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Representations of Modernity 1850-1960

This is a one-day all-inclusive interdisciplinary conference that appreciates and considers Modernity as a broad set of historical conditions, obtaining differently in various times and places.

Intended for postgraduate taught and research students from the disciplines of Literature, History, Art History, Architecture and Cultural Studies from within the Higher Education institutions in the South West, it aims to present ideas on and discuss the significance and impact of the complex nature of Modernity; to consider its multiple facets, and how it is represented through various...