concept
Scott McCracken (28 avril 2017)
Going Long: Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and the experience of time
Adrienne Janus (18 novembre 2016)
‘The Revenge of the Ear’: Dyadic Modernism and the Scene of Listening
Jane Goldman (8 avril 2016)
Is there a Modernist Period?
Stamatina Dimakopoulu (6 novembre 2015)
Singularity, interiority and the question of experience in the early poetry of Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy
Kate McLoughlin (12 juin 2015)
‘All Of Us’: D. H. Lawrence’s First World War Poetry for the People

SEM workshops

events supported by the sem

SEM workshops

Upcoming

3-5 June 2026. SEM/SEW workshop, Modernist Emancipations, SAES Conference, Poitiers. Coordinators: Naomi Toth and Anne Besnault.

Past

30 May – 1 June 2024. SEM/SEW (Société d’études woolfiennes) Workshop, SAES conference, Nancy, France. Theme: Borders and displacements. Coordinators: Noëlle Cuny (U. Haute-Alsace), Monica Latham (U. Lorraine), Anne-Laure Rigeade (Paris-Est Créteil).
June 2022. Panel “Modernist counter-legitimacies: American expatriates and French nightlife
between the wars (1919-1939)”, AFEA Annual Conference, Bordeaux, France. Coordinator: Benoît Tadié. Click here for the CFP.
June 2022. SEM/SEW (Société d’études woolfiennes) Workshop, SAES conference, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Theme : Faille. Coordinators : Olivier Hercend & Patricia Godi.
June 2021. Atelier SEM/SEW (Société d’études woolfiennes), SAES conference, Tours, France. Theme : Renaissance(s). Coordinators : Adrienne Janus (Tours) and Juliana Lopoukhine (Sorbonne).
17-20 octobre 2019, MSA annual conference, “Upheaval and Reconstruction“, Toronto, Canada.
Panel SEM, “Generic Hybridity in Context: A Transformative Model”, coordonnée par Fiona McMahon, avec les communications de Hélène Aji (Nanterre, Présidente de la SEM), Eric Schmaltz (Pennsylvania), et Fiona McMahon (Bourgogne).

6-8 juin 2019, “L’Exception”, atelier conjoint SEM & SEW au Congrès de la Société d’Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur 2019, Université Aix-Marseille, France

events supported by the sem

Upcoming

Film “Living and Seeing. Charles Reznikoff”, directed Xavier Kalck, Naomi Toth and Fiona McMahon, Monday, January 20th, 2025, 6p, amphi Molinié, Maison de la recherche, Sorbonne, 28 rue Serpente. More here.

Past

28 March 2024. “Modernist Hands”, symposium organized by Charlotte Estrade and Solveig Dunkel, Nanterre. Programme.
25 July – 4 August 2023. “Difficult conversations in Modernist Studies, online series of events organized by BAMS, SEM, MSA, AMSiA and AMSN. Programme on the BAMS website .
8-9 September 2023. “Mina Loy and her Networks” conference, Sorbonne Université & Sorbonne-Nouvelle. Call for papers
5 May 2023. Hugh Kenner Symposium, Paris-Nanterre University. Click here for the CFP.
Program
1-3 June 2023. Charles Reznikoff International Conference, Paris-Nanterre University. Coordinators: Naomi Toth & Xavier Kalck. Click here for the CFP.
14-16 June 2023. American Literature and Therapeutic Cultures International Conference, Université Grenoble-Alpes. Coordinator: Nicholas Manning. Call for papers.
The exchanges begun during this conference will notably be prolonged on the occasion of the Fifth International Conference of the SEM, entitled Therapeutic Modernisms, which will also take place at UGA in June 2024.
9 December 2022. 1922 Symposium, Paris-Nanterre University. Programme.
13-15 October 2022. International Conference “T. S. Eliot in Translation”, Université de Paris. Call for papers.
3-14 October 2022. Workshop “Modernism & Matter”, Université Montpellier 3. Call for papers.
24 mai 2022. Round table about the book L’Air du Temps de 1922 – Royaume-Uni et Etats-Unis aux rythmes d’une année, edited by Elise Brault-Dreux, Sorbonne Université Presses. Participants: Hélène Aji, Catherine Bernard, Lacy Rumsey, Benoît Tadié.
Host: Elise Brault-Dreux.
17h, petit amphithéâtre de l’Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 Rue de l’École de médecine, Paris.
Le Modernisme en errance // The Wanderings of Modernism (11 janvier 2020 // 11 January 2020)
Jean Rhys : Lignes de transmission // Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission (21-23 juin 2018 // 21-23 June 2018)