MADS reading group: New Programme

The new Mads reading group programme for the Winter Semester 2026/27 has just been announced:

  • 6 October 2026: Weird Girls Club: Emily Dickinson, Zinaida Gippius, Delmira Agustini
  • 3 November 2026: Images of 1890s London
  • 10 December 2026: Vernon Lee’s Theatre
  • 13 January 2027: Dream, Reality, and Fragmented Subjectivity
    in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s ‘Dreams’
  • 9 February 2027: Translating The Waste Land: T. S. Eliot and
    Ernst Robert Curtius

All meetings take place online via zoom, from 7-8 pm (CEST/CET). The link and materials for each session will be circulated one week in advance through our mailing list. Each session begins with a brief, informal introduction to the topic before the meeting is opened up to general discussion.

To join the mailing list, receive the texts and hear about future sessions, email madsreadinggroup@gmail.com

All welcome!

MADS is an international-facing network of Germany-based scholars researching in the fields of Modernism, Aestheticism and Decadence Studies. More information on the network can be found here: https://madsnetworkcom.wordpress.com/

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