The London Arts-Based Research Centre | Modernism Remodelled 2025: A Transdisciplinary Conference

Modernism Remodelled 2025 – London Arts-Based Research Centre
The London Arts-Based Research CentreModernism Remodelled 2025A Transdisciplinary ConferenceMarch 8-10, 2025Where:March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & onlineMarch 10: Fully onlineCall for PapersCost:        180 GBP (in person) 100 GBP (Online)Abstract: Deadline January 15, 2025Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome. Registration Open* This conference…


The London Arts-Based Research CentreModernism Remodelled2025A Transdisciplinary ConferenceMarch 8-10, 2025Where:March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & onlineMarch 10: Fully onlineCall for PapersCost:        180 GBP (in person)100 GBP (Online)Abstract: Deadline January 15, 2025Abstract form on:https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.
This conference seeks to bring together scholars, creatives, and arts-based researchers working on topics related to modernism and/or the contemporary cultural scenes that may have risen from the modernist period, such as literary studies, psychology, musicology, art studies, architecture, philosophy, film studies, media studies and beyond.
If we look at today’s cultural, political, and scientific scene, we find that the pandemic, social and political unrest, technological and medical breakthroughs, new trends in poetry, a renewed interest in classicism and mythology (to name a few) resonate with an era not long ago. We detect a familiar pattern, which can be seen as a recurrence of, or maybe even an extension to the modernist period. Perhaps, as designer Ellen Lupton put it, “A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.”
Thus, we would like to explore the following questions: Can we say that we experiencing a sequel to, or a “second wave” of modernism today? What happened to some of the movements and schools of thought that were born during the modernist period? How have some of them evolved? How have they contributed to the cultural scene today, in both the sciences and the arts?