Digestive Modernisms: Research Seminar 2

In brief

Venue - Online

Speakers - Louise Benson James and Derek Ryan

Discussions - Louise: ‘"Of course one’s stomach being nearly the whole of one, it is apt to have very large pains": The digestive system in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed (1926)' and Derek: ‘James Joyce’s ‘Lestrygonians’ and the Modernist Gullet’.

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About the event

Join us for the second research seminar organised by the new modernist research network Digestive Modernisms, an informal interdisciplinary network based in Edinburgh, bringing together researchers, artists, and writers interested in the gastronomics of modern literature and life.

Digestive Modernisms are interested in  food, diet, and gut health in modernist literature, art, culture, and philosophy, taking an approach that is informed by the medical humanities, food studies, animal studies, the environmental humanities, and posthumanism, among other critical contexts.

For this seminar, we'll have two discussions:

  1. Louise Benson James from Ghent University – ‘Of course one’s stomach being nearly the whole of one, it is apt to have very large pains’: The digestive system in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed (1926).
  2. Derek Ryan from the University of Kent – ‘James Joyce’s ‘Lestrygonians’ and the Modernist Gullet’

Louise Benson James's staff profile [external site]

Derek Ryan's staff profile [external site]

Digestive Modernisms blog

How to attend

This event is free and welcome to all. It will be streamed on Microsoft Teams - the link will be sent out to everyone who reserves a space on Eventbrite.

The seminar will last approximately 90 minutes, including time for Q&A. Live captioning will be available.

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